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Mohammad Al-Kuhaili,
Professor & Chairman, Physics Department

Research and Academic activity statistics 2015 to 2021

3.1

Average Impact Factor Publications​

51

Patents

10042

Cumulative Citation Count​

452

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Advancing Nuclear Structure Calculations With Nuclear Lattice Simulations

 
Speaker:
Dr. Serdar Elhatisari
 
Date: Monday, 14 October 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Bldg. 6/Room 125

 

Abstract:

Understanding nuclear forces from the fundamental principles of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has been a long standing goal in nuclear physics. This seminar will present an overview of how effective field theories (EFTs) have bridged the gap between QCD and nuclear interactions, enabling the formulation of a modern theory of nuclear forces. Additionally, I will discuss a quantum many-body approach, lattice effective field theory, which provides powerful tools for performing first-principle calculations with nuclear forces, leading to precise predictions and a deeper understanding of nuclear structure and reactions. The seminar will also highlight a novel approach, wave function matching, for solving quantum many-body systems, along with recent results from ab-initio calculations of nuclear structure realizations of superconducting artificial neurons and quantum logic, as recently pursued in collaboration with the experimental team at KFUPM.

 

Biography:
Dr. Serdar Elhatisari is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from North Carolina State University in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics at the University of Bonn, where he focused on nuclear lattice simulations, a first-principles method in nuclear physics. Dr. Elhatisari then joined the Department of Physics at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University as an Assistant Professor, later moving to Gaziantep Islam Science and Technology University in 2020 as an Associate Professor. From 2022 to 2024, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn as an ERC Fellow. Dr. Elhatisari collaborates with researchers from the University of Bonn, Ruhr University Bochum and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, GSCAEP in China, and Michigan State University in the USA. An expert in nuclear theory, his research specializes in ab-initio calculations for nuclear structure and reactions, as well as quantum many-body systems.

All faculty, researchers and students are invited to attend.

    Location and Time
  • 6/125

  • 14 Oct, 2024

  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM