| Preface | p. xi |
| Nuclear Many-Body Problem: Building Blocks | |
| Role of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem | p. 3 |
| Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of p-shell Nuclei | p. 11 |
| Electron Scattering and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem | p. 19 |
| Relativistic Effects in Quasielastic Electron Scattering | p. 27 |
| Nuclear Shell Model | |
| Effective Interactions for Finite Nuclei | p. 35 |
| Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of NN Interaction | p. 41 |
| Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for the Nuclear Many Body Problem at Finite Temperature | p. 49 |
| Quadrupole Collective States in the Monte-Carlo Shell Model | p. 57 |
| Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei | p. 63 |
| Description of Exotic Nuclei using Continuum Shell Model | p. 69 |
| Relativistic Models | |
| Relativistic Field Theories and the Microscopic Description of the Nuclear System | p. 79 |
| Relativistic Mean Field Approach with Density and Momentum-Dependent Coupling Vertices | p. 89 |
| Effects of New Couplings from Relativistic Effective Field Theory Models | p. 97 |
| Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: Microscopic nature of nuclear magnetism | p. 103 |
| Nuclear Fission Described in the Framework of the Relativistic Mean Field Theory: The Strutinsky type approach | p. 111 |
| Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry in Nuclei | p. 117 |
| Relativistic Pseudospin Symmetry and the Structure of Nuclear States | p. 125 |
| The Pseudospin Symmetry in Finite Nuclei: Dirac Phenomenology | p. 131 |
| Symmetry Dictated Approaches | |
| Microscopic Description of Heavy Deformed Nuclei | p. 139 |
| Electromagnetic Transition Strengths in [superscript 104]Cd and [superscript 101]Ag and their Interpretation within the Interacting Boson (Fermion) plus Broken Pair Model | p. 145 |
| Investigation of Properties of Mixed Symmetry States in [superscript 94]Mo and [superscript 96]Ru | p. 151 |
| Pairing in Nuclei | |
| Sources of Pairing in Nuclei | p. 161 |
| Relativistic Theory of Pairing in Finite Nuclei | p. 169 |
| Pairing Properties in Relativistic Mean Field Models Based on Effective Field Theory | p. 175 |
| Contact Pairing Interaction for the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations | p. 181 |
| Size Dependence of Pairing in Finite Fermi Systems | p. 189 |
| Pairing Correlations along the Fission Path | p. 195 |
| Nuclear Collective Motion | |
| Multi-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei | p. 203 |
| Collective Properties of the Low Energy Dipole Response in the Relativistic RPA | p. 209 |
| Extensions of the Perturbed SPA: Decay Rates of Damped Systems and Improvement for Small Temperatures | p. 215 |
| High-Spin Structure of Neutron-rich Dy Isotopes | p. 223 |
| Nuclei Far from Stability | |
| The Challenges of Understanding Exotic Nuclei | p. 231 |
| Quadrupole Collectivity in Theories Beyond Mean Field with Effective Forces | p. 239 |
| Mean-field Treatment of Isobaric Excitations in N=Z Nuclei. Search for the Isoscalar Pairing Collectivity | p. 247 |
| Particle-Unstable Nuclei: Mean-Field Description | p. 253 |
| Proton Emission from Gamow Resonance | p. 259 |
| Nucleon Distributions in Loosely Bound Nuclei | p. 265 |
| Alpha Cluster Condensation in Threshold States of Self-conjugate 4n Nuclei | p. 271 |
| Superheavy Nuclei | |
| Superheavy Elements--Discoveries and Challenges | p. 281 |
| Towards the Structure of the Heaviest Nuclei | p. 289 |
| A Liquid Drop Model (LDM) for Nuclear Semi-Bubbles or, more generally Systems Consisting of Domains with Different Constant Density | p. 297 |
| Synthesis of Superheavy Elements | p. 305 |
| Recent Investigations of Superheavy Elements | p. 311 |
| Weak Interactions and Astrophysics | |
| Weak-Interaction Processes in Nuclear Astrophysics | p. 315 |
| Hartree-Fock-BCS Calculations of Beta-decay Half-lives | p. 323 |
| Neutrino Propagation in Neutron Matter and the Nuclear Equation of State | p. 329 |
| Properties of Nuclei in the Neutron Star Crust | p. 337 |
| Intersections | |
| Shell Model with Random Interactions | p. 345 |
| Kohn-Sham Approximation with Finite Range Forces | p. 353 |
| Thermal Phase Transitions in Finite Quantum Systems | p. 359 |
| Fractality for the Nuclear Line of Stability, Atomic Weights and Molecular Weights | p. 367 |
| Index | p. 375 |
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