ECT* Mission
The mission of ECT* is threefold:
- To be a center of frontline research in theoretical nuclear physics
- To promote active contacts between theory and experiments, and to related areas of research
- To further the training of young researchers
Aside from a vigorous local research program involving senior and junior researchers one of the main activities of ECT* is workshops, collaboration meetings, doctoral training programs, and specialized courses. It also offers visiting fellowships for junior and senior researchers.
ECT* promotes research in nuclear physics in a broad sense, including Quantum Chromodynamics and hadron physics, strongly interacting matter at extreme conditions and heavy-ion collisions, nuclear structure and reaction dynamics, nuclear astrophysics, ans symmetries and fundamental interactions. Related areas include particle physics and methods of quantum-field theory, condensed matter physics and many-body theory, ultra-cold atoms, astrophysics and cosmology, computational physics, quantum computing, and machine learning.