Nuclear Physics Review

Abstract

Anchoring low-energy nuclear physics to the fundamental theory of strong interactions remains an outstanding challenge. I review the current progress and challenges of the endeavor to use lattice QCD to bridge this connection. This is a particularly exciting time for this line of research as demonstrated by the spike in the number of different collaborative efforts focussed on this problem and presented at this conference. I first digress and discuss the 2013 Ken Wilson Award.Comment: Proceedings of a plenary presentation at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE 2013, July 29 - August 3, 2013, Mainz, Germany; v2 thanks to M.Savage for pointing out an overly aggressive average in Fig. 3; v3 oops, wrong figure 3 was included, fixed now; v4 fixed typos including Eqs. 1.12, 1.17, 1.18; v5 added missing references for 3-body finite volume spectru