Scott K Bogner

Scott K Bogner is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Michigan State University. His research focuses on renormalization group (RG) and effective field theory (EFT) methods applied to nuclear physics and nuclear matter.

• University: Michigan State University
• School: College of Natural Science
• Department: Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Academic Rank: Professor

His work leverages RG and EFT techniques to simplify nuclear many-body calculations by restricting degrees of freedom to relevant energy scales. This enables perturbative methods, variational approaches, and density functional theory (DFT) applications in nuclear structure studies.

Recent publications highlight advancements in similarity renormalization group methods, in-medium nuclear calculations, and density matrix expansions. These studies span both finite nuclei and infinite nuclear matter.

Scott collaborates on the DOE-funded SciDAC project "Building a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional" (UNEDF), aiming to develop microscopically-based DFT frameworks for nuclear physics.