Nuclear forces and ab initio calculations of atomic nuclei
  Nuclear forces and the nuclear many-body problem have been some of Gerry Brown's main topics in his so productive life as a theoretical physicist. In this talk, I outline how Gerry's work laid the foundations of the modern theory of nuclear forces and ab initio calculations of atomic nuclei. I also present some recent developments obtained in the framework of nuclear lattice simulations. 
Ulf-G. Mei{\ss}ner
nucl-th hep-lat hep-ph nucl-ex