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Description
The purpose of this contribution is twofold. First, I will highlight the status and some of the successes of nonrelativistic DFT, which is still, to date, the microscopic nuclear model with the broadest range of applicability. Some examples of applications, like the solution of the puzzle of the nuclear matter incompressibility and the case of nuclear photonics, will be discussed.
At the moment, however, it is hard to improve the accuracy of existing functionals. Ongoing and future prospects to achieve the ``universal’’ functional will be touched upon, like Bayesian inference techniques and the possibility to use ab initio nuclear theory as a starting point. In this latter case, the recent convergence displayed by the results of several many-body methods in nuclear matter can be instrumental in order to design a firm constraint for the volume part of the functionals.
Throughout the talk, I will stress the existing and some possible collaborations with the Italian theory community, within the IS MONSTRE or outside it.
