Nuclear physics from first principles: a status report
Silas Beane (HISKP Bonn and University of New Hampshire)

I will discuss recent progress in calculating nuclear physics interactions and properties using lattice QCD. I will focus on an area in which lattice QCD will soon be competitive with experiment; specifically, I will consider simple hypernuclear processes which are essential input into the nuclear equation of state relevant for a description of dense astrophysical objects. I will also discuss recent calculations of the spectrum of light nuclei and hypernuclei at the flavor SU(3)symmetric point, and if time allows, some preliminary results on excited baryons.