Research Interests

Kyle Wendt studied nuclear theory at The Ohio State University as a US Department of Energy Office of Science graduate research fellow, where he received his PhD in 2013. Wendt continued his career as a postdoc at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville/Oakridge National Laboratory. As a postdoc, he worked on many-body theory and uncertainty quantification of ab initio calculations. In 2015, he moved to the Technische Universität Darmstadt’s Institut für Kernphysik (Institute for Nuclear Physics) in Darmstadt, Germany, where he worked on developing novel tools for including two-body electroweak interactions into ab initio calculations. In late 2016, he joined LLNL as a Lawrence fellow in the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division’s Nuclear Data and Theory group. At LLNL, Wendt is continuing his work on electroweak interactions.

Wendt’s research interests include

• Algorithmic generation of quantum nuclear many-body codes
• Atomic nuclei
• Intersection of many-body theory, effective field theory, and computer science
• Neutrinoless double beta decay
• Neutrino-nucleus interactions
• Onset of emergent phenomena
• Strong and electroweak interactions of nuclear systems
• Systemically improvable effective theories
• Uncertainty quantification of ab initio calculations.

Ph.D., Physics, The Ohio State University, 2013

M.S., Physics, The Ohio State University, 2013

B.A., Physics, Mathematics, Lake Forest College, 2007

• DOE SC/SCGF Fellow
• LLNL Lawrence Fellow