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Abstract
Understanding the properties of atomic nuclei and nuclear dynamics from QCD remains
a major challenge. Complementary to first attempts along these lines based on lattice
QCD, an effective field theory approach has been developed in the past two decades
and applied to a variety of nuclear bound states and reactions. I outline the foundations
of this method, review selected applications and address some open challenges in this
field.