NUCLEI, CHAOS AND STATISTICAL SPECTROSCOPY


                            Kamales Kar
                 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
                          Calcutta,  India


                              ABSTRACT

 The talk in the first part will review the application of random matrix 
 theory to nuclear spectra and their fluctuations as well as the well-known
 connection to chaos in quantum many-body systems. The extension of GOE,
 called 'Embedded GOE' or EGOE is found suitable to describe nuclei and
 results for average nuclear properties in this ensemble will be presented.
 Averaged forms for occupacies, strengths and strength sums of nuclear
 transition operators can also be obtained and compared with detailed shell
 model results to demonstrate their usefulness.