  The present-day nuclear structure theory exhibits a great degree of synergy
with respect to methods that are used to describe various phenomena in heavy
nuclear systems. From few-body methods, through the shell model to mean-field
approaches, the bridges are being built between different ways of describing
the stable as well as the most exotic nuclei. In the present talk, I give a
review of several selected subjects that are currently at the fore front of new
developments in this domain of nuclear science.
