Eikonal and Coupled-Channels Reaction Methods Applied to Studiesof Weakly Bound Nuclei

There are presently rapid advances in both the quality and quantity of data being taken on the breakup of exotic weakly bound nuclei. Many more exclusive data are being measured which clarify the contributions arising from different final states, or which reveal hitherto unobserved interference between different breakup partial waves or contributing mechanisms. These new data provide much more demanding tests of available reaction theoretical methods, of their efficacy as probes of rare isotope structures and reaction mechanisms, and of their applicability to problems in nuclear astrophysics. Appropriate, but approximate reaction theories are therefore being constantly developed, tested and refined. This contribution touches on some of these recent theoretical developments.