Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei

The structure of light nuclei is of primary importance for microscopic approaches to understanding nuclei. Precise knowledge at low energies also provides a connection to issues in nuclear astrophysics and to chiral perturbation and effective field theories, low energy approaches to quantum chromodynamics. High energy studies test quark-model approaches to nuclear structure. I will review recent experimental developments that test our understanding of the deuteron and $^3$He systems through measurements of photo-disintegration, the Gerasimov Drell-Hearn sum rule, elastic electron scattering form factors, and quasifree ($e,e^{\prime}$) reactions. I will also describe some prospects for future work.