Begun during the COVID19 pandemic, when many conferences were cancelled, the virtual lattice field theory colloquium is intended to provide postdocs and graduating students a venue in which to reach a broad international audience.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 15 | Matthew Black, University of Siegen, Germany | Gradient Flow Renormalisation for Meson Mixing and Lifetimes | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 14 | Roland Farrell, University of Washington, USA | Quantum Simulations of Hadronic Scattering in the Lattice Schwinger Model | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 18 | Theodore Jacobson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA | Applications of the modified Villain formulation | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 9 | Dimitra Pefkou, University of California, Berkeley, USA | Gravitational form factors from lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Summer hiatus | ||||
| Sept 12 | Andrea Bulgarelli, University of Turin & INFN, Italy | The entanglement entropy of gauge theories: new methods and new results | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 10 | Joshua Crawford, The University of Adelaide, | Transverse force distributions in the proton from lattice QCD | ||
| Nov 7 | TBD | |||
| Dec 5 | Zi-Yu Wang, Peking University | Lattice study of two-nucleon weak transition matrix elements |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording | Slides |
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| Feb 9 | Benoit Blossier, LPT Orsay, France | Fulfill students and researchers with disabilities in scientific fields: a lucid hope [Nomianted by the Lattice Diversity and Inclusion Committee] | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Feb 23 | Alessandro Lupo, University of Edinburgh, Scotland | Multi-Representation Dynamics of SU(4) Composite Higgs Models: Chiral Limit and Spectral Reconstructions | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 9 | Réka Vig, University of Wuppertal, Germany | Topological features of the deconfinement transition in quenced QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 23 | James Ingoldby, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy | Lattice gauge theory at the conformal window edge: EFT descriptions and Composite Higgses | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 6 | Antonio Smecca, University of Turin, Italy | Inclusive semileptonic decay rates of B-mesons from lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 20 | Laurin Pannullo, Goethe University Frankfurt | Inhomogeneous phases in NJL-type models via lattice field theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 4 | Yang Fu, Peking University, China | Lattice QCD Calculation of the Two-Photon Exchange Corrections in Hydrogen-like Atoms | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Summer hiatus | ||||
| September 14 | Rose Smail, University of Adelaide, Australia | Constraining beyond the Standard Model nucleon isovector charges | Zoom recording | Slides |
| October 12 | Christopher Kane, University of Arizona, USA | State preparation in quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories | Zoom recording | Slides |
| November 9 | Jorge Baeza Ballesteros, University of Valencia, Spain | Meson-meson scattering at large Nc | Zoom recording | Slides |
| December 7 | Yukari Yamauchi, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, USA | Machine learning for sign problems in lattice field theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording | Slides |
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| Feb 3 | Andrew Jackura, Old Dominion University, USA | Few-Body Dynamics from the Finite-Volume | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Feb 17 | Simone Bacchio, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus | Precision results directly at the physical point with Twisted Mass fermions | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 3 | Judah Unmuth-Yockey, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA | Studying holography for the Ising model on hyperbolic lattices | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 17 | Hersh Singh, University of Washington, USA | Qubit regularizations of quantum field theories | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 31 | Gen Wang, Aix Marseille University, France | Proton momentum and angular momentum decomposition with overlap fermions | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 14 | Shohini Bhattacharya, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA | First lattice study of twist 3 functions from quasi-PDF approach | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 28 | Jamie Karthein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | Lattice QCD Susceptibilities as Correlators of Conserved Charges | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 12 | Marco Garofalo, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany | Scattering from generalized φ4
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| Summer hiatus | (unless most summer conferences are cancelled again) | |||
| Sept 22 | Pia L. Jones Petrak, University of Münster, Germany | On the decomposition of hadron masses: Sigma Terms of the Baryon Octet in Nf=2+1 QCD with Wilson quark | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 6 | Daniel Hackett, Masachusetts Institute of Technology | Gravitational structure of the nucleon | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 20 | Sebastian Burri, Universität Bern | Pseudoscalar transition form factors and pole contributions to HLbL at the physical point | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Nov 3 | Fabian Joswig, The University of Edinburgh | Towards hadronic D-decays | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Nov 17 | Evan Owen, Boston University, USA | The Modular Ising Model | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Dec 1 | Marianna Sorba, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy | Low-energy results in the Ising model: in and out of equilibrium | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording | Slides |
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| Jan 28 | Davide Giusti, University of Regensburg, Germany | Adding QED to QCD with the advent of precision Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Feb 11 | Kadir Utku Can, The University of Adelaide, Australia | Compton amplitude on the lattice via the Feynman-Hellmann theorem | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Feb 25 | Raghav Govind Jha, Perimeter Institute, Canada | Probing holographic dualities with lattice supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 11 | Indrakshi Raychowdhury, University of Maryland, USA | Towards quantum simulating non-Abelian lattice gauge theories | Zoom recording | Slides |
| March 25 | Neill Warrington, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, USA | Path Integral Contour Deformations for Lattice Field Theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 8 | Gregoris Spanoudes, University of Cyprus, Cyprus | Gauge-invariant renormalization of energy-momentum tensor on the lattice | Zoom recording | Slides |
| April 22 | Kimmy Cushman, Yale University, USA | Exploring composite dark matter with lattice field theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 6 | Alejandro Vaquero, The University of Utah, USA | Probing the Standard Model with flavor physics: an exclusive determination of |Vcb| from the B → D* ℓ ν semileptonic decay at non-zero recoil | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 20 | Vincenzo Afferrante, University of Graz, Austria | Gauge invariant spectra of SU(2) theories with BEH effect | Zoom recording | Slides |
| June 3 | Nikhil Karthik, College of William and Mary & Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory, USA | Imprints of symmetry-breaking at short-distances: quark structure of pion in QCD and QCD-like theories | Zoom recording | Slides |
| June 17 | Jesus Gumaro Rendon Suzuki, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA | Semileptonic decays of Λb's to negative-parity baryons | Zoom recording | Slides |
| July 1 | No speaker - pre-lattice pause | |||
| July 15 | No speaker - pre-lattice pause | |||
| July 29 | No speaker - Lattice 2021 | Conference website | ||
| August 12 | No speaker - post-lattice pause | |||
| August 26 | Lena Funcke, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada | Lattice computation of thermodynamic observables with machine-learned generative models | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Sept 9 | Finn Stokes, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany | Sub-percent determination of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon g-2 from the BMWc Collaboration | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Sept 23 | Joao Pinto Barros, University of Bern, Switzerland | The Non-Perturbative Quantum Vortex in the (2 + 1)-d O(2) Scalar Field Theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 7 | Simran Singh, University of Parma, Italy | Studying the Lee-Yang edge singularities on the Lattice (QCD) and aspects of thimble regularization of Yang-Mills | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 21 | Tyler Blanton, University of Maryland, USA | Extracting the 3K scattering amplitude from the lattice & generalizing the quantization condition | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Nov 4 | Anthony Grebe, MIT, USA | Moments of the Pion Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude from the Heavy-Quark OPE | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Nov 18 | Dorota Grabowska, CERN, Switzerland | Applying Quantum Technology to Problems in Particle Physics | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Dec 2 | Felix Erben, University of Edinburgh, UK | Scattering and resonances from lattice QCD using distillation | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Dec 16 | Joseph Karpie, Columbia University, USA | Studying systematic errors on lattice PDFs | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording | Slides |
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| April 23 | William Jay, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA | Precision Flavor Physics and Lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 7 | Fernando Romero-López, University of Valencia and IFIC, Spain | Exploring the ’t Hooft limit of meson observables | Zoom recording | Slides |
| May 21 | Jana Günther, University of Regensburg, Germany | QCD thermodynamics from imaginary chemical potential | Zoom recording | Slides |
| June 4 | Philipp Scior, University of Bielefeld, Germany | Supersymmetry on the lattice | Zoom recording | Slides |
| June 18 | Casey Berger, Boston University, USA | Circumventing the sign problem with complex Langevin in lattice field theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
| July 2 | Ruairí Brett, The George Washington University, USA | From two to three-body systems in lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| July 23 | Aurora Scapellato, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland | Nucleon PDFs and GPDs from lattice QCD | Slides | |
| July 30 | Marco Cè, CERN, Switzerland | The hadronic contributions to the running of SM couplings from lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| August 13 | Gurtej Kanwar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | Lattice ensemble generation using machine-learned generative models | Zoom recording | Slides |
| August 27 | Bipasha Chakraborty, University of Cambridge, UK | D to K semileptonic decay from n_f = 2 + 1 + 1 lattice QCD with physical light quarks | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Sept 10 | Anton Trunin, Samara University, Russia | Topology and axions in QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Sept 24 | Nikolai Husung, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany | Logarithmic corrections to a^2 scaling in Lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 8 | Francesca Cuteri, Goethe University, Germany | Insights into the QCD phase diagram in/from sign-problem free setups | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Oct 22 | Yin Lin, University of Chicago, USA | Staggering Nucleon Matrix Elements | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Nov 5 | Jian Liang, University of Kentucky, USA | Chiral Symmetry and Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment from Lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Nov 19 | Vera Guelpers, University of Edinburgh, UK | Isospin Breaking Corrections to Leptonic Meson Decays | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Dec 3 | Tim Harris, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy | New strategies to compute the hadronic contribution to muon g-2 from lattice QCD | Zoom recording | Slides |
| Dec 17 | Marc Illa, University of Barcelona, Spain | Lattice QCD input for baryon-baryon scattering and interactions in effective field theory | Zoom recording | Slides |
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