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 |
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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 | ||
| November 9 | Jorge Baeza Ballesteros, University of Valencia, Spain | Meson-meson scattering at large Nc | ||
| December 7 | Yukari Yamauchi, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, USA | Machine learning for sign problems in lattice field theory |
| 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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Suggested speakers should be primarily postdoctoral researchers and senior graduate students. Suggestions of female or underrepresented minority speakers are particularly welcome.
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The colloquium series is organized and hosted by the MIT lattice group: Phiala Shanahan, Will Detmold, and John Negele, and local postdoctoral researchers. Please contact us with any questions, suggestions, or comments (with the exception of speaker suggestions which are accepted via the form above).