With many major conferences and workshops cancelled this year, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Washington, USA | Extracting the 3K scattering amplitude from the lattice & generalizing the quantization condition | ||
| Nov 4 | Anthony Grebe, MIT, USA | Moments of the Pion Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude from the Heavy-Quark OPE | ||
| Nov 18 | Dorota Grabowska, CERN, Switzerland | Talk title TBD | ||
| Dec 2 | Felix Erben, University of Edinburgh, UK | Scattering and resonances from lattice QCD using distillation | ||
| Dec 16 | Joseph Karpie, Columbia University, USA | Isospin Breaking in Two Hadron Systems |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).