Dr. Tim Harris – Postdoc at ITP, ETH Zurich
I will start by briefly attempting to answer the questions who? what? when? where? why? about lattice field theory. As you shall hopefully see, the lattice approach gives us a unique way to define quantum field theories without relying on perturbation theory. One of its major successes has been the application of numerical studies to the strongly-interacting sector of the Standard Model (SM), quantum chromodynamics or QCD, which describes the interactions of the fundamental quark and gluon constituents of hadronic matter like protons and neutrons. Inspired by my recent collaborations with Master’s students at ETH during their thesis projects undertaken in the lattice field theory group, I will illustrate some interests of the group at the forefront of modern research ranging from algorithms for (classical) machines to input for precision tests of the SM.
Recording
This talk will be live-streamed, and recorded.