Friday, January 7, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Organizational Meeting
Friday, January 14, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Adam Sorini
"Basic Lattice Gauge Theory"
ref: books by Creutz, Montvay; Gupta & Luscher reviews;
K. Wilson's "Confinement of Quarks"
Friday, January 21, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Cihan Ackay
"Wilson fermions & Symanzik improvement"
Friday, January 28, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Daisuke Yamada
"Monte Carlo methods"
ref: Thijssen, "Computational Physics"
Friday, February 4, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Jackson Wu
"Problems with chiral fermions on the lattice"
ref: Nielsen & Ninomiya, "No-go Theorem for Regularizing Chiral Fermions";
Luscher "Exact Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice and the
Ginsparg-Wilson Relation"
Friday, February 11, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Andy O'Bannon
"Solutions to chiral fermions on the lattice"
ref: Kaplan, "A Method for Simulating Chiral Fermions on the Lattice";
Shamir; Narayanan & Neuberger, "Chiral Fermions on the Lattice"
Friday, February 18, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Mike Endres
"Lattice perturbation theory: Calculating alpha_S"
ref: Lepage & Mackenzie, "On the Viability of Lattice Perturbation Theory"
Friday, February 25, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Ruth Van de Water
"Renormalization Group Equations and Perfect Actions"
ref: Wilson, "The Renormalization Group: Critical Phenomena and
the Kondo Problem"; Hasenfratz & Niedermayer,
"Perfect Lattice for Asymptotically Free Theories"
Friday, March 4, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Matt Bowen
"Heavy quarks on the lattice"
ref: Heitger & Sommer,
"Non-perturbative Heavy Quark Effective Theory"
Friday, March 11, 2005
2:30 C421 Physics & Astronomy Bldg.
Andre' Walker-Loud
"Weak matrix elements from the lattice"
ref: Lellouch & Luscher, "Weak Transition Matrix Elements from
Finite-Volume Correlation Functions"