Lattice field theory

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Winter '05 

     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"
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