Lattice Gauge Theory for LHC Physics

May 2-3, 2008, Wente Vineyards, Livermore, CA

Friday, 02 May 2008

0800 Arrival/Breakfast One
0840 Session One (Chair: Tom Appelquist)
Ed Hartouni: Welcome [10 min]
Pavlos Vranas: Introduction [.ppt] [.pdf] [10 min]
John Kogut: Pioneering Lattice Simulations beyond the Standard Model / The Exascale Project [.ppt] [.pdf] [15 min]
Sehkar Chivukula: HELP WANTED: A Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Wishlist [.pdf] [30 min]
Ethan Neil: The Conformal Window in QCD-like Theories [.pdf] [15 min]
Discussion [15 min]
1015 Coffee Break One
1030 Session Two (Chair: Claudio Rebbi)
Georges Azuelos: Search for Strong Symmetry Breaking signals at the LHC [.ppt] [.pdf] [30 min]
Adam Martin: Technicolor Phenomenology in the LHC Era [.pdf] [30 min]
George Fleming: Flavor Dependence of Yang-Mills [.pdf] [30 min]
Discussion [30 min]
1230 Lunch
1330 Session Three (Chair: Bob Shrock)
Daniel Nogradi: Nonperturbative Higgs(less) Physics [.pdf] [30 min]
John Terning: Unparticles and QCD Jets [.pdf] [30 min]
Discussion [30 min]
1500 Coffee Break Two
1515 Session Four (Chair: Norman Christ)
Mark Seager: High performance computing at LLNL: Petascale and beyond. [.pdf] [30 min]
Michael Cheng: Dynamical fermion algorithms and many flavor simulations on the lattice [.pdf] [30 min]
Mithat Unsal: Dualities, confinement and new topological excitations in QCD-like gauge theories [.pdf] [15 min]
Discussion [15 min]
1700 Wine Tasting Tour

Saturday, 03 May 2008

0800 Breakfast Two
0900 Session Five (Chair: Joe Kiskis)
Markus Luty: Conformal Technicolor [.pdf] [30 min]
Simon Catterall: Lattice Supersymmetry and Strong Dynamics [.pdf] [30 min]
Richard Brower: Peskin Takeuchi S-parameter on 2+1QCD Domain Wall lattices [.ppt] [.pdf] [15 min]
Discussion [15 min]
1030 Coffee Break Three
1045 Session Six (Chair: Herbert Neuberger)
Joel Giedt: Domain Wall Lattice Super-Yang Mills [.pdf] [30 min]
Ami Katz: The Lattice and Holography [.pdf] [30 min]
Barak Bringoltz: Breakdown of large-N reduction in the quenched Eguchi-Kawai model [.pdf] [15 min]
Discussion [15 min]
1215 Closing/Departure
Pavlos Vranas: Summary [15 min]

Q & A notes by Ethan Neil [.pdf]

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