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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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0801068. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.