KITP Conference: Modern Challenges for Lattice Field Theory (Mar 28 - Apr 1, 2005)
Coordinators: M. Creutz, J. Kogut, H. Neuberger, T. Wettig

Monday, March 28, 2005

9:00am David Gross
(KITP Director)
Welcome
9:10am Julius Kuti
(UCSD)
String Formation in Gauge Theories [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Anthony Kennedy
(Edinburgh)
A Flatlander's Ascent into Five Dimensions [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:00am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Robert Sugar
(UCSB)
QCD with Three Flavors of Improved Staggered Quarks [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm Keh-Fei Liu
(Kentucky)
Finite Density Algorithms and Heavy-Light Quarks with Overlap Fermions [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30pm Anthony Thomas
(JLab)
The Chiral Extrapolation Problem: Extracting Physical Results from Lattice Simulations [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Tuesday, March 29, 2005

9:00am Dam Thanh Son
(Washington)
Aspects of Gauge/Gravity Duality [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Philippe de Forcrand
(ETH)
Simulations of QCD at Finite Baryon Density, via Imaginary Chemical Potential [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:00am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Misha Stephanov
(Illinois)
A Holographic Model of QCD [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm Robert Edwards
(JLab)
Commodity Cluster Usage for Lattice Field Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30pm Kostas Orginos
(MIT)
Improved Chiral Lattice Fermion Actions [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Wednesday, March 30, 2005

9:00am Ulli Wolff
(HU Berlin)
Speedy Algorithms for Lattice Fields: Status and Unfinished Developments [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Berndt Müller
(Duke)
How RHIC Experiments Challenge QCD Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:00am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Tilo Wettig
(Regensburg)
The QCDOC Supercomputer: Architecture and Performance [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK Lunch on the Beach
2:00pm FREE AFTERNOON Shuttle Available to BWSCI


Thursday, March 31, 2005

9:00am Poul Damgaard
(Niels Bohr Inst.)
Future Use of Random Matrix Theory in Lattice Field Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Simon Hands
(Wales)
Lattice Field Theory at non-zero Chemical Potential [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:00am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Clifford Johnson
(USC)
AdS/CFT: Past, Present and Future? [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm Thomas Cohen
(Maryland)
QCD at non-zero Chemical Potential: Insights from the Large Nc Limit [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30pm Juergen Berges
(Heidelberg)
Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory and the Lattice[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Friday, April 01, 2005

9:00am Michael Chanowitz
(Berkeley Lab)
Precision Electroweak Data and the Higgs Boson Mass [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Herbert Neuberger
(Rutgers)
New Results in Planar QCD [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:00am MORNING BREAK
11:30am OPEN
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI