Fermions and Extended Objects on the Lattice

CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DE BENASQUE
"PEDRO PASCUAL"


Fermions and Extended Objects on the Lattice

2007, February 25-March 2



Monday, February 26
  • 09:10h
  • The evil that is rooting
     Michael Creutz (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • 10:10h
  • The chiral condensate in QCD: a finite-size scaling study on the lattice
     Silvia Necco (IFIC Valencia)
  • 10:40h
  • Lattice QCD with light Wilson fermions
     Luigi Del Debbio (University of Edinburgh)
  • 17:30h
  • Lattice QCD at finite T and small mu in the phase-quenched approximation
     Donald K. Sinclair (Argonne National Laboratory)
  • 18:30h
  • Strongly coupled quark gluon plasma, and the phases of QCD at imaginary chemical potential
     Maria Paola Lombardo (Frascati National Laboratory INFN)

    Tuesday, February 27
    • 09:00h
    • Beating the sign problem at small chemical potentials
       Jacobus Verbaarschot (Stony Brook University,Niels Bohr Institute)
    • 10:00h
    • The localization structure of low Dirac eigenmodes
       James Hetrick (University of the Pacific)
    • 10:30h
    • A semi-variational approach to QCD at finite temperature and baryon density
       Fabrizio Palumbo (Frascati National Laboratory INFN)
    • 17:30h
    • Analytic continuation from an imaginary chemical potential
       Alessandro Papa (University of Calabria & INFN-Cosenza)
    • 18:30h
    • Topological structure of dense hadronic matter
       Vicente Vento (University of Valencia)

      Wednesday, February 28
      • 09:00h
      • The problem of confinement in lattice gauge theory
         Michele Pepe (INFN - University of Milan-Bicocca)
      • 10:00h
      • Analysis of gauge configurations using overlap-Dirac operator in the adjoint representation
         Alfonso Sastre (UAM - Madrid)
      • 10:30h
      • Improved staggered fermions and topology
         Eduardo Follana (University of Glasgow)
      • 17:30h
      • Calorons and their fermions - a review
         Pierre Van Baal (Institute-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden)
      • 18:30h
      • Fermion zero modes for calorons
         Margarita Garcia Perez (IFT, Madrid)

        Thursday, March 01
        • 09:00h
        • Towards a quantitative understanding of the Delta I=1/2 rule
           Carlos Pena (CERN)
        • 10:00h
        • Algorithms to study the magnetic sector of the SU(3) pure gauge theories
           Luca Tagliacozzo (University of Barcelona)
        • 10:30h
        • Precision heavy quark physics from lattice QCD
           Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)
        • 17:00h
        • First physics results from Nf=2 twisted mass fermions close to the chiral limit
           Gregorio Herdoiza (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
        • 18:00h
        • Possible role of plasma instabilities in heavy ion collisions
           Cristina Manuel (IEEC/CSIC Barcelona)
        • 19:15h
        • Deconfinement in QCD
           Adriano Di Giacomo (University of Pisa)

          Friday, March 02