Creutz Fest 2014

Sep 4, 2014, 8:30 AM → Sep 5, 2014, 5:00 PM US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510 (Physics Department)

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An HET-RBRC Symposium and Celebration of the Career and Accomplishments of Dr. Michael Creutz

Group photo is  http://quark.phy.bnl.gov/~izubuchi/d/photo/2014-CreutzFest-Group-Photo_Title.jpg

Thursday, September 4

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Welcome

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

Speaker: Dr Berndt Mueller (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:40 AM TBA

Speaker: Dr Larry Trueman (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Trueman.pdf

8:50 AM Best Wishes to Mike

Speaker: Dr Frank Paige (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides paige_creutzfest.pdf

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Plenary I

Convener: Prof. Sinya Aoki (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

9:00 AM With Mike at SLAC and Other Observations

Speaker: Dr Robert Jaffe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides creutz-to-give-2.pdf

9:25 AM What I Learned From Mike

Speaker: Dr Paul MacKenzie (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides 14Creutz.pdf

9:50 AM The Metamorphoses of the Quark

Speaker: Prof. Jeff Mandula (University of Washington)

Slides Mandula.pdf

10:15 AM Freedom and Confinement; a Case for Eternal Love

Speaker: Prof. Peter Weisz (Max Planck Institute)

10:40 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee Break

11:05 AM → 12:40 PM Plenary II

Convener: Prof. Robert Jaffe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:05 AM Continuum Limit, Phase Structure and Lattice Scales for QCD and Beyond

Speaker: Prof. Anna Hasenfratz (University of Colorado Boulder)

Slides Hasenfratz.pdf

11:30 AM From Quarks, Gluons and Lattices to Hadrons

Speaker: Dr Robert Edwards (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Slides edwards_creutzfest_14.pdf

11:55 AM 2-Flaver QCD with Non-degenerate Quark Masses

Speaker: Prof. Sinya Aoki (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Slides BNL20140904.pdf

12:20 PM Additive Shift in the Fermion Mass Generated by the Axial Anomaly in One-flavor QCD

Speaker: Prof. Norman Christ (Columbia University)

Slides NChrist.pdf

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:20 PM Plenary III

Convener: Prof. Anna Hasenfratz (University of Colorado Boulder)

2:00 PM Welcome

Speaker: Dr Doon Gibbs (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:10 PM From Group Integrals to Extreme QCD

Speaker: Prof. Michael Ogilvie (Washington University)

Slides Creutz_Fest_Ogilvie.pdf

2:35 PM Developing the Complex Langevin Approach for QCD

Speaker: Dr Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu (Inst. Theor. Physik, Univ. Heidelberg)

Slides Stamatescu_H.pdf

3:00 PM Conserved Charge Fluctuations and the Phase Diagram of Strong Interaction Matter

Speaker: Dr Frithjof Karsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Karsch.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM → 5:25 PM Plenary IV

Convener: Dr Taku Izubuchi (HET/RBRC)

3:45 PM CP Violation and Chiral Symmetry

Speaker: Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Tanmoy.pdf

4:10 PM Applying Chiral Perturbation Theory to Lattice QCD: Successes and Challenges

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Sharpe (University of Washington)

Slides sharpe.pdf

4:35 PM The Neutron-proton Mass Difference

Speaker: Prof. Zoltan Fodor (University of Wuppertal)

Slides Fodor.pdf

5:00 PM Two Dimensional QCD at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential

Speaker: Prof. Rajamani Narayanan (Florida International University)

Slides chemical.pdf

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Banquet Dinner

Friday, September 5

8:30 AM → 10:30 AM Plenary I

Convener: Dr Peter Petreczky (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:30 AM Lattice evidence for strings in the deconfined phase of a pure gauge theory

Speaker: Dr Robert Pisarski (RIKEN/BNL Research Center)

Slides Mikey.pdf

8:40 AM Formalism vs Phenomenology

Speaker: Dr William Marciano (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Marciano.pdf

8:50 AM Old Lattice Guy and Youngsters at BNL

Speaker: Dr Tatsuhiro Misumi (Keio National University)

Slides CreutzFest_MISUMI.pdf

9:15 AM Lattic Gauge Theory Studies of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Rebbi (Boston University)

Slides Rebbi.pdf

9:40 AM From Mike to the Higgs Impostor and the Dilaton

Speaker: Prof. Julius Kuti (U.C. San Diego)

Slides jkCreutzFest.pdf

10:05 AM Wilson Fermions in the Epsilon Regime

Speaker: Dr Urs Heller (American Physical Society)

Slides Creutz_Fest.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:15 PM Plenary II

Convener: Prof. Norman Christ (Columbia University)

11:00 AM Family Resemblences Among QCD's Close Relatives

Speaker: Prof. Thomas DeGrand (University of Colorado Boulder)

Slides text.pdf

11:25 AM Some Recent Work on Renormalization-group Properties of Non-abelian and Abelian Gauge Theories and Connections with Mike Creutz's Contributions

Speaker: Prof. Robert Shrock (Stony Brook University)

Slides Shrock.pdf

11:50 AM On Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Michel Tytgat (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Slides tytgat_creutzfest_bnl_2014.pdf

12:15 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 4:15 PM Plenary III

Convener: Dr Christoph Lehner (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

1:30 PM Creutz Ratio in the Continuum Limit

Speaker: Prof. Masanori Okawa (Hiroshima University)

Slides okawa.pdf

1:55 PM Different Kind of Correlations

Speaker: Prof. Ivan Horvath (University of Kentucky)

2:20 PM Composite Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. George Fleming (Yale University)

Slides Fleming.pdf

2:45 PM Lattice Field Theory on a Spherical Manifold

Speaker: Prof. Richard Brower (Boston University)

Slides Brower.pdf

3:10 PM (g-2) of the Muon

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Blum (University of Connecticut)

Slides talk.pdf

3:30 PM TBA

Speaker: Dr Nick Samios (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

3:40 PM TBA

Speaker: Dr Michael Creutz (Brookhaven National Laboratory)