Thematic workshop on Lattice QCD at the physical pion mass: results, challenges and modern techniques - HPC LEAP

Program for European Joint Doctorates
High Performance Computing in Life sciences, Engineering and Physics

Thematic workshop on Lattice QCD at the physical pion mass: results, challenges and modern techniques

The workshop on Lattice QCD is part of the series of thematic workshops offered by the HPC-LEAP projet. The workshop includes introductory lectures on scale setting and renormalization and will also cover topics on recent results using gauge configurations at or close to the physical pion mass, algorithmic developments (multigrid and multi-level techniques), as well as new developments such as the direct computation of PDFs. Insights into the challenges of these state-of-the-art lattice QCD simulations will be provided by some of the key researchers working in the area, who will share their results and experience on physical pion mass simulations.

Limited spaces are available for students & researchers that are not affiliated with the HPC-LEAP programme.

Venue: Stiftung Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany

Dates: 10 to 13 April 2017

To register and for further details visit the website of the workshop.

Registration for the workshop will remain open until 4 April 2017.

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