Urs
Heller, SCRI - Tallahassee
heller@csit.fsu.edu
Jac
Verbaarschot, Stony Brook
verbaarschot@tonic.physics.sunysb.edu
Nonperturbative effects are responsible for chiral symmetry breaking, confinement and complex phenomena such as the existence of nuclei. They have been analyzed from different perpectives and by different methods. Best known is lattice QCD which is in principle an exact method but is in practice greatly restricted by the limited power of todays computers. Other methods can provides us exact results for the low-energy limit of QCD. For example, Chiral Perturbation Theory, Chiral Random Matrix Theory, Small Volume expansions. Other approaches that have had a great deal of impact are semi-classical methods with Instanton Liquid Models as best known example. One of the major breakthroughs in lattice QCD during the past few years is the development of algorithms allowing us to simulation full QCD with light or zero quark mass. The main goal of this workshop is to understand the lattice results for full QCD with light quarks by means of the abovementioned theories for the low-energy limit of the QCD partition function. Our main focus will be on exact results in QCD. We expect that confronting the most active researches in these areas will allow us to seek and address questions with regards to chiral symmetry in QCD with light quarks. One part of our workshop will be the analysis of results obtained by means of recent algorithms for simulating chiral fermions such as Ginsparg-Wilson fermions and Domain wall fermions. A second part will be the discussion of recent progress for exact results for the low-energy limit of QCD. Among others me mention the description of the Dirac spectrum by means of partially quenched chiral perturbation theory and chiral Random Matrix Theory. A third part will be the discussion of exact non-perturbative results for QCD at finite density. In recent years a large number of scenarios have been sketched for QCD with three colors. However, because of the failure of Monte-Carlo simulations, these speculations could not be tested. However, Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition has been predicted for QCD with two colors and has been observed by means of recent lattice QCD simulations.
The following speakers have agreed to give talks in this workshop:
| Gernot Akemann (Saclay) | New Matrix Model results for QCD with chemical potential |
| Pierre van Baal (Leiden) | Multi-Caloron Solutions |
| Jeff Bowers (MIT) | The Crystallography of Color Superconductivity |
| Shailesh Chandrasekharan (Duke) | Massless staggered Fermions at Strong Couplings |
| Pietro Facioli (Stony Brook) | TBA |
| Zoltan Fodor (Hungary)) | TBA |
| Maarten Golterman (San Francisco) | TBA |
| Thomas Guhr (Lund) | Stochastic Field Theories and Effective Models |
| Simon Hands (Swansea) | Simulating QCD with a small chemical potential |
| Urs Heller, (SCRI - Tallahassee) | Thermodynamics Simulations with Improved Staggered Quarks |
| Andy Inopin (Kharkov) | TBA |
| Karl Jansen (CERN) | Finite size scaling analysis for a non-perturbative evaluation of Gasser-Leutwyler coefficients |
| Alexander Kalloniatis (Adelaide) | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and theta dependence in the QCD domain model |
| Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld) | TBA |
| Biagio Lucini (Oxford) | QCD Physics and the Large N Limit |
| Maria-Paola Lombardo (INFN, Rome) | QCD at non zero (imaginary) chemical potential |
| Cristina Manual (CERN) | TBA |
| Herbert Neuberger (Rutgers) | Large N reduction revisited |
| Kari Rummukainen (Copenhagen) | Pressure in hot QCD plasma |
| Francesco Sannino (Copenhagen) | Vector Bose-Einstein Condensation in Strongly Interacting Matter |
| Boris Schlittgen (Yale) | The Colour-Flavour Transformation for the Special Unitary Group |
| Misha Stephanov (Chicago) | Pion Propagation below and near Chiral Transition in QCD |
| Ben Svetitsky (Weizmann) | Towards color superconductivity on a lattice |
| Mike Teper (Oxford) | Instantons and chiral symmetry breaking in SU(N) gauge theories |
| Dominique Toublan (Champaign-Urbana) | Thermodynamics of chiral symmetry at low densities |
| Jac Verbaarschot (Stony Brook) | The QCD Dirac Spectrum |
| Tilo Wettig (Yale) | Application of the color-flavor transformation to lattice QCD |
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