Lecture Topics:
- Lena Funcke (MIT, USA), Computing Topological Field Theories
- Introduction to lattice field theories Lecrure 1
- Path integral on the lattice
- Monte Carlo computations
- Limitations of Monte Carlo
- Overcoming limitations of Monte Carlo - Part I Lecrure 2
- Thermodynamic observables
- Indirect Monte Carlo computation
- Direct deep learning computation
- Overcoming limitations of Monte Carlo - Part II Lecrure 3
- Topological phenomena
- Sign problem of Monte Carlo
- Tackling the sign problem with tensor networks and quantum computing
[1] C. Morningstar, Hadronic molecules, The Monte Carlo method in quantum field theory
[arXiv:hep-lat/0702020].
[2] M. C. Banuls, K. Cichy, Review on novel methods for lattice gauge theorie,
[arXiv:1910.00257 [hep-lat].
[2] M. Albergo, et al., Introduction to Normalizing Flows for Lattice Field Theorye,
[arXiv:2101.08176 [hep-lat].
- Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney, Australia), The Standard Model of particle physics
- Conceptual foundations Lecture source
- Theory and Phenomenology Lecture source
- Observations and problems Lecture source
- Gia Dvali (LMU and MPI Muenchen, Germany), Physics Beyond the Standard Model
- Motivation for physics BSM: Naturalness (Hierarchy and strong-CP puzzles, ...), unification of forces, hints from astrophysics and cosmology such as dark matter and inflation
- Physics of axion
- Possibility of new gravitational physics around TeV energies and its phenomenological consequences (micro black holes, neutrino masses, ...)
- Zurab Berezhiani (L'Aquila University, Italy), Selected topics in Astroparticle Physics Lecture source
- Baryon and lepton number violation: theory vs. experiment, and the origin of cosmological baryon asymmetry
- Matter, dark matter and antimatter in the Universe
- Alexey Boyarsky (Univ. Leiden, Nederlands), Dark matter: cold, non-cold, and sterile neutrinos Lecture source
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