Lecture Topics:

• Feng-Kun Guo (ITP/CAS Beijing): QCD exotica
The following topics will be covered:

1. Brief introduction to quark model and hadron spectroscopy
2. New discoveries since 2003
• open-flavor heavy mesons
• XYZ states in the heavy-quarkonium mass region
• Pentaquark candidates: Pc
3. Theory ideas
• Unitarity
• Chiral symmetry for light quarks
• Heavy quark symmetry
• Compositeness
• Threshold cusps and triangle singularities
4. Applications to some new hadrons
Suggested reading:
[1] F.-K.Guo, C.Hanhart, U.-G.Meißner, Q. Wang, Q. Zhao, B.-S. Zou, Hadronic molecules, Rev. Mod. Phys. 90 (2018) 015004
     [arXiv:1705.00141].
[2] S.L.Olsen,T. Skwarnicki, Nonstandard heavy mesons and baryons: Experimental evidence, Rev. Mod. Phys. 90 (2018) 015003
     [arXiv:1708.04012].

• Thomas Mannel (University of Siegen): Probing the Standard Model with Flavour Physics Lecture 1  Lecture 2  Lecture 3
Abstract: Flavour Physics has become an important tool to test the Standard Model and to perform sensitive probes of physics beyond this model. The lectures are designed to introduce into the subject and to discuss some of the recent "hot topics" in this field.
The tentative schedule is:
1. Introduction to Flavour Physics
2. Effective Theory tools
3. "Hot Topics": Are there hints to physics beyond the Standard model?

• Thomas Luu (Forschungszentrum Jülich): Lattice methods for strongly interacting systems Lecture 1  Lecture 2  Lecture 3
The following topics will be covered:

1. Why Monte Carlo?
• Curse of dimensionality Monte Carlo vs Deterministic calculations
• Strongly Interacting systems, Numerical example: Ising model Monte Carlo in Quantum Mechanics
• Path-Integral formalism with imaginary time and discrete lattice
• Spectral decomposition, Numerical example: Harmonic Oscillator
• Monte Carlo in QFT, Bosonic case: Phi^4 theory; Numerical example: Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation
• Preserving Gauge symmetry on the lattice; Links and Plaquettes
2. Introducing fermions on the lattice
• Grassmann fields and operators
• Fermion determinant
• Fermion doubling, Numerical example: Hubbard model
• Lattice QCD
• Interpolating operators
• Single hadron spectrum
• Finite volume octahedral group
• Lüscher formalism, Numerical example: Unitary scattering on a 1-D ring
• Hot topics in LQCD: g-2 form factors; exotic systems; BSM operators/matrix elements
3. Beyond LQCD
• Strongly correlated electrons
• Neuronal networks
• Open discussion on numerical examples

• Arkady Vainshtein (Uni. Minnesota, USA): Hadrons in the muon anomalous magnetic moment
It is a review of the Standard Model prediction for the muon g-2. Hadronic contributions, including light-by-light, are analyzed. Suggested reading:
Kirill Melnikov and Arkady Vainshtein, "Theory of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment", Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, Vol. 216

• Ulf-G. Meißner (Uni. Bonn and FZ Jülich, Germany): Chiral Perturbation Theory
The foundations of Chiral Perturbations Theory, as well as selected applications to the study of low-energy hadron physics is considered.