Speaker: Brian Tiburzi (University of Maryland)

Title: Graphene and Chiral Fermions

Abstract:
A notorious hurdle in numerical studies of field theories with fermions
is flavor doubling. Solutions to this problem either break symmetries or
are computationally demanding. Nature may provide us with a solution:
graphene - a single atomic layer of carbon. As a two-dimensional lattice,
its continuum limit describes two chiral fermions. I will discuss recent
attempts inspired by graphene to construct better fermion actions for QCD.