Speaker: Pavlos Vranas (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )

Title: The Quark, the Techniquark and the Supercomputer

Abstract:
QCD at extreme temperatures undergoes a phase change to a quark gluon plasma. 
And a candidate theory for physics beyond the standard model advocates a new 
nuclear physics of techniquarks at the TeV scale. Both involve strong
interactions, can only be studied numerically on the lattice using massively
parallel supercomuters, and are of central importance to the upcoming LHC 
experiments. I will discuss this research and the numerical simulations we 
are performing at LLNL in a hundredth of a cubic meter of silicon and 
wire (BlueGene/L).