Program
for the
Workshop on Nonperturbative Methods in Quantum Field Theory
February 2 - February 13 1998
Except for Monday the 2nd of February, the first talk of each day is
scheduled for 60 minutes (50 minutes + 10
minutes discussion), the second for 30 + 10 minutes and the last two
for 20 + 10 minutes.
All talks will be held at the
Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre (Map Ref. H6) in the
Department of Physics on the University Campus (NOT at the
CSSM at the corner of Pulteney St./North Terrace; Map Ref. Q12)
Monday, February 2 1998 |
Session Chair: Derek Leinweber (CSSM) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
8:45 -> 10:00 |
Registration Desk open in front of
the
Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre |
9:50 |
Welcome |
10:00 |
Michael Creutz (Brookhaven) |
The standard model on the lattice |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Pradeep Sriganesh (UNSW) |
Lattice calculations of the massive Schwinger Model |
12:00 |
Enrique Arriola (Granada) |
Continuum limit of path integrals in euclidean quantum mechanics |
12:30 |
Lunch |
13:00 -> 17:00 |
Registration Desk open
at the CSSM
& Desk Allocation |
15:00 -> 17:00 |
Workshop Reception
at the CSSM
& Desk Allocation |
|
Tuesday, February 3 1998 |
Session Chair: Chris Hamer (UNSW) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Mike Pennington (Durham) |
Mass production and precision engineering |
10:20 |
Derek Leinweber (CSSM) |
Light Hadron Spectroscopy from Mean-Field Improved Lattice Actions |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Robert Bursill (UNSW) |
Green function Monte Carlo study of correlation functions in the
(2+1)-dimensional U(1) lattice gauge model |
12:00 |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Wednesday, February 4 1998 |
Session Chair: Craig Roberts (Argonne) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Don Sinclair (Argonne) |
Thermodynamics of Lattice QCD |
10:20 |
Constantina Alexandrou (Cyprus) |
Thermodynamic properties of one-flavour QCD |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Pieter Maris (Argonne) |
Pseudoscalar mesons as QCD bound states |
12:00 |
John Markham (Melbourne) |
Monte Carlo Simulations with Complex-Valued Measures |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Thursday, February 5 1998 |
Session Chair: Robert Delbourgo (Hobart) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Roland Rosenfelder (PSI) |
Variational methods in the worldline representation of field theory |
10:20 |
Takanori Sugihara (Osaka) |
Variational calculation of the effective action |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Michael Kuchiev (UNSW) |
Vacuum with "polarized" instantons in non-abelian gauge theory |
12:00 |
Emmanuel Rodulfo (Hobart) |
The quasilocal background field method applied to
gauge theories |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Friday, February 6 1998 |
Session Chair: David Atkinson (Groningen) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Volodya Miransky (Kiev) |
Dynamical symmetry breaking and other miracles in a magnetic field |
10:20 |
Tony Williams (CSSM) |
Renormalized Strong-Coupling Quenched QED in Four Dimensions |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Paulus Tjiang (ANU) |
Test of gauge covariance of fermion-photon vertex in three
dimensional QED |
12:00 |
Jacques Bloch (Groningen) |
Infrared fixed point of the running coupling in QCD
|
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Saturday, February 7 1998 |
14:00 -> 22:30 |
Workshop Outing: A Tour to Cleland Wildlife Park, followed
by wine tasting and dinner at the Woodstock Winery |
|
Monday, February 9 1998 |
Session Chair: Andreas Schreiber (CSSM) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
McKellar (Melbourne) |
Functional Methods for Fermion Propagators |
10:20 |
Chris Hamer (UNSW) |
Series expansion studies of QED in (1+1)D and (2+1)D |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Michael Walker (ANU) |
Spontaneous Mass Generation in Supersymmetric QED3 |
12:00 |
Channa Paranavitane (Melbourne) |
J/Psi production within the NRQCD factorisation formalism |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Tuesday, February 10 1998 |
Session Chair: Roland Rosenfelder (PSI) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Heiri Leutwyler (Berne) |
Large N_c in chiral perturbation theory |
10:20 |
Reg Cahill (Flinders) |
Recent results from the global colour model of QCD |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Jambul Gegelia (Flinders) |
Improved chiral perturbation theory approach to the
nucleon-nucleon interaction |
12:00 |
Stephan Duerr (Seattle) |
A Proposal for "Topologically Unquenched" Lattice-QCD |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Wednesday, February 11 1998 |
Session Chair: Volodya Miransky (Kiev) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Craig Roberts (Argonne) |
Hadrons at extremes of temperature and density |
10:20 |
Andreas Hauck (Tübingen) |
A solution to coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for gluons and
ghosts in Landau gauge |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Martin Hecht (Melbourne) |
Quark contributions to magnetic and electric moments of hadrons |
12:00 |
Fred Hawes (CSSM) |
Electromagnetic Form Factors of light vector mesons |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Thursday, February 12 1998 |
Session Chair: Mike Pennington (Durham) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
David Atkinson (Groningen) |
Infrared and Ultraviolet Behaviour of the Running Coupling in QCD |
10:20 |
Aleksey Alekseev (IHEP) |
The model for QCD running coupling contant with dynamically
generated mass and enhancement in the infrared region |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Manuel Reenders (Groningen) |
Analytic structure of scalar composites in the
gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model |
12:00 |
Jon Ivar Skullerud (CSSM) |
The infrared behaviour of the gluon propagator from lattice QCD |
12:30 |
Lunch |
|
Friday, February 13 1998 |
Session Chair: Tony Williams (CSSM) |
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:20 |
Robert Delbourgo (Hobart) |
Amplitude analysis in particle decays |
10:20 |
David Adams (Dublin) |
Convergence of discrete action to continuum action
does not imply convergence of discrete physics to
continuum physics, and vice versa |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Conrad Burden (ANU) |
The analytic structure of heavy quark propagators |
12:00 |
Alexander Kvinikhidze (Flinders) |
Electromagnetic corrections to nonperturbative strong interaction quantities |
12:30 |
Lunch |
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