UKLFT Annual Meeting, Cambridge 27-28 March 2023

UKLFT Annual Meeting, Cambridge 27-28 March 2023

This year’s meeting will take place in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

The meeting will feature topical presentations by members of the UK lattice field theory community, as well as plenty of opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues. All talks will be in room MR5, and registration, tea/coffee and lunch breaks in the Central Core


Monday 27th March

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and Registration

13:30-13:40 Welcome

13:40 – 14:15 Vera Gรผlpers (Edinburgh) – (g-2)ฮผ slides here

14:15 – 14:50 Chris Culver (Liverpool) – Quantum computing for lattice supersymmetry slides here

14:50 – 15:25 Patrick Fritzsch (TC Dublin) – Simulating Stabilised Wilson fermions: Status and prospects slides here

15:25 – 16:00 Tea/coffee

16:00 – 16:10 Alessandro Lupo (Edinburgh) โ€“ Inverse problem: connecting Backus Gilbert and Gaussian Processes slides here

16:10 – 16:20 David Yallup (Cambridge) โ€“ Nested sampling for lattice field theory slides here

16:20 – 16:30 Francesco Moretti (Liverpool) โ€“ QED x QCD matching between the MSbar and the RI schemes slides here

16:30 – 16:40 Srijit Paul (Edinburgh) โ€“ The long-distance part of the vector-vector correlator from ๐…๐… scattering slides here

16:40 – 16:50 Travis Whyte (Cambridge) โ€“ Optimizing shift selection in multilevel monte carlo for disconnected diagrams in lattice QCD slides here

19:00 Dinner at St. John’s College


Tuesday 28th March

09:30 – 10:05 Johann Ostmeyer (Liverpool) – Reducing the Sign Problem of the Hubbard Model slides here

10:05 – 10:40 Alastair Basden (Durham) – DiRAC, ExCALIBUR and UK Exascale computing slides here

10:40 – 11:10 Tea/coffee

11:10 – 11:45 Tim Burns (Swansea) – Exotic hadrons slides here

11:45 – 12:20 Max Hansen (Edinburgh) – Inverse Problems slides here

12:20 – 12:30 closing

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch


Registration deadline is 12th March 2023. The registration form is available here. It will be possible for selected early-career researchers to give a poster and/or a short (5 min) talk at the meeting. Please register as soon as possible if you would like to be considered for this opportunity — full consideration will be given to those who register by 1st March.

Because accommodation availability will decrease over time and may be very limited close to the date of the meeting, we strongly recommend that you secure accommodation as soon as possible and well in advance of the registration deadline.

There is no registration fee and UKLFT will cover reasonable local accommodation expenses and UK travel – to claim reimbursement please complete the claim form and return with scans of tickets and supporting receipts to Simon.Hands@liverpool.ac.uk

  • Venue

Talks, lunches and tea/coffee breaks will be in Pavilion A of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS). For information on getting to the CMS see:
http://www.cms.cam.ac.uk/how-find-us . Once you arrive at the CMS follow signs for reception.

Dinner on 27th March will be in St John’s College.

  • Accommodation

There are a number of hotels and bed & breakfasts in Cambridge and rooms can be booked using standard websites.

In addition, some bed & breakfasts, guesthouses, etc are listed at:
https://www.accommodation.cam.ac.uk/VisitingCambridge/Listings.aspx
A couple of places used for visiting seminar speakers etc are:
Benson House B&B
Arundel House Hotel
It is also possible to stay in a Cambridge college (check the location). See individual college websites or e.g.
https://www.meet-cambridge.com/event-type-page/accommodation
https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/cambridge/home
(N.B. inclusion here does not imply any endorsement of the accommodation providers or websites!)

  • Contact

c.e.thomas AT damtp.cam.ac.uk

Local Organising Committee:
Christopher Thomas, Matthew Wingate, Dave Wilson