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PHYS 598 LFT - Lattice Field Theory and HPC
Last offered Fall 2025
Official Description
Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in physics intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.
Section Description
This course meets: 3 September 2025 through 5 December 2025
Please contact prof. El-Khadra for permission to add this course.
This is the first semester course of two-semester sequence on lattice field theory and high performance computing.
The topics covered in the first semester are:
From path integral to QCD: overview of continuum theory;
Lattice scalar theory to gauge theories on a lattice;
Common Fermion actions and chiral fermions;
Renormalization on the lattice;
Computing Algorithms and High Performance Computing on the lattice;
Quantum Computing and Simulation;
Machine Learning in lattice field theory.
Related Faculty
| Title | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lattice Field Theory and HPC | LFT | 73364 | OLC | 3 | 1630 - 1750 | T R | Aida X El-Khadra Akhil Chauhan |