50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics

US/Pacific
Luskin Conference Center

Luskin Conference Center

425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Zhongbo Kang
Description

NEW: All the talks are recorded and they are available here on the Bhaumik Institute YouTube channel. We also took a lot of conference pictures and they are available here on the Google directory

The conference is run in a hybrid mode. Anyone who is interested in attending the conference remotely, please contact the organizers via qcd50@googlegroups.com. Registration deadline is August 20, 2023 [Hotel reservation deadline is August 14, 2023].

The conference is held at UCLA, so the time corresponds to the local time in Los Angeles, i.e. US Pacific Time zone

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is one of the pillars of the Standard Model of particle physics. It describes the strong interaction - one of the four fundamental forces of nature. This force holds quarks and gluons - collectively known as partons - together in hadrons such as the proton, and protons and neutrons together in atomic nuclei. QCD was developed and defined over a brief period from 1972 - 73. One hallmark of QCD is asymptotic freedom, which states that the strong force between quarks and gluons decreases with increasing energy. The asymptotic freedom of strong interactions was discovered in 1973 by David Gross, Frank Wilczek, and David Politzer, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004. The year 2023 is the opportune time to celebrate 50 years of remarkable progress and achievements in the field of QCD and to provide guidance for the community effort for years to come.

To celebrate this, we are planning a five-day conference to be held at UCLA during September 11 - 15, 2023. This conference will provide a broad overview of the past and future of QCD, including its impact on and connection to other fields. 

Organizing Committee

Michalis Bachtis (UCLA)
Aida El-Khadra (UIUC)
Zhongbo Kang (UCLA, Chair)
Igor Klebanov (Princeton)
George Sterman (Stony Brook)
Iain Stewart (MIT)

Local contact

Zvi Bern
Zhongbo Kang 

Confirmed speakers (alphabetical order)

  1. Babis Anastasiou (ETH)
  2. Radja Boughezal (ANL)
  3. Stan Brodsky (SLAC)
  4. Mike Creutz (BNL)
  5. Sergei Dubovsky (NYU)
  6. Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA)
  7. Keith Ellis (Durham)
  8. Aida El-Khadra (UIUC)
  9. Thomas Gehrmann (Zurich)
  10. David Gross (UCSB)
  11. Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)
  12. Barbara Jacak (UCB/LBL)
  13. Robert Jaffe (MIT)
  14. Xiangdong Ji (Maryland)
  15. David Kaplan (UW Seattle)
  16. Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv)
  17. Igor Klebanov (Princeton)
  18. Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook)
  19. Gregory Korchemsky (Saclay)
  20. David Kosower (Saclay)
  21. Ian Moult (Yale)
  22. Rob Pisarski (BNL)
  23. Jian-Wei Qiu (JLab)
  24. Helen Quinn (Stanford)
  25. Mikhail Shifman (Minnesota)
  26. Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund)
  27. Dam T. Son (Chicago)
  28. George Sterman (Stony Brook)
  29. Iain Stewart (MIT)
  30. Leonard Susskind (Stanford)
  31. Arkady Vainshtein (Minnesota)
  32. Gabriele Veneziano (CERN/College de France)
  33. Raju Venugopalan (BNL)
  34. Xin-Nian Wang (LBL)
  35. Frank Wilczek (MIT)

 

Conference Admin
    • 08:30 12:00
      Monday: Morning Luskin Centennial AB

      Luskin Centennial AB

      Convener: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US))
      • 08:40
        Welcome and Introduction 20m
        Speakers: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US)), Prof. Zhongbo Kang
      • 09:00
        Real Virtuality and Avatars of Doom 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Frank Wilczek (MIT)
      • 09:50
        QCD beyond diagrams 50m
        Speaker: Michael Creutz (Brookhaven Lab)
      • 10:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:10
        The Mechanism of Quark Confinement 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Leonard Susskind (Stanford)
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 2h UCLA Campus

      UCLA Campus

    • 14:00 17:50
      Monday: Afternoon Luskin Centennial AB

      Luskin Centennial AB

      Convener: George Sterman
    • 18:00 19:30
      Conference Reception 1h 30m
    • 19:30 21:30
      Conference Banquet 2h Luskin Centennial AB

      Luskin Centennial AB

      Prof. Helen Quinn will be giving a dinner talk.

    • 19:30 21:30
      Reminiscences and Reflections on 50 plus years of QCD 2h Luskin Centennial AB

      Luskin Centennial AB

      Prof. Helen Quinn will give a dinner talk. The talk will start just after dessert is served.

      Speaker: Helen Quinn (SLAC)
    • 09:00 12:00
      Tuesday: Morning Luskin Centennial AB

      Luskin Centennial AB

      Convener: Prof. Iain Stewart
      • 09:00
        QCD and I: a long and complex relation 50m
        Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano
      • 09:50
        QCD, chirality, and topological insulators 50m
        Speaker: David Kaplan
      • 10:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:10
        The role of Event Generators (in the exploration of QCD) 50m
        Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 2h UCLA Campus

      UCLA Campus

    • 14:00 17:00
      Tuesday: Afternoon Luskin Centennial AB

      Luskin Centennial AB

      Convener: Aida El-Khadra
      • 14:00
        Seeing quarks and gluons: following QCD from initial to final states 50m
        Speaker: George Sterman
      • 14:50
        50+ years of lepton pair production 50m
        Speaker: Richard Keith Ellis (University of Durham (GB))
      • 15:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:10
        Confinement and Dimensional Transmutation 50m
        Speaker: Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)
    • 17:00 19:30
      Public Lecture Luskin Centennial CD

      Luskin Centennial CD

      Convener: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US))
      • 17:00
        Reception for Bhaumik Public Lecture 1h Luskin Centennial CD

        Luskin Centennial CD

      • 18:00
        Bhaumik Public Lecture: Fifty Years of Quantum Chromodynamics (The Theory of The Strong Nuclear Force) 1h 30m Luskin Centennial CD

        Luskin Centennial CD

        Quantum Chromodynamics is fifty years old this year. I shall discuss the past, present and future of this remarkable theory.

        Speaker: David Gross (KITP/UCSB)
    • 09:00 12:00
      Wednesday: Morning Luskin Legacy Room

      Luskin Legacy Room

      Convener: David Saltzberg (University of California Los Angeles (US))
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 2h UCLA Campus

      UCLA Campus

    • 14:00 17:50
      Wednesday: Afternoon Luskin Legacy Room

      Luskin Legacy Room

      Convener: Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)
    • 09:00 12:00
      Thursday: Morning Luskin Legacy Room

      Luskin Legacy Room

      Convener: Zoltan Kunszt (ETH Zurich (CH))
      • 09:00
        Integrability of high-energy QCD 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Gregory Korchemsky (CEA Saclay)
      • 09:50
        High-Energy Collider Observables at Ultimate Precision in QCD 50m
        Speaker: Thomas Kurt Gehrmann (University of Zurich (CH))
      • 10:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:10
        Perturbative techniques for precision collider physics and cosmology 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Babis Anastasiou (ETH Zurich)
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 2h UCLA Campus

      UCLA Campus

    • 14:00 17:50
      Thursday: Afternoon Luskin Legacy Room

      Luskin Legacy Room

      Convener: Prof. Huan Huang (UCLA)
    • 09:00 12:00
      Friday: Morning Luskin Legacy Room

      Luskin Legacy Room

      Convener: Per Kraus (UCLA)
      • 09:00
        Exploring proton's quark/gluon structure without breaking it 50m
        Speaker: Dr Jianwei Qiu (Jefferson Lab)
      • 09:50
        Nonrelativistic conformal field theory and nuclear reactions 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)
      • 10:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:10
        Yang-Mills Glueballs as Closed Rotating Strings 50m
        Speaker: Sergei Dubovsky (NYU)
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch Break 2h UCLA Campus

      UCLA Campus

    • 14:00 17:15
      Friday: Afternoon Luskin Legacy Room

      Luskin Legacy Room

      Convener: Prof. Zhongbo Kang
      • 14:00
        From QCD to QGP: Strong interaction in extremis 50m
        Speaker: Dr Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
      • 14:50
        From partons to jets and back - Simulating QCD interactions at highest energies 50m
        Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)
      • 15:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:10
        The Rise of Jet Substructure 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Ian Moult (Yale University)
      • 17:00
        Adjourn 15m
        Speakers: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US)), Prof. Zhongbo Kang