Session S6 - Large-Scale Computational Approaches to Few-Body Physics Problems.
INVITED session, Wednesday afternoon, March 24
516AB, Palais des Congres
For almost 30 years precise numerical studies of nonperturbative QCD, formulated on a space-time lattice, have been stymied by our inability to include the effects of realistic quark vacuum polarization. This talk, which is aimed at a general physics audience, describes a series of theoretical breakthroughs that have recently led to the first few-percent accurate nonperturbative calculations in the history of QCD. The implications for particle physics, and for theoretical physics more generally will be discussed.