PROFESSOR NILMANI MATHUR

A comprehensive understanding of the structure and interactions of subatomic particles from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the fundamental theory of the strong interaction, is a challenge in nuclear and high energy physics. At present, lattice QCD, is the only known way to allow a first-principle, non-perturbative study (with controlled systematics) of these systems. However, this requires very large computational resources and such study has been recognized as one of the grand challenges of computational science. After a brief introduction to lattice QCD, the speaker will discuss about recent results from lattice QCD and their implications.