Workshops & Mini-Courses
USQCD All-Hands Meeting 2025
Welcome to the annual meeting of the USQCD Collaboration. The 2025 meeting is sponsored by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and will take place March 26 – 28, 2025.
2024 Meeting on Lattice Parton Physics from Large-Momentum Effective Theory
The 2024 Meeting on Lattice Parton Physics from Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET 2024) will be officially hosted by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP), Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, during Aug 11-14, 2024. This meeting aims to bring together physicists interested in LaMET and other theoretical approaches with their applications to lattice QCD in the calculation of parton physics.
Minicourse on Gravitational Algebras and Generalized Entropy
+ What: Minicourse (5 lectures) on Gravitational algebras and generalized entropy
+ Lecturer: Antony Speranza, UIUC
+ Where: The University of Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, PSC 3150 (and Zoom)
+ When: Mon-Wed-Fri October 9 – 18 2023, from 1pm-2:15pm
+ Topic: New developments on generalized entropy and von Neumann algebras in semiclassical quantum gravity.
+ Prerequisites: familiarity with general relativity and quantum field theory
+ Course description and background reading: https://tinyurl.com/4zb6a7yp
+ Recordings will be made available at https://www.youtube.com/@umd_mcfp
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Rabifest Workshop
Celebrating the career and retirement of Rabindra Mohapatra with a workshop October 20 and 21, 2022
Cosmological Probes of New Physics Workshop
Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP), at University of Maryland, is proud to host a three-day workshop on Cosmological Probes of New Physics. The workshop will bring together particle physicists and cosmologists to share new ideas of using cosmological data, in particular CMB, LSS, BAO, gravitational waves and future 21 cm measurements, to search for new physics. Topics include, but are not limited to, the cosmological signals of dark sectors, neutrino cosmology, the inflationary/reheating mechanism, cosmological collider physics, and the H0 problem.
September 15-17 2022
Lattice PDF Workshop, 6–8 April 2018
Join a small group of experts working on QCD, to discuss the current status of the theoretical developments, and future perspectives. The meeting will be organized in a very informal way, mainly focusing on the exchange of ideas. Other interesting topics will also be covered to encourage new ideas and collaborations.
Minicourse on Spacetime Thermodynamics March 2016 - Aron Wall
Recently, there has been a lot of interdisciplinary research exploring connections between spacetime geometry, field theory, and quantum information theory. These lectures, sponsored by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, are intended to provide a rapid introduction to the fundamentals of this field, geared at the level of grad students and postdocs (but faculty are also welcome!), who are familiar with the basics of GR and QFT. Along the way I will note several unsolved problems, to inspire those who are interested in doing research in this field.
Part I is likely to be of interest to researchers in quantum information theory, field theory & string theory, gravity, and condensed matter theory. Part II will begin with a broad overview of black hole thermodynamics; the remainder will be slightly more technical, and of particular interest to those studying gravity, string theory, or holography.
PART I (March 21, 22, 23) will center on the concept of “entanglement entropy” in field theory, a measure of the information in a region. I will describe how to calculate this quantity by various tricks (including holographic methods), and spell out some applications to renormalization theory, condensed matter physics, and quantum gravity.
PART II (March 30, 31, April 1) will review a closely related topic, the mysterious entropy associated with black holes and other causal horizons (e.g. in cosmology). This part will explain why horizons obey the laws of thermodynamics, and how corrections coming from quantum mechanics and string theory are manifested. I will also discuss nonperturbative speculations concerning microstates, the information puzzle, and firewalls.
Click here to be taken to course webpage.
Click here for videos of past lectures (password is mcfp415). If you are only able to see the first 15 minutes of a video, download the video onto your computer instead of watching it on the Dropbox site.
Videos also available at this link.