Lattice conference takes place in Liverpool

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Delegates at the 41st lattice conference including Local Organising Committee chair, Simon Hands, on front row second from right

The 41st Lattice Conference took place at the University of Liverpool, from July 28th to August 3rd 2024, attracting 500 participants from around the world to Liverpool. Originally started as a forum for particle physicists to discuss recent developments in lattice gauge theory, especially lattice QCD describing the strong force between quarks and gluons, nowadays the conference is the largest of its type and has grown to include areas like algorithms and machine architectures, quantum computing, physics beyond the Standard Model, and strongly interacting phenomena in low-dimensional systems.

The conference was organised by a local organising committee which included LIV.INNO Management Board and Advisory Board member Simon Hands as its chair and also Pavel Buividovich, John Gracey and David Schaich, who are all supervisors of LIV.INNO students, as members. Simon Hands said: “The conference is an important forum for both established experts and early career researchers alike to report recent progress, and the published proceedings will provide a valuable community resource. We’ve worked hard to ensure a welcoming and supportive environment for all our delegates.”

The conference was also an opportunity for LIV.INNO students who are studying for PhDs in this area to engage with others in their field of study, as well as help with the running of both plenary and parallel talk sessions. LIV.INNO student Joseph Hadley attended the conference and found the Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence parallel session stream very useful and also had useful conversations with fellow machine learning researchers.

Joseph said “The highlights of this event for me were Christine Davies’ talk on contributions from the lattice community in the Muon g-2 problem, and discussion which followed, hearing from influential authors in the field; Jan Smit, John Kogut, and Chris Michael, about the history of Lattice QCD, which matured as a field within living memory and an update on Glueballs delivered by Colin Morningstar”