Trento talk

My student David Reeb will be attending this meeting at ECT Trento next week:

Sign Problems and Complex Actions

workshop at ECT* Trento

Monday March 2 - Friday March 6 2009

organizers: Gert Aarts (Swansea University) & Shailesh Chandrasekharan (Duke University)

I would really have liked to go but my wife is giving a talk at Emory at the same time so I am stuck at home watching the twins. No Alps for me :-/

Here are the excellent slides for David's talk. The first section is a nice introduction to Monte Carlo methods in quantum field theory, which he made for a local seminar here in the ITS (for non-experts).

Trento photos

If you ever come to this part of Italy try the wonderful gnocchi -- it's apparently a regional specialty. We had several epic dinners compliments of the workshop -- I think the food was actually better than what I had in Paris.

Scientifically the meeting was great for me -- I learned a lot and got to meet a number of people whose papers I've read over the years. I'm not a heavy ion specialist but I got some insight into what the community thinks is going on. On to ALICE and LHC!

Two Italian theoreticians, Francesco Becattini (Florence) and Lorenzo Ferroni (LBNL):



Some pictures of Trento:

ECT fun

26 hours of travel yesterday (EUG-PDX-FRA-VCE + train) but so far I feel pretty good, even after seminars from 9:30 AM until 6 PM :-) Trento is a beautiful mountain town -- I will try to post more photos.

ECT in Trento

I'm off soon to the following meeting at ECT: European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics, which is located in the mountain town of Trento, in the Italian Alps. The picture above was taken just north of Trento. I'm excited to see the dolomiti!

I'm flying in and out of Venice -- any tips on what to do there or in Trento would be appreciated :-)

Meeting: The statistical model of hadron formation and the nature of the QCD hadronization process

program , poster , slides of my talk.