This week, Physics and Astronomy will welcome over 400 delegates from 28 different countries to Highfield Campus to attend the 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 24 – 30 July 2016.
The conference is a prestigious annual international event hosted by institutions from across the globe including Europe, the USA, the Far East and Australia. This is the first time that the Symposium has been held in England. Members of the Southampton Lattice Group, currently including the Head of Physics and Astronomy, Professor Jonathan Flynn, Professor Chris Sachrajda and Dr Andreas Jüttner, have been making significant contributions to the development of Lattice Field Theory since 1986. Professor Sachrajda and Dr Jüttner presented invited plenary talks at the 2014 and 2015 symposia respectively.
Among the plenary speakers is one of the founder members of the Southampton Theoretical Physics Group, Professor Tony Hey who later became the Dean of Engineering, the Director of the UK’s e-Science Programme and Vice-President of Technical Computing at Microsoft.
Professor Chris Sachrajda, the Chair of the Local Organising Committee, said:
“We are delighted to welcome so many colleagues for a week’s intensive discussions about the latest progress in this central area of fundamental physics. The decision of the International Advisory Committee to award the conference to Southampton is a recognition of the central role we have played in the development of the subject over the last 30 years.”
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