Martin Savage

University of Washington

“Towards Simulations of Standard Model Field Theories”

Martin received his BSc and MSc from the University of Auckland, and PhD from Caltech in 1990.   After postdoctoral fellowships at Rutgers University and UC San Diego, and a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University, he became a faculty member at the University of Washington in 1996 and an INT Senior Fellow in 2013. He has performed research in various aspects of nuclear and particle physics.  In the 1990s, he was involved in developing QCD-based effective field theory techniques to describe nuclear forces, which evolved, as a co-founder of the NPLQCD collaboration in 2004, into lattice QCD calculations of nuclear interactions, scattering and nuclei.  Martin is involved in developing techniques for the simulation of quantum field theories and is performing early quantum simulations.  He is an APS Fellow, received a Humboldt Foundation Research ward in 2012, and is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

“Towards Simulations of Standard Model Field Theories

Theoretical predictions of the properties and dynamics of quantum field theories and quantum many-body systems of importance to nuclear and particle physics research, from dense and/or non-equilibrium matter to systems of neutrinos, to fragmentation in high-energy collisions, require, in many instances, beyond classical computational resources. As highlighted by Feynman and others in the early 1980s, such systems may be amenable to future quantum simulations.  I will discuss recent advances towards achieving these objectives, and the connections to quantum information and other domain sciences.