My Journey as a Physicist

Season 1 Episode 10 I am a Japanese physicist at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics. I also love cats. Most of my papers so far are on theoretical side of high energy physics but I am recently working on hep-lat x quantum computation stuff. Regarding the hep-lat x quantum computation stuff, I love it because we have a chance to explore non-perturbative aspects of real time dynamics in quantu...

Season 1 Episode 9 I am a compute performance developer technology engineer at NVIDIA. I also run frequently, focusing on training for marathons and ultramarathons. I perform in-depth analysis and optimization of software for both lattice QCD and molecular dynamics. I love the work that I do because I still get to be involved with the lattice research community and develop new collaborations with...

Season 1 Episode 8 I am a theoretical physicist fascinated by the complex phenomena that emerge from the fundamental quantum field theory of the strong  interactions, QCD. As a Canadian, I did my PhD at McMaster University, toured the States via U Maryland, The Ohio State U and U Washington (Seattle) and settled here at the University of Adelaide.  When I'm not playing with supercom...

Season 1 Episode 7 "I am a theoretical nuclear/high energy physicist originally from Italy. I am interested in strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density. I use numerical simulations to solve Quantum Chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of strong interactions, and I compare my results to the experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider (CERN). In my free...

Season 1 Episode 6 "I am an Irish theoretical particle physicist interested in the properties of hadrons at zero and finite temperatures. I use numerical simulation, in a framework called Lattice QCD, to calculate the masses and widths of hadrons especially those containing charm and bottom quarks and to study their temperature dependence. This helps us to understand the nature of the strong nucle...

Season 1 Episode 5 Dr. Sasa Prelovsek is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her hobbies include making furniture, playing piano, sewing her own clothes, running and hiking among others. She calculates masses and decay times for various conventional and exotic particles made out of quarks using ab-initio lattice QCD. This has exciting implications for ongoing experimen...

Season 1 Episode 4 Dr. Zohreh Davoudi is an assistant professor at University of Maryland. She is the "Quantum Simulation" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.   "I am a theoretical physicist originally from Iran. In my free time, I enjoy reading political/social/cultural/medical commentaries. I also love fashion, design, and architecture. My research involv...

Season 1 Episode 3 Dr. Meifeng Lin is computational scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She is the "High Performance Computing" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.   "I am a computational scientist with a background in lattice QCD. I am also learning to be a gardener in my spare time. My research focuses on the efficient utilization of the world's...

Season 1 Episode 2 Prof. Raúl Briceño (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University and a Joint Theory staff member at Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. He is the "Hadron Spectroscopy and Resonance" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.   "I'm originally from Venezuela, and in my free time I love climbing, biking, dancing, and sometimes...

Season 1 Episode 1 Prof. Christopher Aubin (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Physics at Fordham University. He is the "Cooking in LQCD — Flavor physics on the lattice" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.  "I am a gay physicist who loves (rescue) dogs and boardgames. A lot of my work is focused on analyzing systematic errors associated with lattice c...