Event ID: INT-27-1b

Note: This is an in-person program.

OVERVIEW

Chiral gauge theories underlie the Standard Model of particle physics, yet a practical nonperturbative formulation remains one of the outstanding challenges in theoretical physics. Overcoming this challenge would make it possible to study strongly coupled dynamics, real-time quantum phenomena, and many extensions of the Standard Model from first principles. Such advances would open new avenues for understanding fundamental questions ranging from the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe to the dynamics of strongly interacting quantum field theories.

This program aims to bring together researchers from high-energy physics, lattice field theory, condensed matter physics, quantum information, and tensor networks to address one of the central open problems in theoretical physics: the nonperturbative formulation and simulation of chiral gauge theories. Recent advances have emerged from topological phases, symmetric mass generation, Hamiltonian approaches, bosonization, tensor networks, and quantum simulation. The program will highlight these developments while fostering interdisciplinary collaborations to develop practical methods for studying the Standard Model, beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, and nonperturbative real-time phenomena such as baryogenesis, with the long-term goal of enabling quantitative predictions for experimentally relevant and phenomenologically important processes.