Colin Morningstar Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Toronto Email: colin_morningstar@cmu.edu Phone: 1-412-268-2728 FAX: 1-412-681-0648

Research

My research interests primarily concern nonperturbative phenomena in quantum field theories, with particular emphasis on the study of hadron formation and confinement in quantum chromodynamics using computer simulations of quarks and gluons.

• Monte Carlo computation of the nucleon excitation mass spectrum     (PSC Highlight)
• A computation of the Yang-Mills glueball spectrum
• A determination of the spectrum of heavy-quark hybrid mesons in the leading Born-Oppenheimer approximation (neglecting light quark loops)
• Spectrum of gluons in the presence of a static quark-antiquark pair.
• List of selected publications.
• Publications from SLAC SPIRES

Selected talks

• Progress in Excited Hadron States in Lattice QCD
      Colloquium at Florida Int. University, Miami, November 20, 2009.
• Exploring Excited Hadrons
      Plenary talk at the 26th International Symposium on Lattice Field
      Theory (Lattice 2008), Williamsburg, Virginia, 14-20 Jul 2008.
• The Monte Carlo Method in Quantum Field Theory
      Lectures given at the Hampton University Graduate Studies at JLab, June 12-16, 2006
• The Monte Carlo method in Quantum Mechanics
      CMU Physics Undergraduate Colloquium, April 20, 2004
• Bayesian curve fitting for lattice gauge theorists (talk)     (write up)
      Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics, Cairns, Australia, July 13, 2001
• Gluonic excitations from the lattice: A brief survey
      Hadron 2001, Protvino, Russia, August 28, 2001
• Quarks, Gluons, and Computers:
  Towards an understanding of the Strong Force
      CMU Physics Colloquium, September 10, 2001 (3Mb pdf file)
• Study of Exotic Hadrons in Lattice QCD
      Workshop on Advanced Computing in Nuclear
      and Hadronic Physics, Santorini, Greece, October 2, 2001

Teaching

• Fall 2009 -- 33770 Quantum Mechanics IV (Field Theory)
• Spring 2010 -- 33771 Quantum Mechanics V (Field Theory)

Other links

• The CMU QCD computing cluster
• JLab High Performance Computing
• National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory
• Particle Physics Seminar Schedule
• CMU Computational Physics
• CMU Medium Energy Theory
• CMU Medium Energy Experiment
• QCD Exotica
• The GlueX/Hall D website
• The Cleo-c website
• APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics
• Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems