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

• 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.

Selected talks

• 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 2006 -- 33107 Physics II for Engineering Students II

Other links

• The CMU QCD computing cluster
• Lattice Hadron Physics Collaboration
• JLab High Performance Computing
• National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory
• Medium Energy 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