Speaker
Sayantan Sharma
Description
The strong interactions account for the origin of an overwhelming fraction of the visible matter in the universe. Strongly interacting matter described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has a very rich phase diagram in terms of temperature and net baryon-density. Lattice QCD has provided exciting new results from first-principles but still much of it remains unknown. Unraveling the QCD phase diagram is one of the goals of theoretical physics as it accounts for the rich phenomena at myriad length scales--from tiny droplets formed in heavy-ion colliders as well as in the core of neutron stars. In this talk I will focus on aspects of chiral symmetry and its effects on the QCD phase diagram from lattice studies.
