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David Schaich

Department of Physics, 390 UCB University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 Curriculum Vitae (last modified 1 September 2011)

Office: F-427 Gamow Tower, 2000 Colorado Ave. 303/492-8162 (office) 303/503-9303 (cell) Skype: daschaich

Biography

I am a postdoctoral research associate in theoretical particle physics at CU. Originally from the Detroit area, I graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 2006 with majors in physics, history, and mathematics, and completed my PhD at Boston University in 2011. At BU I was a member of both the high energy theory group and the Center for Computational Science. I have also worked as a visitor (for a month or more) at National Taiwan Normal University/National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei (2011); Lawrence Livermore National Lab (2010); CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (2005), and Hope College (2003).

I work on lattice gauge theory and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking (more information). I am active in both the Lattice Strong Dynamics Collaboration and the US BSM Collaboration of USQCD. In addition to academic institutions mentioned above, I have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Council of Taiwan.

Research

My research focuses on theories of particle physics that involve strong interactions, such as quantum chromodynamics and models of electroweak symmetry breaking through new strong dynamics. I am particularly interested in applying lattice gauge theory to obtain non-perturbative predictions from these theories. An essential component of this work is developing efficient numerical algorithms and optimizing them for the state-of-the-art hardware used in high-performance computing.

A more complete description of my research has outgrown this page.

Recent publications and preprints [complete list, INSPIRE, arXiv]

Journal articles

1. Lattice Simulations and Infrared Conformality
   Thomas Appelquist, George T. Fleming, Meifeng Lin, Ethan T. Neil and David A. Schaich
   Physical Review D 84:054501 (2011) [arXiv:1106.2148, INSPIRE]

2. Hybrid Monte Carlo Simulation of Graphene on the Hexagonal Lattice
   R. C. Brower, C. Rebbi and D. Schaich
   Submitted to Physical Review Letters (2011) [arXiv:1101.5131, INSPIRE]

3. Parity Doubling and the S Parameter Below the Conformal Window
   Thomas Appelquist et al. (LSD Collaboration)
   Physical Review Letters 106:231601 (2011) [arXiv:1009.5967, INSPIRE]

4. Exploring strange nucleon form factors on the lattice
   Ronald Babich et al.
   Submitted to Physical Review D (2011) [arXiv:1012.0562, INSPIRE]

5. Toward TeV Conformality
   Thomas Appelquist et al. (LSD Collaboration)
   Physical Review Letters 104:071601 (2010) [arXiv:0910.2224, INSPIRE]

6. Improved lattice measurement of the critical coupling in phi₂⁴ theory
   David Schaich and Will Loinaz
   Physical Review D 79:056008 (2009) [arXiv:0902.0045, INSPIRE]

Conference proceedings

7. Lattice study of ChPT beyond QCD
   Ethan Neil et al. (LSD Collaboration)
   Proceedings of Science CD09:088 (2009) [arXiv:1002.3777, INSPIRE]

8. Möbius Algorithm for Domain Wall and GapDW Fermions
   Richard Brower, Ronald Babich, Kostas Orginos, Claudio Rebbi, David Schaich and Pavlos Vranas
   Proceedings of Science LATTICE 2008:034 (2008) [arXiv:0906.2813, INSPIRE]

Recent presentations and unpublished reports [complete list, map]

1. Exploring the Origin of Mass with High-Performance Computing, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 19 August 2011.

2. S parameter and parity doubling below the conformal window (for the LSD Collaboration), Lattice 2011, Lake Tahoe, CA, 12 July 2011.

3. Measuring the S Parameter on the Lattice, Boston University, 12 May 2011.

4. Lattice QCD -- and Beyond, Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar, 29 April 2011.

5. Monte Carlo Renormalization Group, MIT Lattice Club, 30 March 2011.

6. Statement of Research Interests, 17 November 2010.

7. Lattice Strong Dynamics for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, MIT Lattice Club, 20 October 2010.

8. Electroweak Symmetry Breaking: An enduring mystery of the standard model of particle physics, and how we hope to solve it, Amherst College Colloquium, 1 October 2009.

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