Colin Morningstar 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
• 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

• Recent highlights with baryons from lattice QCD
      Invited plenary talk at the 12th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons, Bonn, Germany, June 12, 2019
• Implementing Luescher's two-particle formalism
      Invited talk at the INT Workshop on Multi-Hadron Systems from Lattice QCD, Seattle, WA, February 5, 2018
• Scattering from lattice QCD including higher partial waves and multiple decay channels
      Talk at the fall meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Pittsburgh, PA, October 26, 2017
• Excited states and scaattering phase shifts from lattice QCD
      Invited talk at the APS Topical Group on Hadron Physics Workshop, Baltimore, MD, April 9, 2015
• Unearthing the excited hadron resonances in lattice QCD using NSF XSEDE resources
      Invited talk at the APS meeting, Savannah, GA, April 6, 2014
• Excited States from the Stochastic LapH Method
      Talk at MENU 2013, Rome, Italy, October 3, 2013
• 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

• Spring 2020 -- 33-771 Field Theory II
• Fall 2019 -- 33-770 Field Theory I
• Spring 2019 -- 33-771 Field Theory II
• Fall 2018 -- 33-770 Field Theory I
• Spring 2018 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2017 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Spring 2017 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2016 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Fall 2016 -- 33-301 Physics Upper Class Colloquium I
• Spring 2016 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2015 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Spring 2015 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2014 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Spring 2014 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2013 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Spring 2013 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2012 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Spring 2012 -- 33-339 Intermediate Electromagnetism II
• Fall 2011 -- 33-338 Intermediate Electromagnetism I
• Spring 2011 -- 33-771 Quantum Mechanics V (Field Theory)
• Fall 2010 -- 33-770 Quantum Mechanics IV (Field Theory)
• Spring 2010 -- 33-771 Quantum Mechanics V (Field Theory)
• Fall 2009 -- 33-770 Quantum Mechanics IV (Field Theory)
• Spring 2009 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Fall 2008 -- 33-769 Quantum Mechanics III
• Spring 2008 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Fall 2007 -- 33-769 Quantum Mechanics III
• Spring 2007 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Fall 2006 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Spring 2006 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Fall 2005 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Spring 2005 -- 33-332 Physical Mechanics II
• Fall 2004 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Spring 2004 -- 33-332 Physical Mechanics II
• Fall 2003 -- 33-107 Physics for Engineering Students II
• Spring 2003 -- 33-332 Physical Mechanics II
• Fall 2002 -- 33-770 Quantum Mechanics IV
• Spring 2002 -- 33-332 Physical Mechanics II
• Fall 2001 -- 33-769 Quantum Mechanics III
• Spring 2001 -- 33-332 Physical Mechanics II

Supervision of graduate students

Ruairi Brett -- July 2019

Andrew Hanlon -- Sept 2017

Jacob Fallica -- Sept 2017

Brendan Fahy -- Sept 2014

You-Cyuan Jhang -- Dec 2013

David Lenkner -- Sept 2013

Chik Him Wong -- Sept 2011

John Bulava -- Sept 2009

Adam Lichtl -- Sept 2006

Other links

• The CMU QCD computing cluster
• JLab High Performance Computing
• National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory
• CMU Physics Department Calendar
• CMU Computational Physics
• CMU Nuclear and Particle Theory
• QCD Exotica
• The GlueX/Hall D website
• The Cleo-c website
• APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics
• The Particle Adventure
• Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems