22nd Annual Workshop on SCET at UA

During Spring Break the UA physics department hosted the 22nd annual workshop on soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). The local organizing committee was led by Prof. Sean Fleming who was aided by an organizing committee from Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) led by Chris Lee and Bianka Mecaj. This year fifty-three participants visited the UA campus from around the world coming from as far as Korea and China. These researchers came together with the aim of discussing the most recent developments in the field and sharing their work on SCET as applied to particle and nuclear physics. The SCET workshop is designed to be informal and student friendly with talks roughly twenty minutes in length and plenty of time for discussion. This year nearly half the attendees were Ph. D. students with roughly half of the talks being presented by students. While the workshop atmosphere has always been student friendly an important component to aiding student research is monetary support. This year the SCET workshop received substantial support from LANL and the UA Physics Department. This allowed us to keep expenses to a minimum for students by subsidizing flights and hotel rooms, waiving the workshop registration fee and thanks to the donation from the Physics Department waiving the workshop dinner fee. A full workshop program with links to talks can be found here.