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November 25, 2020 Wednesday 12:03:58 PM IST

Phiala Shanahan receives Kenneth G. Wilson Award

Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics Phiala Shanahan will receive the 2020 Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence in Lattice Field Theory. The award, given by the international lattice field theory community, recognizes her research of hadrons and nuclei using the tools of lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, or lattice QCD, and her pioneering application of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to lattice field theory.

Shanahan’s research interests are focused around theoretical nuclear and particle physics, specifically regarding the structure and interactions of hadrons and nuclei from the fundamental (quark and gluon) degrees of freedom encoded in the Standard Model of particle physics. In recent work she has used supercomputers to reveal the role of gluons, the force carriers of the strong interactions described by QCD, in hadron and nuclear structure. She and her group recently also achieved the first calculation of the gluon structure of light nuclei, making predictions that will be testable in new experiments proposed at Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and at the planned Electron-Ion Collider.

(Content Courtesy: https://news.mit.edu/2020/phiala-shanahan-receives-kenneth-wilson-award-1118)