We describe recent progress on generation of gauge configurations using theHighly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action that was designed by theHPQCD/UKQCD collaboration. The HISQ action requires two levels of smearing witha reunitarization of the links before the second smearing. We

Recently, we have developed a reformulation of the lattice Yang-Mills theorybased on the change of variables a la Cho-Faddeev-Niemi combined with anon-Abelian Stokes theorem. In this talk, we give a new procedure (calledreduction) for obtaining the color field which plays

We study the SU(3) lattice gauge theory, with two flavors of sextetWilson-clover fermions, near its finite-temperature phase transition. We findmetastable states that have Wilson line expectation values whose complex phasesare near 2pi/3 or pi. The true equilibrium phase at these

A driven Ising model with friction due to magnetic correlations has recentlybeen proposed by Kadau et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 137205 (2008)). Thenon-equilibrium phase transition present in this system is investigated indetail using analytical methods as well as Monte

We present numerical results for the phase diagram of lattice QCD at finitetemperature in the formulation with twisted mass Wilson fermions and atree-level Symanzik-improved gauge action. Our simulations are performed onlattices with temporal extent N_\tau=8, and lattice coupling \beta ranging

We derive a compact, semi-algebraic expression for the cold quark matterequation of state (EoS) in a covariant model that exhibits coincidentdeconfinement and chiral symmetry restoring transitions in-medium. Along theway we obtain algebraic expressions for: the number- and scalar-densitydistributions in both

Puzzled by the indication of a new critical theory for the spin-1/2Heisenberg model with a spatially staggered anisotropy on the square lattice assuggested in \cite{Wenzel08}, we re-investigate the phase transition of thismodel induced by dimerization. We focus on studying the

In this paper we construct the Wilson short distance operator productexpansion for the gluon, quark and ghost propagators in QCD, includingoperators of dimension two and three, namely, A^2, m^2, m A^2, \ovl{\psi} \psiand m^3. We compute analytically the coefficient functions

We obtain the canonical and symmetrical Belinfante energy-momentum tensors ofDirac-K\"ahler's fields. It is shown that the traces of the energy-momentumtensors are not equal to zero and the dilatation symmetry is broken. We obtainthe dilatation current and its non-zero divergence. The

We study aspects of the large-N volume independence on R**3 x L**G, whereL**G is a G-site lattice for Yang-Mills theory with adjoint Wilson-fermions. Wefind the critical number of lattice sites above which the center-symmetryanalysis on L**G agrees with the one

Strong theoretical arguments suggest that the Higgs sector of the StandardModel of the Electroweak interactions is an effective low-energy theory, with amore fundamental theory that is expected to emerge at an energy scale of theorder of the TeV. One possibility

Florida Atlantic University) In their natural form, conch pearls are among the rarest pearls in the world. For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch have been unsuccessful -- until now. For the first

Stanford University) A tracking study of white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean shows they adhere to a rigid route of migration across the sea, returning to precisely the same spot along the California coast each time they come back,

European Space Agency) Following the launch of ESA's SMOS satellite on Nov. 2, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed that the instrument's three antenna arms have deployed as planned, and that the

Kansas State University) The idea by Kansas State University's Wenqiao "Wayne" Yuan and Zhijian "Z.J." Pei is to grow algae in the ocean on very large, supporting platforms.

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools -- dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led by

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling. Based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper in

NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center) About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from US waters

University of Rochester) In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart,

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.