Professor
Bernard's research focuses primarily on the nonperturbative effects
of the strong interactions. Much of this work is numerical, using the
techniques of lattice gauge theory. In recent years, he has collaborated
in these numerical computations with the members of the MILC collaboration,
which includes professors and senior researchers at several other US
universities. A particular interest is computing the effects of strong
interactions on weak interaction processes involving quarks. Such computations
are crucial to the interpretation of weak interaction experiments and
may ultimately point to new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle
physics. Other research interests include the study of chiral lagrangians
(which extract physical information about the strong interactions from
symmetry principles) and the perturbative calculations needed to relate
lattice results to continuum answers. |
