STAG Colloquium - Mike Seymour 

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Title: The 40 year road to precision calculations for the LHC

Abstract: The LHC is one of the major scientific achievements of our time. Beyond the headline-grabbing discoveries and searches for new physics, it is making hundreds of measurements of the Standard Model with unprecedented precision. But we would not be able to exploit these measurements without calculations of the Standard Model predictions to the same precision. Meeting this challenge, while still not fully achieved, has been a forty year journey. In this talk I will describe the challenges of these calculations and the long series of theoretical advances that have enabled them. Many of these are not mere technical advances, but have taught us more about the structure of the theory, especially quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear force.