RUI: Fundamental Issues in Particle Physics and Field Theory

理论基本粒子物理学的研究将试图提高我们对量子色动力学（描述强核力的理论）中大效应的理解。拓扑学在解释夸克在核子内的约束等现象中的作用将被研究。还将进行计算，研究看似无关的理论之间的“对偶”关系。所采用的方法将通过一个离散的点阵来近似时空连续体。要解决的问题对于我们理解强核力如何产生一些最戏剧性的影响是很重要的。

Research in theoretical elementary particle physics will try to improve our understanding of large effects in quantum chromodynamics, the theory which describes the strong nuclear force. The role of topology in explaining such phenomena as the confinement of quarks inside nucleons will be investigates. Calculations will also be done to study `duality` relations between seemingly unrelated theories. The methods to be used will approximate the space- time continuum by a discrete lattice of points. The problems to be addressed are important to our understanding of how the strong nuclear force produces some of its most dramatic effects.