Speaker: Prof. Nora Brambilla (Munich Technical University) Title: Quarkonium with nonrelativistic effective field theories Date: Friday, Feb. 21st Time: 10h 30 Classroom: Theoretical Physics Seminar (3rd floor) Abstract: QCD is the field theory describing strong interactions. Heavy quarkonium is a multiscale system probing different energy regimes of the strong interactions, from the hard region, where an expansion in the coupling constant is possible and precision studies may be done, to the low-energy region, dominated by confinement and the many manifestations of nonperturbative dynamics. In addition the properties of production and absorption of quarkonium in a medium are crucial inputs for the study of QCD at high density and temperature, reaching out to cosmology and early universe studies. On the theoretical side, the last decades have seen the construction of new nonrelativistic effective field theories and the development in computational lattice QCD which supply us with a systematic calculational framework. On the experimental side, the diversity, novelty and accuracy of the data collected in the last years at tau-charm, B-factories and LHC experiments is impressive. I will outline this reach interplay of theoretical advancements and experimental success and its implication on our control of strong interactions inside the Standard Model of Particle Physics.