Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy
             Colloquium - Physics Lecture Hall
          Wednesday, September 16, 1998, 4:30 PM


   Towards the Chiral limit of QCD using Lattice Gauge Theory

                     Norman Christ
                  Columbia University

Fundamental theoretical developments, coupled with major advances in
computer resources now allow the numerical simulation of Quantum
Chromodynamics with accurate representation of the near chiral
symmetry resulting from the very light up and down quark masses in
Nature.  This solution to the doubling problem in QCD extends the
reach of numerical methods for the study of both the properties of the
low-lying hadrons and the QCD phase transition.  In this talk, these
new methods will be described and exploratory numerical results
presented.