QCD Thermodynamics on the Lattice: Recent Results

Abstract

I give a brief introduction to the goals, challenges, and technical difficulties of lattice QCD thermodynamics and present some recent results from the HotQCD collaboration for the crossover temperature, equation of state, and other observables.

Comments: 10 pp., 11 figs., to appear in Proceedings of the Kyoto workshop on Thermal Quantum Field Theory and its Application, August 28-30, 2010, Soryushiron Kenkyu (Study of Particle Theory)