- Motivations for beyond standard model (BSM)  physics: Why is it needed? What are the challenges? 

- Composite Higgs models as BSM : technicolor vs pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons

- Perturbative predictions and need for reliable approach in the strongly coupled regime

- Lattice to the rescue: basic intro to lattice calculations:

- Lattice actions, continuum limit : perturbative approach

- Lattice actions, continuum limit in the strong coupling: introduction to Wilsonian renormalization group

- Lattice BSM studies:

- Where is the conformal window?

- Determining the RG beta function and anomalous dimensions

- Some promising models: bound state spectrum, running coupling

- Effective field theory description in the presence of dilatons

- Dark matter candidates

- Four-fermion interaction and the extended phase diagram

- Lattice studies of asymptotically safe systems: early studies