Lattice QCD Calculations with b Quarks: Status and Prospects

Abstract

This talk gives an overview of how lattice QCD calculations are influencing quark flavor physics. The first part of the talk focuses on the climb to higher precision; the second part surveys views along less-trodden paths.Comment: 8 pages. Invited talk at the 13th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines (BEAUTY 2011), 4-8 April 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to appear as PoS(BEAUTY 2011)057. Version 2: updated discussion of UTfit Collaboration's LQCD input