Hadron spectroscopy from lattice QCD

Abstract

I will present a brief overview of where lattice QCD currently sits with regard to the challenge of understanding the excited hadron spectrum in terms of the quarks and gluons of QCD. No attempt is made to be encyclopaedic, rather a sample of topics of contemporary interest are supplied as illustration. An emphasis is placed on the need to use rigorous methods where possible with the intention of eventually making definitive statements about the spectrum of QCD.