Pushing lattice QCD to the edge: flavor physics

While CKM angles often exhibit clean relationships with standard model observables, the sides of the unitarity triangle often require lattice computations in order to extract fundamental Standard Model parameters from experimental data. I will cover some of the most recent advances in flavor physics, in particular in the b and c sectors. While the former sees lattice QCD as one of the most important (if not the most important) bottlenecks towards the clean extraction of CKM parameters, the latter provides an environment with better determined CKM parameters, where experimental results can critically probe LQCD.