What can the Standard Model actually predict?

Abstract: The most basic requirement of a scientific theory is that it make predictions. Is the Standard Model a scientific theory? As the well-tested, reigning theory of the elementary particles and fundamental forces, the Standard Model certainly claims to be able to predict the outcomes of a wide range of experiments. Yet from inelastic nuclear scattering, to neutron stars and superconductors, the universe is filled with systems whose behavior should be predicted by the Standard Model, but for which no such predictions are forthcoming!
For these systems, we do not need physics beyond the Standard Model. We need the computational power to determine what the predictions of the Standard Model already are. I will discuss the state-of-the-art in first-principles computations of strongly coupled quantum systems, and whether quantum computers—or anything—can salvage the notion of the Standard Model as our predictive theory of physics below the TeV scale.