Loopfest X

12 May 2011, 08:00 → 14 May 2011, 18:00 US/Eastern

Loopfest X Conference Web Site Loopfest Conference Web Site

Thursday, 12 May

08:15 → 10:00 Session I

08:15 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)

08:30 Heavy quark production in association with a W-boson

Speaker: Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

Slides Keith.pdf

09:00 W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0

Speaker: Seth Quackenbush (ANL)

Slides fewzloop.pdf

09:30 PDF Issues

Speaker: Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)

Slides olness.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 12:20 Session II

10:20 Simulation of W fusion and Higgs Processes

Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (Mainz)

Slides jaeger_loopfest2011.pdf

10:50 Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion: Recent Developments

Speaker: Alexey Pak (Karlsruhe)

Slides apakLF2011.pdf

11:20 Application of the collinear anomaly: q_T resummation and jet broadening

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Mainz)

Slides neubert_loopfest.pdf

11:50 Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections

Speaker: William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides LoopFestX.pdf

12:20 → 13:20 Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)

13:20 → 15:20 Session III

13:20 Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI

Speaker: Giovanni Ossola (City Tech)

Slides Loopfest11_Gio.pdf

13:50 HELAC-NLO

Speaker: Malgorzata Worek (Wuppertal)

Slides malgorzata_worek.pdf

14:20 MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: David Lopez-Tal (Heidelberg)

Slides loopfest11.pdf

14:50 NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production

Speaker: Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois)

Slides loopfest.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 break

15:40 → 17:30 In Memory of Uli Baur

15:40 Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons

Speaker: Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo)

Slides uli_loopfest.pdf uli_loopfest.pptx

16:00 Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke)

Slides kotwal-loopfest2011.pdf

16:30 QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

Slides LoopFest-Uli.pdf

Friday, 13 May

08:30 → 10:30 Session V

08:30 Jet Pair Production with POWHEG

Speaker: Emanuele Re (Durham)

Slides talk.pdf

09:00 W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Slides stefan_chicago_11-05.pdf

09:30 NLO Predictions with MCFM

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

Slides Loopfest.pdf

10:00 Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC

Speaker: Anna Kulesza (Aachen)

Slides kulesza.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 13:05 Session VI

10:50 Electroweak Results from Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

new slides LoopFest_EWK_Schmitt.pptx

11:35 Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory

Speaker: Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Mantry-LoopFest-2011.pdf

12:05 Squark production at the LHC at electroweak NLO

Speaker: Wolfgang Hollik (Munich)

Slides Hollik.pdf

12:35 Computation of Two Loop Integrals with Masses by Numerical Integration and Extrapolation

Speaker: Fukuko Yuasa (KEK)

Slides LoopFestX-yuasa.pdf

13:05 → 14:00 Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)

14:00 → 15:30 Session VII

14:00 Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (Zurich)

Slides Monni.pdf

14:30 NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Teppo Jouttenus (MIT)

Slides Jouttenus_LoopFest2011.pdf

15:00 Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles

Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg)

Slides resum_loopfest.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Session VIII

16:00 Determination of alphas(mz): N3LL analysis of Thrust distribution with Power Corrections

Speaker: Riccardo Abbate (MIT)

Slides abbate_loopfest2011vf.pdf

16:30 Charm Mass Determination from QCD Sum Rules at O(alpha_s^3)

Speaker: Vicent Mateu (MIT)

Paper http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1102/1102.2264v1.pdf

Slides Mateu-Loopfest.pdf

17:00 Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat

Speaker: Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

Slides ozeren.pdf

17:30 Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions

Speaker: Joao Pires (ETH)

Slides pires.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday, 14 May

09:00 → 10:00 Session IX

09:00 Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon

Speaker: Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins)

Slides schulze.talk03.pdf

09:30 Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations

Speaker: Peter Marquard (Karlsruhe)

Slides marquard.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:30 Session X

10:30 Progress on Parton Showers at NLO

Speaker: Andrew Hornig (Washington)

Slides geneva_loopfest_AH.pdf

11:00 SecDec: A Versatile Tool for Multi-loop/leg Calculations

Speaker: Jonathan Carter (Durham)

Slides JonCarterLoopFest.pdf

11:30 Understanding and Proving the Expansion by Regions

Speaker: Bernd Jantzen (Aachen)

Slides Jantzen-LoopFest2011.pdf

12:00 Computer Algebra Algorithms for Harmonic Sums and Polylogarithms and their Generalizations

Speaker: Jakob Ablinger (Linz)

Slides ablinger.pdf Vortrag.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)

13:45 → 15:30 Session XI

13:45 NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Stefan Kallweit (PSI)

Slides Kallweit_Loopfest_X.pdf

14:15 Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC

Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides LoopFest2011.pdf

14:45 Summary

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)

Slides melnikov.pdf