Name: Loopfest X
Start: 2011-05-12T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2011-05-14T18:00:00-04:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 9 May 2011
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Thursday, 12 May 2011
08:15
08:15 - 10:00
Contributions

08:15 Welcome - Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)

08:30 Heavy quark production in association with a W-boson - Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

09:00 W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0 - Seth Quackenbush (ANL)

09:30 PDF Issues - Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
10:20
10:20 - 12:20
Contributions

10:20 Simulation of W fusion and Higgs Processes - Barbara Jaeger (Mainz)

10:50 Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion: Recent Developments - Alexey Pak (Karlsruhe)

11:20 Application of the collinear anomaly: q_T resummation and jet broadening - Matthias Neubert (Mainz)

11:50 Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections - William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:20 Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
12:20 - 13:20
13:20
13:20 - 15:20
Contributions

13:20 Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI - Giovanni Ossola (City Tech)

13:50 HELAC-NLO - Malgorzata Worek (Wuppertal)

14:20 MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders - David Lopez-Tal (Heidelberg)

14:50 NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production - Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois)
15:20 break
break
15:20 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 17:30
Contributions

15:40 Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons - Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo)

16:00 Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement - Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke)

16:30 QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
Friday, 13 May 2011
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Jet Pair Production with POWHEG - Emanuele Re (Durham)

09:00 W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

09:30 NLO Predictions with MCFM - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

10:00 Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC - Anna Kulesza (Aachen)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 13:05
Contributions

10:50 Electroweak Results from Hadron Colliders - Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

11:35 Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory - Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin)

12:05 Squark production at the LHC at electroweak NLO - Wolfgang Hollik (Munich)

12:35 Computation of Two Loop Integrals with Masses by Numerical Integration and Extrapolation - Fukuko Yuasa (KEK)
13:05 Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
13:05 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions - Pier Francesco Monni (Zurich)

14:30 NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders - Teppo Jouttenus (MIT)

15:00 Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles - Christian Schwinn (Freiburg)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

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

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

17:00 Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat - Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

17:30 Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions - Joao Pires (ETH)
18:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Saturday, 14 May 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon - Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins)

09:30 Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations - Peter Marquard (Karlsruhe)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Contributions

10:30 Progress on Parton Showers at NLO - Andrew Hornig (Washington)

11:00 SecDec: A Versatile Tool for Multi-loop/leg Calculations - Jonathan Carter (Durham)

11:30 Understanding and Proving the Expansion by Regions - Bernd Jantzen (Aachen)

12:00 Computer Algebra Algorithms for Harmonic Sums and Polylogarithms and their Generalizations - Jakob Ablinger (Linz)
12:30 Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
12:30 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 15:30
Contributions

13:45 NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders - Stefan Kallweit (PSI)

14:15 Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC - Walter Giele (Fermilab)

14:45 Summary - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)