Loopfest X
12 May 2011, 08:00
→
14 May 2011, 18:00
US/Eastern
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Thursday, 12 May
Thu, 12 May
Fri, 13 May
Sat, 14 May
Session I
1
Welcome
Speaker
:
Prof.
Heidi Schellman
(
Northwestern University
)
2
Heavy quark production in association with a W-boson
Speaker
:
Keith Ellis
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
3
W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0
Speaker
:
Seth Quackenbush
(
ANL
)
Slides
4
PDF Issues
Speaker
:
Fred Olness
(
Southern Methodist University
)
Slides
10:00
Coffee
Session II
5
Simulation of W fusion and Higgs Processes
Speaker
:
Barbara Jaeger
(
Mainz
)
Slides
6
Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion: Recent Developments
Speaker
:
Alexey Pak
(
Karlsruhe
)
Slides
7
Application of the collinear anomaly: q_T resummation and jet broadening
Speaker
:
Matthias Neubert
(
Mainz
)
Slides
8
Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections
Speaker
:
William Kilgore
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Slides
12:20
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Session III
9
Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI
Speaker
:
Giovanni Ossola
(
City Tech
)
Slides
10
HELAC-NLO
Speaker
:
Malgorzata Worek
(
Wuppertal
)
Slides
11
MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders
Speaker
:
David Lopez-Tal
(
Heidelberg
)
Slides
12
NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production
Speaker
:
Nicolas Greiner
(
University of Illinois
)
Slides
15:20
break
In Memory of Uli Baur
13
Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons
Speaker
:
Doreen Wackeroth
(
Buffalo
)
Slides
14
Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement
Speaker
:
Ashutosh Kotwal
(
Duke
)
Slides
15
QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings
Speaker
:
Tao Han
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
Friday, 13 May
Thu, 12 May
Fri, 13 May
Sat, 14 May
Session V
16
Jet Pair Production with POWHEG
Speaker
:
Emanuele Re
(
Durham
)
Slides
17
W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA
Speaker
:
Stefan Hoeche
(
SLAC
)
Slides
18
NLO Predictions with MCFM
Speaker
:
Ciaran Williams
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
19
Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC
Speaker
:
Anna Kulesza
(
Aachen
)
Slides
10:30
Coffee
Session VI
20
Electroweak Results from Hadron Colliders
Speaker
:
Michael Schmitt
(
Northwestern University
)
new slides
21
Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory
Speaker
:
Sonny Mantry
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
22
Squark production at the LHC at electroweak NLO
Speaker
:
Wolfgang Hollik
(
Munich
)
Slides
23
Computation of Two Loop Integrals with Masses by Numerical Integration and Extrapolation
Speaker
:
Fukuko Yuasa
(
KEK
)
Slides
13:05
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Session VII
24
Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions
Speaker
:
Pier Francesco Monni
(
Zurich
)
Slides
25
NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders
Speaker
:
Teppo Jouttenus
(
MIT
)
Slides
26
Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles
Speaker
:
Christian Schwinn
(
Freiburg
)
Slides
15:30
Coffee
Session VIII
27
Determination of alphas(mz): N3LL analysis of Thrust distribution with Power Corrections
Speaker
:
Riccardo Abbate
(
MIT
)
Slides
28
Charm Mass Determination from QCD Sum Rules at O(alpha_s^3)
Speaker
:
Vicent Mateu
(
MIT
)
Paper
Slides
29
Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat
Speaker
:
Kemal Ozeren
(
UCLA
)
Slides
30
Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions
Speaker
:
Joao Pires
(
ETH
)
Slides
18:00
Conference Dinner
Saturday, 14 May
Thu, 12 May
Fri, 13 May
Sat, 14 May
Session IX
31
Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon
Speaker
:
Markus Schulze
(
Johns Hopkins
)
Slides
32
Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations
Speaker
:
Peter Marquard
(
Karlsruhe
)
Slides
10:00
Coffee
Session X
33
Progress on Parton Showers at NLO
Speaker
:
Andrew Hornig
(
Washington
)
Slides
34
SecDec: A Versatile Tool for Multi-loop/leg Calculations
Speaker
:
Jonathan Carter
(
Durham
)
Slides
35
Understanding and Proving the Expansion by Regions
Speaker
:
Bernd Jantzen
(
Aachen
)
Slides
36
Computer Algebra Algorithms for Harmonic Sums and Polylogarithms and their Generalizations
Speaker
:
Jakob Ablinger
(
Linz
)
Slides
12:30
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Session XI
37
NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders
Speaker
:
Stefan Kallweit
(
PSI
)
Slides
38
Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC
Speaker
:
Walter Giele
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
39
Summary
Speaker
:
Kirill Melnikov
(
Johns Hopkins
)
Slides