Loopfest X

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

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

Support

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Thursday 12 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
- 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
- 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