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

Loopfest X

from Thursday, May 12, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, May 14, 2011 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 9, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
8:15 AM
8:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:15 AM Welcome - Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)

8:30 AM Heavy quark production in association with a W-boson - Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

9:00 AM W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0 - Seth Quackenbush (ANL)

9:30 AM PDF Issues - Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM
10:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

11:50 AM Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections - William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:20 PM Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
1:20 PM
1:20 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

1:20 PM Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI - Giovanni Ossola (City Tech)

1:50 PM HELAC-NLO - Malgorzata Worek (Wuppertal)

2:20 PM MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders - David Lopez-Tal (Heidelberg)

2:50 PM NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production - Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois)
3:20 PM break
break
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:40 PM Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons - Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo)

4:00 PM Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement - Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke)

4:30 PM QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
Friday, May 13, 2011
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Jet Pair Production with POWHEG - Emanuele Re (Durham)

9:00 AM W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

9:30 AM NLO Predictions with MCFM - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

10:00 AM Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC - Anna Kulesza (Aachen)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 1:05 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

12:35 PM Computation of Two Loop Integrals with Masses by Numerical Integration and Extrapolation - Fukuko Yuasa (KEK)
1:05 PM Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions - Pier Francesco Monni (Zurich)

2:30 PM NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders - Teppo Jouttenus (MIT)

3:00 PM Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles - Christian Schwinn (Freiburg)
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Determination of alphas(mz): N3LL analysis of Thrust distribution with Power Corrections - Riccardo Abbate (MIT)

4:30 PM Charm Mass Determination from QCD Sum Rules at O(alpha_s^3) - Vicent Mateu (MIT)

5:00 PM Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat - Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

5:30 PM Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions - Joao Pires (ETH)
6:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday, May 14, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon - Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins)

9:30 AM Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations - Peter Marquard (Karlsruhe)
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 PM Computer Algebra Algorithms for Harmonic Sums and Polylogarithms and their Generalizations - Jakob Ablinger (Linz)
12:30 PM Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders - Stefan Kallweit (PSI)

2:15 PM Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC - Walter Giele (Fermilab)

2:45 PM Summary - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)