Loopfest X

May 12, 2011, 8:00 AM → May 14, 2011, 6:00 PM US/Eastern

Loopfest X Conference Web Site Loopfest Conference Web Site

Thursday, May 12

8:15 AM → 10:00 AM Session I

8:15 AM Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)

8:30 AM Heavy quark production in association with a W-boson

Speaker: Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

Slides Keith.pdf

9:00 AM W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0

Speaker: Seth Quackenbush (ANL)

Slides fewzloop.pdf

9:30 AM PDF Issues

Speaker: Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)

Slides olness.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Coffee

10:20 AM → 12:20 PM Session II

10:20 AM Simulation of W fusion and Higgs Processes

Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (Mainz)

Slides jaeger_loopfest2011.pdf

10:50 AM Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion: Recent Developments

Speaker: Alexey Pak (Karlsruhe)

Slides apakLF2011.pdf

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

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Mainz)

Slides neubert_loopfest.pdf

11:50 AM Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections

Speaker: William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides LoopFestX.pdf

12:20 PM → 1:20 PM Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)

1:20 PM → 3:20 PM Session III

1:20 PM Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI

Speaker: Giovanni Ossola (City Tech)

Slides Loopfest11_Gio.pdf

1:50 PM HELAC-NLO

Speaker: Malgorzata Worek (Wuppertal)

Slides malgorzata_worek.pdf

2:20 PM MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: David Lopez-Tal (Heidelberg)

Slides loopfest11.pdf

2:50 PM NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production

Speaker: Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois)

Slides loopfest.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM break

3:40 PM → 5:30 PM In Memory of Uli Baur

3:40 PM Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons

Speaker: Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo)

Slides uli_loopfest.pdf uli_loopfest.pptx

4:00 PM Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke)

Slides kotwal-loopfest2011.pdf

4:30 PM QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

Slides LoopFest-Uli.pdf

Friday, May 13

8:30 AM → 10:30 AM Session V

8:30 AM Jet Pair Production with POWHEG

Speaker: Emanuele Re (Durham)

Slides talk.pdf

9:00 AM W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Slides stefan_chicago_11-05.pdf

9:30 AM NLO Predictions with MCFM

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

Slides Loopfest.pdf

10:00 AM Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC

Speaker: Anna Kulesza (Aachen)

Slides kulesza.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee

10:50 AM → 1:05 PM Session VI

10:50 AM Electroweak Results from Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

new slides LoopFest_EWK_Schmitt.pptx

11:35 AM Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory

Speaker: Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Mantry-LoopFest-2011.pdf

12:05 PM Squark production at the LHC at electroweak NLO

Speaker: Wolfgang Hollik (Munich)

Slides Hollik.pdf

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

Speaker: Fukuko Yuasa (KEK)

Slides LoopFestX-yuasa.pdf

1:05 PM → 2:00 PM Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Session VII

2:00 PM Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (Zurich)

Slides Monni.pdf

2:30 PM NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Teppo Jouttenus (MIT)

Slides Jouttenus_LoopFest2011.pdf

3:00 PM Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles

Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg)

Slides resum_loopfest.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Session VIII

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

Speaker: Riccardo Abbate (MIT)

Slides abbate_loopfest2011vf.pdf

4:30 PM 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

5:00 PM Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat

Speaker: Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

Slides ozeren.pdf

5:30 PM Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions

Speaker: Joao Pires (ETH)

Slides pires.pdf

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Conference Dinner

Saturday, May 14

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Session IX

9:00 AM Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon

Speaker: Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins)

Slides schulze.talk03.pdf

9:30 AM Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations

Speaker: Peter Marquard (Karlsruhe)

Slides marquard.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session X

10:30 AM Progress on Parton Showers at NLO

Speaker: Andrew Hornig (Washington)

Slides geneva_loopfest_AH.pdf

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

Speaker: Jonathan Carter (Durham)

Slides JonCarterLoopFest.pdf

11:30 AM Understanding and Proving the Expansion by Regions

Speaker: Bernd Jantzen (Aachen)

Slides Jantzen-LoopFest2011.pdf

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

Speaker: Jakob Ablinger (Linz)

Slides ablinger.pdf Vortrag.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch)

1:45 PM → 3:30 PM Session XI

1:45 PM NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Stefan Kallweit (PSI)

Slides Kallweit_Loopfest_X.pdf

2:15 PM Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC

Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides LoopFest2011.pdf

2:45 PM Summary

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)

Slides melnikov.pdf