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

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 Keith.pdf

3 W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0

Speaker: Seth Quackenbush (ANL)

Slides fewzloop.pdf

4 PDF Issues

Speaker: Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)

Slides olness.pdf

10:00 AM Coffee

Session II

5 Simulation of W fusion and Higgs Processes

Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (Mainz)

Slides jaeger_loopfest2011.pdf

6 Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion: Recent Developments

Speaker: Alexey Pak (Karlsruhe)

Slides apakLF2011.pdf

7 Application of the collinear anomaly: q_T resummation and jet broadening

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Mainz)

Slides neubert_loopfest.pdf

8 Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections

Speaker: William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides LoopFestX.pdf

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

Session III

9 Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI

Speaker: Giovanni Ossola (City Tech)

Slides Loopfest11_Gio.pdf

10 HELAC-NLO

Speaker: Malgorzata Worek (Wuppertal)

Slides malgorzata_worek.pdf

11 MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: David Lopez-Tal (Heidelberg)

Slides loopfest11.pdf

12 NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production

Speaker: Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois)

Slides loopfest.pdf

3:20 PM break

In Memory of Uli Baur

13 Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons

Speaker: Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo)

Slides uli_loopfest.pdf uli_loopfest.pptx

14 Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke)

Slides kotwal-loopfest2011.pdf

15 QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

Slides LoopFest-Uli.pdf

Friday, May 13

Session V

16 Jet Pair Production with POWHEG

Speaker: Emanuele Re (Durham)

Slides talk.pdf

17 W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Slides stefan_chicago_11-05.pdf

18 NLO Predictions with MCFM

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

Slides Loopfest.pdf

19 Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC

Speaker: Anna Kulesza (Aachen)

Slides kulesza.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee

Session VI

20 Electroweak Results from Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

new slides LoopFest_EWK_Schmitt.pptx

21 Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory

Speaker: Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Mantry-LoopFest-2011.pdf

22 Squark production at the LHC at electroweak NLO

Speaker: Wolfgang Hollik (Munich)

Slides Hollik.pdf

23 Computation of Two Loop Integrals with Masses by Numerical Integration and Extrapolation

Speaker: Fukuko Yuasa (KEK)

Slides LoopFestX-yuasa.pdf

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

Session VII

24 Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (Zurich)

Slides Monni.pdf

25 NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Teppo Jouttenus (MIT)

Slides Jouttenus_LoopFest2011.pdf

26 Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles

Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg)

Slides resum_loopfest.pdf

3:30 PM Coffee

Session VIII

27 Determination of alphas(mz): N3LL analysis of Thrust distribution with Power Corrections

Speaker: Riccardo Abbate (MIT)

Slides abbate_loopfest2011vf.pdf

28 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

29 Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat

Speaker: Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

Slides ozeren.pdf

30 Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions

Speaker: Joao Pires (ETH)

Slides pires.pdf

6:00 PM Conference Dinner

Saturday, May 14

Session IX

31 Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon

Speaker: Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins)

Slides schulze.talk03.pdf

32 Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations

Speaker: Peter Marquard (Karlsruhe)

Slides marquard.pdf

10:00 AM Coffee

Session X

33 Progress on Parton Showers at NLO

Speaker: Andrew Hornig (Washington)

Slides geneva_loopfest_AH.pdf

34 SecDec: A Versatile Tool for Multi-loop/leg Calculations

Speaker: Jonathan Carter (Durham)

Slides JonCarterLoopFest.pdf

35 Understanding and Proving the Expansion by Regions

Speaker: Bernd Jantzen (Aachen)

Slides Jantzen-LoopFest2011.pdf

36 Computer Algebra Algorithms for Harmonic Sums and Polylogarithms and their Generalizations

Speaker: Jakob Ablinger (Linz)

Slides ablinger.pdf Vortrag.pdf

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

Session XI

37 NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Stefan Kallweit (PSI)

Slides Kallweit_Loopfest_X.pdf

38 Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC

Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides LoopFest2011.pdf

39 Summary

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)

Slides melnikov.pdf