Loopfest X

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    • 08:15 10:00
      Session I
      • 08:15
        Welcome 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)
      • 08:30
        Heavy quark production in association with a W-boson 30m
        Speaker: Keith Ellis (Fermilab)
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      • 09:00
        W and Z Production at NNLO using FEWZ 2.0 30m
        Speaker: Seth Quackenbush (ANL)
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      • 09:30
        PDF Issues 30m
        Speaker: Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)
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    • 10:00 10:20
      Coffee 20m
    • 10:20 12:20
      Session II
      • 10:20
        Simulation of W fusion and Higgs Processes 30m
        Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (Mainz)
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      • 10:50
        Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion: Recent Developments 30m
        Speaker: Alexey Pak (Karlsruhe)
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      • 11:20
        Application of the collinear anomaly: q_T resummation and jet broadening 30m
        Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Mainz)
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      • 11:50
        Regularization Schemes and Higher Order Corrections 30m
        Speaker: William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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    • 12:20 13:20
      Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch) 1h
    • 13:20 15:20
      Session III
      • 13:20
        Automation of One-Loop Calculations with GOLEM/SAMURAI 30m
        Speaker: Giovanni Ossola (City Tech)
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      • 13:50
        HELAC-NLO 30m
        Speaker: Malgorzata Worek (Wuppertal)
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      • 14:20
        MadGOLEM: Automatizing NLO Calculations for New Physics Searches at Hadron Colliders 30m
        Speaker: David Lopez-Tal (Heidelberg)
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      • 14:50
        NLO QCD Corrections to 4b Production 30m
        Speaker: Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois)
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    • 15:20 15:40
      break 20m
    • 15:40 17:30
      In Memory of Uli Baur
      • 15:40
        Uli Baur and electroweak precision physics with W and Z bosons 20m
        Speaker: Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo)
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      • 16:00
        Uli Baur and the W Mass Measurement 30m
        Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke)
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      • 16:30
        QCD Corrections to Gauge Boson Pair Production with Anomalous Couplings 20m
        Speaker: Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
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    • 08:30 10:30
      Session V
      • 08:30
        Jet Pair Production with POWHEG 30m
        Speaker: Emanuele Re (Durham)
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      • 09:00
        W and Z plus jets, with POWHEG and SHERPA 30m
        Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)
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      • 09:30
        NLO Predictions with MCFM 30m
        Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)
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      • 10:00
        Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC 30m
        Speaker: Anna Kulesza (Aachen)
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    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee 20m
    • 10:50 13:05
      Session VI
      • 10:50
        Electroweak Results from Hadron Colliders 45m
        Speaker: Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)
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      • 11:35
        Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory 30m
        Speaker: Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin)
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      • 12:05
        Squark production at the LHC at electroweak NLO 30m
        Speaker: Wolfgang Hollik (Munich)
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      • 12:35
        Computation of Two Loop Integrals with Masses by Numerical Integration and Extrapolation 30m
        Speaker: Fukuko Yuasa (KEK)
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    • 13:05 14:00
      Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch) 55m
    • 14:00 15:30
      Session VII
      • 14:00
        Thrust distribution resummation in e+e- collisions 30m
        Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (Zurich)
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      • 14:30
        NNLL Resummation for N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders 30m
        Speaker: Teppo Jouttenus (MIT)
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      • 15:00
        Higher Order Threshold Effects for Heavy Colored Particles 30m
        Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg)
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    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee 30m
    • 16:00 18:00
      Session VIII
      • 16:00
        Determination of alphas(mz): N3LL analysis of Thrust distribution with Power Corrections 30m
        Speaker: Riccardo Abbate (MIT)
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      • 16:30
        Charm Mass Determination from QCD Sum Rules at O(alpha_s^3) 30m
        Speaker: Vicent Mateu (MIT)
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      • 17:00
        Prediction of Missing E_T Distributions at the LHC with Blackhat 30m
        Speaker: Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)
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      • 17:30
        Towards NNLO Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadronic Collisions 30m
        Speaker: Joao Pires (ETH)
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    • 18:00 21:00
      Conference Dinner 3h
    • 09:00 10:00
      Session IX
      • 09:00
        Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Photon 30m
        Speaker: Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins)
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      • 09:30
        Recent Progress in Multi-Loop Calculations 30m
        Speaker: Peter Marquard (Karlsruhe)
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    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee 30m
    • 10:30 12:30
      Session X
      • 10:30
        Progress on Parton Showers at NLO 30m
        Speaker: Andrew Hornig (Washington)
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      • 11:00
        SecDec: A Versatile Tool for Multi-loop/leg Calculations 30m
        Speaker: Jonathan Carter (Durham)
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      • 11:30
        Understanding and Proving the Expansion by Regions 30m
        Speaker: Bernd Jantzen (Aachen)
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      • 12:00
        Computer Algebra Algorithms for Harmonic Sums and Polylogarithms and their Generalizations 30m
        Speaker: Jakob Ablinger (Linz)
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    • 12:30 13:45
      Participant discussions at conference site (working lunch) 1h 15m
    • 13:45 15:30
      Session XI
      • 13:45
        NLO QCD Corrections to WWbb Production at Hadron Colliders 30m
        Speaker: Stefan Kallweit (PSI)
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      • 14:15
        Multi-Jet Predictions for the LHC 30m
        Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)
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      • 14:45
        Summary 45m
        Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)
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