LPCC MCWG Tuning Forum (online meeting)

Tuesday 22 Sept 2026, 11:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

Zoom

The second meeting of the LPCC Monte Carlo subgroup for event generator tuning.

11:00 → 11:10 Welcome and introduction

Conveners: Lorenzo Bernardinis (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)), Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)

11:10 → 13:20 First session

11:10 Energy scaling of tunes (TBD)

Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

11:35 Hadronization uncertainties and tuning in light of infrared sensitivity

Speaker: Simon Plätzer (University of Siegen)

12:00 Status and progress for Pythia8 tuning at LHCb

Speaker: Riccardo Bonacci (Monash University (AU))

12:25 Robust Calibration of Non-Perturbative Models with History Matching (TBD)

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

12:50 Discussion

13:20 → 14:20 Lunch break

14:20 → 16:05 Second session

14:20 Tuning Sherpa using on-the-fly reweighting

Speaker: Moritz Pabst

14:45 Machine learning tuning (TBD)

Speaker: Tony Menzo

15:10 Reweighting tuning (TBD)

Speaker: Michael Kent Wilkinson (University of Oklahoma (US))

15:35 Discussion

16:05 → 16:15 Break

16:15 → 18:40 Third session

16:15 ATLAS Tuning overview

Speaker: Baris Tuncay (University of Oxford (GB))

16:40 CMS Tuning status (TBD)

17:05 TBC

17:30 Discussion