8th MCnet meeting and "QCD in the LHC era" Bryanfest

from Wednesday, 22 September 2010 (14:00) to Friday, 24 September 2010 (14:00)
Cambridge (Emmanuel College)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Sept 2010
23 Sept 2010
24 Sept 2010
AM
09:30
Monte Carlo Review Editorial Board Meeting (until 11:00) (Emmanuel College)
11:00
Discussion on "soft, wide angle, gluons in parton showers" (until 13:00) (Emmanuel College)
11:20 Jet rates and parton showers - Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
11:40 Jet Vetoing and Herwig++ - Mr Alex Schofield (Manchester)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
12:00 Evolution with subleading color contributions - Dr Zoltan Nagy (DESY)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
12:20 Discussion of Pino's talk   (Emmanuel College)
09:30
Student/postdoc status reports/discussion - Korinna Zapp (University of Heidelberg) Jennifer Archibald (until 12:50) (Emmanuel College)
09:30 Double Parton Scattering with Herwig++ - Miroslav Myska   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
09:50 Colour Reconnection in Cluster Hadronisation - Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
10:10 Herwig++ and the new ATLAS MB/UE results - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   (Emmanuel College)
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10:30 Are Nc=3!=infinity effects important in parton showers? - Dr Malin Sjoedahl (Karlsruhe)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 TBA - Ms Ahuja Sudha (Karlsruhe)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
11:15 Tau Decays in Pythia 8 - Mr Philip Ilten (Lund)   (Emmanuel College)
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11:35 Searching for scalar Leptoquarks at the LHC - Mr Andreas Papaefstathiou (Cambridge)   (Emmanuel College)
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11:55 First comparisons of MC’s with CMS data - Filip Moortgat (ETH Zurich) Mike Seymour (University of Manchester)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
PM
14:00
Bryanfest (until 17:30) (Emmanuel College)
19:15 --- Drinks ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Student/postdoc status reports/discussion (until 17:20) (Emmanuel College)
14:00 Recent developments and results with POWHEG-BOX - Dr Emmanuele Re (Durham)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
14:20 Progress on the POWHEG implementation of Chargino/Neutralino pair production in HERWIG++ - Mr Ilan Fridman Rojas (Durham)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
14:40 Automisation of ME+PS Merging with NLO Accuracy in Sherpa - Mr Marek Schönherr (Dresden)   (Emmanuel College)
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15:00 V-Gamma Production at LHC: NLO in Powheg Method - Mr Dart-yin Soh (CERN)   (Emmanuel College)
Slides
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:40 EW NLO in Sherpa - Jennifer Archibald   (Emmanuel College)
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16:00 Probabilistic description of coherent bremsstrahlung - Korinna Christine Zapp   (Emmanuel College)
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16:20 TBA - Ms Irais Bautista (Santiago)   (Emmanuel College)
13:00 --- Lunch ---