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

Europe/London
Emmanuel College (Cambridge)

Emmanuel College

Cambridge

Mike Seymour, Peter Skands
Description

8th Meeting of the MCnet European Network incorporating a more general meeting to mark the occasion of Bryan Webber's retirement.

Separate information is available about the "Bryanfest" part of the meeting.

    • 14:00 17:30
      Bryanfest
    • 19:15 20:00
      Drinks 45m
    • 20:00 23:00
      Dinner 3h
    • 09:30 11:00
      Monte Carlo Review Editorial Board Meeting

      closed meeting for authors of the Monte Carlo Review

    • 11:00 13:00
      Discussion on "soft, wide angle, gluons in parton showers"
      • 11:20
        Jet rates and parton showers 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Jet Vetoing and Herwig++ 20m
        Speaker: Mr Alex Schofield (Manchester)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Evolution with subleading color contributions 20m
        Speaker: Dr Zoltan Nagy (DESY)
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Discussion of Pino's talk 20m
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 17:20
      Student/postdoc status reports/discussion
      • 14:00
        Recent developments and results with POWHEG-BOX 20m
        Speaker: Dr Emmanuele Re (Durham)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Progress on the POWHEG implementation of Chargino/Neutralino pair production in HERWIG++ 20m
        Speaker: Mr Ilan Fridman Rojas (Durham)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Automisation of ME+PS Merging with NLO Accuracy in Sherpa 20m
        Speaker: Mr Marek Schönherr (Dresden)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        V-Gamma Production at LHC: NLO in Powheg Method 20m
        Speaker: Mr Dart-yin Soh (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Coffee break 20m
      • 15:40
        EW NLO in Sherpa 20m
        Speaker: Jennifer Archibald
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Probabilistic description of coherent bremsstrahlung 20m
        Speaker: Korinna Christine Zapp
        Slides
      • 16:20
        TBA 20m
        Speaker: Ms Irais Bautista (Santiago)
    • 09:30 12:50
      Student/postdoc status reports/discussion
      Conveners: Jennifer Archibald, Korinna Zapp (University of Heidelberg)
      • 09:30
        Double Parton Scattering with Herwig++ 20m
        Speaker: Miroslav Myska
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Colour Reconnection in Cluster Hadronisation 20m
        Speaker: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Herwig++ and the new ATLAS MB/UE results 20m
        Speaker: Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Are Nc=3!=infinity effects important in parton showers? 20m
        Speaker: Dr Malin Sjoedahl (Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 10:50
        Coffee break 20m
      • 11:10
        TBA 5m
        Speaker: Ms Ahuja Sudha (Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Tau Decays in Pythia 8 20m
        Speaker: Mr Philip Ilten (Lund)
        Slides
      • 11:35
        Searching for scalar Leptoquarks at the LHC 20m
        Speaker: Mr Andreas Papaefstathiou (Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 11:55
        First comparisons of MC’s with CMS data 20m
        Speakers: Filip Moortgat (ETH Zurich), Mike Seymour (University of Manchester)
        Slides
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h