MCnet Meeting 2022

21 Sept 2022, 14:00 → 23 Sept 2022, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Universität Graz

Meeting of the MCnet community 2022. The meeting is intended to take place in person, and will start on Wednesday 21 September afternoon with a collaboration board meeting, and continues on  Thursday 22 September and Friday 23 September with topical talks and discussions around the network's interest. Five topical sessions will cover the following fields:

• Showers and resummation
• Electroweak, BSM and dark matter physics
• Heavy ions and soft QCD
• Monte Carlos and methods for fixed-order calculations
• Algorithms, data analysis and machine learning

Venue

All sessions and breaks will take place in the historic physics building. Coffee breaks and sandwhich lunch will be provided, and a common dinner will be organized but needs to be paid for individually.

Travel

Graz has a small airport which is however reachable from some major hubs like Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna. There is also a trian connection from Vienna and from Zurich.

Accommodation

There are plenty of hotels in the city centre at various price categories. More or less every place within Graz city centre is walking distance at most of 20 minutes. Send me an email if there are specific questions/requirements.

        

Wednesday, 21 September

14:00 → 15:30 free discussion time

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee/arrival

16:00 → 18:00 Collaboration board meeting

Thursday, 22 September

09:00 → 10:00 Welcome and introducing the "new" network

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))

09:15 Introducing the new network

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

MCnetGraz.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:30 Topical Talks

10:30 Showers

Speaker: Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))

slides-compressed.pdf

11:00 Soft QCD

Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

graz22.pdf

11:30 Algorithms and machine learning

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

Graz22_Algos.pdf

12:00 Informal updates on other topics: EWK, BSM, and fixed order techniques

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Funding opportunities

14:00 Funding for small and large networks

Speakers: Mario Müller (University of Graz), Robert Fuchs (University of Graz)

Research Funding MCnet 22Sep22.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Discussion on new network proposals

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 Student and PostDoc comittee

MCnetSP.pdf

Friday, 23 September

09:00 → 10:30 Topical Talks

09:00 Going parralel within MG5AMC

Speaker: Olivier Mattelaer (UCLouvain)

22_09_23_MCnet_GPU.pdf

09:25 MadNIS: Neural networks for multi-channel integration

Speaker: Ramon Winterhalder (UC Louvain)

madnis_rw.pdf

09:50 Chirality flow and its implementation

Speaker: Andrew Lifson

ALMCnet2022.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Topical Talks

11:00 Implementation of polarised cross sections for vector bosons in Sherpa

Speaker: Diana Mareen Hoppe (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

MCnet_Graz_2022_MareenHoppe.pdf

11:25 tbd

Speaker: James Whitehead

James.pdf

11:50 Multi-emission Kernels for Parton Branching

Speaker: Maximilian Loeschner (CERN)

Loeschner-MCnet-2022.pdf

12:15 Introducing new faces

Introduction-Pratixan-MCnet meeting 2022.pdf

MCnet Graz talk.pdf

MC_net_intro_slides-Dominic.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Topical Talks

14:00 Improved dipole showers

Speaker: Cody Duncan

MCNet_2022.pdf

14:25 Rings and strings for enhanced coherent branching algorithms

Speaker: Jack Holguin (CPHT Ecole Polytechnique)

RingsAndStringsForMCnet.pdf

14:50 Contur: new results and technical developments

Speaker: Yoran Yeh (University of London (GB))

yyeh_mcnet2022_contur.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 free discussion time

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee/farewell

16:30 → 18:00 free discussion time