Pythia week Spring 2023

22 May 2023, 10:00 → 26 May 2023, 15:30 Europe/Zurich

Lund University

Annual meeting of the Pythia collaboration.

Monday 22 May

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome Coffee & Tea

10:30 → 11:00 Welcome: Plans for the week

Speaker: Leif Erik Gellersen

11:00 → 12:00 Code status, user feedback and feature requests

Speaker: Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Hands-on session

15:00 → 15:30 Fika

15:30 → 16:30 Free discussions

Tuesday 23 May

09:00 → 10:00 Tuning

Speaker: Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee & Tea

10:30 → 11:00 Tuning cont.

11:15 → 12:15 Local Science Coffee seminar

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:15 Migration to gitlab.cern

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

14:15 → 15:00 Pythia8 contrib

Speakers: Manuel Szewc, Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

15:00 → 15:30 Fika

15:30 → 17:00 Free discussions

Wednesday 24 May

09:00 → 10:00 Logger

Speaker: Marius Utheim

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee & Tea

10:30 → 12:00 Short- & long-term plans

Speaker: Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

12:00 → 20:00 Excursion

Convener: Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))

Thursday 25 May

09:00 → 10:00 Pythia8 contrib cont.

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee & Tea

10:30 → 12:00 Upcoming release

Speaker: Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Tuning cont.

15:00 → 15:30 Fika

15:30 → 17:00 Free discussions

Friday 26 May

09:00 → 10:00 Management review

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee & Tea

10:30 → 11:15 Funding opportunities

Speaker: Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

11:15 → 12:00 Support of Pythia8 related projects

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Seminar: Quarkonia production in the parton shower

Speaker: Naomi Cooke (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:30 → 15:00 Summary & Farewell

Speaker: Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

15:00 → 15:30 Fika