Negative-weights suppression in Monte Carlo samples

from Monday 5 May 2025 (09:00) to Friday 9 May 2025 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

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5 May 2025
6 May 2025
7 May 2025
8 May 2025
9 May 2025
AM
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11:00
Presentations (until 11:45)
11:00 Resampling for event generators - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))  
10:00 --- Coffee ---
PM
12:30
Presentations (until 13:50)
12:30 KrKNLO Matching - James Christopher Whitehead  
13:15 Positive-weight event generation with ESME - Alexander Karlberg (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Presentations (until 17:00)
16:00 ARCANE Reweighting to reduce negative weights - Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
13:30
Presentations (until 15:30)
13:30 Challenge of negative weights in NNLO QCD calculations: insights from the MATRIX framework - Oleksandr Zenaiev  
14:15 Cell Resampling to reduce negative weights - Andreas Maier (IFAE)  
15:00 Cell resampling in McMule at NNLO - Yannick Ulrich (University of Liverpool (GB))  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Presentations (until 18:30)
16:00 Treatment of non-positive definite integrands with Normalising Flows - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
16:45 Stay Positive: Neural Refinement of Simulated Event Weights - Dennis Daniel Nick Noll (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US))  
17:30 Improving QCD Simulations via Information-Theoretic Reweighting - Ben Assi  
14:00
Presentations (until 16:00)
14:00 Open discussion  
16:00 --- Coffee ---