Negative-weights suppression in Monte Carlo samples

from Monday, May 5, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, May 9, 2025 (6:00 PM)
CERN (4/3-006)

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May 5, 2025
May 6, 2025
May 7, 2025
May 8, 2025
May 9, 2025
AM
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM
Presentations (until 11:45 AM)
11:00 AM Resampling for event generators - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))  
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
PM
12:30 PM
Presentations (until 1:50 PM)
12:30 PM KrKNLO Matching - James Christopher Whitehead  
1:15 PM Positive-weight event generation with ESME - Alexander Karlberg (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Presentations (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM ARCANE Reweighting to reduce negative weights - Prasanth Shyamsundar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
1:30 PM
Presentations (until 3:30 PM)
1:30 PM Challenge of negative weights in NNLO QCD calculations: insights from the MATRIX framework - Oleksandr Zenaiev  
2:15 PM Cell Resampling to reduce negative weights - Andreas Maier (IFAE)  
3:00 PM Cell resampling in McMule at NNLO - Yannick Ulrich (University of Liverpool (GB))  
3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM
Presentations (until 6:30 PM)
4:00 PM Treatment of non-positive definite integrands with Normalising Flows - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
4:45 PM Stay Positive: Neural Refinement of Simulated Event Weights - Dennis Daniel Nick Noll (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US))  
5:30 PM Improving QCD Simulations via Information-Theoretic Reweighting - Ben Assi  
2:00 PM
Presentations (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM Open discussion  
4:00 PM --- Coffee ---