Name: LoopFest XI
Start: 2012-05-10T08:20:00-04:00
End: 2012-05-12T16:20:00-04:00
Location: U. Pittsburgh

LoopFest XI

from Thursday 10 May 2012 (08:20) to Saturday 12 May 2012 (16:20)

Monday 7 May 2012
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Thursday 10 May 2012
08:20 Welcome - Sally Dawson (BNL)
Welcome
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
08:20 - 08:30
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

08:30 Atlas EW/Higgs - Marc-Andre Pleier

09:00 CTEQ parton distributions: NNLO, heavy quarks, and LHC data - Pavel Nadolsky

09:30 The Les Houches NNLO wishlist/extending NLO predictions - Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
10:20
10:20 - 12:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

10:20 The 4-dimensional helicity scheme beyond one-loop - William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Lab)

10:50 NNLO and N3LO DIS structure functions in ACOT scheme - Aleksander Kusina (Southern Methodist University)

11:20 The Charge of a Jet - Wouter Waalewijn (UCSD)

11:50 QCD corrections in VBFNLO - Dieter Zeppenfeld (Department of Physics)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

14:00 Alternative subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper Dipoles - Tania Robens (IKTP, TU Dresden)

14:30 Forward Branching Phase Space Generators for NLO Monte Carlos - Walter Giele

15:00 The Matrix Element Method at NLO - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

15:30 Towards a more accurate prediction of W+b jet production with an automatized approach to one-loop calculations - Laura Reina (CERN)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

16:20 One-loop scattering amplitudes from Integrand Reduction - Edoardo Mirabella

16:50 Scattering Amplitudes with Open Loops - Stefano Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

17:20 Renormalization Group Equations of the Gauge Couplings in the Standard Model at Three-Loop Order - Jens Salomon (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

17:50 Assisting LHC Searches Using BlackHat & Sherpa - David Kosower
19:00 Banquet
Banquet
19:00 - 22:00
Room: University Club
Friday 11 May 2012
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

08:30 ATLAS Top - James Alfred Mueller (University of Pittsburgh (US))

09:00 ttbar+jet: QCD corrections in production and decay - Markus Schulze (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:30 NLO QCD corrections to pp/ppbar->WWbb - Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
10:20
10:20 - 12:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

10:20 Top-pair production at NNLO QCD - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

10:50 Towards jet cross sections at NNLO for LHC - Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)

11:20 A subtraction scheme for NNLO hadronic cross sections - Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:50 BR( B -> Xs gamma) in 2HDMs to NNLO in QCD - Thomas Hermann (TTP Karlsruhe)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

14:00 Beyond the SM at the intensity frontier - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Wisconsin-Madison)

14:30 News from the Electroweak SM Fit and Constraints on SM Extensions within Gfitter - Dorthe Kennedy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

15:00 W-boson pair production at the LHC - Johann Kuehn (Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie)

15:30 A Formalism for the Systematic Treatment of Rapidity Logarithms in Quantum Field Theory - Duff Neill (Carnegie Mellon University)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

16:20 Higgs + 1-jet at the LHC at NNLL order - Iain Stewart (MIT)

16:50 Multi-parton next-to-leading order calculations - Sebastian Becker

17:20 Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals - Sophia Carola Borowka (MPI for Physics Munich)

17:50 Higher-order numerical integration using subtraction terms - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)
Saturday 12 May 2012
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

08:30 HELAC-NLO: recent developments and phenomenological results - Giuseppe Bevilacqua (RWTH Aachen)

09:00 Automated one-loop calculations with GoSam - Giovanni Ossola (New York City College of Technology (CUNY))

09:30 Recent progress in aMC@NLO - Rikkert Frederix Rikkert Frederix (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
10:20
10:20 - 12:20
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

10:20 Multi-jet physics at the LHC with Blackhat - Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

10:50 W/Z+jets production at NLO matched with a parton shower - Stefan Hoeche

11:20 A promenade through MadGolem - David Lopez-Val (Heidelberg University)

11:50 MadGolem: applications to New Physics - Dorival Goncalves Netto (Heidelberg University)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

14:00 The VINCIA parton shower - present and future - Mathias Ritzmann

14:30 NLL soft and Coulomb resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC. - Christopher Wever (University Utrecht)

15:00 HERWIRI 1 and 2: Amplitude-Based Resummation in Precision Hadron Scattering - Scott Yost (The Citadel)

15:30 Summary and Outlook - Zvi Bern (Univ. of California Los Angeles (US))

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