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, May 10, 2012 (8:20 AM) to Saturday, May 12, 2012 (4:20 PM)

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

8:30 AM Atlas EW/Higgs - Marc-Andre Pleier

9:00 AM CTEQ parton distributions: NNLO, heavy quarks, and LHC data - Pavel Nadolsky

9:30 AM The Les Houches NNLO wishlist/extending NLO predictions - Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
10:20 AM
10:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

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

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

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

11:50 AM QCD corrections in VBFNLO - Dieter Zeppenfeld (Department of Physics)
12:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

2:00 PM Alternative subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper Dipoles - Tania Robens (IKTP, TU Dresden)

2:30 PM Forward Branching Phase Space Generators for NLO Monte Carlos - Walter Giele

3:00 PM The Matrix Element Method at NLO - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

3:30 PM Towards a more accurate prediction of W+b jet production with an automatized approach to one-loop calculations - Laura Reina (CERN)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

4:20 PM One-loop scattering amplitudes from Integrand Reduction - Edoardo Mirabella

4:50 PM Scattering Amplitudes with Open Loops - Stefano Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

5:20 PM Renormalization Group Equations of the Gauge Couplings in the Standard Model at Three-Loop Order - Jens Salomon (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

5:50 PM Assisting LHC Searches Using BlackHat & Sherpa - David Kosower
7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: University Club
Friday, May 11, 2012
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM ATLAS Top - James Alfred Mueller (University of Pittsburgh (US))

9:00 AM ttbar+jet: QCD corrections in production and decay - Markus Schulze (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:30 AM NLO QCD corrections to pp/ppbar->WWbb - Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
10:20 AM
10:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

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

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

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

11:50 AM BR( B -> Xs gamma) in 2HDMs to NNLO in QCD - Thomas Hermann (TTP Karlsruhe)
12:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

2:00 PM Beyond the SM at the intensity frontier - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Wisconsin-Madison)

2:30 PM News from the Electroweak SM Fit and Constraints on SM Extensions within Gfitter - Dorthe Kennedy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

3:00 PM W-boson pair production at the LHC - Johann Kuehn (Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie)

3:30 PM A Formalism for the Systematic Treatment of Rapidity Logarithms in Quantum Field Theory - Duff Neill (Carnegie Mellon University)
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

4:20 PM Higgs + 1-jet at the LHC at NNLL order - Iain Stewart (MIT)

4:50 PM Multi-parton next-to-leading order calculations - Sebastian Becker

5:20 PM Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals - Sophia Carola Borowka (MPI for Physics Munich)

5:50 PM Higher-order numerical integration using subtraction terms - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)
Saturday, May 12, 2012
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM HELAC-NLO: recent developments and phenomenological results - Giuseppe Bevilacqua (RWTH Aachen)

9:00 AM Automated one-loop calculations with GoSam - Giovanni Ossola (New York City College of Technology (CUNY))

9:30 AM Recent progress in aMC@NLO - Rikkert Frederix Rikkert Frederix (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
10:20 AM
10:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

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

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

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

11:50 AM MadGolem: applications to New Physics - Dorival Goncalves Netto (Heidelberg University)
12:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 157 Benedum Hall
Contributions

2:00 PM The VINCIA parton shower - present and future - Mathias Ritzmann

2:30 PM NLL soft and Coulomb resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC. - Christopher Wever (University Utrecht)

3:00 PM HERWIRI 1 and 2: Amplitude-Based Resummation in Precision Hadron Scattering - Scott Yost (The Citadel)

3:30 PM Summary and Outlook - Zvi Bern (Univ. of California Los Angeles (US))