Name: Confronting Theory with Experiment: Puzzles, Challenges and Opportunities in the LHC Era
Start: 2011-11-17T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2011-11-18T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Fermilab

Confronting Theory with Experiment: Puzzles, Challenges and Opportunities in the LHC Era

from Thursday, 17 November 2011 (08:00) to Friday, 18 November 2011 (18:00)

Monday, 14 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Thursday, 17 November 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Curia II
Contributions

09:00 Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching - Liza Mijovic

09:20 Professor Results and Prospects - Hendrik Hoeth

09:40 Wjj at the Tevatron - Adam Martin (Fermilab)
10:30 Coffee Break (on your own)
Coffee Break (on your own)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Curia II
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Curia II
Contributions

11:00 Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter - Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)

11:20 PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball - Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)

11:35 PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin - Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

11:50 Photons and the PDFs - David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN)

12:00 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs - Robert Thorne (UCL)

12:15 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs - Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)
12:30 Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30)
Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Curia II
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II
Contributions

14:00 Theory and Practice of Powheg - Carlo Oleari Paolo Nason

14:30 Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods - Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham)

15:00 Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements - Eric Feng (University of Chicago)
15:30 Coffee Break (on your own)
Coffee Break (on your own)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Curia II
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Curia II
Contributions

16:00 NLO scale dependence and error estimation - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

16:30 NLO and NNLO wishlists/use - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

17:00 Future of NLO/NNLO calculations - John Campbell (Fermilab)

17:30 Additional discussion from the day's sessions
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Curia II There will be an informal dinner organized at the Rock Bottom restaurant. Please sign up on the Doodle Poll by Thursday morning so we can plan ahead. http://www.doodle.com/fvqbiepztcufdg2v Information about and directions to Rock Bottom can be found here: http://www.rockbottom.com/warrenville
Friday, 18 November 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Curia II
Contributions

09:00 Experimental Introduction - Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

09:15 Theoretical Introduction - Daniel De Florian (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica Departamento de Fisica) Daniel De Florian Daniel de Florian (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Joseph Owens (Florida State University)

09:30 Photons and Isolation

09:50 Inclusive photons: Data/Theory agreement at low-pT at the Tevatron and at the LHC

10:10 Diphotons: NNLO predictions and the near-collinear regime
10:30 Coffee Break (on your own)
Coffee Break (on your own)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Curia II
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Curia II
Contributions

11:00 Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)

11:25 Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques - Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)

11:50 Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))

12:10 Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS - Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))
12:30 Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30)
Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Curia II
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II
Contributions

14:00 Open theoretical issues in Higgs production - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)

14:25 Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS - Biagio Di Micco (CERN)

14:45 Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)

15:10 Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon)
15:30 Director's Coffee Break
Director's Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 2nd Flr X-Over

16:00

16:00 - 17:00
Room: 1West