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)
Fermilab (Curia II)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

17 Nov 2011

18 Nov 2011

09:00	Generator Tuning and Matching Issues -Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB) (until 10:30)
09:00	Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching - Liza Mijovic Slides
09:20	Professor Results and Prospects - Hendrik Hoeth Slides
09:40	Wjj at the Tevatron - Adam Martin (Fermilab) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
11:00	PDFs and precision data (until 12:30)
11:00	Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter - Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford) Slides
11:20	PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball - Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh) Slides
11:35	PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin - Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University) Slides
11:50	Photons and the PDFs - David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN) Slides
12:00	Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs - Robert Thorne (UCL) Slides
12:15	Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs - Sergey Alekhin (IHEP) Slides

09:00	Photons - Joseph Owens (Florida State University) Suzanne GASCON-SHOTKIN (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1) (until 10:30)
09:00	Experimental Introduction - Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) Slides
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) Slides
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) ---
11:00	Jet Substructure - Nikos Varelas (University of Illinois at Chicago) Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville) (until 12:30)
11:00	Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University) Slides
11:25	Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques - Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville) Slides
11:50	Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS - David Miller (University of Chicago (US)) Slides
12:10	Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS - Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US)) Slides

12:30	--- Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30) ---
14:00	Theory and experience with NLO Monte Carlos (until 15:30)
14:00	Theory and Practice of Powheg - Carlo Oleari Paolo Nason Slides
14:30	Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods - Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham) Slides
15:00	Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements - Eric Feng (University of Chicago) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
16:00	NLO and NNLO calculations for the LHC (until 18:00)
16:00	NLO scale dependence and error estimation - Davison Soper (University of Oregon) Slides
16:30	NLO and NNLO wishlists/use - Joey Huston (Michigan State University) Slides
17:00	Future of NLO/NNLO calculations - John Campbell (Fermilab) Slides
17:30	Additional discussion from the day's sessions
19:00	Dinner Dinner Reservation

12:30	--- Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30) ---
14:00	Quarkonia and Higgs -Dr Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin) (until 15:30)
14:00	Open theoretical issues in Higgs production - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab) Slides
14:25	Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS - Biagio Di Micco (CERN) Slides
14:45	Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab) Slides
15:10	Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon) Slides
15:30	--- Director's Coffee Break ---
16:00	New results from ATLAS -Sarah Demers (Yale) (until 17:00) (1West)