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
AM
09:00
Generator Tuning and Matching Issues -Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB) (until 10:30) (Curia II)
09:00 Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching - Liza Mijovic   (Curia II)
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09:20 Professor Results and Prospects - Hendrik Hoeth   (Curia II)
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09:40 Wjj at the Tevatron - Adam Martin (Fermilab)   (Curia II)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
11:00
PDFs and precision data (until 12:30) (Curia II)
11:00 Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter - Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)   (Curia II)
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11:20 PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball - Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)   (Curia II)
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11:35 PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin - Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)   (Curia II)
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11:50 Photons and the PDFs - David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN)   (Curia II)
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12:00 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs - Robert Thorne (UCL)   (Curia II)
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12:15 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs - Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)   (Curia II)
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09:00
Photons - Joseph Owens (Florida State University) Suzanne GASCON-SHOTKIN (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1) (until 10:30) (Curia II)
09:00 Experimental Introduction - Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))   (Curia II)
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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)   (Curia II)
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09:30 Photons and Isolation   (Curia II)
09:50 Inclusive photons: Data/Theory agreement at low-pT at the Tevatron and at the LHC   (Curia II)
10:10 Diphotons: NNLO predictions and the near-collinear regime   (Curia II)
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) (Curia II)
11:00 Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)   (Curia II)
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11:25 Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques - Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)   (Curia II)
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11:50 Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))   (Curia II)
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12:10 Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS - Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (Curia II)
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30) ---
14:00
Theory and experience with NLO Monte Carlos (until 15:30) (Curia II)
14:00 Theory and Practice of Powheg - Carlo Oleari Paolo Nason   (Curia II)
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14:30 Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods - Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham)   (Curia II)
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15:00 Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements - Eric Feng (University of Chicago)   (Curia II)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
16:00
NLO and NNLO calculations for the LHC (until 18:00) (Curia II)
16:00 NLO scale dependence and error estimation - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)   (Curia II)
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16:30 NLO and NNLO wishlists/use - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)   (Curia II)
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17:00 Future of NLO/NNLO calculations - John Campbell (Fermilab)   (Curia II)
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17:30 Additional discussion from the day's sessions   (Curia II)
19:00 Dinner   (Curia II)
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) (Curia II)
14:00 Open theoretical issues in Higgs production - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)   (Curia II)
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14:25 Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS - Biagio Di Micco (CERN)   (Curia II)
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14:45 Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)   (Curia II)
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15:10 Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon)   (Curia II)
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15:30 --- Director's Coffee Break ---
16:00
New results from ATLAS -Sarah Demers (Yale) (until 17:00) (1West)