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, November 17, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 18, 2011 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 14, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Curia II
Contributions

9:00 AM Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching - Liza Mijovic

9:20 AM Professor Results and Prospects - Hendrik Hoeth

9:40 AM Wjj at the Tevatron - Adam Martin (Fermilab)
10:30 AM Coffee Break (on your own)
Coffee Break (on your own)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Curia II
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Curia II
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:15 PM Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs - Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)
12:30 PM Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30)
Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Curia II
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Curia II
Contributions

2:00 PM Theory and Practice of Powheg - Carlo Oleari Paolo Nason

2:30 PM Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods - Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham)

3:00 PM Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements - Eric Feng (University of Chicago)
3:30 PM Coffee Break (on your own)
Coffee Break (on your own)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Curia II
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Curia II
Contributions

4:00 PM NLO scale dependence and error estimation - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

4:30 PM NLO and NNLO wishlists/use - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

5:00 PM Future of NLO/NNLO calculations - John Campbell (Fermilab)

5:30 PM Additional discussion from the day's sessions
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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, November 18, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Curia II
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental Introduction - Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

9:15 AM 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)

9:30 AM Photons and Isolation

9:50 AM Inclusive photons: Data/Theory agreement at low-pT at the Tevatron and at the LHC

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS - Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))
12:30 PM Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30)
Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Curia II
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Curia II
Contributions

2:00 PM Open theoretical issues in Higgs production - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)

2:25 PM Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS - Biagio Di Micco (CERN)

2:45 PM Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)

3:10 PM Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon)
3:30 PM Director's Coffee Break
Director's Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 2nd Flr X-Over

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 1West

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