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)
Fermilab (Curia II)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 17, 2011
Nov 18, 2011
AM
9:00 AM
Generator Tuning and Matching Issues -Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB) (until 10:30 AM) (Curia II)
9:00 AM Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching - Liza Mijovic   (Curia II)
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9:20 AM Professor Results and Prospects - Hendrik Hoeth   (Curia II)
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9:40 AM Wjj at the Tevatron - Adam Martin (Fermilab)   (Curia II)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
11:00 AM
PDFs and precision data (until 12:30 PM) (Curia II)
11:00 AM Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter - Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)   (Curia II)
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11:20 AM PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball - Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)   (Curia II)
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11:35 AM PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin - Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)   (Curia II)
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11:50 AM Photons and the PDFs - David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN)   (Curia II)
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12:00 PM Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs - Robert Thorne (UCL)   (Curia II)
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12:15 PM Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs - Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)   (Curia II)
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9:00 AM
Photons - Joseph Owens (Florida State University) Suzanne GASCON-SHOTKIN (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1) (until 10:30 AM) (Curia II)
9:00 AM Experimental Introduction - Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)) Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))   (Curia II)
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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)   (Curia II)
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9:30 AM Photons and Isolation   (Curia II)
9:50 AM Inclusive photons: Data/Theory agreement at low-pT at the Tevatron and at the LHC   (Curia II)
10:10 AM Diphotons: NNLO predictions and the near-collinear regime   (Curia II)
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
11:00 AM
Jet Substructure - Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville) Nikos Varelas (University of Illinois at Chicago) (until 12:30 PM) (Curia II)
11:00 AM Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)   (Curia II)
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11:25 AM Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques - Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)   (Curia II)
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11:50 AM Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))   (Curia II)
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12:10 PM Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS - Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (Curia II)
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30) ---
2:00 PM
Theory and experience with NLO Monte Carlos (until 3:30 PM) (Curia II)
2:00 PM Theory and Practice of Powheg - Carlo Oleari Paolo Nason   (Curia II)
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2:30 PM Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods - Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham)   (Curia II)
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3:00 PM Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements - Eric Feng (University of Chicago)   (Curia II)
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3:30 PM --- Coffee Break (on your own) ---
4:00 PM
NLO and NNLO calculations for the LHC (until 6:00 PM) (Curia II)
4:00 PM NLO scale dependence and error estimation - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)   (Curia II)
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4:30 PM NLO and NNLO wishlists/use - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)   (Curia II)
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5:00 PM Future of NLO/NNLO calculations - John Campbell (Fermilab)   (Curia II)
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5:30 PM Additional discussion from the day's sessions   (Curia II)
7:00 PM Dinner   (Curia II)
Dinner Reservation
12:30 PM --- Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30) ---
2:00 PM
Quarkonia and Higgs -Dr Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin) (until 3:30 PM) (Curia II)
2:00 PM Open theoretical issues in Higgs production - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)   (Curia II)
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2:25 PM Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS - Biagio Di Micco (CERN)   (Curia II)
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2:45 PM Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)   (Curia II)
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3:10 PM Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon)   (Curia II)
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3:30 PM --- Director's Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
New results from ATLAS -Sarah Demers (Yale) (until 5:00 PM) (1West)