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

US/Central
Curia II (Fermilab)

Curia II

Fermilab

Description
Thursday EVO session:

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL
    http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MMMeMn222BD2Dl9v9uD29M

- Phone Bridge
    ID: 432 2717

Friday EVO session:

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL
    http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MvM2Ml2e2uDeDn9M9iDe9v

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    ID: 432 2739
Participants
  • Alejandro Gomez
  • Aleksander Kusina
  • Andrew Ivanov
  • Andrew Warren Askew
  • Anton Anastassov
  • Anwar Bhatti
  • Ashish Kumar
  • Avdhesh Chandra
  • Boaz Klima
  • Bob Hirosky
  • Bruce Mellado Garcia
  • Carlos Lourenco
  • Caroline Milstene
  • Christian Schwanenberger
  • Christopher Vermilion
  • Chuan-Ren Chen
  • Cosmin Dragoiu
  • Daniel Stump
  • David Alexander Mason
  • David Neuffer
  • Davison Soper
  • Don Lincoln
  • Dongwook Jang
  • Doreen Wackeroth
  • Edmond Berger
  • Emilien Chapon
  • Eric Feng
  • Erik Gottschalk
  • Frank Petriello
  • Fred Olness
  • Gavril Giurgiu
  • Geoffrey Bodwin
  • Hao Zhang
  • Hector Mendez
  • Heidi Schellman
  • Heribertus Hartanto
  • Ian Shipsey
  • Inga Bucinskaite
  • Irakli Chakaberia
  • Jacobo Konigsberg
  • Jadranka Sekaric
  • Jason St John
  • Jeff Owens
  • Jianwei Qiu
  • Jie Chen
  • Jim Pivarski
  • Joey Huston
  • John Campbell
  • Jordan Damgov
  • Joseph Haley
  • Kalanand Mishra
  • Keith Ellis
  • Ken Herner
  • Leah Welty-Rieger
  • Leonard Apanasevich
  • Lidija Zivkovic
  • Marek Zielinski
  • Mark Adams
  • Mark Williams
  • Markus Schulze
  • Mehmet Vergili
  • Michael Henry Schmitt
  • Michael Terry Eads
  • Nikos Varelas
  • Patricia McBride
  • Pavel Nadolsky
  • Peter Wittich
  • Pietro Faccioli
  • Rahmat Rahmat
  • Rik Yoshida
  • Rob Roser
  • Robert Blair
  • Robert Harr
  • Sadia Khalil
  • Samir Guragain
  • Samvel Khalatyan
  • Sarah Malik
  • Seema Sharma
  • Shabnam Jabeen
  • Shruti Shrestha
  • Slava Krutelyov
  • Stephen Mrenna
  • Steve Kuhlmann
  • Stoyan Stoynev
  • Sudhir Malik
  • Supriya Jain
  • Susan Shotkin Gascon-Shotkin
  • Suvadeep Bose
  • Todd Adams
  • Vasundhara Chetluru
  • Venkatesh Veeraraghavan
  • Victor Bazterra
  • Vivian ODell
  • Walter Giele
  • Zack Sullivan
  • Zhao Li
  • Thursday, 17 November
    • 09:00 10:30
      Generator Tuning and Matching Issues Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      Convener: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)
      • 09:00
        Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching 20m
        20'+10' for questions
        Speaker: Liza Mijovic
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Professor Results and Prospects 20m
        20'+10' for questions
        Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Wjj at the Tevatron 20m
        Speaker: Adam Martin (Fermilab)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break (on your own) 30m Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

    • 11:00 12:30
      PDFs and precision data Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      Pavel Nadolsky & Fred Olness, conveners

      • 11:00
        Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter 20m
        15'+5'
        Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball 15m
        10'+5'
        Speaker: Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
      • 11:35
        PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin 15m
        10'+5'
        Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Photons and the PDFs 10m
        10'
        Speaker: David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs 15m
        10'+5'
        Speaker: Robert Thorne (UCL)
        Slides
      • 12:15
        Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs 15m
        10'+5'
        Speaker: Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30) 1h 30m Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

    • 14:00 15:30
      Theory and experience with NLO Monte Carlos Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      • 14:00
        Theory and Practice of Powheg 30m
        15'+15' for questions
        Speakers: Carlo Oleari, Paolo Nason
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods 30m
        15'+15' questions
        Speaker: Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements 30m
        15'+15' for questions
        Speaker: Eric Feng (University of Chicago)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break (on your own) 30m Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

    • 16:00 18:00
      NLO and NNLO calculations for the LHC Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      • 16:00
        NLO scale dependence and error estimation 30m
        15'+15' for questions
        Speaker: Davison Soper (University of Oregon)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        NLO and NNLO wishlists/use 30m
        15'+15' for questions
        Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Future of NLO/NNLO calculations 30m
        15'+15' questions
        Speaker: John Campbell (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 17:30
        Additional discussion from the day's sessions 30m
        30' of discussion
    • 19:00 22:00
      Dinner 3h Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      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
      Dinner Reservation
  • Friday, 18 November
    • 09:00 10:30
      Photons Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      Conveners: Joseph Owens (Florida State University), Suzanne GASCON-SHOTKIN (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
      • 09:00
        Experimental Introduction 15m
        Speakers: Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)), Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
        Slides
      • 09:15
        Theoretical Introduction 15m
        Speakers: 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 20m
      • 09:50
        Inclusive photons: Data/Theory agreement at low-pT at the Tevatron and at the LHC 20m
      • 10:10
        Diphotons: NNLO predictions and the near-collinear regime 20m
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break (on your own) 30m Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

    • 11:00 12:30
      Jet Substructure Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      Conveners: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville), Nikos Varelas (University of Illinois at Chicago)
      • 11:00
        Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations 25m
        15'+10' for discussion
        Speaker: C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)
        Slides
      • 11:25
        Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques 25m
        15'+10' for discussion
        Speaker: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS 20m
        10'+10' for discussion
        Speaker: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS 20m
        10'+10' for discussion
        Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30) 1h 30m Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

    • 14:00 15:30
      Quarkonia and Higgs Curia II

      Curia II

      Fermilab

      Conveners: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin), Dr Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 14:00
        Open theoretical issues in Higgs production 25m
        15'+10' questions
        Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS 20m
        10'+10' questions
        Speaker: Biagio Di Micco (CERN)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production 25m
        15'+10' questions
        Speaker: Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders 20m
        10'+10' questions
        Speakers: Carlos Lourenco (CERN), Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Director's Coffee Break 30m 2nd Flr X-Over

      2nd Flr X-Over

      Fermilab

    • 16:00 17:00
      New results from ATLAS -Sarah Demers (Yale) 1West

      1West

      Fermilab