Parton Showers and Resummation 2026

from Wednesday, 8 July 2026 (08:45) to Friday, 10 July 2026 (19:10)
University of Manchester (Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
AM
09:00
Introduction (until 09:15)
09:15
Talks - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB)) (until 10:30)
09:15 Getting the final state right matters: An experimentalist’s perspective - Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)  
10:05 The parton shower in heavy-ion collisions - Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Roma Sapienza University)  
10:30
coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Talks - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB)) (until 12:15)
11:00 Cell Reweighting and Unbinned Validation for Negative-Weight Mitigation using Optimal Transport - Jennifer Roloff (Brown University (US))  
11:25 Monte Carlo Event Generators: status and progress - James Whitehead  
09:15
Talks - Jack Helliwell (Monash University (AU)) (until 10:30)
09:15 PanScales Parton Showers Beyond NLL Accuracy - Silvia Ferrario Ravasio (Università degli Studi di Torino)  
10:05 A first glimpse of matching beyond NLO with logarithmically accurate showers - Nicolas Francois Schalch (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:30
coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Talks - Jack Holguin (The University of Manchester) (until 12:15)
11:00 Event Isotropy in perturbative QCD - Prof. Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Sezione di Genova)  
11:25 Inclusive jet production at NNLO+NNLL and theory nuisance parameters - Terry Generet (University of Cambridge)  
11:50 On Thrust Resummation Ambiguities in e+e− Annihilation into Hadrons - Paolo Nason  
09:15
Talks - Jonathan Richard Gaunt (University of Cyprus (CY)) (until 10:30)
09:15 Factorisation, its breaking, and its restoration - Patrick Angus Hager  
10:05 Coherence violation in jet observables - Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)  
10:30
coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Talks - Jonathan Richard Gaunt (University of Cyprus (CY)) (until 12:15)
11:00 Factorization Beyond Coherence - Dominik Schwienbacher  
11:25 New logarithmic structures in transverse-energy flow observables with azimuthal vetoes - Saad Nabeebaccus (University of Manchester)  
11:50 Non-global Super-Leading Logarithms - Josua Scholze  
PM
12:15
lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Talks - Mike Seymour (The University of Manchester (GB)) (until 15:10)
13:30 Showers and hadronization on GPUs - Siddharth Sule (The University of Manchester (GB))  
13:55 Updates on amplitude evolution - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))  
14:20 Formulation of parton shower evolution beyond leading order - Zoltan Nagy  
14:45 Recent Results from e^{+}e^{-} Alliance - Hannah Bossi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
15:10
coffee break (until 15:40)
15:40
Talks - Silvia Zanoli (University of Oxford) (until 16:55)
15:40 Resonance aware QCD+EW MC@NLO matched parton showers - Joanne Roper (Durham University)  
16:05 Resonance and Width-aware simulation of $e^+e^- \to t\bar{t}$ at the FCC-ee - Daniel Reichelt (CERN)  
16:30 Resonance-Aware NLO+PS Matching for Off-Shell Top–Antitop Production at Lepton Colliders - Daniele Lombardi (Università di Torino)  
12:15
lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Talks - Emmet Byrne (The University of Manchester) (until 15:10)
13:30 The Method of Regions: Recent Progress and Applications - Einan Gardi  
14:20 New results on small-x resummation for splitting functions - Giovanni Stagnitto (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))  
14:45 The emerging importance of high energy logarithms for LHC studies - Sebastian Eryk Jaskiewicz (University of Bern)  
15:10
coffee break (until 15:40)
15:40
Conference photo (until 15:45)
15:45
NGL and SLLs anniversary - Mrinal Dasgupta (The University of Manchester (GB)) (until 17:30)
15:45 The discovery of non-global logarithms in QCD - Gavin Salam (University of Oxford)  
16:20 The discovery of super-leading logarithms in non-global observables in QCD - Mike Seymour (The University of Manchester (GB))  
16:55 Recent progress and the modern perspective on NGLs and SLLs - Thomas Georg Becher (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
18:30
Conference Dinner (until 21:00)
12:15
lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Talks - Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Sezione di Genova) (until 15:10)
13:30 Collinear Factorization Violation and Reggeization - Dr Aditya Pathak (DESY)  
13:55 Energy correlators, light-ray operators and new directions - Jack Holguin (The University of Manchester)  
14:20 Generalized detector correlators in the heavy-ion environment from the light-ray OPE - Carlota Andres (CPHT, Ecole polytechnique)  
14:45 Towards Higher-Accuracy Resummation for Heavy-Flavour Jet Substructure - Andrea Ghira (TUM)  
15:10
coffee break (until 15:40)
15:40
Talks - Saad Nabeebaccus (University of Manchester) (until 16:55)
15:40 Soft functions in N-jettiness - Luca Buonocore (CERN)  
16:05 Efficient Calculation of Soft functions - Emmet Byrne (The University of Manchester)  
16:30 Automated Calculation of Soft Functions for Non-global Observables - Rudi Rahn (University of Vienna)  
16:55
Closing (until 17:05)