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 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 Cell Reweighting and Unbinned Validation for Negative-Weight Mitigation using Optimal Transport - Jennifer Roloff (Brown University (US))  
11:25 - - James Whitehead  
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 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 - - Patrick Angus Hager  
10:05 Coherence violation in jet observables - Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)  
10:30
coffee break (until 11:00)
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 Towards Multiple Soft Emissions in LHC Jet Production - Josua Scholze  
PM
12:15
lunch (until 13:30)
13:30 Showers and Positive-Definite Matching on GPUs with GAPS - Siddharth Sule (The University of Manchester (GB))  
13:55 - - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))  
14:20 Formulation of parton shower evolution beyond leading order - Zoltan Nagy  
14:45 - - Hannah Bossi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
15:20
coffee break (until 15:50)
15:50 Resonance aware QCD+EW MC@NLO matched parton showers - Joanne Roper (Durham University)  
16:15 Resonance and Width-aware simulation of $e^+e^- \to t\bar{t}$ at the FCC-ee - Daniel Reichelt (CERN)  
16:40 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 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 - - Sebastian Eryk Jaskiewicz (University of Bern)  
15:20
coffee break (until 15:50)
15:50
NGL and SLLs anniversary (until 17:35)
15:50 Non-global logarithms - Gavin Salam (University of Oxford)  
16:25 Super-leading logarithms - Mike Seymour (The University of Manchester (GB))  
17:00 Recent progress and the modern perspective - Thomas Georg Becher (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
12:15
lunch (until 13:30)
13:30 Collinear Factorization Violation and Reggeization - Dr Aditya Pathak (DESY)  
13:55 Reviewing energy correlators and their broader applications - Dr 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 The Three-Loop Soft Function for the C-parameter and N4LL Resummation - Julian Eicher (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
16:05 Soft functions in N-jettiness - Luca Buonocore (CERN)  
16:30 Efficient Calculation of Soft functions - Emmet Byrne (The University of Manchester)  
16:55 Automated Calculation of Soft Functions for Non-global Observables - Rudi Rahn (University of Vienna)