Name: PMG week 2026
Start: 2026-06-08T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T17:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

PMG week 2026

from Monday, June 8, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, June 12, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, June 8, 2026
1:00 PM Introduction - Spyros Argyropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)) Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Introduction
- Spyros Argyropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))
- Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
1:00 PM - 1:05 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
1:05 PM Weak Boson
1:05 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

1:05 PM Known multi-bosons modeling limitations: treatments in the analyses - Danning Liu (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (IL))

1:35 PM Known V(V)+jets modeling limitations: treatments in the analyses - Antonio Giannini (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

2:05 PM MINNLOPS W and Z central samples - Jan Kretzschmar (University of Liverpool (GB))

2:35 PM MINNLOPS diboson samples and polarisation modelling - Aonan Wang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

3:35 PM V+jets FxFx with MadGraph 3.5.11 - Lenart Jerala (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

4:05 PM V+HF modeling for Run 3 analyses - Federico Sforza (University and INFN Genoa)

4:35 PM Lesson learnt from past years of MC production: towards next steps - Michiel Jan Veen (University of Massachusetts (US))
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
9:00 AM Top
9:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

9:00 AM Defining a complete uncertainty model for off-shell MC (15' + 10') - Nedaa Alexandra Asbah (CERN)

9:25 AM Defining a complete uncertainty model for MiNNLOps (15' + 10') - Dimitra Samara (Charles University (CZ)) Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

9:50 AM Defining an uncertainty model for multileg matched and merged (15' + 10') - Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)) Tetiana Moskalets 🐦‍⬛ (Southern Methodist University (US))

10:15 AM Understanding the lineshape (15' + 10') - Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE)) Shayma Wahdan (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

10:40 AM When to use NLO, NNLO or multileg (15' + 10') - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB)) Xinyuan Tan (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:35 AM Understanding top-quark decay modelling in event generators (20' + 10') - Christopher Young (CERN) Matilde Uboldi (University of Sussex (GB))

12:05 PM Missing Higher Order Uncertainties with focus on top-antitop production (20' + 10') - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Higgs
2:00 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction to the new Higgs processes subgroup - Hannah Arnold (Stony Brook University) Marisilvia Donadelli (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

2:15 PM Brief overview on state-of-the art (Multi)Higgs modelling/samples in ATLAS (15'+5') - Guglielmo Frattari (CERN)

2:35 PM Single Higgs Uncertainties in ATLAS (20'+10') - Valerio Dao (Stony Brook University)

3:05 PM LHC WG1 Overview - single Higgs (20'+10') - Robin Hayes (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

3:35 PM LHC WG4 Overview: HH and HHH (20'+10') - Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

4:40 PM MiNNLO status for Higgs physics: VH, bbH, ttH (20'+10') - Christian Biello

5:10 PM Status of ggZH @NLO (15'+10') - Marco Vitti

5:35 PM NLO EWK corrections in ATLAS (15'+10') - Weitao Wang (University of Oxford (GB))
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
9:00 AM Matrix Element 1
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

9:00 AM Future of Heterogeneous Computing (20'+10') - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

9:30 AM MadGraph7 + MadNIS/MadSpace (20'+10') - Theo Heimel (UCLouvain)

10:00 AM More efficient event generation in MadGraph (30'+15') - Rikkert Frederix (Lund University)

11:15 AM Overview of Progress in NNLOPS (20'+10') - Marius Wiesemann (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

11:45 AM Welcome to Sherpa 3 (30'+15') - Frank Martin Krauss
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Matrix Element 2
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

2:00 PM MG5 checkpointing (10'+5') - Jakob Novak (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

2:15 PM Hackathon: jO review and sample requests

4:30 PM Hackathon: migration to the Component Accumulator
8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Thursday, June 11, 2026
9:00 AM PS & Hadronisation
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

9:00 AM Higher precision Parton Showers (30'+10') - Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Melissa van Beekveld (Nikhef)

9:40 AM Beyond-leading-colour and amplitude-level showers (20'+5') - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))

10:05 AM EvtGen phase-space sampling in semileptonic B decays involving resonances (20'+5') - Florian Herren (UZH)

10:50 AM Hadronisation uncertainties: Sherpa (20'+5') - Moritz Pabst

11:15 AM Shower uncertainties (15'+5') - Betsy Cunnett (University of Sussex (GB))

11:35 AM VINCIA (+studies in ttbar) (15'+5') - Baris Tuncay (University of Oxford (GB))

11:55 AM Final discussion: strategy/brainstorming (35') - Giancarlo Panizzo (INFN e Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT))
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Tuning
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

2:00 PM A26 Overview [25' + 5'] - Baris Tuncay (University of Oxford (GB))

2:30 PM Herwig Tunes in ATLAS [25'+5'] - Tomasz Procter (Jagiellonian University (PL))

3:00 PM Tuning for Herwig: Status and Next Steps [25' + 5'] - James Whitehead

3:30 PM Tuning Issues for Heavy Flavour [25' + 5'] - Michael Kent Wilkinson (University of Oklahoma (US))

4:30 PM Tuning Hands-On: A26 and ATLAS Herwig Tunes - Baris Tuncay (University of Oxford (GB))
Friday, June 12, 2026
9:00 AM Jet & Photon
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

9:00 AM Prompt photon production with two jets in POWHEG - Michael Klasen

9:40 AM Modelling limitations: feedback from JetEtMiss - Amartya Rej (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

10:20 AM Modelling limitations: feedback from analyses on jets and/or photons as well as others - Line Delagrange (Brandeis University (US))

11:30 AM Diphoton+2jet production using MadGraph - Timothee Theveneaux-Pelzer (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))

11:50 AM Multijet production using MadgGraph - Jerry Wu (University of Toronto (CA))

12:10 PM Multijet production using Sherpa 3 - Luca Sesto Colangeli (University of Toronto (CA))
12:30 PM Concluding remarks - Spyros Argyropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)) Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Concluding remarks
- Spyros Argyropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))
- Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie