LPCC MCWG Tuning Forum (online meeting)

Tuesday Sep 22, 2026, 11:00 AM → 7:00 PM Europe/Zurich

Zoom

The second meeting of the LPCC Monte Carlo subgroup for event generator tuning.

11:00 AM → 11:10 AM Welcome and introduction

Conveners: Lorenzo Bernardinis (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT)), Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)

11:10 AM → 1:10 PM First session

11:10 AM Energy scaling of tunes (TBD)

Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

11:35 AM Hadronization uncertainties and tuning in light of infrared sensitivity

Speaker: Simon Plätzer (University of Siegen)

12:00 PM Robust Calibration of Non-Perturbative Models with History Matching (TBD)

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

12:25 PM Discussion

1:10 PM → 2:10 PM Lunch break

2:10 PM → 4:10 PM Second session

2:10 PM Tuning Sherpa using on-the-fly reweighting

Speaker: Moritz Pabst

2:35 PM Machine learning tuning (TBD)

Speaker: Tony Menzo

3:00 PM Reweighting tuning (TBD)

Speaker: Michael Kent Wilkinson (University of Oklahoma (US))

3:25 PM Discussion

4:10 PM → 4:20 PM Break

4:20 PM → 6:20 PM Third session

4:20 PM ATLAS Tuning overview

Speaker: Baris Tuncay (University of Oxford (GB))

4:45 PM CMS Tuning (TBD)

5:10 PM TBC

5:35 PM Discussion