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 → 12:55 PM First session

Convener: Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)

11:10 AM Energy scaling of tunes

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 Status and progress for Pythia8 tuning at LHCb

Speaker: Riccardo Bonacci (Monash University (AU))

12:25 PM Discussion

12:55 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 4:10 PM Second session

Convener: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

2:00 PM Robust Calibration of Non-Perturbative Models with History Matching

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

2:25 PM Tuning Sherpa using on-the-fly reweighting

Speaker: Moritz Pabst

2:50 PM Machine learning tuning

Speaker: Tony Menzo

3:15 PM Reweighting tuning

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

3:40 PM Discussion

4:10 PM → 4:25 PM Break

4:25 PM → 5:45 PM Third session

Convener: Lorenzo Bernardinis (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

4:25 PM ATLAS Tuning overview

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

4:50 PM CMS Tuning status

Speaker: Bora Isildak (Yildiz Technical University (TR))

5:15 PM Discussion