LHC Monte Carlo WG plenary meeting

5 Oct 2026, 00:00 → 6 Oct 2026, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

This is the second plenary and in-person meeting of the LHC MC Working Group. It will cover an overview of the ongoing progress by the experiments and the theoretical community, and report on the ongoing initiatives stimulated by the WG. More details on the format, contents and agenda to follow in due time.

The meeting will take place at CERN and also via Zoom (hybrid format).

To subscribe to the general WG mailing list, used to distribute announcements about WG meetings and available documents, go to 
https://e-groups.cern.ch/e-groups/EgroupsSubscription.do?egroupName=lhc-mcwg

Of potential interest to participants is the MCnet meeting on Wednesday the 7th with presentations of the work done by the students in the LPCC short-term studentship program. Agenda to be posted in due time : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1721951/

Monday 5 October

09:00 → 10:00 Arrival

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 10:35 Welcome

10:35 → 12:30 Updates from event generators and related tools

Convener: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Updates from Experiments

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Topical session on gluon splitting into (heavy) quarks

Convener: Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

18:00 → 19:30 Reception

Tuesday 6 October

09:00 → 10:30 Repots from sub groups

Convener: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Monte Carlo uncertainties

Convener: Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Code and hardware acceleration

Convener: Enrico Bothmann (CERN)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Discussions, short contributions, and wrap-up