BOOST2013 - 5th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction and Searches

from Sunday 11 August 2013 (17:00) to Friday 16 August 2013 (13:00)
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Aug 2013
12 Aug 2013
13 Aug 2013
14 Aug 2013
15 Aug 2013
16 Aug 2013
AM
08:30
Registration - Connie Potter (CERN) Vivian Knight (University of Arizona (US)) (until 11:00) ()
09:00
Introduction and overviews - Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US)) (until 10:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
09:00 Welcome from the University of Arizona Physics Department - Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
09:05 Welcome - Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:15 Status of the BOOST2012 report - Dr Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:55 Recent results from LHC - Prof. Pekka Sinervo (University of Toronto (CA))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Introduction and overviews - Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US)) (until 12:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
11:00 Jets at LHC in the presence of 2011 and 2012 pile-up - Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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11:30 Theoretical progress in disecting jets: calculations past, present, and future - Jesse Thaler   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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12:00 Jets under HL-LHC conditions - Ariel Gustavo Schwartzman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:00
Jet substructure phenomenology - Stephen Ellis (Department of Physics-University of Washington) (until 10:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
09:00 Jet substructure by accident - Hou Keong Lou (Princeton University)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:30 A top tagger based on shower deconstruction - Prof. Davison Soper (University of Oregon)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:00 Learning how to count: a high multiplicity search for the LHC - sonia el hedri (SLAC)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Jet substructure phenomenology - Stephen Ellis (Department of Physics-University of Washington) (until 12:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
11:00 Semi-classical approach to jet clustering and background subtraction - Jeffrey Tseng (University of Oxford (GB))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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11:30 Energy correlation functions in jet substructure - Andrew Larkoski (SLAC)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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12:00 Recent developments in boosted jet tagging with template overlap methods - Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:00
Searches with boosted reconstruction techniques - Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US)) (until 10:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
Lowell Visit
09:00 ttbar and t+b resonances in CMS - Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:30 Studies with boosted top quarks in ATLAS - Loic Valery (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
Transparents
10:00 Non-SUSY quark partners in boosted technologies in CMS - Rebekka Hoing (Hamburg University (DE))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Searches with boosted reconstruction techniques - Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US)) (until 12:15) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
Lowell Visit
11:00 Application of substructure in the ATLAS SUSY multi-jet analysis - Christopher Young (CERN)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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11:30 Boosted HH->bb bb: a new topology in searches for TeV scale resonances at the LHC - Ben Cooper (University of London (GB))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:00
New approaches and developments - Andrew Larkoski (SLAC) (until 10:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
Dinner Announcement
09:00 Applying computer vision techniques to jet flavor identification: from FisherFaces to FisherJets - Josh Cogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:30 Telescoping jets: multiple event interpretations with multiple R - Yang-Ting Chien (Harvard University)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:00 Jet radiation radius and pileup - Zhenyu Han (Harvard University)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Jet substructure measurements - Andrew Larkoski (SLAC) (until 12:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
11:00 H->bb and H->VV in boosted topologies in CMS - Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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11:30 Non-Higgs X->VV in boosted technologies in CMS - Petar Maksimovic (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:00
Summary - Lily Asquith (Argonne National Laboratory (US)) (until 10:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
09:00 Workshop summary: theory - Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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09:45 Workshop summary: experiment - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:30
BOOST2013 report workplan - Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE)) Ben Cooper (University of London (GB)) (until 10:45) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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10:45 --- Coffee ---
PM
17:00
Registration - Connie Potter (CERN) Vivian Knight (University of Arizona (US)) (until 19:00) ()
18:00
Reception (until 21:00) ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Jet substructure theory - Michael Spannowsky (until 15:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
14:00 Towards the understanding of jet substructure - Gavin Salam (CERN)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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14:30 Jet substructure with analytical methods - Simone Marzani (IPPP / Durham University)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:00 Exclusive jet mass observables and non-global logarithms - Robert Schabinger (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet, Mainz)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
New approaches and developments - Michael Spannowsky (until 17:00) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
Dinner Announcement
16:00 Jets without jets - Daniele Bertolini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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16:30 Jet cleansing: pile-up mitigation at high luminosity - Matthew Low (University of Chicago (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Jet substructure performance - Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York (US)) (until 16:00) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
14:00 Pileup: impact and mitigation for jet pT and substructure in ATLAS - Sven Menke (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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14:30 Substructure and pileup developments in CMS - Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:00 Exploration of new substructure techniques in ATLAS - Maximilian J Swiatlowski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:30 Studies of substructure and boosted objects post-LS1 (Snowmass) - James William Dolen (State University of New York (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Tutorials and demonstrations (until 17:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
16:30 Fastjet_contrib demonstration - Gavin Salam (CERN)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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12:15 Workshop photo   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Jet substructure theory - Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University) (until 16:00) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
14:00 Calculating track-based observables for the LHC - Wouter Waalewijn (UCSD)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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14:30 Divorcing soft substructure from kinematics - David Curtin (Cornell)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:00 Unsafe but calculable: ratio observables in perturbative QCD - Jesse Thaler   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:30 Scale-invariant resonance tagging in multi-jet events and new physics in Higgs pair production - Gavin Salam (CERN) Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Tutorials and demonstrations (until 17:30) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
16:30 RIVET tutorial - Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Jet substructure performance - David Lopez Mateos (Harvard University (US)) (until 16:00) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
14:00 Boosted jet algorithm development in CMS - Emanuele Usai (Hamburg University (DE))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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14:30 Substructure performance on boosted objects in ATLAS - Chris Pollard (Duke University (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:00 b-jet identification in boosted technologies in CMS - Ivan Marchesini (Hamburg University (DE))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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15:30 Jet tagging at ATLAS - Ayana Holloway (Duke University (US))   (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Open discussion (until 18:00) (Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B)
18:30 --- Workshop dinner ---