"ZPW2014 Monte Carlo Simulation" and "2nd Mini-Workshop on Advances in the Matrix Element Methods"

from Wednesday, 8 January 2014 (09:00) to Friday, 10 January 2014 (16:50)
University of Zürich (KOL-F-121)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Jan 2014
9 Jan 2014
10 Jan 2014
AM
09:30 --- Registration and Coffee ---
10:30 Monte Carlo simulations in measurements and searches done with the ATLAS detector - Dr Giovanni Siragusa (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))   (KOL-F-121)
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11:20 CMS results versus generator predictions - Vitaliano Ciulli (Universita e INFN (IT))   (KOL-F-121)
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09:15 NNLOPS with POWHEG & MiNLO - Dr Emanuele Re   (KOL-F-121)
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10:00 BlackHat - Daniel Maitre   (KOL-F-121)
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10:30 --- cofee break ---
11:00 Multi-Jet production at next- to-leading order with NJet - Benedikt Biedermann (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)   (KOL-F-121)
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11:30 Recent developments in GoSam - Gionata Luisoni (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   (KOL-F-121)
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09:00 MadMax - Peter Schichtel (ITP)   (KOL-F-121)
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09:30 Higgs spin/CP and couplings with MEM - Eric Feng (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (KOL-F-121)
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10:00 Constraining masses from peaks - Roberto Franceschini (University of Maryland (US))   (KOL-F-121)
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
10:50 "MT2" observables : where to? - Christopher Gorham Lester (University of Cambridge (GB))   (KOL-F-121)
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11:20 ttbar spin correlations with MEM - Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))   (KOL-F-121)
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11:50 The importance of FAST simulation for the MEM - Michele Selvaggi (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))   (KOL-F-121)
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PM
12:10 --- Lunch break ---
14:30 MadGraph5_aMC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (CERN)   (KOL-F-121)
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15:15 Sherpa - Marek Schoennher   (KOL-F-121)
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16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Matrix elements + PYTHIA 8 - Stefan Prestel (CERN - PH/TH)   (KOL-F-121)
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17:00 Higher-order QCD Improvements in Herwig++ - Mr Simon Plaetzer (ITP, Universitaet Karlsruhe)   (KOL-F-121)
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17:30 Towards LHC Phenomenology with Vincia - Mathias Ritzmann   (KOL-F-121)
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12:00 Loop amplitudes and NLO simulations with OpenLoops - Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (KOL-F-121)
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Best analysis tools - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)   (KOL-F-121)
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15:25 Some summits reached and the climb ahead - James Gainer (University of Florida (US))   (KOL-F-121)
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16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Search for ttH(→bb) using the Matrix Element Method - Lorenzo Bianchini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))   (KOL-F-121)
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17:00 New MEM tool - Patrick Rieck (CERN - PH/UAT)   (KOL-F-121)
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17:30 Top-squark search with MEM - Pierre Artoisenet (Nikhef)   (KOL-F-121)
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12:20 --- Lunch ---
14:00 ZH->llbb higgs search with MEM - Jesus Manuel Vizan Garcia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))   (KOL-F-121)
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14:30 S-MEM application to Z to ttbar - Michael Spannowsky (Durham University)   (KOL-F-121)
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15:00 --- coffee break ---
15:20 UPdate of MEM@NLO - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)   (KOL-F-121)
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15:50 Prospects and discussion on the MEM - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE)) Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)   (KOL-F-121)
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16:10 Concluding remarks - Florencia Maria Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (KOL-F-121)