LoopFest VII

Name: LoopFest VII
Start: 2008-05-14T01:30:00+02:00
End: 2008-05-16T18:40:00+02:00
Location: University at Buffalo

14 May 2008, 01:30 → 16 May 2008, 18:40 Europe/Zurich

120 Clemens Hall (University at Buffalo)

120 Clemens Hall

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, New York

Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo), Marcus Weber (SUNY Buffalo), Richard Gonsalves (SUNY Buffalo), Sally Dawson (BNL), Ulrich Baur (SUNY Buffalo)

Description

Radiative Corrections for the LHC and ILC For more information please visit www.physics.buffalo.edu/loopfest7.

Support

dow@ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu

Wednesday 14 May
- Session I 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 1
    
    Welcome by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
    
    Speaker: Bruce McCombe (University at Buffalo)
  - 2
    
    Precision electroweak measurements
    
    Speaker: Bob Clare (University of California)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on New Physics
    
    Speaker: Witold Skiba (Yale University)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    Discovering New Physics with Early LHC Data
    
    Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University)
    
    Slides
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session II 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 5
    
    Three-loop corrections to the lightest Higgs Boson mass in the MSSM
    
    Speaker: Matthias Steinhauser (Karlsruhe University)
    
    Slides
  - 6
    
    SUSY-QCD corrections to Higgs processes
    
    Speaker: Chris Jackson (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Recent progress in NNLO calculations
    
    Speaker: Massimiliano Grazzini (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 8
    
    NNLO corrections to event shapes and jet rates in e+e-
    
    Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (Universitaet Zuerich)
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session III 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 9
    
    Top Mass from Jets at the ILC: Two loop results and More
    
    Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    NNLO corrections to the b -> s gamma decay
    
    Speaker: Radja Boughezal (University Wuerzburg)
    
    Slides
  - 11
    
    NNLO corrections to heavy fermion decays
    
    O(alpha_s^2) corrections to semileptonic b-quark decay rate are calculated to several orders in m_c/m_b. Applied to the muon decay, they lead to a -0.43 ppm decrease in the lifetime. We also present recent results of our group on NNLO corrections to t-quark decay into polarized W-bosons.
    
    Speaker: Alexey Pak (University of Alberta)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Second Order Corrections To Heavy Quark Decays At Intermediate Recoil
    
    Speaker: Matt Dowling (University of Alberta)
    
    Slides
- 15:30
  
  Coffee break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session IV 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 13
    
    Heavy flavour corrections to DIS at 2- and 3-loop order
    
    Speaker: Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    W production at large transverse momentum
    
    Speaker: Johann Kuehn (University Karlsruhe)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    Towards top-quark pair production predictions at NNLO in QCD
    
    Speaker: Michal Czakon (University Wuerzburg)
    
    Slides
  - 16
    
    N^3LO ttbar threshold cross section
    
    Speaker: Yuichiro Kiyo (Universitaet Karlsruhe)
    
    Slides
- Wine and Cheese Reception Fronczak Hall
  
  Fronczak Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
Thursday 15 May
- Session V 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 17
    
    An overview of on-shell methods and their applications
    
    Speaker: Zvi Bern (UCLA)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Automated Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes
    
    Speaker: Darren Forde (SLAC)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Constructing loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes
    
    Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session VI 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 20
    
    Second order QCD effects in b->c l nu_l
    
    Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (University of Hawaii)
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    Two-loop amplitudes for gauge boson pair production in QCD
    
    Speaker: Grigorios Chachamis (University Wuerzburg)
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    QCD corrections to WWZ production
    
    Speaker: Vera Hankele (Karlsruhe University)
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    NLO QCD corrections to WW+jet production at hadron colliders
    
    Speaker: Peter Uwer (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (FZK))
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session VII 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 24
    
    On the Numerical Evaluation of Gluonic One-Loop Amplitudes
    
    Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Unknown)
    
    Slides
  - 25
    
    QCD Corrections to Weak Vector Boson Production Associated to Heavy Quark Jets at Hadron Colliders
    
    Speaker: Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA)
    
    Slides
  - 26
    
    NLO QCD corrections to ttZ production
    
    Speaker: Thomas McElmurry (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    (Some) new stuff for top production at hadron colliders
    
    Speaker: Alexander Mitov (SUNY Stony Brook)
    
    Slides
- 15:30
  
  Coffee break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session VIII 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 28
    
    Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs-boson production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Stefan Dittmaier (MPI fuer Physik)
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Higgs plus three jets via vector boson fusion at NLO QCD
    
    Speaker: Terrance Figy (University of Durham)
    
    Slides
  - 30
    
    Mixed QCD-electroweak contributions to Higgs-plus-dijet production at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (KEK)
    
    Slides
  - 31
    
    Complete electroweak corrections to e+e- -> 3 jets at the ILC
    
    Speaker: Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown)
    
    Slides
- Conference Dinner Harry's Harbour Place Grill
  
  Harry's Harbour Place Grill
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  
  The bus leaves at 6:15 pm from the Center for the Arts, which is adjacent to Clemens Hall.
Friday 16 May
- Session IX 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 32
    
    Recent developments in MadGraph/MadEvent
    
    Speaker: Johan Alwall (SLAC)
    
    Slides
  - 33
    
    SHERPA: New developments
    
    Speaker: Jan Winter (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 34
    
    Towards NLO predictions for 4 b-jets at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Thomas Reiter (University of Edinburgh)
    
    Slides
- 10:00
  
  Coffee break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session X 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 35
    
    Integral coefficients for one-loop amplitudes
    
    Speaker: Ruth Britto
    
    Slides
  - 36
    
    One-loop Integral Coefficients from Generalized Unitarity
    
    Speaker: William Kilgore (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 37
    
    Scalar one-loop integrals for QCD
    
    Speaker: Keith Ellis (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 38
    
    The six-photon amplitudes
    
    Speaker: Christophe Bernicot (LAPTH)
    
    Slides
- 12:15
  
  Lunch break 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Session XI 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  - 39
    
    Automating dipole subtraction for QCD NLO calculations
    
    Speaker: Tanju Gleisberg (SLAC)
    
    Slides
  - 40
    
    Current and future developments in WHIZARD
    
    Speaker: Tobias Kleinschmidt (Universitaet Siegen)
    
    Slides
  - 41
    
    Loop precision and the advent of the Large Hadron Collider
    
    Speaker: Laura Reina (Florida State University)
    
    Slides
- 15:30
  
  Adjourn 120 Clemens Hall
  
  120 Clemens Hall
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
- Excursion to the Niagara Falls Niagara Falls
  
  Niagara Falls
  
  University at Buffalo
  
  Buffalo, New York
  
  The bus leaves at 4 pm from the Center for the Arts, which is adjacent to Clemens Hall.

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Harry's Harbour Place Grill

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120 Clemens Hall

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