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

LoopFest VII

from Wednesday, 14 May 2008 (01:30) to Friday, 16 May 2008 (18:40)

Monday, 12 May 2008
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
08:20 Session I
08:20 - 10:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

08:20 Welcome by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences - Bruce McCombe (University at Buffalo)

08:30 Precision electroweak measurements - Bob Clare (University of California)

09:00 Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on New Physics - Witold Skiba (Yale University)

09:30 Discovering New Physics with Early LHC Data - Greg Landsberg (Brown University)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
10:30 Session II
10:30 - 12:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

10:30 Three-loop corrections to the lightest Higgs Boson mass in the MSSM - Matthias Steinhauser (Karlsruhe University)

11:00 SUSY-QCD corrections to Higgs processes - Chris Jackson (BNL)

11:30 Recent progress in NNLO calculations - Massimiliano Grazzini (CERN)

12:00 NNLO corrections to event shapes and jet rates in e+e- - Thomas Gehrmann (Universitaet Zuerich)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
14:00 Session III
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

14:00 Top Mass from Jets at the ILC: Two loop results and More - Iain Stewart (MIT)

14:30 NNLO corrections to the b -> s gamma decay - Radja Boughezal (University Wuerzburg)

15:00 NNLO corrections to heavy fermion decays - Alexey Pak (University of Alberta)

15:15 Second Order Corrections To Heavy Quark Decays At Intermediate Recoil - Matt Dowling (University of Alberta)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
16:00 Session IV
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

16:00 Heavy flavour corrections to DIS at 2- and 3-loop order - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

16:30 W production at large transverse momentum - Johann Kuehn (University Karlsruhe)

17:00 Towards top-quark pair production predictions at NNLO in QCD - Michal Czakon (University Wuerzburg)

17:30 N^3LO ttbar threshold cross section - Yuichiro Kiyo (Universitaet Karlsruhe)
18:00 Wine and Cheese Reception

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Fronczak Hall
Thursday, 15 May 2008
08:30 Session V
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

08:30 An overview of on-shell methods and their applications - Zvi Bern (UCLA)

09:00 Automated Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes - Darren Forde (SLAC)

09:30 Constructing loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes - Walter Giele (Fermilab)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
10:30 Session VI
10:30 - 12:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

10:30 Second order QCD effects in b->c l nu_l - Kirill Melnikov (University of Hawaii)

11:00 Two-loop amplitudes for gauge boson pair production in QCD - Grigorios Chachamis (University Wuerzburg)

11:30 QCD corrections to WWZ production - Vera Hankele (Karlsruhe University)

12:00 NLO QCD corrections to WW+jet production at hadron colliders - Peter Uwer (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (FZK))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
13:30 Session VII
13:30 - 15:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

13:30 On the Numerical Evaluation of Gluonic One-Loop Amplitudes - Giulia Zanderighi (Unknown)

14:00 QCD Corrections to Weak Vector Boson Production Associated to Heavy Quark Jets at Hadron Colliders - Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA)

14:30 NLO QCD corrections to ttZ production - Thomas McElmurry (University of Wisconsin)

15:00 (Some) new stuff for top production at hadron colliders - Alexander Mitov (SUNY Stony Brook)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
16:00 Session VIII
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

16:00 Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs-boson production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC - Stefan Dittmaier (MPI fuer Physik)

16:30 Higgs plus three jets via vector boson fusion at NLO QCD - Terrance Figy (University of Durham)

17:00 Mixed QCD-electroweak contributions to Higgs-plus-dijet production at the LHC - Barbara Jaeger (KEK)

17:30 Complete electroweak corrections to e+e- -> 3 jets at the ILC - Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown)
18:00 Conference Dinner

18:00 - 21:00
Room: Harry's Harbour Place Grill
Friday, 16 May 2008
08:30 Session IX
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

08:30 Recent developments in MadGraph/MadEvent - Johan Alwall (SLAC)

09:00 SHERPA: New developments - Jan Winter (Fermilab)

09:30 Towards NLO predictions for 4 b-jets at the LHC - Thomas Reiter (University of Edinburgh)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
10:30 Session X
10:30 - 12:15
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

10:30 Integral coefficients for one-loop amplitudes - Ruth Britto

11:00 One-loop Integral Coefficients from Generalized Unitarity - William Kilgore (BNL)

11:30 Scalar one-loop integrals for QCD - Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

12:00 The six-photon amplitudes - Christophe Bernicot (LAPTH)
12:15 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 - 13:45
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
13:45 Session XI
13:45 - 15:30
Room: 120 Clemens Hall
Contributions

13:45 Automating dipole subtraction for QCD NLO calculations - Tanju Gleisberg (SLAC)

14:15 Current and future developments in WHIZARD - Tobias Kleinschmidt (Universitaet Siegen)

14:45 Loop precision and the advent of the Large Hadron Collider - Laura Reina (Florida State University)
15:30 Adjourn
Adjourn
15:30 - 15:40
Room: 120 Clemens Hall

15:40 Excursion to the Niagara Falls

15:40 - 18:40
Room: Niagara Falls