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)
University at Buffalo (120 Clemens Hall)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

14 May 2008

15 May 2008

16 May 2008

08:20	Session I (until 10:00)
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) Slides
09:00	Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on New Physics - Witold Skiba (Yale University) Slides
09:30	Discovering New Physics with Early LHC Data - Greg Landsberg (Brown University) Slides
10:00	--- Coffee break ---
10:30	Session II (until 12:30)
10:30	Three-loop corrections to the lightest Higgs Boson mass in the MSSM - Matthias Steinhauser (Karlsruhe University) Slides
11:00	SUSY-QCD corrections to Higgs processes - Chris Jackson (BNL) Slides
11:30	Recent progress in NNLO calculations - Massimiliano Grazzini (CERN) Slides
12:00	NNLO corrections to event shapes and jet rates in e+e- - Thomas Gehrmann (Universitaet Zuerich) Slides

08:30	Session V (until 10:00)
08:30	An overview of on-shell methods and their applications - Zvi Bern (UCLA) Slides
09:00	Automated Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes - Darren Forde (SLAC) Slides
09:30	Constructing loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes - Walter Giele (Fermilab) Slides
10:00	--- Coffee break ---
10:30	Session VI (until 12:30)
10:30	Second order QCD effects in b->c l nu_l - Kirill Melnikov (University of Hawaii) Slides
11:00	Two-loop amplitudes for gauge boson pair production in QCD - Grigorios Chachamis (University Wuerzburg) Slides
11:30	QCD corrections to WWZ production - Vera Hankele (Karlsruhe University) Slides
12:00	NLO QCD corrections to WW+jet production at hadron colliders - Peter Uwer (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (FZK)) Slides

08:30	Session IX (until 10:00)
08:30	Recent developments in MadGraph/MadEvent - Johan Alwall (SLAC) Slides
09:00	SHERPA: New developments - Jan Winter (Fermilab) Slides
09:30	Towards NLO predictions for 4 b-jets at the LHC - Thomas Reiter (University of Edinburgh) Slides
10:00	--- Coffee break ---
10:30	Session X (until 12:15)
10:30	Integral coefficients for one-loop amplitudes - Ruth Britto Slides
11:00	One-loop Integral Coefficients from Generalized Unitarity - William Kilgore (BNL) Slides
11:30	Scalar one-loop integrals for QCD - Keith Ellis (Fermilab) Slides
12:00	The six-photon amplitudes - Christophe Bernicot (LAPTH) Slides

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Session III (until 15:30)
14:00	Top Mass from Jets at the ILC: Two loop results and More - Iain Stewart (MIT) Slides
14:30	NNLO corrections to the b -> s gamma decay - Radja Boughezal (University Wuerzburg) Slides
15:00	NNLO corrections to heavy fermion decays - Alexey Pak (University of Alberta) Slides
15:15	Second Order Corrections To Heavy Quark Decays At Intermediate Recoil - Matt Dowling (University of Alberta) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Session IV (until 18:00)
16:00	Heavy flavour corrections to DIS at 2- and 3-loop order - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY) Slides
16:30	W production at large transverse momentum - Johann Kuehn (University Karlsruhe) Slides
17:00	Towards top-quark pair production predictions at NNLO in QCD - Michal Czakon (University Wuerzburg) Slides
17:30	N^3LO ttbar threshold cross section - Yuichiro Kiyo (Universitaet Karlsruhe) Slides
18:00	Wine and Cheese Reception (until 19:30) (Fronczak Hall)

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
13:30	Session VII (until 15:30)
13:30	On the Numerical Evaluation of Gluonic One-Loop Amplitudes - Giulia Zanderighi (Unknown) Slides
14:00	QCD Corrections to Weak Vector Boson Production Associated to Heavy Quark Jets at Hadron Colliders - Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA) Slides
14:30	NLO QCD corrections to ttZ production - Thomas McElmurry (University of Wisconsin) Slides
15:00	(Some) new stuff for top production at hadron colliders - Alexander Mitov (SUNY Stony Brook) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Session VIII (until 18:00)
16:00	Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs-boson production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC - Stefan Dittmaier (MPI fuer Physik) Slides
16:30	Higgs plus three jets via vector boson fusion at NLO QCD - Terrance Figy (University of Durham) Slides
17:00	Mixed QCD-electroweak contributions to Higgs-plus-dijet production at the LHC - Barbara Jaeger (KEK) Slides
17:30	Complete electroweak corrections to e+e- -> 3 jets at the ILC - Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown) Slides
18:00	Conference Dinner (until 21:00) (Harry's Harbour Place Grill)

12:15	--- Lunch break ---
13:45	Session XI (until 15:30)
13:45	Automating dipole subtraction for QCD NLO calculations - Tanju Gleisberg (SLAC) Slides
14:15	Current and future developments in WHIZARD - Tobias Kleinschmidt (Universitaet Siegen) Slides
14:45	Loop precision and the advent of the Large Hadron Collider - Laura Reina (Florida State University) Slides
15:30	--- Adjourn ---
15:40	Excursion to the Niagara Falls (until 18:40) (Niagara Falls)

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