Top2015 - 8th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics

from Sunday 13 September 2015 (13:00) to Friday 18 September 2015 (14:30)
Continental Hotel, Ischia

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Sept 2015
14 Sept 2015
15 Sept 2015
16 Sept 2015
17 Sept 2015
18 Sept 2015
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Session 1: Welcome and keynote - Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Luca Lista (INFN Sezione di Napoli) (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Welcome - Luca Lista (INFN Sezione di Napoli) Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))   ()
09:10 Theory keynote - Michael Peskin (SLAC)   ()
10:00
Session 2: Status of LHC, physics objects and performances at 13 TeV - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA)) Roberto Tenchini (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT)) (until 10:30) ()
10:00 Status of the LHC machine - Mike Lamont (CERN)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session 2': Status of LHC, physics objects and performances at 13 TeV - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA)) Roberto Tenchini (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT)) (until 12:20) ()
11:00 Status and performances of physics objects at 13 TeV: ATLAS - Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES))   ()
11:40 Status and performances of physics objects at 13 TeV: CMS - Tae Jeong Kim (Chonbuk National University)   ()
09:00
Session 5: Top-pair cross section - Francesco Tramontano (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) Marco Rescigno (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Latest theory developments for top pair production, generators and showering - Emanuele Re (University of Oxford)   ()
09:30 Inclusive top pair production at 7, 8 and 13 TeV in CMS - Shannon Crucy (Ghent University)   ()
10:00 Inclusive top pair production at 7, 8 and 13 TeV in ATLAS - Julian Glatzer (CERN)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session 5: Top-pair cross section - Marco Rescigno (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Francesco Tramontano (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) (until 12:00) ()
11:00 Differential cross section measurements at the LHC (as a function of kinematics variables) - Otto Hindrichs (University of Rochester)   ()
11:30 Differential cross section measurements at the LHC (final state objects: gap fraction, vs njets,... including tt+HF) - Matthias Danninger (UBC Vancouver)   ()
09:00
Session 9: Top mass - Mark Andrew Owen (University of Glasgow (GB)) Francesco Fabozzi (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) (until 10:35) ()
09:00 Top-quark mass measurements at the LHC: standard methods - Andrea Castro (INFN)   ()
09:30 Top-quark mass measurements at the LHC: alternative methods - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia)   ()
10:00 Top-quark mass measurements at the Tevatron (incl. Tevatron combination) - Cécile Deterre (DESY)   ()
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session 10: Top mass and combinations - Andrea Castro (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Giorgio Cortiana (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Interpretation of top-quark mass measurements: a theory overview - Gennaro Corcella (INFN)   ()
11:30 Statistical and systematic treatment issues in top mass combinations - Andreas Maier (MPI Munich)   ()
12:00 Other combinations than top quark mass measurements at the LHC - Mara Soares (CIEMAT)   ()
09:00
Session 11: Top and Higgs in the SM - Paolo Meridiani (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Marco Rescigno (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Theory overview for ttH and tH production - Marco Zaro (LPTHE Paris)   ()
09:30 Search for ttH and tH production with H->bb - Darren Puigh (Ohio State University)   ()
10:00 Search for ttH and tH production (other channels) - Joshua Mcfayden (University College London)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session 12: Top and Higgs boson beyond SM - Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Gennaro Corcella (INFN - LNF) (until 12:45) ()
11:00 Implication of the top (and Higgs) mass to the vacuum stability - Jose Espinosa (IFAE)   ()
11:30 Theory overview of BSM top and Higgs interactions - Aldo De Andrea (IPN Lyon)   ()
12:15 Search for new resonances with top quarks - Min Kim (Kyungpook University)   ()
09:00
Session 15: Perspectives - Roberto Tenchini (Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT)) Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Perspectives for top physics at high luminosity LHC - Michele Selvaggi (Université Catholique de Louvain)   ()
09:30 Perspectives for top physics at new colliders - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Session 16: Organization of TOP2016 and summary - Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Luca Lista (INFN Sezione di Napoli) (until 12:15) ()
10:30 Organization of TOP2016   ()
10:40 Theory summary - Paolo Nason (INFN)   ()
11:20 Experimental summary - Martijn Mulders (CERN)   ()
PM
13:00 --- Registration ---
19:00 --- Welcome cocktail ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
12:20 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session 3: First physics results from run II at 13 TeV (non-top phys. relevant for top) - Marco Rescigno (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Reinhild Peters (University of Manchester (GB)) (until 16:00) ()
14:00 Standard Model results (excl. top) from ATLAS at 13 TeV - Paul Laycock (University of Liverpool)   ()
14:30 Standard Model results (excl. top) from CMS at 13 TeV - Jesus Manuel Vizan Garcia (Universidad de Oviedo)   ()
15:00 Searches for new physics at 13 TeV: ATLAS - Jeremy Love (Argonne)   ()
15:30 Searches for new physics at 13 TeV: CMS - Jeremy Andrea (IPHC Strasbourg)   ()
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Session 4: Top reconstruction tools, incl. boosted top - Francesco Fabozzi (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) Thomas Andrew Schwarz (University of Michigan (US)) (until 17:30) ()
16:30 Top reconstruction and boosted top: theoretical overview - Michael Spannowsky (University of Durham)   ()
17:00 Top reconstruction and boosted top: experimental overview - Louise Skinnari (Cornell University)   ()
19:00
Poster Session (until 22:00) ()
12:00
Session 6: Top-quark properties (incl. single top) - Thomas Andrew Schwarz (University of Michigan (US)) Luca Lista (INFN Sezione di Napoli) (until 13:10) ()
12:00 Theory overview of top-quark properties - Markus Schulze (CERN)   ()
12:30 Top production and properties (except mass) at the Tevatron - Giorgio Chiarelli (INFN)   ()
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session 6': Top-quark properties (incl. single top) - Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Luca Lista (INFN Sezione di Napoli) (until 16:00) ()
14:30 Spin measurements in top-quark events at the LHC - Jacob Linacre (FNAL)   ()
15:00 Asymmetry measurements in top-quark events at the LHC - Tom Schwarz (University of Michigan)   ()
15:30 ttbar+Boson (except Higgs) - Joergen Sjoelin (Stockholm University)   ()
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Session 7: Single top - Wolfgang Wagner (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE)) Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) (until 18:00) ()
16:30 Theory overview of recent progress on single-top production predictions and tools - Andrew Papanastasiou (DESY)   ()
17:00 Single top production measurements at the LHC: t-channel - Matthias Komm (Université Catholique de Louvain)   ()
17:30 Single top production measurements at the LHC: other channels - Carolina Gabaldon (LPSC Grenoble)   ()
18:00
Session 8: Young Scientists Forum - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Luca Lista (INFN Sezione di Napoli) (until 19:50) ()
18:00 Differential Cross-Section Measurements of Top Quark Pair Production at 8 TeV using the ATLAS Detector - Benjamin Tannenwald (Ohio SU)   ()
18:10 Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section at 13 TeV with the CMS detector - Till Arndt (DESY)   ()
18:20 Measurement of the inclusive ttbar production cross section in ppbar collisions at 1.96 TeV and determination of the top quark pole mass - Jiri Franc (Czech Technical University)   ()
18:30 Measuring polarizations of bottom, charm, strange, up and down quarks in top decays - Yevgeny Kats (Weizmann Institute)   ()
18:40 Measurement of the t-channel single-top quark production cross section at 13 TeV with the CMS detector - Nils Faltermann (KIT)   ()
18:50 Searches for flavour-changing neutral current top quark decays t to Hq in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - Shota Tsiskaridze (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)   ()
19:00 Precise top mass determination using lepton distribution at LHC - Sayaka Kawabata (Tohoku University)   ()
19:10 Measurement of top quark polarization with the D0 detector - Kamil Augsten (Czech Technical University)   ()
19:20 Unravelling the non-standard top and Higgs couplings in associated top-Higgs production at the High-luminosity LHC - Pankaj Sharma (University of Adelaide)   ()
19:30 Announcement of poster awards winners   ()
20:00 --- Dinner ---
21:30
Q&A session - Reinhild Peters (University of Manchester (GB)) Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 22:30) ()
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Excursion ---
20:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session 13: Top and Exotica/SuSy - Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 16:00) ()
14:30 Searches for vector-like quarks with top quarks - Jeffrey Tseng (University of Oxford)   ()
15:00 Searches for SUSY/dark matter with top quarks - Sophio Pataraia (University of Wuppertal)   ()
15:30 Searches for FCNC with top quarks - Kirill Skovpen (IPHC Strasbourg)   ()
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Session 14: Differential cross sections mini-workshop - Gennaro Corcella (INFN - LNF) Francesco Tramontano (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT)) (until 19:00) ()
16:30 Theory developments in differential top-quark distributions - David Heymes (RWTH Aachen University)   ()
17:00 Electroweak corrections in top physics (1) - Peter Uwer (Humboldt University Berlin)   ()
17:30 Electroweak corrections in top physics (2) - Davide Pagani (Université Catholique de Louvain)   ()
18:00 High Pt top and tail modeling (fixed order, resummation) - Ben Pecjak (Durham University)   ()
18:30 PDF - Robert Thorne (University College London)   ()
20:00 --- Dinner ---
21:30
Q&A session - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA)) Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 22:30) ()
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:30 --- Departure ---