Name: MC4LHC - 2006
Start: 2006-07-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2006-07-26T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

MC4LHC - 2006

from Monday, 17 July 2006 (09:00) to Wednesday, 26 July 2006 (18:00)

Monday, 17 July 2006
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 40-SS-D01
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and introduction

09:15 ATLAS: MC experience and needs - borut kersevan (University of Ljubljana)

09:55 CMS: MC experience and needs - Albert De Roeck (CERN)

11:00 LHCb: MC experience and needs - Patrick Robbe (LAL, Orsay)

11:30 ALICE: MC experience and needs - Marco Monteno (CERN)

12:00 HepPDT and HepMC - Lynn Garren (FERMILAB)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 40-SS-D01
Contributions

13:30 CEDAR and associated tools - Jon Butterworth (University College London)

14:00 Supporting Monte Carlo generators at the LHC - Paolo Bartalini (University of Florida)

14:20 Minimum Bias and Underlying Event

14:30 Jet algorithms - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)
15:00 coffee break
coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 19:00
Room: 40-SS-D01
Contributions

15:30 HERWIG++ - Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe University)

16:00 PYTHIA8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (LUND/CERN)

16:30 SHERPA - Frank Krauss (Dresden University)

16:50 MC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (INFN, Genova)

17:05 MADGRAPH - Johan Alwall (Universite' Louvain)

17:20 ALPGEN - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

17:35 HELAC/PHEGAS - Costas Papadopoulos (Demokritos, Greece)

17:50 TopReX - Sergey Slabospitsky (IHEP, Protvino)

18:05 PHANTOM - Ezio Maina (University and INFN, Torino)

18:20 CompHEP - Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)

18:35 AcerMC - Borut Kersevan (University of Ljubljana)
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
09:25
09:25 - 12:55
Room: 40/R-D10
Contributions

09:25 LCG MCDB - Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)

09:55 LCG HepML - Alexander Sherstnev (University of Cambridge)

10:25 CEDAR HepML

11:15 LHA-I in Pythia
13:30
13:30 - 16:00
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

13:30 Higgs production via VBF: Comparison between generators - Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of Wisconsin)

13:40 Multi-jet final states: ALPGEN experience in CMS

13:50 Heavy Particles and Hard Jets - Peter Skands (FNAL)

14:10 Merging Matrix Elements and Parton Showers with Sherpa - Steffen Schumann (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden Univ. of Technology)

14:50 Ariadne and CKKW - Leif Lönnblad (Lund University)
17:00

17:00 - 19:00
Room: 40-SS-C01
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
09:25
09:25 - 12:55
Room: TH auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Priority data sets for JetWeb

09:50 Priority data sets for JetWeb - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics)

10:40 Priority MC models to be validated

11:10 Rivet and RivetGun - Andy Buckley (Durham University)

11:30 CEDAR and GENSER discussion? - Andy Buckley (Durham University)

12:00 Continuation of HepMC/CLHEP discussions (if necessary)
15:00

15:00 - 17:00
Room: Salle B
Thursday, 20 July 2006

09:30

09:30 - 12:30
Room: TH auditorium

10:30

10:30 - 12:30
Room: 124/R-012
14:30
14:30 - 18:30
Room: 513/1-024
Contributions

14:30 Framing the issues - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

14:55 W + jets at the Tevatron - Ben Cooper

15:25 Jets in ATLAS - Chiara Rhoda

15:55 Jets in CMS - Alexei Ulyanov

16:25 Coffee break

16:40 View from a theorist - Steve Ellis

17:10 Cone vs kT, FastJet, and UE/MB jet corrections in kT-clustering - Matteo Cacciari

17:40 Jets and underlying event - Tancredi Carli

18:10 Discussion -follow up on mon and beyond
Friday, 21 July 2006
09:25
09:25 - 12:55
Room: 40-SS-C01
Contributions

09:30 UE/MB subtraction in kT clustering - Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

09:50 Tuning of proton momentum spectrum in diffractive events - Monika Grothe (Department of Physics)

10:10 Tuning the Monte-Carlo Models and Extrapolations to the LHC - Rick Field (University of Florida)

11:05 UE in CMS - Filippo Ambroglini (INFN Sez. di Perugia c/o Dipt. di Fisica (INFN))

11:25 MB in ATLAS (at start-up) - Craig Buttar (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

11:45 Stringy Uncertainties in Hadron Collisions - Peter Skands (FNAL)

12:05 Discussion
14:00

14:00 - 16:00
Room: 40/R-D10
Saturday, 22 July 2006
Sunday, 23 July 2006