MC4LHC - 2006

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

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
17 Jul 2006
18 Jul 2006
19 Jul 2006
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25 Jul 2006
26 Jul 2006
AM
09:00
MC tools, use in the experiments (until 12:30) (40-SS-D01)
09:00 Welcome and introduction   (40-SS-D01)
09:15 ATLAS: MC experience and needs - borut kersevan (University of Ljubljana)   (40-SS-D01)
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09:55 CMS: MC experience and needs - Albert De Roeck (CERN)   (40-SS-D01)
10:35 --- coffee break ---
11:00 LHCb: MC experience and needs - Patrick Robbe (LAL, Orsay)   (40-SS-D01)
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11:30 ALICE: MC experience and needs - Marco Monteno (CERN)   (40-SS-D01)
12:00 HepPDT and HepMC - Lynn Garren (FERMILAB)   (40-SS-D01)
09:25
LCG Monte Carlo Services (LCG Generator) (until 12:55) (40/R-D10)
09:25 LCG MCDB - Dr Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)   (40/R-D10)
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09:55 LCG HepML - Alexander Sherstnev (University of Cambridge)   (40/R-D10)
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10:25 CEDAR HepML   (40/R-D10)
11:15 LHA-I in Pythia   (40/R-D10)
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09:25
CEDAR and associated tools (until 12:55) (TH auditorium)
09:30 Priority data sets for JetWeb   (TH auditorium)
more information
09:50 Priority data sets for JetWeb - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics)   (TH auditorium)
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10:40 Priority MC models to be validated   (TH auditorium)
11:10 Rivet and RivetGun - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)   (TH auditorium)
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11:30 CEDAR and GENSER discussion? - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)   (TH auditorium)
12:00 Continuation of HepMC/CLHEP discussions (if necessary)   (TH auditorium)
09:30
ThePEG/Herwig++ collaboration meeting (until 12:30) (TH auditorium)
10:30
CAMTOPH-Krakow (until 12:30) (124/R-012)
09:25
Underlying event and minimum bias events (until 12:55) (40-SS-C01)
09:30 UE/MB subtraction in kT clustering - Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)   (40-SS-C01)
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09:50 Tuning of proton momentum spectrum in diffractive events - Monika Grothe (Department of Physics)   (40-SS-C01)
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10:10 Tuning the Monte-Carlo Models and Extrapolations to the LHC - Prof. Rick Field (University of Florida)   (40-SS-C01)
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10:50 --- coffee break ---
11:05 UE in CMS - Filippo Ambroglini (INFN Sez. di Perugia c/o Dipt. di Fisica (INFN))   (40-SS-C01)
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11:25 MB in ATLAS (at start-up) - Craig Buttar (Department of Physics and Astronomy)   (40-SS-C01)
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11:45 Stringy Uncertainties in Hadron Collisions - Dr Peter Skands (FNAL)   (40-SS-C01)
12:05 Discussion   (40-SS-C01)
09:25
LCG Generator (until 12:55) (40/5-A01)
09:25 Status of GENSER: presentation of the release 1_4_0 and plans - Dr Mikhail Kirsanov (INR Moscow)   (40-SS-C01)
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09:55 Experience with new compilers (G95 etc.) - Refael Yaari   (40-SS-C01)
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10:15 Discussion on collaboration with CEDAR   (40-SS-C01)
10:45 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Discussion on Les Houches event files - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics)   (40-SS-C01)
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11:30 Proposal of the new version of HepMC and discussion - Lynn Garren (F.N.A.L.)   (40-SS-C01)
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09:30
Final reports, working plans, etc (until 13:00) (TH auditorium)
09:30 HepML progress & plans - Jon Butterworth   (TH auditorium)
more information
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09:45 JetWeb progress & plans (including rivet/gun etc) - Jon Butterworth   (TH auditorium)
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10:00 GENSER future plans - Dr Mikhail Kirsanov (INR Moscow)   (TH auditorium)
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10:25 Generator Author Comment - Dr Peter Richardson (IPPP, Durham University)   (TH auditorium)
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 LesHouchesAccord event files - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics)   (TH auditorium)
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11:15 MCnet plans - Mike Seymour (CERN)   (TH auditorium)
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11:30 New parton shower MC for QCD initial state radiation - Stanislaw Jadach   (TH auditorium)
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11:45 Templates for ME+shower W+multijet comparisons - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (TH auditorium)
Paper
PM
12:30 --- lunch break ---
13:30
Proposed work projects (until 15:00) (40-SS-D01)
13:30 CEDAR and associated tools - Jon Butterworth (University College London)   (40-SS-D01)
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14:00 Supporting Monte Carlo generators at the LHC - Paolo Bartalini (University of Florida)   (40-SS-D01)
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14:20 Minimum Bias and Underlying Event   (40-SS-D01)
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14:30 Jet algorithms - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)   (40-SS-D01)
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15:00 --- coffee break ---
15:30
MC tools, status reports (until 19:00) (40-SS-D01)
15:30 HERWIG++ - Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe University)   (40-SS-D01)
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16:00 PYTHIA8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (LUND/CERN)   (40-SS-D01)
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16:30 SHERPA - Frank Krauss (Dresden University)   (40-SS-D01)
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16:50 MC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (INFN, Genova)   (40-SS-D01)
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17:05 MADGRAPH - Johan Alwall (Universite' Louvain)   (40-SS-D01)
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17:20 ALPGEN - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (40-SS-D01)
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17:35 HELAC/PHEGAS - Costas Papadopoulos (Demokritos, Greece)   (40-SS-D01)
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17:50 TopReX - Sergey Slabospitsky (IHEP, Protvino)   (40-SS-D01)
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18:05 PHANTOM - Ezio Maina (University and INFN, Torino)   (40-SS-D01)
18:20 CompHEP - Dr Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)   (40-SS-D01)
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18:35 AcerMC - Borut Kersevan (University of Ljubljana)   (40-SS-D01)
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13:30
EW/QCD background simulations (until 16:00) (40-SS-C01)
13:30 Higgs production via VBF: Comparison between generators - Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of Wisconsin)   (40-SS-C01)
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13:40 Multi-jet final states: ALPGEN experience in CMS   (40-SS-C01)
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13:50 Heavy Particles and Hard Jets - Dr Peter Skands (FNAL)   (40-SS-C01)
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14:10 Merging Matrix Elements and Parton Showers with Sherpa - Steffen Schumann (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden Univ. of Technology)   (40-SS-C01)
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14:50 Ariadne and CKKW - Leif Lönnblad (Lund University)   (40-SS-C01)
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17:00
CLHEP status (until 19:00) (40-SS-C01)
Minutes
15:00
CAMTOPH-Krakow (until 17:00) (Salle B)
14:30
Jet clustering (until 18:30) (513/1-024)
14:30 Framing the issues - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)   (513/1-024)
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14:55 W + jets at the Tevatron - Ben Cooper   (513/1-024)
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15:25 Jets in ATLAS - Chiara Rhoda   (513/1-024)
15:55 Jets in CMS - Alexei Ulyanov   (513/1-024)
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16:25 Coffee break   (513/1-024)
16:40 View from a theorist - Steve Ellis   (513/1-024)
17:10 Cone vs kT, FastJet, and UE/MB jet corrections in kT-clustering - Matteo Cacciari   (513/1-024)
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17:40 Jets and underlying event - Tancredi Carli   (513/1-024)
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18:10 Discussion -follow up on mon and beyond   (513/1-024)
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14:00
CAMTOPH-Krakow (until 16:00) (40/R-D10)
15:00
Jet clustering, II (until 17:00) (40-S2-A01)
15:00 Density-Based Clustering and Jet Reconstruction - Dr Igor Volobouev (Texas Tech University)   (40-S2-A01)
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15:00 Further discussion   (40-S2-A01)
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13:30
MCnet steering committee meeting (until 15:30) (4-3-004)
15:30
MCnet meeting (until 18:00) (TH auditorium)
15:30 General Discussion - Mike Seymour (CERN)   (TH auditorium)
15:45 Keith Hamilton   (TH auditorium)
16:00 Seyi Latunde-Dada   (TH auditorium)
16:15 Simon Plaetzer   (TH auditorium)