SM and BSM physics at the LHC

from Monday, August 3, 2009 (9:00 AM) to Friday, August 28, 2009 (6:00 PM)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 3, 2009
Aug 5, 2009
Aug 6, 2009
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Aug 11, 2009
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Aug 27, 2009
AM
9:00 AM
PDF4LHC (until 6:00 PM)
10:30 AM CMS studies on LHC data for PDF determination - ADR for Ping Tang  
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11:00 AM LHCb: using LHC info to improve PDFs - Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)  
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11:30 AM Statistical approach to PDFs - Franco Buccella  
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11:50 AM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM News from MSTW - James Stirling  
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2:30 PM News from CTEQ - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)  
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3:00 PM News from NNPDFs - Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)  
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3:30 PM HERAPDF data combinations and fits - Mandy Cooper Sarkar  
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4:10 PM The QCDNUM package - Michiel Botje (NIKHEF)  
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9:00 AM
PDF4LHC (until 6:00 PM)
10:30 AM PDF uncertainties: HERAPDF study - Mandy Cooper-Sarkar  
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11:00 AM PDF Errors with Normalization Uncertainties - Richard Ball (Edinburgh University)  
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11:30 AM Statistical Issues for PDFs - Louis Lyons (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)  
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12:00 PM Discussion on PDF uncertainties - All  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM Heavy Flavors in PDFs - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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2:40 PM Discussion on HFs in PDFs - All  
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3:00 PM --- Cofee break ---
3:30 PM PDF issues for Monte Carlo generators - Peter Richardson (Durham University)  
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4:10 PM issues with LO*? - Zoltan Nagy  
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4:30 PM LO* PDF tuning, performance and validation - Liza Mijovic (Jozef Stefan Institute-Unknown-Unknown)  
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4:50 PM Discussion on LO* PDFs and MC issues - All  
11:00 AM TH Institute Discussion Session  
10:00 AM
4th generation (until 1:00 PM)
10:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM 4th generation in models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking - Gustavo Burdman (USP)  
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10:55 AM Naturalness of the fourth generation - Saleh Sultansoy (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)  
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11:15 AM Predictions for EW production of single top and fourth generation quarks at NLO QCD - Rikkert Frederix (U. C. Louvain)  
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11:35 AM Fourth generation leptons at the LHC - Erkcan Ozcan (University College London)  
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11:55 AM Single and anomalous productions of fourth family up type quarks at the LHC - Orhan Cakir (University of Ankara)  
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12:15 PM Searching for 4th Generation Quarks at CMS - Kai-Feng Chen (Physics Department - National Taiwan University (NTU))  
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11:00 AM Axiverse - John March-Russell (Oxford University)  
11:00 AM
Dark Matter (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Probing the hidden sector - Tomer Volansky (IAS, Princeton)  
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11:30 AM Conventional non-thermal wino LSP and satellite dark matter data -- current and forthcoming satellite and LHC tests - Gordy Kane (Michigan University)  
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PM
2:00 PM
Kickoff session (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome and Introduction  
2:05 PM SM LHC processes in SANC at NLO level - Dmitri Bardin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
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2:17 PM All-order anomalous dimension; small x resummation - Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)  
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2:29 PM NNLO corrections for Drell-Yan and more - Daniel De Florian (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica Departamento de Fisica)  
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2:41 PM Processes with HQ in the initial state: trick or treat? - Fabio Maltoni  
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2:53 PM A combined analysis of vector boson scattering in the W+4j, Z+4j and ZW+2j channels for EWSB studies at the LHC - Ezio Maina (Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica)  
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3:05 PM PDF - Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)  
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3:17 PM Higgs pseudo-observables & second Riemann sheet - Giampiero Passarino  
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3:29 PM Using jet substructure in searches at the LHC - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)  
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3:41 PM Coloured SUSY particle production at the LHC - Wolfgang Hollik  
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3:53 PM Early SUSY prospects at LHC with multi-muon +jets events - Howard Baer  
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4:05 PM Signatures of spin-1, new resonance production - Mihail Chizhov Mihail Chizhov (Faculty of Physics)  
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2:00 PM Parton Distribution Functions - Robert Thorne (University College London)  
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3:30 PM
Les Houches event files format (until 4:30 PM)
more information
2:00 PM
Kickoff meeting (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Numerical evaluation of high multiplicity one-loop amplitudes - Walter Giele (Fermilab)  
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2:12 PM Computation of QCD cross sections of large multiplicity final states at NLO - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (Institute of Experimental Physics-University of Debrecen)  
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2:24 PM New developments in FEHiP - Charalampos Anastasiou (Unknown)  
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2:36 PM Colour-dressed one-loop amplitudes from generalized unitarity - Jan Winter (Fermilab)  
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2:48 PM Pade approximations and nonsinglet QCD analysis up to N3LO - Alinaghi Khorramian (Unknown)  
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3:00 PM Wt production and next-to-eikonal resummation - Christopher David White  
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3:12 PM The POWHEG BOX - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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3:24 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:40 PM WINHAC/ZINHAC: Monte Carlo generators for Drell-Yan processes - Wiesiek Placzek (Jagiellonian University)  
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3:52 PM Asymptotically free four-fermion interactions and electroweak symmetry breaking - Christoph Wetterich (Heidelberg)  
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4:04 PM (1) Z' -> ZZ; (2) iQuarkonium - Wai-Yee Keung (UIC)  
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4:16 PM MAOS momentum: a new kinematic variable for mass and spin measurement - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)  
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4:28 PM Neutrino-LHC connection and triply charged Higgs boson - Prof. Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University)  
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2:00 PM
Matrix element / parton showering matching (until 5:00 PM)
2:00 PM Merging matrix elements with parton showers - Frank Krauss (IPPP, Durham)  
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2:30 PM CKKW and MLM matching: can they be related? - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM All-order corrections to multi-jet rates - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)  
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3:42 PM NLO parton showers: dreamland or reality? - Maciej Skrzypek  
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3:54 PM Extending CKKW-merging to one-loop matrix elements - Leif Lonnblad (Lund)  
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4:06 PM Discussion - All  
2:00 PM
Jets (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Jet algorithms - Gavin Salam (LPTHE, Paris)  
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3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM Jet substructure - Prof. Matthew Strassler (Rutgers University)  
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3:37 PM NLL jet rates - Bryan Webber (Cambridge)  
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3:44 PM Jet discussion  
2:00 PM
Underlying event & initial-state radiation (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM New physics reconstruction with ISR - Mihoko Nojiri (KEK)  
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2:30 PM Predicting "min-bias" and the "underlying event" at the LHC - Rick Field (University of Florida)  
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3:00 PM Multiple parton interactions in W,Z+4j production at the LHC - Ezio Maina (Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica)  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM Discussion - All  
2:00 PM
Kickoff meeting (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM SUSY: Spectra and Phenomenology - Ben Allanach (DAMTP, Cambridge University)  
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2:10 PM Sparticle masses in deflected mirage mediation - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)  
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2:20 PM Soft-wall models - Joan Antoni Cabrer (IFAE, Barcelona)  
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2:30 PM Many Light Higgses in the NMSSM - Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)  
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2:40 PM Theory and Phenomenology of the Lee-Wick Standard Model - Terrance Figy (Durham University)  
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3:00 PM --- break ---
3:30 PM (1) Unified Coupling From Casimir Energy (2) Gauge-Higgs Unification. - Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)  
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3:40 PM Introduction to low-scale technicolor - Ken Lane (Boston University)  
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3:50 PM Inert Higgs Doublet Model: Dark Matter Implication and Collider Phenomenology - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)  
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4:00 PM Minimal Z' models: present bounds and early LHC reach - Fabio Zwirner (Padova University)  
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4:10 PM Physics with four generations - Gokhan Unel (U.C. Irvine)  
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2:00 PM SUSY breaking - Martin Schmaltz (Boston University)  
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2:00 PM
Dark Matter (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Cosmic Signals from the Hidden Sector - Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)  
3:00 PM --- break ---
3:30 PM Form Factor Dark Matter - Ami Katz (Boston University)  
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2:00 PM
Kickoff meeting (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Decaying Dark Matter as a Probe of Unification - Asimina Arvanitaki (LBL, Berkeley)  
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2:10 PM Buried Higgs - Brando Bellazzini (Cornell University)  
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2:20 PM Fourth Generation Leptons in Ads5 - Gustavo Burdman (Sao Paulo University)  
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2:30 PM T' as a Family Symmetry at the GUT and EW Scales - Mu-Chun Chen (UC Irvine)  
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2:40 PM Discoverying Dark Matter in Neutrino Telescopes - Adam Falkowski (Rutgers)  
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2:50 PM Emergent EWSB - Tony Gherghetta (University of Melbourne)  
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3:00 PM --- break ---
3:30 PM Note on the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Boson of Meta-stable SUSY Violation - Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz)  
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3:40 PM Early gluino spin, LHC gaugino masses, 4-top signatures - Gordy Kane (Michigan University)  
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3:50 PM Exceptional Supersymmetric Standard Model - Steve King (University of Southampton)  
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4:00 PM Determination of BSM parameters at the LHC - Michael Kraemer (RWTH Aachen University)  
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4:10 PM Bayesian Statistics and Supersymmetry - Leszek Roszkowski  
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4:20 PM The Bestest Little Higgs - Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)  
2:00 PM New state of matter in white dwarfs - Gregory Gabadadze (New York University)  
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