High Precision for Hard Processes at the LHC

from Wednesday 6 September 2006 (09:00) to Friday 8 September 2006 (18:10)
ETH Zurich

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Sept 2006
7 Sept 2006
8 Sept 2006
AM
09:00
Day 1 (until 18:25)
09:00 Road to the LHC: passing by the Tevatron - Joey Huston (Michigan)  
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09:40 Latest results from MC@NLO - Bryan Webber (Cambridge)  
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10:05 The Unitarity Bootstrap for QCD Loop Amplitudes - David Kosower (Saclay)  
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Higgs+dijets production at NLO with semi-numerical methods - Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)  
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11:25 Can we find a computationally efficient loop algorithm? - Giampiero Passarino (Torino)  
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11:50 Precise predictions for the Higgs-boson decay H -> WW/ZZ -> 4 fermions - Ansgar Denner (PSI Zurich)  
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12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes - David Soper (Oregon)  
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14:25 Automated QCD calculations at NLO - Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz)  
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14:50 Unitarity Cuts and QCD Loop Amplitudes - Ruth Britto (Amsterdam)  
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15:15 --- Coffee ---
15:35 Loop amplitudes from MHV diagrams (I) - Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary)  
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16:00 Exclusive Drell-Yan production at NN LO - William Kilgore (Brookhaven)  
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16:25 Status of NNLO corrections to e+e- -> 3j - Thomas Gehrmann (Uni Zurich)  
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16:50 --- Coffee ---
17:10 Computing one-loop amplitudes at the integrand level - Roberto Pittau (Torino)  
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17:35 Higgs Production via Gluon Fusion: QCD corrections to Squark Loops - Michael Spira (PSI)  
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18:00 QCD corrections to vector-boson fusion processes - Carlo Oleari (Bicocca, Milano)  
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09:00
Day 2 (until 18:00)
09:00 Prospects for measurements of hard scattering processes at the LHC - Guenther Dissertori (ETH Zurich)  
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09:40 PDF issues at LHC - W. James Stirling (Durham)  
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10:05 The two-loop anomalous dimension matrix for soft gluon exchange - Lance Dixon (SLAC)  
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Recent progress in splitting functions - Sven Moch (DESY Zeuthen)  
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11:25 Multi-loop parton distributions for large and small x - Giuseppe Marchesini (Bicocca, Milano)  
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11:50 NLO + Shower: a new approach - Paolo Nason (Bicocca, Milano)  
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12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Techniques for one-loop tensor integrals in many-particle processes - Stefan Dittmaier (MPI, Munich)  
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14:25 Higgs + 2 jet signals from gluon fusion - Dieter Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe)  
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14:50 Recursive equations for arbitrary scattering processes - Costas Papadopoulos (Demokritos Athens)  
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15:15 --- Coffee ---
15:35 NLO corrections to $pp/pbar p to tbar t + jet + X$ - Peter Uwer (CERN)  
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16:00 Threshold resummation for high-transverse-momentum Higgs production - Daniel de Florian (Buenos Aires)  
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16:25 The GOLEM project: status and applications - Thomas Binoth (Edinburgh)  
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16:50 --- Coffee ---
17:10 Soft-gluon effects in WW production at hadron colliders - Massimiliano Grazzini (INFN, Firenze)  
17:35 Madgraph beyond the Standard Model - Tilman Plehn (Edinburgh)  
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09:00
Day 3 (until 18:10)
09:00 Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the LHC - Alex Pomarol (Barcelona)  
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09:40 The dipole-antenna approach to shower monte carlo's - Walter Giele (Fermilab)  
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10:05 A new method to compute multileg one-loop cross sections - Stefano Catani (INFN, Firenze)  
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Twistor Inspired Higgs Phenomenology - Nigel Glover (Durham)  
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11:25 Loop amplitudes from MHV diagrams (II) - Andreas Brandhuber (Queen Mary)  
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11:50 Reduction with spinor formalism - Bo Feng (Imperial College)  
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12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 All-multiplicity amplitudes in QCD - Darren Forde (Saclay)  
14:25 The Rational Part of QCD Amplitudes - Chuan-jie Zhu (Beijing)  
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14:50 On the IR singularities of massive QCD amplitudes beyond one loop - Alexander Mitov (DESY Zeuthen)  
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15:15 --- Coffee ---
15:35 A subtraction scheme for cross sections at NNLO - Vittorio del Duca (INFN, Torino)  
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16:00 Towards event shapes by NNLO subtraction - Gabor Somogyi (Debrecen)  
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16:25 Techniques and Results for Supergravity Calculations - David Dunbar (Swansea)  
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16:50 --- Coffee ---
17:10 Prospects for the Future - Zvi Bern (UCLA)  
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