Name: MC4LHC - 2006
Start: 2006-07-20T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2006-07-29T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

MC4LHC - 2006

from Thursday, 20 July 2006 (09:00) to Saturday, 29 July 2006 (18:00)

Monday, 17 July 2006
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
Thursday, 20 July 2006
09:00 MC tools, use in the experiments
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 Proposed work projects
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 MC tools, status reports
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)
Friday, 21 July 2006
09:25 LCG Monte Carlo Services (LCG Generator)
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 EW/QCD background simulations
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 CLHEP status

17:00 - 19:00
Room: 40-SS-C01
Saturday, 22 July 2006
09:25 CEDAR and associated tools
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)
Sunday, 23 July 2006

09:30 ThePEG/Herwig++ collaboration meeting

09:30 - 12:30
Room: TH auditorium

14:30 Jet clustering

14:30 - 18:00
Room: 513/1-024

Monday, 24 July 2006

09:25 Underlying event and minimum bias events

09:25 - 12:00
Room: 40/R-D10
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Thursday, 27 July 2006

15:00 Jet clustering, II

15:00 - 17:00
Room: 40/4-C01
Friday, 28 July 2006

09:25 LCG Generator

09:25 - 12:55
Saturday, 29 July 2006

09:25 Final reports, working plans, etc

09:25 - 12:55
Room: TH auditorium