MC4LHC - 2006

from Friday 21 July 2006 (09:00) to Sunday 30 July 2006 (18:00)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Jul 2006
22 Jul 2006
23 Jul 2006
24 Jul 2006
25 Jul 2006
28 Jul 2006
29 Jul 2006
30 Jul 2006
AM
09:00
MC tools, use in the experiments (until 12:30) (40-SS-D01)
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)  
10:35 --- coffee break ---
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)  
09:25
LCG Monte Carlo Services (LCG Generator) (until 12:55) (40/R-D10)
09:25 LCG MCDB - Dr Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)  
09:55 LCG HepML - Alexander Sherstnev (University of Cambridge)  
10:25 CEDAR HepML  
11:15 LHA-I in Pythia  
09:25
CEDAR and associated tools (until 12:55) (TH auditorium)
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 - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)  
11:30 CEDAR and GENSER discussion? - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)  
12:00 Continuation of HepMC/CLHEP discussions (if necessary)  
09:30
ThePEG/Herwig++ collaboration meeting (until 12:30) (TH auditorium)
09:25
Underlying event and minimum bias events (until 12:00) (40/R-D10)
09:25
LCG Generator (until 12:55)
09:25
Final reports, working plans, etc (until 12:55) (TH auditorium)
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)  
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 ---
15:30
MC tools, status reports (until 19:00) (40-SS-D01)
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 - Dr Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)   (40-SS-D01)
18:35 AcerMC - Borut Kersevan (University of Ljubljana)  
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)  
13:40 Multi-jet final states: ALPGEN experience in CMS  
13:50 Heavy Particles and Hard Jets - Dr 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 (until 19:00) (40-SS-C01)
14:30
Jet clustering (until 18:00) (513/1-024)
15:00
Jet clustering, II (until 17:00) (40/4-C01)