QCD@LHC 2016

from Monday, August 22, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 26, 2016 (5:30 PM)
Zurich (RAI-G-041)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 22, 2016
Aug 23, 2016
Aug 24, 2016
Aug 25, 2016
Aug 26, 2016
AM
9:00 AM
Registration (until 9:45 AM)
9:45 AM
Plenary (until 1:10 PM)
9:50 AM Welcome address by the dean of the faculty of science - Michael Schaepman (Universität Zürich)  
10:00 AM Recent Highlights from the LHC - Javier Cuevas Maestro (Universidad de Oviedo)  
10:45 AM QCD results from the LHC - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
12:00 PM QCD results: fixed order - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)  
12:35 PM EW corrections - Sandro Uccirati (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
9:00 AM
Plenary (until 12:55 PM) (RAI-G-041)
9:00 AM Multiboson results from the LHC - Alexander Savin (UW)  
9:45 AM QCD: resummation - Pier Francesco Monni (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM SCET - Thomas Becher (University of Bern)  
11:35 AM Recent LHC results with impact on parton density functions - Katharina Mueller (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
12:20 PM Review on PDFs - Voica Ana Maria Radescu (University of Oxford (GB))  
9:00 AM
Plenary (until 1:30 PM) (RAI-G-041)
9:00 AM Top quark results from the LHC - Nuno Filipe Castro (LIP, University of Minho and University of Porto (PT))  
9:45 AM Top theory - Rikkert Frederix (TUM)  
10:20 AM Soft QCD and MC generator tuning - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))  
11:05 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:35 AM Event generators - Stefan Prestel  
12:10 PM Recent highlights on heavy quarks - Dr Patrick Koppenburg (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:55 PM Bottom theory - Roman Zwicky (edinburgh university)  
9:00 AM
Plenary (until 11:35 AM) (RAI-G-041)
9:00 AM QCD in Higgs physics - Bernhard Mistlberger (CERN)  
9:35 AM Heavy ion results - Thomas Peitzmann (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM High-density QCD - Elena Bratkovskaya (FIAS)  
11:35 AM
Hard QCD+EW (until 1:00 PM) (RAI-F-041)
11:40 AM Determination of alpha_s in a fit to inclusive jet data from multiple experiments - Daniel Savoiu (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
12:00 PM Three-jet event shapes at high precision: old and new - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))  
12:20 PM Multi-leg scattering amplitudes for LHC phenomenology: modern tools and methods - Tiziano Peraro  
12:40 PM The pentabox master integrals with the simplified differential equations approach - Konstantinos Papadopoulos (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))  
11:35 AM
Heavy quarks (until 1:00 PM) (SOE-E-2)
11:35 AM Open charm production in pPb and PbPb collisions with CMS - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
11:55 AM LHCb results and perspectives on heavy-ion physics - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)  
12:15 PM Charmonium and bottomonium suppression in PbPb collisions with CMS - Emilien Chapon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
12:35 PM Open heavy-flavour production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE - Cristiane Jahnke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
9:00 AM
Plenary (until 1:35 PM) (RAI-G-041)
9:00 AM Lattice determination of alpha_s - Rainer Sommer  
9:40 AM QCD in Higgs and BSM - Gabriel Facini (University of Chicago (US))  
10:25 AM Future facilities - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
11:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:40 AM Experimental summary - Klaus Rabbertz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
12:20 PM Theoretical summary - Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)  
PM
1:10 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
Hard QCD+EW - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Gionata Luisoni (CERN) Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Carleton University (CA)) Fabio Cossutti (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-F-041)
2:30 PM Precision measurements of inclusive and differential Drell-Yan cross sections with the ATLAS detector - Stefano Camarda (CERN)  
3:00 PM Inclusive and differential cross sections of single vector boson production in CMS - Xinmei Niu (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
3:30 PM Gauge boson physics in the forward region at LHCb - Alex Grecu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))  
3:50 PM Mixed QCD/EW corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region - Christian Schwinn (RWTH Aachen University)  
4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:40 PM Challenges in W mass measurements with ATLAS and CMS - Jakub Cuth (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz (DE))  
5:10 PM Precision measurements at Tevatron (canceled)  
5:40 PM Precision computation for EW measurements - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
2:30 PM
Heavy quarks - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) David Heymes (RWTH Aachen) Ivan BELYAEV (ITEP/MOSCOW) (until 6:10 PM) (SOE-E-2)
2:30 PM Top quark mass determination from the energy peaks of b-jets and B-hadrons at NLO QCD - Roberto Franceschini (CERN)  
2:55 PM Single top quark production cross section and properties with ATLAS - Soren Stamm (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))  
3:20 PM Single top quark production with CMS - Matthias Komm (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
3:45 PM The Matrix Element Method at next-to-leading order QCD for single top-quark production at the LHC - Till Martini (HU Berlin)  
4:05 PM --- break ---
4:30 PM Top quark pair production in association with a jet with NLO QCD off-shell effects - Heribertus Bayu Hartanto (RWTH Aachen University)  
4:50 PM Top quark pair production cross section measurements with CMS - Georgios Krintiras (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
5:15 PM Top quark pair production and properties with ATLAS - Ki Lie (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))  
5:40 PM NLO EW corrections to off-shell top quark pair production - Mathieu Pellen (University Wuerzburg)  
2:30 PM
Higgs - Stefan Liebler (Universität Hamburg) Carl Bryan Gwilliam (University of Liverpool (GB)) Paolo Meridiani (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-J-031)
2:30 PM Theory precision for the gluon fusion cross section - Marco Bonvini (University of Oxford)  
3:00 PM Bosonic SM Higgs decays at ATLAS + CMS - Yanping Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Yanping Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Yanping Huang (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
3:30 PM Fermionic SM Higgs decays at ATLAS + CMS - Nadezda Chernyavskaya (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Experimental results on gg->ttH from ATLAS and CMS - Joshuha Thomas-Wilsker (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))  
5:00 PM Theory precision for ttH signal and backgrounds - Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) Stefano Pozzorini  
5:30 PM Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production for mH+~mt - Rikkert Frederix (TUM)  
2:30 PM
Monte Carlo - Gloria Corti (CERN) Luca Perrozzi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Emanuele Re (LAPTh Annecy) (until 6:00 PM) (SOE-E-1)
2:30 PM Results on minimum bias interactions and underlying event from ATLAS - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
3:00 PM Measurement of underlying events and DPS at CMS - Ankita Mehta (Panjab University (IN))  
3:30 PM Top quark event modelling and generators in CMS - Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
4:30 PM Impact of LHCb results on the tuning of Monte Carlo generators - Alex Grecu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))  
5:00 PM Introduction to informal discussion - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))  
5:10 PM Informal discussion  
2:30 PM
PDFs - Kristin Lohwasser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Stephen Farry (University of Liverpool (GB)) Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-G-041)
2:30 PM MMHT PDF update - impact of new data - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))  
3:00 PM Updates from NNPDF: fitted charm and NNPDF3.1 - Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))  
3:30 PM Progress in (N)NLO fast calculations for PDF fits - Mark Sutton (University of Sussex (GB))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Resummation in PDF fits - Marco Bonvini (University of Oxford)  
5:00 PM PDF constraints using Vector Bosons at CMS - Ringaile Placakyte  
5:30 PM ATLAS: PDF sensitive measurements using ratios - Kristin Lohwasser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
6:30 PM --- Apero at ETH Main building ---
12:55 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM) (RAI-G-041)
2:30 PM
Hard QCD+EW - Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Carleton University (CA)) Gionata Luisoni (CERN) Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Fabio Cossutti (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-F-041)
2:30 PM Measurements of the production of prompt photons, jets and vector bosons + jets in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - Jonathan Bossio (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))  
3:00 PM Associated production of vector bosons and jets in CMS - Fengwangdong Zhang (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))  
3:30 PM W/Z + jets and top in LHCb - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
3:50 PM Z+jet @ NNLO - Dr Alexander Huss (ETH Zurich)  
4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:40 PM Hard QCD and EW results from HERA - Daniel Britzger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Daniel Britzger (DESY)  
5:10 PM Inclusive jet and multijet measurements in CMS - Dr Mikko Voutilainen (University of Helsinki (FI))  
5:40 PM QCD JETS @ NNLO - James Currie (University of Durham)  
2:30 PM
Heavy quarks - Carlos Lourenco (CERN) David Heymes (RWTH Aachen) Ivan BELYAEV (ITEP/MOSCOW) (until 6:25 PM) (SOE-E-2)
2:30 PM LHCb results on associated production of heavy hadrons - Ivan BELYAEV (ITEP/MOSCOW)  
2:55 PM Measurements of heavy flavour production directly or in association with W and Z bosons with ATLAS - Gabriele Chiodini (INFN Lecce) Gabriele Chiodini (Universita del Salento (IT))  
3:20 PM Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy-quark production at hadron colliders - Hayk Sargsyan (University of Zurich)  
3:45 PM Recent NNLO results on heavy flavor corrections to DIS - Prof. Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)  
4:10 PM --- Break ---
4:40 PM LHCb results on baryonic B decays - Christian Voss (Universitaet Rostock (DE))  
5:05 PM LHCb results on heavy quark spectroscopy - Daniel Charles Craik (University of Edinburgh (GB))  
5:30 PM LHCb results on exotic spectroscopy - Giovanni Cavallero (Universita e INFN Genova (IT))  
2:30 PM
Higgs - Carl Bryan Gwilliam (University of Liverpool (GB)) Paolo Meridiani (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Stefan Liebler (Universität Hamburg) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-J-031)
2:30 PM Resummation in Higgs physics - Lorena Rothen (University of Bern)  
3:00 PM Simplified cross sections - Paolo Francavilla (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR))  
3:30 PM Experimental results on differential Higgs boson cross sections from ATLAS and CMS - Lorenzo Viliani (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Experimental results on di-photon, ZZ and WW resonances from ATLAS and CMS - Mengqing Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
5:00 PM Theory predictions for off-shell ZZ and WW production including Higgs boson effects - Lorenzo Tancredi (KIT Karlsruhe)  
5:30 PM Exploiting jet binning to identify the initial state of high-mass resonances - Markus Ebert (DESY)  
2:30 PM
Monte Carlo - Gloria Corti (CERN) Luca Perrozzi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Emanuele Re (LAPTh Annecy) (until 6:00 PM) (SOE-E-1)
2:30 PM Measurements of the elastic, inelastic and total pp cross section with the ATLAS detector - Karlheinz Hiller (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Campus Zeuthen (DE))  
3:00 PM Herwig 7: overview and recent developments - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)  
3:30 PM Sherpa: overview and recent developments - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
4:30 PM Vincia recent developments (+ Pythia8 overview) - Nadine Fischer (Monash University)  
5:00 PM Resonance-aware NLOPS (MC@NLO) - Paolo Torrielli (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
5:25 PM Resonance-aware NLOPS in POWHEG for top-pair and single-top physics - Jonas Lindert  
2:30 PM
PDFs - Stephen Farry (University of Liverpool (GB)) Kristin Lohwasser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-G-041)
2:30 PM Overview of the photon PDF - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
3:00 PM ATLAS: high mass Drell-Yan and the photon PDF - Eram Syed Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)  
3:30 PM The impact of the photon PDF on ttbar distributions - Davide Pagani  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Developments in the xFitter framework - Voica Ana Maria Radescu (University of Oxford (GB))  
5:00 PM PDFs and Heavy Quark production in the forward region - Rhorry Gauld (IPPP Durham University)  
5:30 PM Charm, bottom and top production in the forward region - Rafael Silva Coutinho (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
1:30 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM) (RAI-G-041)
2:30 PM
Excursion (until 5:30 PM)
6:30 PM --- Conference banquet ---
1:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM) (RAI-G-041)
2:30 PM
Hard QCD+EW - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Gionata Luisoni (CERN) Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Carleton University (CA)) Fabio Cossutti (Universita e INFN, Trieste (IT)) (until 6:10 PM) (RAI-F-041)
2:30 PM Multiboson production and vector boson scattering measurements in CMS - Ivan Shvetsov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
3:00 PM Recent di-boson measurements from ATLAS - Lucia Di Ciaccio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Lucia Di Ciaccio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
3:30 PM Fully differential NNLO(+NNLL) computations with MATRIX - Marius Wiesemann (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
3:50 PM NLO EW corrections to pp -> W+W- -> 4l at the LHC - Lukas Salfelder (University of Tuebingen)  
4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:40 PM Recent results on VBF, VBS, exclusive WW and tri-boson production from ATLAS - Ruiqi Zhang (CPPM/USTC)  
5:00 PM LHCb results on central exclusive production - Tomasz Szumlak (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
5:20 PM Vector Boson Scattering: QCD and EW corrections - Christopher Schwan (Universität Freiburg)  
5:40 PM NNLL soft and Coulomb threshold resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC​ - Chris Wever (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
2:30 PM
Heavy quarks - Ivan BELYAEV (ITEP/MOSCOW) David Heymes (RWTH Aachen) Carlos Lourenco (CERN) (until 6:25 PM) (SOE-E-2)
2:30 PM Quarkonium and heavy flavour production at ATLAS - Roger Jones (Lancaster University (GB))  
2:55 PM Quarkonium cross sections in pp collisions with CMS - Ilse Kratschmer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
3:20 PM Quarkonium polarization in pp collisions with CMS - Joao Seixas (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)  
3:45 PM A data-driven interpretation of heavy quarkonium measurements at the LHC - Pietro Faccioli (LIP and IST, Lisbon)  
4:10 PM --- Break ---
4:40 PM Heavy quarkonium physics case for AFTER - Huasheng Shao (CERN)  
5:05 PM Quarkonium production as a probe of double parton scattering at ATLAS - David Edwin Bertsche (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
5:30 PM LHCb results on b-hadron production and properties - Matthew David Needham (University of Edinburgh (GB))  
2:30 PM
Higgs - Stefan Liebler (Universität Hamburg) Carl Bryan Gwilliam (University of Liverpool (GB)) Paolo Meridiani (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-J-031)
2:30 PM Theory status of bottom-quark associated Higgs production - Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (University of Durham (GB)) Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Andrew Papanastasiou (University of Durham) Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)  
3:00 PM Heavy neutral and charged Higgs boson searches in the MSSM and the 2HDM at ATLAS and CMS - Gerrit Van Onsem (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))  
3:30 PM Effective Higgs Lagrangian at NLO QCD - Rhorry Gauld (IPPP Durham University)  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Experimental results on rare decays of the 125GeV Higgs boson from ATLAS and CMS - ATLAS Cong Geng (Univ. of Michigan (US) / Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))  
5:00 PM Theory Predictions for Higgs Boson Pair Production - Dr Stephen Jones (MPI, Munich)  
5:30 PM Differential Higgs Boson Pair Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD - Jonas Lindert Jonas Lindert  
2:30 PM
Monte Carlo - Luca Perrozzi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Gloria Corti (CERN) Emanuele Re (LAPTh Annecy) Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (until 6:00 PM) (SOE-E-1)
2:30 PM MiNLO - Keith Hamilton (University College London (GB))  
2:55 PM Geneva - Christian Bauer  
3:20 PM Threshold logarithms in a parton shower - Zoltan Nagy  
3:45 PM Recent developments in High Energy Jets (HEJ) - Jennifer Smillie (University of Edinburgh)  
4:10 PM --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
4:40 PM NLOPS with KrKNLO - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)  
5:05 PM EW and mixed EW+QCD uncertainties in the W boson mass measurement - Homero Martinez Bruzual (Universita e INFN (IT))  
5:30 PM The LPM effect in sequential gluon bremsstrahlung - Shahin Iqbal (University of Virginia)  
2:30 PM
PDFs - Stephen Farry (University of Liverpool (GB)) Kristin Lohwasser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 6:00 PM) (RAI-G-041)
2:30 PM Updates from ABM - Sergey Alekhin (DESY-Zeuthen)  
3:00 PM Recent developments in the CT global analysis - Daniel Stump (Michigan State University)  
3:30 PM Jets and PDFs with CMS data - Mikko Voutilainen (University of Helsinki (FI))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM PDF fits with ttbar different distributions at NNLO - Dr Emanuele Roberto Nocera (University of Oxford)