Parton Showers, Event Generators and Resummation 2017

from Monday, 27 March 2017 (08:00) to Wednesday, 29 March 2017 (18:00)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (The Queen’s Building)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Mar 2017
28 Mar 2017
29 Mar 2017
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:55 Welcome - Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge (GB))   (The Queen’s Building)
10:00 An amplitude-level parton shower algorithm - Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)   (The Queen’s Building)
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30 New results of the KrkNLO method - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (The Queen’s Building)
09:30 Parton showers at very high energies: effects of electroweak radiation - Christian Bauer   (The Queen’s Building)
10:30 GENEVA status report - Simone Alioli (CERN)   (The Queen’s Building)
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30 Herwig7 status report - Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB))   (The Queen’s Building)
09:30 Recent developments in jet shapes and substructure - Mrinal Dasgupta (University of Manchester (GB))   (The Queen’s Building)
10:30 Recursive soft drop - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (MIT)   (The Queen’s Building)
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30 Four-jet production and double parton scattering effects in high-energy factorization matched to parton showers - Mirko Serino   (The Queen’s Building)
PM
12:00 Universality of the MC factorization scheme - Staszek Jadach (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (The Queen’s Building)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Recent results in fixed order calculations - Nigel Glover (Durham University)   (The Queen’s Building)
15:00 Soft and Coulomb effects in top-quark pair production beyond NNLO - Christian Schwinn (RWTH Aachen University)   (The Queen’s Building)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00 (Hard) jet production at high-energy colliders - Jennifer Smillie (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Edin. U.)   (The Queen’s Building)
16:30 QED radiation in antenna showers - Rob Verheyen (Radboud University Nijmegen)   (The Queen’s Building)
17:00 --- Wren Library visit ---
12:00 Sherpa status report - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)   (The Queen’s Building)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 NLO+PS with decaying resonances, the top case - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))   (The Queen’s Building)
15:00 Merging WW and WW+1 jet with MiNLO - Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)   (The Queen’s Building)
15:20 NNLO+PS simulation with POWHEG+MiNLO: associated Higgs - Wojciech Jozef Bizon   (The Queen’s Building)
15:40 --- Coffee ---
16:10 Computing jet shapes in the boosted jet limit - Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)   (The Queen’s Building)
16:30 NNLL resummations with the ARES method - Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)   (The Queen’s Building)
16:50 Soft Gluon Resummation beyond NLL for associated $t\bar{t}H$ production at the LHC - Vincent Theeuwes (SUNY, Buffalo)   (The Queen’s Building)
17:10 Resummation for top quark pair production at the LHC at NNLO+NNLL - Darren Scott (Durham University)   (The Queen’s Building)
17:30 Top-quark pair production and decay beyond NLO - Andrew Papanastasiou (University of Cambridge)   (The Queen’s Building)
19:00 --- Reception ---
19:30 --- Conference dinner ---
12:00 Studies of jet axes and universal transverse-momentum dependent fragmentation - Andreas Papaefstathiou (University of Amsterdam (NL))   (The Queen’s Building)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Monte Carlo top quark mass calibration - Vicent Mateu (MPI for Physics, Munich)   (The Queen’s Building)
14:30 Towards precision jet substructure - Matthew Schwartz   (The Queen’s Building)
15:00 Hadronization at the amplitude level using light front holography - Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)   (The Queen’s Building)
15:30 --- Coffee and close ---