Standard model discoveries with early LHC data

from Monday, March 30, 2009 (10:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 1, 2009 (7:00 PM)
University College London (Massey theatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 30, 2009
Mar 31, 2009
Apr 1, 2009
AM
10:00 AM Welcome - Prof. Jonathan Tennyson (University College London)   (Massey theatre)
10:10 AM
Vector Boson fusion and PDFs (until 1:55 PM) (Massey theatre)
10:10 AM CTEQ update - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)   (Massey theatre)
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10:40 AM MSTW update - Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)   (Massey theatre)
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11:10 AM ATLAS PDF issues - Prof. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)   (Massey theatre)
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11:40 AM NNPDF update - Dr Maria Ubiali (Edinburgh)   (Massey theatre)
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12:10 PM --- DISCUSSION: Experimental requirements for PDFs for the LHC ---
12:55 PM --- DISCUSSION: Treatment of heavy quarks ---
9:00 AM
Top Physics (until 12:35 PM) (Massey theatre)
9:00 AM Top as tool: the early days - Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester) Dr Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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9:20 AM Top cross section calculations - Dr Alexander Mitov (YITP, Stony Brook University)   (Massey theatre)
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9:40 AM Top cross section measurements - Dr Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)   (Massey theatre)
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9:55 AM --- DISCUSSION ---
10:15 AM --- COFFEE BREAK ---
10:35 AM Top properties overview (theory) - Prof. Werner Bernreuther (RWTH Aachen)   (Massey theatre)
11:05 AM Top properties (except mass) - Prof. Richard Hawkings (CERN)   (Massey theatre)
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11:25 AM Top Mass measurements - Dr Liza Shabalina (UIC)   (Massey theatre)
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11:45 AM t tbar invariant mass - Dr Rikkert Frederix (UCLouvain)   (Massey theatre)
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12:00 PM Searches for new physics in the top sector - Dr Su-Jung Park (University of Göttingen)   (Massey theatre)
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12:15 PM --- DISCUSSION ---
9:00 AM
QCD (until 12:30 PM) (Massey theatre)
9:30 AM Higgs Boson production with multiple hard jets - Chris White (NIKHEF)   (Massey theatre)
Slides
10:00 AM --- DISCUSSION ---
10:15 AM Non-perturbative QCD of jets at hadron colliders - Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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10:45 AM --- DISCUSSION ---
11:00 AM --- COFFEE ---
11:20 AM QCD matrix elements and truncated showers - Stefan Hoeche (Zurich)   (Massey theatre)
Slides
11:50 AM --- DISCUSSION ---
PM
2:30 PM
Forward and diffractive physics (until 6:00 PM) (Massey theatre)
2:30 PM Theory overview - Prof. Alan Martin (Durham)   (Massey theatre)
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3:00 PM ATLAS - Dr Andy Pilkington (Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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3:30 PM CMS - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (UC Louvaine)   (Massey theatre)
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3:55 PM --- TEA ---
4:20 PM ALICE - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)   (Massey theatre)
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4:45 PM TOTEM - Stefano Lami (Universita' Degli Studi di Siena INFN, Sezione di Pisa)   (Massey theatre)
5:05 PM Gaps between jets - Simone Marzani (Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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5:35 PM Photoproduction of Vector Mesons and Z - Dr Graeme Watt (University College London)   (Massey theatre)
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2:00 PM
Tools -Dr Matteo Cacciari (INFN) Dr James Monk (University College London) (until 5:00 PM) (Massey theatre)
2:00 PM Jets - Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE)   (Massey theatre)
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2:40 PM Discussion   (Massey theatre)
3:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM Monte Carlo - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham)   (Massey theatre)
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4:00 PM Discussion   (Massey theatre)
4:20 PM Simulation - Dr Simon Dean (University College London)   (Massey theatre)
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4:40 PM Discussion   (Massey theatre)
7:30 PM --- CONFERENCE DINNER ---
1:00 PM --- Visit the Petrie Museum ---
2:30 PM
Underlying event (until 7:00 PM) (Massey theatre)
2:30 PM MPI and generators, tuning with early data - Dr Stefan Hoeche (Durham)   (Massey theatre)
3:00 PM --- DISCUSSION ---
3:20 PM Underlying Event studies at Tevatron - Dr Deepak Kar (TU Dresden)   (Massey theatre)
Slides
3:50 PM --- DISCUSSION ---
4:10 PM Underlying Event studies at LHC - Dr Gabe Hare (UCSC)   (Massey theatre)
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4:40 PM --- DISCUSSION ---
5:00 PM Jets and subtraction techniques - Dr Sebastian Sapeta (Jagiellonian University)   (Massey theatre)
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5:30 PM --- DISCUSSION ---