Standard model discoveries with early LHC data

from Monday 30 March 2009 (10:00) to Wednesday 1 April 2009 (19:00)
University College London (Massey theatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Mar 2009
31 Mar 2009
1 Apr 2009
AM
10:00 Welcome - Prof. Jonathan Tennyson (University College London)   (Massey theatre)
10:10
Vector Boson fusion and PDFs (until 13:55) (Massey theatre)
10:10 CTEQ update - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)   (Massey theatre)
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10:40 MSTW update - Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)   (Massey theatre)
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11:10 ATLAS PDF issues - Prof. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)   (Massey theatre)
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11:40 NNPDF update - Dr Maria Ubiali (Edinburgh)   (Massey theatre)
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12:10 --- DISCUSSION: Experimental requirements for PDFs for the LHC ---
12:55 --- DISCUSSION: Treatment of heavy quarks ---
09:00
Top Physics (until 12:35) (Massey theatre)
09:00 Top as tool: the early days - Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester) Dr Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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09:20 Top cross section calculations - Dr Alexander Mitov (YITP, Stony Brook University)   (Massey theatre)
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09:40 Top cross section measurements - Dr Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)   (Massey theatre)
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09:55 --- DISCUSSION ---
10:15 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
10:35 Top properties overview (theory) - Prof. Werner Bernreuther (RWTH Aachen)   (Massey theatre)
11:05 Top properties (except mass) - Prof. Richard Hawkings (CERN)   (Massey theatre)
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11:25 Top Mass measurements - Dr Liza Shabalina (UIC)   (Massey theatre)
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11:45 t tbar invariant mass - Dr Rikkert Frederix (UCLouvain)   (Massey theatre)
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12:00 Searches for new physics in the top sector - Dr Su-Jung Park (University of Göttingen)   (Massey theatre)
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12:15 --- DISCUSSION ---
09:00
QCD (until 12:30) (Massey theatre)
09:30 Higgs Boson production with multiple hard jets - Chris White (NIKHEF)   (Massey theatre)
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10:00 --- DISCUSSION ---
10:15 Non-perturbative QCD of jets at hadron colliders - Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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10:45 --- DISCUSSION ---
11:00 --- COFFEE ---
11:20 QCD matrix elements and truncated showers - Stefan Hoeche (Zurich)   (Massey theatre)
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11:50 --- DISCUSSION ---
PM
14:30
Forward and diffractive physics (until 18:00) (Massey theatre)
14:30 Theory overview - Prof. Alan Martin (Durham)   (Massey theatre)
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15:00 ATLAS - Dr Andy Pilkington (Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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15:30 CMS - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (UC Louvaine)   (Massey theatre)
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15:55 --- TEA ---
16:20 ALICE - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)   (Massey theatre)
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16:45 TOTEM - Stefano Lami (Universita' Degli Studi di Siena INFN, Sezione di Pisa)   (Massey theatre)
17:05 Gaps between jets - Simone Marzani (Manchester)   (Massey theatre)
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17:35 Photoproduction of Vector Mesons and Z - Dr Graeme Watt (University College London)   (Massey theatre)
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14:00
Tools -Dr Matteo Cacciari (INFN) Dr James Monk (University College London) (until 17:00) (Massey theatre)
14:00 Jets - Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE)   (Massey theatre)
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14:40 Discussion   (Massey theatre)
15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Monte Carlo - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham)   (Massey theatre)
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16:00 Discussion   (Massey theatre)
16:20 Simulation - Dr Simon Dean (University College London)   (Massey theatre)
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16:40 Discussion   (Massey theatre)
19:30 --- CONFERENCE DINNER ---
13:00 --- Visit the Petrie Museum ---
14:30
Underlying event (until 19:00) (Massey theatre)
14:30 MPI and generators, tuning with early data - Dr Stefan Hoeche (Durham)   (Massey theatre)
15:00 --- DISCUSSION ---
15:20 Underlying Event studies at Tevatron - Dr Deepak Kar (TU Dresden)   (Massey theatre)
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15:50 --- DISCUSSION ---
16:10 Underlying Event studies at LHC - Dr Gabe Hare (UCSC)   (Massey theatre)
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16:40 --- DISCUSSION ---
17:00 Jets and subtraction techniques - Dr Sebastian Sapeta (Jagiellonian University)   (Massey theatre)
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17:30 --- DISCUSSION ---