Name: MC4BSM 2017
Start: 2017-05-11T08:45:00-07:00
End: 2017-05-13T18:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Thursday, 11 May
- 1
  
  Welcome
  
  Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
- Plenary: MC & BSM Overview Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 2
    
    BSM overview
    
    Speaker: Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)
    
    MC4BSM_2017_Craig.pdf
  - 3
    
    MC overview
    
    Speaker: Stefan Prestel
    
    talk20170511.pdf
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- Plenary: Experimental Requirements & Jets Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 4
    
    Jet physics
    
    Speaker: Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)
    
    marzani_mc4bsm.pdf
  - 5
    
    Experimental requirements - ATLAS
    
    Speaker: Antonio Policicchio (INFN Cosenza)
    
    policicchio.pdf
  - 6
    
    Experimental requirements - CMS
    
    Speaker: Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    talk.pdf
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- Plenary: MC Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 7
    
    Herwig
    
    Speaker: Peter Schichtel (IPPP)
    
    herwig_71_Peter.pdf
  - 8
    
    Pythia
    
    Speaker: Nishita Dattatray Desai (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
    
    MC4BSM-2017.pdf
  - 9
    
    Sherpa
    
    Speaker: Steffen Schumann (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen)
    
    mc4bsm.pdf
  - 10
    
    MadGraph
    
    Speaker: Olivier Pierre C Mattelaer (IPPP Durham)
    
    MG5aMC_MC4BSM.pdf
- 15:40
  
  Coffee
- Tutorial Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Convener: Silvan Kuttimalai
Friday, 12 May
- Plenary: Dark Matter and Artificial Intelligence Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 11
    
    Dark matter overview
    
    Speaker: Rouven Essig
    
    Rouven-Essig-MC4BSM.pdf
  - 12
    
    Machine learning in particle physics
    
    Speaker: Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
    
    MC4BSM17_Nachman.pdf
  - 13
    
    Applications of boosted decision trees
    
    Speaker: Josh Bendavid (California Institute of Technology (US))
    
    mcgbr-May12-2017.pdf
- 10:15
  
  Coffee
- Plenary: MC & Analysis Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 14
    
    Whizard
    
    Speaker: Jürgen Reuter (DESY Hamburg, Germany)
    
    JRR_MC4BSM2017.pdf
  - 15
    
    MadAnalysis
    
    Speaker: Benjamin Fuks (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
    
    fuks_MC4BSM17.pdf
  - 16
    
    Rivet / Professor
    
    Speaker: Holger Schulz (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))
    
    hschulz_rivet_professor_mc4bsm17.pdf
- 12:00
  
  Lunch
- 17
  
  SLAC Tour
  
  Speaker: Michael Peskin
- Plenary: Limit Setting Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 18
    
    Contur
    
    Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))
    
    contur-mc4bsm.pdf
  - 19
    
    CheckMate
    
    Speaker: Daniel Dercks (DESY)
    
    dercks.pdf
  - 20
    
    FastLim
    
    Speaker: Michele Papucci (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
    
    MC4BSM 2017.pdf
- 21
  
  Coffee
- Contributed Talks: A Madrone Conference Room
  
  Madrone Conference Room
  - 22
    
    Toward Kinematic Measurements of the Gluino Mass
    
    Speaker: James Gainer (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
    
    Gainer-Gluinos-MC4BSM-2017.pdf
  - 23
    
    Improving mass measurement in cascade decay with Voronoid tessellations
    
    Speaker: Yuan-Pao Yang (University of Texas at Austin)
    
    YuanPao_MC4BSM_2017.pdf
  - 24
    
    Multidimensional phase space methods for mass and decay topology determination
    
    Speaker: Matthew Klimek (University of Texas)
    
    PS Talk MC4BSM.pdf
  - 25
    
    Collinear Splitting Functions and Parton Showering for Electroweak Interactions
    
    Speaker: Mr Junmou Chen (University of Pittsburgh)
    
    MC4BSM-EWShower.pdf
  - 26
    
    Understanding the impact of Pythia hadronization in top quark mass determinations at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Doojin Kim (CERN)
    
    Presentation_DoojinKim_MC4BSM2017_for pdf.pdf
  - 27
    
    Non-standard Higgs bosons searches at Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC)
    
    Speaker: Dr Siba Prasad Das (University de Los Andes)
    
    spMC4BSM.pdf
- Contributed Talks: B Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 28
    
    Implementation of MUED model in event generators and current LHC bounds
    
    Speaker: Ms Dipsikha Debnath (University of Florida)
    
    Dipsikha_mc4bsm_talk.pdf
  - 29
    
    Dark photons at LHCb
    
    Speaker: Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
    
    ilten_mc4bsm.pdf
  - 30
    
    Probing the chirality of dark matter at colliders with dark photon showering
    
    Speaker: Myeonghun Park (Institute for basic Science (KR))
    
    PARK.pdf
  - 31
    
    Dark sectors and enhanced $h\to \tau \mu$ transitions
    
    Speaker: Iftah Galon (University of California, Irvine)
    
    Galon_Higgs_tau_mu.pdf
  - 32
    
    MadDM: Dark Matter Phenomenology in the MG5_aMC@NLO Framework
    
    Speaker: Gopolang Mohlabeng (University of Kansas)
    
    MadDM_MC4BSM.pdf
  - 33
    
    Improving LHC searches for electron lepton jets
    
    Speaker: Bryan Ostdiek (University of Oregon)
    
    LeptonJet_Ostdiek_MC4BSM.pdf
Saturday, 13 May
- Plenary: MC Development Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 34
    
    MC development forecast
    
    Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))
    
    SLAC17.pdf
  - 35
    
    Higher-order parton showers
    
    Speaker: Sebastian Piotr Sapeta (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
    
    sapeta-mc4bsm17.pdf
  - 36
    
    Simulation of long-lived particle decays
    
    Speaker: Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
    
    Marshall MC4BSM 2017.05.13.pdf
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- Plenary: BSM Hot Topics Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 37
    
    Soft Bombs at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
    
    MC4BSM_soft_bombs.pdf
  - 38
    
    Long-Lived Particles at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Jared Evans
    
    MC4BSMLLP.pdf
  - 39
    
    Electroweak Precision Tests at Hadron Colliders
    
    Speaker: Marco Farina (Rutgers University)
    
    farina_WY.pdf
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- Plenary: Fixed-Order Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  - 40
    
    FeynRules
    
    Speaker: Liam Ronald Moore (University of Glasgow (GB))
    
    talk.pdf
  - 41
    
    Sarah
    
    Speaker: Mark Dayvon Goodsell (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
    
    MC4BSM.pdf
  - 42
    
    GoSam
    
    Speaker: Nicolas Greiner
    
    greiner_mc4bsm.pdf
  - 43
    
    OpenLoops
    
    Speaker: Philipp Maierhöfer (Durham University)
    
    maierhoefer_mc4bsm17.pdf
- 15:40
  
  Coffee
- Tutorial Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Redwood Conference Rooms
  
  Convener: Silvan Kuttimalai

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