Name: 14th MCnet Meeting
Start: 2016-11-23T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-11-25T14:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

14th MCnet Meeting

from Wednesday 23 November 2016 (09:00) to Friday 25 November 2016 (14:00)

Monday 21 November 2016
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Wednesday 23 November 2016

09:00 Management Meeting
Management Meeting
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber

14:00 CERN TH Colloquium
CERN TH Colloquium
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber

15:55 Welcome
Welcome
15:55 - 16:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
16:00 External and Industry
External and Industry
16:00 - 17:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

16:00 Blue Yonder - Manuel Bahr (Unknown)

16:30 IBA - Frederic Stichelbaut (Ion Beam Applications)

17:00 Anosov-Kolmogorov C-K systems and MIXMAX pseudorandom number generator for MC simulations - Georgios Savvidis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

17:30 Introduction - Karl Anders Nordstrom (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Karl Nordstrom (University of Glasgow)

17:35 Introduction - David Yallup (University College London)

17:40 Introduction - Andreas Maier (Durham IPPP)

17:45 Introduction - Kiran Ostrolenk (University of Manchester)

17:50 Living Resource: Warm-Up Discussion - David Grellscheid David Grellscheid (IPPP Durham)
18:00 19.30hrs Le Coq Rouge, 1 Place de la Fontaine, Saint Genis Pouilly
19.30hrs Le Coq Rouge, 1 Place de la Fontaine, Saint Genis Pouilly
18:00 - 22:00
Thursday 24 November 2016

09:00

09:00 - 10:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

10:00 Sherpa Overview - Steffen Schumann (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen)

10:20 Herwig Overview - Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB))

10:40 Pythia Overview - Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:30 MadGraph Overview - Olivier Pierre C Mattelaer (IPPP Durham)

11:50 Rivet Overview - Chris Pollard (University of Glasgow (GB))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 Ariadne/Dipsy Overview - Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

14:20 HEJ Overview - Jennifer Smillie (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Edin. U.)
14:40 Goals of the New Network
Goals of the New Network
14:40 - 15:40
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

16:00 Top EFT at NLO in QCD Progress within MG5_aMC - Eleni Vryonidou (Nikhef)

16:15 The Contur method - David Grellscheid

16:30 Photon-photon interactions in e+e- collisions with Pythia 8 - Ilkka Helenius (Tübingen University)

16:45 Thermodynamical String Fragmentation - Nadine Fischer (Monash University)

17:00 MCplots - Laurence Field (CERN)
Friday 25 November 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Top tagging with deep neural networks - Michael Russell (University of Glasgow)

09:15 A new model for soft interactions in Herwig - Patrick Kirchgaesser (KIT)

09:30 A framework for second-order parton showers - Haitao Li (Monash)

09:45 NLO QCD and EW calculations with Recola and Sherpa - Jennifer Thompson (Durham University)
10:00 MCrefs
MCrefs
10:00 - 11:00
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

11:30 Living Resource
Living Resource
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber

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