Name: BOOST 2017
Start: 2017-07-16T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-07-21T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Embassy Suites Buffalo

Monday, July 10, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Sunday, July 16, 2017

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Monday, July 17, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Theory Overview - Andrew Larkoski (Reed Collge)

9:45 AM Experimental Overview - Lily Asquith (University of Sussex (UK))
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM BSM Theory with Boosted Objects - Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)

11:30 AM Searches for new physics using jet grooming and substructure (ATLAS) - Jonathan Burr (University of Oxford (GB))

12:00 PM Search for diboson resonances at CMS - Jennifer Ngadiuba (CERN) Jennifer Ngadiuba (Univ. Zürich)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Searches for exotic resonances and dark matter with boson tagging (ATLAS) - Daniel Isaac Narrias Villar (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

2:30 PM Search for new resonances coupling to third generation quarks at CMS, and Dark Matter - Thomas Peiffer (Hamburg University (DE)) Thomas Peiffer (University of Hamburg)

3:00 PM Searches for exotic resonances with top tagging (ATLAS) - Junpei Maeda (Kobe University (JP))

3:30 PM Search for vector-like quarks, excited quarks and squarks in boosted final states at CMS - Daniel Gonzalez Vazquez (Hamburg University (DE))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Jet Fragmentation and Fractal Observables - Benjamin Elder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5:00 PM Recursive Soft Drop - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (MIT)
5:30 PM Open Data and Heavy Ions
Open Data and Heavy Ions
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Jet Substructure Analysis with CMS Open Data - Aashish Tripathee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

6:00 PM Confronting jet quenching with jet grooming: splitting function and jet mass distribution in heavy ion collisions - Yang-Ting Chien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

6:30 PM Jet substructure modifications in heavy-ion collisions - Konrad Tywoniuk (CERN)
7:00 PM Directed Dinner 1
Directed Dinner 1
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM QCD at NNLO - John Campbell

9:00 AM Electroweak corrections - Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

9:30 AM Electro-weak splitting functions and electro-weak shower - Junmou Chen (University of Pittsburgh)

10:00 AM Precision Top Mass Determination at the LHC with Jet Grooming - Aditya Pathak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Higher-order effects in parton showers - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

11:30 AM Monte Carlo tuning using jet observables - Stefan Prestel

12:00 PM Generative Adversarial Networks for Jet Simulation - Michela Paganini (Yale University (US)) Luke Percival De Oliveira Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM A study of jet mass distributions with grooming - Laís Sarem Schunk (IPhT, CEA - Saclay)

2:30 PM ATLAS standard Model Measurements using Jet grooming and substructure - Giulia Ucchielli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

3:00 PM Jet substructure measurements at CMS, including heavy ions - Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Quarks and Gluons
Quarks and Gluons
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Casimir Meets Poisson: Improved Quark/Gluon Discrimination with Counting Observables - Christopher Frye (Harvard)

4:30 PM Quark/Gluon Discrimination with Jet-Images and Deep Learning - Patrick Komiske (MIT)

5:00 PM ATLAS quark/gluon tagging - Francesco Rubbo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

5:30 PM CMS quark/gluon tagging - Yuta Takahashi (Univ. Zürich) Yuta Takahashi (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
8:30 AM Phenomenology
Phenomenology
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Radiative Decays of the Higgs Boson to a Pair of Fermions - Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

8:45 AM Higgs to light jets - Zhuoni Qian (University of Pittsburgh)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Small R jet reconstruction and calibration algorithms (ATLAS) - Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

9:30 AM Jet energy scale and resolution measurements at CMS - Anastasia Karavdina (Hamburg University (DE)) Anastasia Karavdina (University of Hamburg)

10:00 AM Large R jet reconstruction and calibration algorithms (ATLAS) - Joe Taenzer (Tel Aviv University (IL))
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM W/H tagging in CMS - Thea Aarrestad (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) Thea Aarrestad (Univ. Zürich)

11:30 AM W/Top/H tagging in ATLAS - Nurfikri Norjoharuddeen (University of Oxford (GB))

12:00 PM Top tagging at CMS - Torben Dreyer (Hamburg University (DE)) Torben Dreyer (University of Hamburg)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Machine Learning
Machine Learning
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM B-tagging without tracks in highly boosted TeV Jets using an Artificial Neural Network - Todd Brian Huffman (University of Oxford (GB))

2:30 PM Deep-learning Top Taggers and No End to QCD - Gregor Kasieczka (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

3:00 PM Identification of boosted top quarks and W bosons with Machine learning in ATLAS - Oliver Majersky (Comenius University (SK))

3:30 PM Machine Learning at CMS - Jan Kieseler (CERN) Jan Kieseler (CERN)

4:00 PM Pileup Mitigation with Machine Learning - Eric Metodiev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM BOOST 2018 (Paris) Status - Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

4:50 PM BOOST 2019 Proposals

5:10 PM BOOST 2020 Proposals

5:30 PM Int.Comm. Discussion
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

7:00 PM Universal: A guide to the cosmos - Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)
Thursday, July 20, 2017
9:00 AM Pileup
Pileup
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Soft Puppi - Jennifer Kathryn Roloff (Harvard University (US))

9:30 AM Pileup mitigation (ATLAS) - Jennifer Kathryn Roloff (Harvard University (US))

10:00 AM Pile up mitigation in CMS jets and MET objects - Leonora Vesterbacka (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Minna Leonora Vesterbacka (ETH Zürich)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM ATLAS High Luminosity LHC studies - Anna Kathryn Duncan (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:30 AM HL-LHC Developments from CMS - Julie Hogan (Brown University (US))

12:00 PM Jet reconstruction and boosted object tagging at the Compact Linear Collider - Lars Rickard Strom (CERN)

12:30 PM Simulations of detector response for multi-TeV physics at a 100 TeV pp collider - Sergei Chekanov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
1:30 PM Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
1:30 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Theory Summary - Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

9:45 AM Experiment Summary - Christoph Falk Anders (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)
10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM