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

BOOST 2017

from Sunday 16 July 2017 (14:00) to Friday 21 July 2017 (13:00)

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

14:00

14:00 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:00 - 20:00

Monday 17 July 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Theory Overview - Andrew Larkoski (Reed Collge)

09:45 Experimental Overview - Lily Asquith (University of Sussex (UK))
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

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

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

12:00 Search for diboson resonances at CMS - Jennifer Ngadiuba (CERN) Jennifer Ngadiuba (Univ. Zürich)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Searches for exotic resonances and dark matter with boson tagging (ATLAS) - Daniel Isaac Narrias Villar (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

14:30 Search for new resonances coupling to third generation quarks at CMS, and Dark Matter - Thomas Peiffer (Hamburg University (DE)) Thomas Peiffer (University of Hamburg)

15:00 Searches for exotic resonances with top tagging (ATLAS) - Junpei Maeda (Kobe University (JP))

15:30 Search for vector-like quarks, excited quarks and squarks in boosted final states at CMS - Daniel Gonzalez Vazquez (Hamburg University (DE))
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Jet Fragmentation and Fractal Observables - Benjamin Elder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17:00 Recursive Soft Drop - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (MIT)
17:30 Open Data and Heavy Ions
Open Data and Heavy Ions
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Jet Substructure Analysis with CMS Open Data - Aashish Tripathee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

18:00 Confronting jet quenching with jet grooming: splitting function and jet mass distribution in heavy ion collisions - Yang-Ting Chien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

18:30 Jet substructure modifications in heavy-ion collisions - Konrad Tywoniuk (CERN)
19:00 Directed Dinner 1
Directed Dinner 1
19:00 - 20:45
Tuesday 18 July 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 QCD at NNLO - John Campbell

09:00 Electroweak corrections - Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

09:30 Electro-weak splitting functions and electro-weak shower - Junmou Chen (University of Pittsburgh)

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

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

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

12:00 Generative Adversarial Networks for Jet Simulation - Michela Paganini (Yale University (US)) Luke Percival De Oliveira Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 A study of jet mass distributions with grooming - Laís Sarem Schunk (IPhT, CEA - Saclay)

14:30 ATLAS standard Model Measurements using Jet grooming and substructure - Giulia Ucchielli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

15:00 Jet substructure measurements at CMS, including heavy ions - Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Quarks and Gluons
Quarks and Gluons
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Casimir Meets Poisson: Improved Quark/Gluon Discrimination with Counting Observables - Christopher Frye (Harvard)

16:30 Quark/Gluon Discrimination with Jet-Images and Deep Learning - Patrick Komiske (MIT)

17:00 ATLAS quark/gluon tagging - Francesco Rubbo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

17:30 CMS quark/gluon tagging - Yuta Takahashi (Univ. Zürich) Yuta Takahashi (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
18:00

18:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 19 July 2017
08:30 Phenomenology
Phenomenology
08:30 - 09:00
Contributions

08:30 Radiative Decays of the Higgs Boson to a Pair of Fermions - Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

08:45 Higgs to light jets - Zhuoni Qian (University of Pittsburgh)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Small R jet reconstruction and calibration algorithms (ATLAS) - Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

09:30 Jet energy scale and resolution measurements at CMS - Anastasia Karavdina (Hamburg University (DE)) Anastasia Karavdina (University of Hamburg)

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

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

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

12:00 Top tagging at CMS - Torben Dreyer (Hamburg University (DE)) Torben Dreyer (University of Hamburg)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Machine Learning
Machine Learning
14:00 - 16:30
Contributions

14:00 B-tagging without tracks in highly boosted TeV Jets using an Artificial Neural Network - Todd Brian Huffman (University of Oxford (GB))

14:30 Deep-learning Top Taggers and No End to QCD - Gregor Kasieczka (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

15:00 Identification of boosted top quarks and W bosons with Machine learning in ATLAS - Oliver Majersky (Comenius University (SK))

15:30 Machine Learning at CMS - Jan Kieseler (CERN) Jan Kieseler (CERN)

16:00 Pileup Mitigation with Machine Learning - Eric Metodiev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16:30
16:30 - 19:00
Contributions

16:30 BOOST 2018 (Paris) Status - Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

16:50 BOOST 2019 Proposals

17:10 BOOST 2020 Proposals

17:30 Int.Comm. Discussion
19:00
19:00 - 20:00
Contributions

19:00 Universal: A guide to the cosmos - Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)
Thursday 20 July 2017
09:00 Pileup
Pileup
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Soft Puppi - Jennifer Kathryn Roloff (Harvard University (US))

09:30 Pileup mitigation (ATLAS) - Jennifer Kathryn Roloff (Harvard University (US))

10:00 Pile up mitigation in CMS jets and MET objects - Leonora Vesterbacka (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Minna Leonora Vesterbacka (ETH Zürich)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:30
Contributions

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

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

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

12:30 Simulations of detector response for multi-TeV physics at a 100 TeV pp collider - Sergei Chekanov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
13:30 Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
13:30 - 18:30

18:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:30 - 22:30
Friday 21 July 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Theory Summary - Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

09:45 Experiment Summary - Christoph Falk Anders (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)
10:30

10:30 - 12:00

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