ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators Workshop

from Tuesday, 2 May 2017 (14:00) to Friday, 5 May 2017 (13:00)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 May 2017
3 May 2017
4 May 2017
5 May 2017
AM
09:00
Use of MC for SM processes (until 11:00) (222/R-001)
09:00 Perspectives on vector-boson + jets physics (ATLAS+CMS) - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (222/R-001)
09:40 Perspectives on multi-boson + jets physics (ATLAS+CMS) - Christian Gutschow (University College London (UK)) ATLAS   (222/R-001)
10:20 Perspectives on SM Higgs physics (ATLAS+CMS) - David Sperka (University of Florida (US))   (222/R-001)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Use of MC for SM processes (until 13:00) (222/R-001)
11:30 Status and prospects for NNLO+PS in POWHEG - Keith Hamilton (University College London (GB))   (222/R-001)
12:00 Status and prospects for NNLO+PS and higher order EW corrections in Sherpa - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (222/R-001)
12:30 VV production at NNLO - Marius Wiesemann (CERN)   (222/R-001)
09:00
PDF and parton showers (until 11:00) (222/R-001)
09:00 Status of PDFs in ATLAS - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))   (222/R-001)
09:30 Status of PDFs in CMS - Katerina Lipka (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (222/R-001)
10:00 Showering Options - Stefan Prestel Stefan Prestel Stefan Prestel   (222/R-001)
10:25 QCD Showers beyond leading order - Christian Bauer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (222/R-001)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Underlying event and multi-parton interactions (until 13:00) (222/R-001)
11:30 UE and MPI tuning in CMS - Efe Yazgan (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))   (222/R-001)
11:55 UE and MPI tuning in ATLAS - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))   (222/R-001)
12:20 UE and Hadronization in DIPSY and Pythia8 - Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))   (222/R-001)
12:40 A new model for soft interactions in Herwig - Patrick Kirchgaesser   (222/R-001)
09:00
Beyond the standard model (until 10:30) (222/R-001)
09:00 BSM needs on Monte Carlo matters: feedback from ATLAS - Gabriel Facini (University of London (GB))   (222/R-001)
09:30 BSM needs on Monte Carlo matters: feedback from CMS - Valentina Dutta (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))   (222/R-001)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Tutorials and generator Q&A sessions (until 13:00) ()
11:00 MG5_aMC - Olivier Pierre C Mattelaer (UCLouvain)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
11:00 Pythia - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))   (40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson)
11:00 Rivet tutorial - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))   (222/R-001)
11:00 Sherpa - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
PM
14:00
News from Monte Carlo Generators (until 15:50) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
14:00 Introduction   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
14:10 Status of POWHEG and MiNLO - Emanuele Re   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
14:45 Status of MadGraph5_aMC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (INFN)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
15:20 Status of Sherpa - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
16:00
News from Monte Carlo Generators (until 19:00) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Status of Pythia8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
17:05 Status of Herwig7 - Johannes Bellm (KIT)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
17:40 Progress with Geneva - Simone Alioli (CERN)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Various phenomenology issues (top, Higgs, …): MG5_ aMC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (INFN)   (222/R-001)
14:45
Use of MC for SM processes (until 16:00) (222/R-001)
14:45 Experimental perspectives and mis-modelling in top physics (ATLAS+CMS) - James William Howarth (University of Manchester (GB)) James Howarth (University of Manchester-Unknown-Unknown)   (222/R-001)
15:30 Discussion   (222/R-001)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Use of MC for SM processes (until 18:30) (222/R-001)
16:30 Experimental perspectives on ttbar+X physics (ATLAS+CMS) - Maria Moreno Llacer (CERN)   (222/R-001)
17:10 Theory perspectives on ttbar+X physics - Laura Reina (Florida State University (US))   (222/R-001)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Multijets (until 15:30) (222/R-001)
14:00 Perspectives on multijet / photon+jet / multiphoton physics (ATLAS+CMS) - Hannes Jung (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (222/R-001)
14:40 Multijet matching in Herwig - Johannes Bellm (KIT)   (222/R-001)
15:05 Multijet merging in prompt photon production, with Sherpa - Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))   (222/R-001)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Systematic uncertainties (until 18:00) (222/R-001)
16:00 Report from the LHC Heavy Flavor WG - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (222/R-001)
16:30 Experimental perspectives - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))   (222/R-001)
17:00 Theory perspectives - Mr Davide Napoletano (IPPP, Durham University)   (222/R-001)
17:30 Discussion   (222/R-001)