10th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction and Searches in HEP (BOOST 2018)

from Monday, July 16, 2018 (8:30 AM) to Friday, July 20, 2018 (6:00 PM)
Paris (Charpak Amphitheater)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 16, 2018
Jul 17, 2018
Jul 18, 2018
Jul 19, 2018
Jul 20, 2018
AM
8:30 AM
Boost Camp (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM Boost Camp - Steven Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Laís Sarem Schunk (IPhT, CEA - Saclay)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Introduction (until 12:20 PM)
11:00 AM Advances in jet substructure for tagging - Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))  
11:40 AM Advances in jet substructure for precision physics and QCD - Ben Nachman (University of California Berkeley (US))  
9:00 AM
Performance (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Pileup mitigation for jets with Constituent Subtraction - Peter Berta (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
9:25 AM Pileup mitigation in CMS - Anna Benecke (Hamburg University (DE))  
9:50 AM Tagging of Hadronically Decaying Particles and the Determination of boosted tagger efficiencies in ATLAS - Andreas Sogaard (University of Edinburgh (GB))  
10:15 AM Tagger performance in data - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Johns Hopkins University (US))  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Measurements (until 12:25 PM)
11:10 AM Jet substructure measurements at ALICE - Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))  
11:35 AM Modifications to Jet Spectra and Substructure in PbPb Collisions with CMS - Christopher Mc Ginn (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:00 PM Comparison of jet mass in $pp$ and Pb+Pb collisions using ATLAS at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=5.02 TeV - Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
9:00 AM
Calculations (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Nonperturbative Effects in Groomed Event Shapes - Dr Aditya Pathak (University of Vienna)  
9:25 AM Calculating the Pull Angle - Andrew Larkoski (Reed Collge)  
9:50 AM Top taggers : an analytical perspective - Marco Guzzi (Southern Methodist University)  
10:15 AM Soft Gluons and Non-global Observables - Prof. Mike Seymour (University of Manchester)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Searches (until 12:25 PM)
11:10 AM ATLAS Searches using Jet Substructure Techniques - Francesco Guescini (TRIUMF (CA))  
11:35 AM Highlights on searches for new physics with vector bosons and higgs bosons in boosted topologies - Thea Aarrestad (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
12:00 PM Stealth bosons and where to find them - Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra (University of Granada)  
9:00 AM
New Tools (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Prospects for a measurement of the W boson mass in the all-jets final state at hadron colliders - Andreas Hinzmann (University of Hamburg)  
9:25 AM Jet SIFT-ing - Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)  
9:50 AM On the Topic of Jets - Eric Metodiev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
10:15 AM Telescoping deconstruction - Dr Yang-Ting Chien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Machine Learning (until 12:25 PM)
11:10 AM Study of Recursive Neural Networks in Jet Tagging - Dr Taoli Cheng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
11:35 AM JUNIPR: a Framework for Unsupervised Machine Learning in Particle Physics - Christopher Frye (Harvard)  
12:00 PM Fast inference of deep neural networks in FPGAs for particle physics - Jennifer Ngadiuba (CERN)  
9:30 AM --- Coffee bbreak ---
10:00 AM
Summaries (until 11:40 AM)
10:00 AM Summary: experiments - Caterina Vernieri (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Caterina Vernieri (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:50 AM Summary: theory - Jesse Thaler (MIT)  
PM
12:20 PM --- Free lunch ---
2:00 PM
Performance (until 4:05 PM)
2:00 PM Jet and Missing Momentum Reconstruction and Calibration in ATLAS - Christopher Young (CERN)  
2:25 PM Jet+MET performance in CMS - Viola Sordini (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
2:50 PM Reconstruction and Calibration of Large-R jets and In-situ techniques for their Calibration - Ayana Tamu Arce (Duke University (US))  
3:15 PM Triggering boosted objects at 25 ns at CMS - Jennifer Ngadiuba (CERN)  
3:40 PM Inputs, grooming and track assisted techniques for jet substructure - Sanmay Ganguly (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
4:05 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:35 PM
Calculations (until 6:15 PM)
4:35 PM Improving the Simulation of Quark and Gluon Jets with Herwig 7 - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
5:00 PM Quark jet rates and quark gluon discrimination in multi-jet final states - Dr Yasuhito Sakaki (KAIST)  
5:25 PM How the parton shower cutoff affects the heavy quark mass parameter - Daniel Samitz  
5:50 PM Infrared Safety of a Neural-Net (Machine Learning) Top Tagging Algorithm - Seung Joon Lee (Korea University)  
6:30 PM --- Cocktail ---
12:25 PM --- Organised Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Poster session (until 2:30 PM)
Sung_Hak_Lim
2:30 PM
Machine Learning (until 4:10 PM)
2:30 PM Novel Jet Observables from Machine Learning - Kaustuv Datta (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)  
2:55 PM How to train taggers on data - Jennifer Thompson (ITP Heidelberg)  
3:20 PM Learning to Classify from Impure Samples with High-Dimensional Data - Eric Metodiev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Patrick Komiske (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ben Nachman (University of California Berkeley (US))  
3:45 PM CWoLa Hunting - Jack Collins (University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University)  
4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:40 PM
Measurements (until 5:55 PM)
4:40 PM Measuring jet substructure observables at the ATLAS Experiment - Jennifer Kathryn Roloff (Harvard University (US))  
5:05 PM Measurements using jet substructures for SM physics at CMS - Matthias Ulrich Mozer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
5:30 PM Measurements with highly boosted top quarks using the ATLAS detector - Walter Hopkins (University of Oregon (US))  
12:25 PM --- Organised lunch (lunchbox) ---
2:00 PM
Searches (until 2:50 PM)
2:00 PM Search for supersymmetry using dedicated jet techniques with the ATLAS detector - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))  
2:25 PM Highlights on searches for new physics with top quarks in boosted topologies - Christine Angela Mc Lean (SUNY Buffalo)  
2:50 PM
Future Colliders (until 3:40 PM)
2:50 PM Boosted top quarks at multi-TeV CLIC - Lars Rickard Strom (CERN)  
3:15 PM Jet observables and stops at 100 TeV collider - Shing Chau Leung (Brown University)  
3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:10 PM
New Tools (until 5:25 PM)
4:10 PM Energy Flow and Jet Substructure - Patrick Komiske (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
4:35 PM The Lund Jet Plane - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (MIT)  
5:00 PM New tagging approaches - Loukas Gouskos (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))  
5:25 PM
Meeting of the international committee - Salvatore Rappoccio (The State University of New York SUNY (US)) Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US)) (until 6:35 PM)
5:25 PM Boost 2021 - Seoul proposal  
5:35 PM Boost 2021 - Berkeley proposal  
5:45 PM Boost 2020 - Cracow proposal  
5:55 PM Boost 2020 - Hamburg proposal  
6:05 PM Boost 2020 - Manchester proposal  
6:15 PM Boost 2020 - Brighton proposal  
6:25 PM Booston 2019 - status report  
12:25 PM --- Organised Lunch + Anniversary Cake ---
2:10 PM
Anniversary (until 3:30 PM)
2:10 PM 10 years of Boost: experimental perspective - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))  
2:50 PM 10 years of Boost: theory perspective - Gavin Salam (CERN)  
6:00 PM --- Visit of the Orsay museum and conference dinner ---
2:00 PM
Hands-on and tutorials (until 5:00 PM)
2:00 PM FastJet tutorial - Salvatore Rappoccio (The State University of New York SUNY (US))  
2:15 PM Energy Flow tutorial - Patrick Komiske (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
2:30 PM Lund Jet Plane tutorial - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (MIT)  
2:45 PM Jet topics tutorial - Eric Metodiev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
3:00 PM Hand-on time  
4:50 PM Additional material for self-study - Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University (DE))