Name: 7th MCnet meeting
Start: 2010-01-12T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-01-14T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

7th MCnet meeting

from Tuesday, 12 January 2010 (14:00) to Thursday, 14 January 2010 (18:00)

Monday, 11 January 2010
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

15:30 (closed session)
(closed session)
15:30 - 18:30
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Wednesday, 13 January 2010

09:15 Time Reserved for Collaboration Meetings
Time Reserved for Collaboration Meetings
09:15 - 12:15
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
14:00 MCnet Projects 1/2
MCnet Projects 1/2
14:00 - 18:00
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 TH Seminar on Multijet Matching - Leif Lonnblad (Lund University)

15:30 Update on Rivet - Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh)

15:45 Tuning Status - Hendrik Hoeth (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

16:00 Estimating Tuning uncertainties with Professor - Holger Schulz (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin)

16:15 QED FSR effects on Z pT measurements at the Tevatron - Gavin Hesketh (CERN)

16:30 A Study of MC Tuning in the Presence of Matching - Piergiulio Lenzi (Dipartimento di Fisica)

16:45 Are Nc=3 effects important in parton showers? - Malin Sjödahl

17:00 Improved Parton Showers at Large Transverse Momenta and Status of Pythia 8 - Richard Corke (Lund University)

17:20 Introduction - Kenneth Gibb Wraight (University of Glasgow)
Thursday, 14 January 2010
09:15 MC/LHC Session
MC/LHC Session
09:15 - 12:15
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:15 Report from ATLAS - Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)

09:45 Report from CMS - Fabio Cossutti (INFN Trieste)

10:15 Report from LHCb (qcd) - Raluca Muresan (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne)

11:15 Some Theory Lessons from the O(1TeV) LHC Runs - Peter Skands (CERN)

11:45 Report from ALICE (pp) - Andreas Morsch (CERN)
14:00 MCnet Projects 2/2
MCnet Projects 2/2
14:00 - 18:00
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 Status Report - Noam Hod (HEP Department, Tel Aviv University)

14:15 Hard photon production and ME/PS merging, and status of SHERPA - Frank Siegert

14:35 Radiative Corrections to Semileptonic Meson Decays - Marek Schoenherr

14:50 Colour Reconnection within Herwig++ - Christian Roehr

15:35 Status Report - Dart-Yin Soh (Institute of Physics-Academia Sinica)

15:50 Status Report - Irais Bautista Guzman

16:05 Composite vectors at the LHC with CalcHEP - Riccardo Torre

16:20 Status Report - Christoffer Flensburg

16:35 Applications of the POWHEG Method to Drell-Yan Processes in HERWIG++ - Ilan Fridman Rojas

16:50 CKKW-L merging in Pythia8: Status Report - Stefan Prestel

17:05 LED Graviton and Unparticle Processes in Pythia8 - Stefan Ask (University of Manchester)

17:15 The new minimum bias and underlying event model in SHERPA - Korinna Zapp

17:30 Introduction - Giordano Cattani