Name: QCD at the LHC
Start: 2010-09-26T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-10-01T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ECT*, Trento

Monday 20 September 2010
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Wednesday 22 September 2010
Thursday 23 September 2010
Friday 24 September 2010
Saturday 25 September 2010
Sunday 26 September 2010

20:00 Pizza dinner
Pizza dinner
20:00 - 22:00

Monday 27 September 2010

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 15:15
Contributions

09:00 QCD at the LHC - James Stirling (Cambridge University)

09:45 QCD results from the Tevatron - Nikolay Skachkov

11:00 QCD results from ATLAS - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)

11:45 QCD results from CMS - Guenther Dissertori (Institut fur Teilchenphysik)

14:30 Future challenges for (N)NLO accuracy in QCD - Lance Dixon (SLAC)
15:15
15:15 - 18:00
Contributions

15:15 MC tools: shower and MC@NLO - Bryan Webber

16:30 MC tools: parton-level MEs and matching - Frank Krauss (Durham University)

17:15 Structure of the MB and UE - Peter Skands (CERN)
Tuesday 28 September 2010
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 QCD results from HERA - Achim Geiser (Fachbereich Physik)

09:45 PDF parameterizations - Maria Ubiali (University of Edinburgh)

10:15 PDFs: alphas and light flavours - Serguei Alekhin (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))

11:15 PDF constraints from teh Tevatron and PDFs for MCs - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

11:45 PDFs: heavy quarks - Ewald Reya (U Dortmund) Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (U Zurich)

12:15 Resummations - Eric Laenen (Nikhef)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 ALICE data for model tuning - Karel Safarik (CERN)

15:30 ATLAS data for tuning and ATLAS tunes - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)

16:00 CMS data for model tuning - Mayda Velasco (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

16:30 Model Tuning and rapidity gaps - frank krauss (Durham University)

17:00 Underlying Event tunes: update - Rick Field

17:45 CMS: novel two-particle correlations in pp - Gabor Veres (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Automatic calculations, report on HELAC-NLO - Costas Papadopoulos (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

15:45 EW @ colliders: scalar one-loop4-point functions - Ansgar Denner (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:30 Interference between Higgs signal and background - Lance Dixon (SLAC)

16:55 NLO tensor reduction, where we are - Jochem Fleischer
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Introduction-comparison of predictions for the LHC from the PDf groups - amanda sarkar

15:10 ABKM - Sergei Alekhin (Serpukhov)

15:25 CTEQ - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

15:40 GJR - Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (University of Zürich)

16:00 HERAPDF - Alexandre Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

16:15 NNPDF - maria ubiali (University of Edinburgh)

16:30 MSTW - Robert Thorne (University College London)

17:00 PDF4LHC discussion

17:30 Joint with MC group

18:00 GMVFN heavy quark schemes - Paolo Nason (INFN, Sezione di Milano, Bicocca)
Wednesday 29 September 2010
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Standard candles: DY and Higgs production - Massimiliano Grazzini (CERN)

09:30 Standard candles: top pair production - Sven-Olaf Moch (Unknown)

10:00 Standard candles: jets - Matteo Cacciari (Dip. di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica-Universita degli Studi di Pavi) Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Jussieu)
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Progress at NLO - Walter Giele

11:30 Multileg NLO - Ansgar Denner (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 MHV amplitudes and cut-methods at NLO for multileg processes - simon badger (DESY, Zeuthen)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Recent developments in POWHEG - Paolo Nason

15:40 NLO corrections to multi-parton final states, especially in the context of jet algorithms/sizes, jet recontruction in general & the experimental wish list - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

16:25 Background estimations via "data-driven" methods - Lance Dixon (SLAC)

16:45 Discussion on: "Accurate MC tools at the LHC: what for?" - Fabio Maltoni (Universite' catholique de Louvain (CP3))
15:00 - 19:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Progress in heavy flavour 3-loop corrections - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

15:30 Inclusion of F2charm data in HERAPDF fits - Ringaile Placakyte (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

15:55 Heavy flavour schemes, masses and scales - Achim Geiser (Fachbereich Physik)

16:15 Heavy Quarks in NNPDF - Maria Ubiali (University of Edinburgh)

16:30 Discussion/tea break

17:00 Possible violation of DGLAP at low x, Q2 - Fabrizio Caola (Milan University)

17:20 Inclusion of low energy combined data and high-Q2 combined data in HERAPDF fit - Voica Radescu (Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg)

17:50 Discussion
20:00

20:00 - 23:00
Thursday 30 September 2010
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Phenomenology of multijet final states at NLO - Darren Forde

09:45 Jets at NNLO at LHC - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (Institute of Experimental Physics-University of Debrecen)
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 ALICE: QCD results and HI programme overview - Karel Safarik (CERN)

11:45 Soft and hard probes in HI collisions - Jorge Casalderrey Solana
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:20
Contributions

15:00 Composite W-bosons - hyperstrong interactions at the TeV scale - Harald Fritzsch (Experimentalphysik)

15:40 - Discussion on any outstanding items, then join the PDF groups program

17:00 PDFs for MCs - common discussion with the PDF group, in the MAIN AUDITORIUM
15:00 - 19:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Tevatron W-asymmetry NNPDF - maria ubiali (University of Edinburgh)

15:15 Tevatron W asymmetry CTEQ - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

15:30 Tevatron predictions HERAPDF - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford)

15:45 PDF+alpha uncertainty on Higgs production - Alessandro Vicini (University of Milan)

16:00 Discussion/tea break

17:00 PDFs for MCs
Friday 1 October 2010
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 LHCb: results and prospects - Bernhard Spaan (Fachbereich Physik - Universitaet Dortmund)

09:45 Theory challenges in B physics at the LHC - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Contributions

11:00 PDFs - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford)

11:30 NLO - Ansgar Denner (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 MC tools - Gabor Veres (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:45