TH - LPCC Summer Institute on LHC Physics - THLPCC11

from Monday, August 1, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 2, 2011 (6:00 PM)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 1, 2011
Aug 2, 2011
Aug 3, 2011
Aug 4, 2011
Aug 5, 2011
Aug 8, 2011
Aug 9, 2011
Aug 10, 2011
Aug 11, 2011
Aug 12, 2011
Aug 16, 2011
Aug 18, 2011
Aug 19, 2011
Aug 23, 2011
Aug 24, 2011
Aug 25, 2011
Aug 26, 2011
AM
10:30 AM QCD results from CMS - Konstantinos Kousouris (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))  
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11:30 AM Discussion  
9:00 AM
Recent shower MC developments (until 11:30 AM)
9:00 AM Status of the POWHEG box - Paolo Nason  
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9:35 AM Status of aMC@NLO - Rikkert Frederix  
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10:10 AM Status of Herwig++ - Mike Seymour (School of Physics and Astronomy Schuster Laboratory-University)  
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10:45 AM The Krakow NLO Parton Shower project - Maciej Skrzypek (Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Physics, PAN-Unknown-Unknown)  
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11:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM
Collider Cross Talk (until 12:30 PM)
11:30 AM Status and Progress of Pythia8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics-Lunds Universitet)  
Link to agenda
9:00 AM
Open forum for short contributions (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM On the Integrand-Reduction Method for Two-Loop Scattering Amplitudes - Pierpaolo Mastrolia  
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9:30 AM Herwiri1.031: A New Approach to Parton Shower MC's for Precision QCD for the LHC - Bennie Ward (High Energy Physics Group-Department of Physics-Baylor Universi)  
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9:00 AM
RIVET tutorial (until 6:00 PM)
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9:00 AM
LO and NLO Matrix-element aspects of MC simulations (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM A new formalism for multileg LO matching - Peter Skands (CERN) Juan Jose Lopez Villarejo (Unknown)  
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9:40 AM Applications of POWHEG to ttbat+X (X=jet,H,QQbar,...) - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (Institute of Experimental Physics-University of Debrecen)  
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10:20 AM Combining NLO corrections to production and decay in the WH process - Julián Cancino (ETH Zürich)  
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11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Collider Cross Talk: Search for dilepton resonances at the LHC (until 12:00 PM)
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9:00 AM
Open forum for short contributions (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Gluon-Gluon contributions to WW production and Higgs interference effects - Ciaran Williams (IPPP)  
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9:30 AM Precise predictions for Higgs production Beyond the Standard Model - Dr Elisabetta Furlan (BNL)  
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9:50 AM Colour-friendly FKS subtraction - Stefano Frixione (CERN)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM N-subjettiness - Jesse Thaler  
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11:20 AM Measuring invisible particle masses using a single short decay chain - Hsin-Chia Cheng  
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11:40 AM New Vector Boson Near the Z-pole and the Puzzle in Precision Electroweak Data - Radovan Dermisek  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Implications for the Constrained MSSM from CMS and Dark Matter Searches - A Bayesian Approach - Leszek Roszkowski  
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11:20 AM MSSM Higgs physics at the LHC - Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)  
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11:40 AM The fine-tuning and phenomenology of the generalised NMSSM - Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (University of Oxford)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM SUSY Monojets and Precision Coupling Determinations - Howard Haber (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP))  
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11:20 AM Beyond mSUGRA - Riccardo Barbieri (Dipartimento di Fisica)  
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11:40 AM Making the slepton a Higgs with a U(1)_R lepton number - Thomas Gregoire (Carleton University)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Latest H->WW Results from ATLAS and CMS - Dmytro Kovalskyi Elliot Lipeles   (4/2-011 - TH common room)
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Relating Proton Decay and Monojets through Asymmetric Dark Matter - Prof. David Morrissey (Michigan State University)  
11:20 AM Light Dark Matter and the Electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM - Dr Nausheen Shah (Fermi Lab.)  
11:40 AM Counting dark matter particles in LHC events - Rakhi Mahbubani  
PM
2:00 PM
Use of collider data for PDF analyses (until 6:00 PM)
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2:00 PM PDFs at the LHC -- some issues, comments and questions - Dr Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London-University of London)  
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2:50 PM The impact of present and future LHC data on parton distributions - Alberto Guffanti (University of Freiburg)  
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3:40 PM PDFs with the LHeC - Max Klein  
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2:00 PM
Review of new LHC results presented at EPS (until 6:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
Link to agenda
2:00 PM
TH colloquium: "Precision predictions for Higgs production" (M.Grazzini) (until 3:00 PM)
Link to agenda
2:00 PM
Progress in NNLO calculations (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Status of the antenna approach to NNLO calculations - Nigel Glover  
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2:30 PM Non-linear mapping of singularities at NNLO and the H->b bbar width - Franz Herzog  
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3:00 PM The singular behavior of one-loop massive QCD amplitudes with one external soft gluon, or calculating the real-virtual corrections at NNLO with massive quarks - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)  
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3:30 PM Order epsilon and epsilon^2 terms of one-loop amplitudes in NNLO calculations - Stefan Weinzierl  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Integration of subtraction terms at NNLO - Gabor Somogyi (DESY, Zeuthen)  
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5:00 PM Two-loop amplitudes and integrals in N=4 SYM - Vittorio Del Duca (INFN sezione di Frascati)  
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5:30 PM Recent results on t-tbar cross sections at NNLL/NNLO - Pietro Falgari  
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2:00 PM
TH colloquium: "Event-generator physics for the LHC" (M.Seymour) (until 3:00 PM)
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4:00 PM QCD results from ATLAS - Mario Campanelli (University College London-University of London)  
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5:00 PM Discussion  
2:00 PM
W/Z+jets (until 5:30 PM)
2:00 PM W/Z+jets: status and open issues - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
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2:40 PM NLO W/Z+jets with BlackHat and Sherpa - David Kosower  
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3:20 PM W/Z+jets results with Sherpa - Jan-Christopher Winter  
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4:00 PM Study of Wjj at NLO+PS using aMC@NLO - Rikkert Frederix  
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4:40 PM Using gamma+jets Production to Calibrate the Standard Model Z(nunu)+jets Background to New Physics Processes at the LHC - James Stirling (Cambridge University)  
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12:00 PM CDF dijet excess - Kenneth Lane (Boston University)  
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2:00 PM Natural supersymmetry at the LHC - Hyung Do Kim (Unknown)  
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2:20 PM Tree-level Gauge Mediation: Viable and Predictive Tree-level SUSY breaking - Robert Ziegler (Technische Universitat Munchen)  
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2:40 PM Model building using Lie-point symmetries - Damien George  
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3:00 PM Physical Predictions in the Quantum Multiverse - Yasunori Nomura  
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12:00 PM Extended Higgs sector at the LHC Run-I - José Francisco Zurita (University of Zurich)  
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12:00 PM Two-Higgs-doublet interpretation of a small Wjj excess - John Gunion (UC Davis)  
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2:00 PM Conformal Field Theories as Building Blocks of Nature - Vyacheslav Rychkov (LPT, ENS-Paris)  
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2:00 PM Searching for the Higgs boson by calling all angles - Ian Low (Argonne National Lab/Northwestern Univ)  
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2:20 PM Invisible Higgs - Mr Pedro Schwaller (Zurich University)  
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2:40 PM If no Higgs, then what? - Adam Falkwoski (LPT Orsay)  
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3:00 PM Solving the Flavor Problem in Composite Higgs Models - Michele Redi  
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3:20 PM SUSY Signals of CP violation in Higgs and Flavor Physics - Marcela Carena  
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12:00 PM Higgs portal inflation - Hyun Min Lee  
12:20 PM Light Higgsinos as Heralds of Higher-Dimensional Unification - Felix Bruemmer (DESY)