Topics in NLO QCD

Friday 2 July 2010 - 08:00
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Jul 2010
AM
09:00 --- Welcome coffee ---
09:30
PDF (until 10:00)
09:30 PDF progress - James Stirling (Cambridge University)  
10:00
Scale uncertainties at (N)NLO (until 13:00)
10:00 Introduction - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
Slides
10:30 W+jets systematics - Daniel Maitre  
11:00 W+jets: NLO vs matrix element systematics - Kirill Melnikov  
11:30 Discussion  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 --- TH seminar by J.Maldacena ---
15:30
Computing issues at NLO (until 17:30)
15:30 Software performance monitoring - Daniele Francesco Kruse vincenzo innocente (CERN)  
16:00 TBA - Darren Forde  
Slides
16:30 TBA - Rikkert Frederix Rikkert Frederix  
Slides
17:00 GPUs for ME calculations, et al - Jan-Christopher Winter (Fermilab)  
Slides