MCnet School 09

1 Jul 2009, 09:00 → 4 Jul 2009, 12:20 Europe/London

Lund, Sweden

The 3rd MCNet school on the Physics and Techniques of Event Generators will be held in Lund, Sweden

Wednesday, 1 July

Morning lecture session 1

1 Welcome

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University)

2 Introduction to Event Generators I

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)

Slides MC1.pdf

10:10 Coffee

3 Jet definitions

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris)

Slides mcnet.pdf

4 Introduction to Event Generators II

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)

Slides MC2.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Tutorial session 1

5 Introduction to tutorials

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth (Lund University)

Slides tutorials.pdf

6 Tutorial

Worksheets and code examples tutorials.tar.gz

Informal discussions 1

Thursday, 2 July

Morning lecture session 2

7 Introduction to Event Generators III

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)

Slides MC3.pdf

10:00 Coffee

8 Heavy quarks I

Speaker: Eric Laenen (NIKHEF)

Slides HeavyFlavorProduction.pdf

9 Introduction to Event Generators IV

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)

Slides MC4.pdf

Excursion and Dinner

Informal discussions 2

Friday, 3 July

Morning lecture session 3

10 The top mass

Speaker: Andre Hoang (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich,)

Slides MCLund_topmass.pdf MCLund_topmass.ppt

10:00 Coffee

11 Matching matrix elements with parton showers I

Speaker: Paolo Nason (INFN, Milano)

Slides Nason-1.pdf

12 Student presentation

Speaker: Paolo Francavilla (INFN - Pisa)

Slides 2009-07-03-MCnetSchool-Lund_1.pdf

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon lecture session

13 Heavy quarks II

Speaker: Eric Laenen (NIKHEF)

Tutorial session 2

14 Tutorial

For worksheets and example code see the file attached to the first tutorial session.

Informal discussions 3

Saturday, 4 July

Morning lecture session 4

15 Monte Carlo techniques in biophysics

Speaker: Carsten Peterson (Lund University)

10:00 Coffee

16 Matching matrix elements with parton showers I|

Speaker: Paolo Nason (INFN, Milano)

Slides Nason-2.pdf

17 Student presentation

Speaker: Sparsh Navin (Birmingham)

Slides SN_MCnet_school.pdf

18 Student Presentation

Speaker: Christopher Bignamini (INFN - Pavia)

Slides MCSTHAR.pdf.pdf

19 Good bye

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University)