2011 IPMU-YITP School and Workshop on Monte Carlo Tools for LHC

5 Sept 2011, 09:00 → 10 Sept 2011, 12:30 Europe/London

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)

Following the series of annual schools on Monte Carlo event generators for LHC, held at Durham (2007), Debrecen (2008), Lund (2009) and Karlsruhe (2010), the 2011 School will be held in conjunction with a mini-workshop at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. school: 5 - 8 September 2011 workshop: 9/10 September 2011

Monday, 5 September

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 1

Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides MC1_krauss.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction to jet finding and jetography 1

Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE Paris)

Slides kyoto-jets-1.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Introduction to MadGraph/MadEvent 1

Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)

Slides frederix_1.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Poster session 1

14:30 → 17:30 Event generators tutorial/discussion 1

Tuesday, 6 September

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 2

Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides MC2_krauss.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction to jet finding and jetography 2

Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE Paris)

Slides kyoto-jets-2.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Introduction to MadGraph/MadEvent 2

Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)

Slides frederix_2.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Poster session 2

14:30 → 17:30 Event generators tutorial/discussion 2

Wednesday, 7 September

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 3

Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides MC3_krauss.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Matching fixed order and parton shower generators 1

Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge University)

Slides WebberMCschool1.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Modelling of minimum bias and underlying events

Speaker: Prof. Torbjörn Sjöstrand (Lund U.)

Slides sjostrand_mpi.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Poster session 3

14:30 → 17:30 Event generators tutorial/discussion 3

Slides day3-intro.pdf

Thursday, 8 September

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 4

Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides MC4_krauss.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Matching fixed order and parton shower generators 2

Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge University)

Slides WebberMCschool2.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Beyond Standard Model Monte Carlo with FeynRules

Speaker: Dr Claude Duhr (IPPP)

Slides Duhr_Kyoto.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Poster session 4

14:30 → 17:30 FeynRules/MadGraph tutorial/discussion

Friday, 9 September

09:00 → 11:00 Workshop session 1

09:00 Improving precision of LHC simulations: recent developments in Sherpa

Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides Kyoto11_Krauss.pdf

09:40 Automatic MC@NLO

Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)

Slides frederix.pdf

10:20 Machine learning techniques for phenomenology

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (IPPP, Durham University)

Slides Buckleynnsusy.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Workshop session 2

11:30 VGamma at NLO with Powheg

Speaker: Dr Dart-Yin Soh (CERN)

Slides SohVGamma-IPMU.pdf

12:00 Fast computation of MadGraph amplitudes on GPU

Speaker: Dr Naotoshi Okamura (University of Yamanashi)

Slides Okamura.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 Workshop session 3

14:00 Some QCD aspects of BSM physics

Speaker: Prof. Torbjörn Sjöstrand (Lund U.)

Slides sjostrand_bsm.pdf

14:40 Constraints on models for SUSY breaking

Speaker: Dr David Grellscheid (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides Kyoto_Grellscheid.pdf

15:20 Non-anomalous Discrete R-symmetry, Extra Matters, and Enhancement of the Lightest SUSY Higgs Mass

Speaker: Dr Masaki Asano (University of Tokyo)

Slides ASANO_MCschool.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Tea break

16:30 → 17:30 Workshop session 4

16:30 The Standard Model forward-backward asymmetry in top production

Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge University)

Slides TopAsymTalk.pdf

17:00 Top forward-backward asymmetry and the CDF Wjj excess in leptophobic U(1)' flavor models

Speaker: Dr Yuji Omura (KIAS)

Slides TopFB-110909@MCschool.pdf

Saturday, 10 September

09:00 → 11:00 Workshop session 5

09:00 Results from ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Yuji Yamazaki (Kobe University)

Slides KyotoMCWS2011_yamazaki.pdf

10:00 Aspects of Higgs searches in CP-violating MSSM at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Dr Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay (KIAS)

Slides cpvtalkipmu.pdf

10:30 MadGolem: automatized next-to-leading order calculations for BSM

Speaker: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (VU Brussels)

Slides 1109mcnet_mawatari.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Workshop session 6

11:30 Improved discovery of nearly degenerate model: MUED using MT2 at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Kohsaku Tobioka (IPMU)

Slides TobiokaMCLHCtalk.pdf

12:00 Two jets and missing E_T signature to determine the spins of new particles

Speaker: Prof. Mihoko Nojiri (KEK/IPMU)

Slides MCschool_nojiri.pdf