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

Name: 2011 IPMU-YITP School and Workshop on Monte Carlo Tools for LHC
Start: 2011-09-05T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-09-10T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)

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

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)

Kyoto University Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho Sakyo-Ku Kyoto 606-8502 Japan <a href="http://www.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/contents/guide/map.html"> How to get to YITP </a>

Description

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

Participants

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Monday 5 September
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 1 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)
  
  Slides
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Introduction to jet finding and jetography 1 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE Paris)
  
  Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Introduction to MadGraph/MadEvent 1 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)
  
  Slides
- 12:30 → 13:45
  
  Lunch break 1h 15m
- 13:45 → 14:30
  
  Poster session 1 45m
- 14:30 → 17:30
  
  Event generators tutorial/discussion 1 3h
Tuesday 6 September
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 2 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)
  
  Slides
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Introduction to jet finding and jetography 2 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE Paris)
  
  Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Introduction to MadGraph/MadEvent 2 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)
  
  Slides
- 12:30 → 13:45
  
  Lunch break 1h 15m
- 13:45 → 14:30
  
  Poster session 2 45m
- 14:30 → 17:30
  
  Event generators tutorial/discussion 2 3h
Wednesday 7 September
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 3 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)
  
  Slides
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Matching fixed order and parton shower generators 1 1h
  
  Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge University)
  
  Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Modelling of minimum bias and underlying events 1h
  
  Speaker: Prof. Torbjörn Sjöstrand (Lund U.)
  
  Slides
- 12:30 → 13:45
  
  Lunch break 1h 15m
- 13:45 → 14:30
  
  Poster session 3 45m
- 14:30 → 17:30
  
  Event generators tutorial/discussion 3 3h
  
  Slides
Thursday 8 September
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Introduction to Monte Carlo event generators 4 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)
  
  Slides
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Matching fixed order and parton shower generators 2 1h
  
  Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge University)
  
  Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Beyond Standard Model Monte Carlo with FeynRules 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Claude Duhr (IPPP)
  
  Slides
- 12:30 → 13:45
  
  Lunch break 1h 15m
- 13:45 → 14:30
  
  Poster session 4 45m
- 14:30 → 17:30
  
  FeynRules/MadGraph tutorial/discussion 3h
Friday 9 September
- 09:00 → 11:00
  Workshop session 1
  - 09:00
    
    Improving precision of LHC simulations: recent developments in Sherpa 40m
    
    Speaker: Dr Frank Krauss (IPPP, University of Durham)
    
    Slides
  - 09:40
    
    Automatic MC@NLO 40m
    
    Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 10:20
    
    Machine learning techniques for phenomenology 40m
    
    Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (IPPP, Durham University)
    
    Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  Workshop session 2
  - 11:30
    
    VGamma at NLO with Powheg 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Dart-Yin Soh (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    Fast computation of MadGraph amplitudes on GPU 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Naotoshi Okamura (University of Yamanashi)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  Workshop session 3
  - 14:00
    
    Some QCD aspects of BSM physics 40m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Torbjörn Sjöstrand (Lund U.)
    
    Slides
  - 14:40
    
    Constraints on models for SUSY breaking 40m
    
    Speaker: Dr David Grellscheid (IPPP, University of Durham)
    
    Slides
  - 15:20
    
    Non-anomalous Discrete R-symmetry, Extra Matters, and Enhancement of the Lightest SUSY Higgs Mass 40m
    
    Speaker: Dr Masaki Asano (University of Tokyo)
    
    Slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Tea break 30m
- 16:30 → 17:30
  Workshop session 4
  - 16:30
    
    The Standard Model forward-backward asymmetry in top production 30m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge University)
    
    Slides
  - 17:00
    
    Top forward-backward asymmetry and the CDF Wjj excess in leptophobic U(1)' flavor models 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Yuji Omura (KIAS)
    
    Slides
Saturday 10 September
- 09:00 → 11:00
  Workshop session 5
  - 09:00
    
    Results from ATLAS 1h
    
    Speaker: Prof. Yuji Yamazaki (Kobe University)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Aspects of Higgs searches in CP-violating MSSM at the Large Hadron Collider 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay (KIAS)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    MadGolem: automatized next-to-leading order calculations for BSM 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (VU Brussels)
    
    Slides
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  Workshop session 6
  - 11:30
    
    Improved discovery of nearly degenerate model: MUED using MT2 at the LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: Mr Kohsaku Tobioka (IPMU)
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    Two jets and missing E_T signature to determine the spins of new particles 30m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Mihoko Nojiri (KEK/IPMU)
    
    Slides