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

Europe/London
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)

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
  • Akio Tomiya
  • Andy Buckley
  • Bhawna Gomber
  • Chaehyun Yu
  • Chayanit Asawatangtrakuldee
  • Clara Salas Hernández
  • Dart-yin Soh
  • David Grellscheid
  • Dong WANG
  • Frank Krauss
  • Fuminobu Takahashi
  • Gi-Chol Cho
  • Grisha Kirilin
  • Haiwang Yu
  • Hendrik Hoeth
  • JiangBo Wei
  • Joseph Haley
  • Junya Nakamura
  • Kazuya Mochizuki
  • Keisuke Harigaya
  • Ken-ichi Okumura
  • Kenji Nishiwaki
  • Kentarou Mawatari
  • Kohsaku Tobioka
  • Kunio Kaneta
  • Linlin ZHANG
  • Mamta Dahiya
  • Manami Hashi
  • Masaki Asano
  • Mukesh Kumar
  • NAMSEOK YOO
  • Naotoshi Okamura
  • Oliver Hall
  • Pavel Ruzicka
  • PRIYOTOSH BANDYOPADHYAY
  • Raman Khurana
  • Rashidul Islam
  • Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay
  • Sho Iwamoto
  • Shuo Yang
  • SOYOUNG SHIM
  • Subhadeep Mondal
  • Sukanta Dutta
  • Takaaki Nomura
  • Takashi Kubota
  • Takuya Nobe
  • Ting-Chung Huang
  • Toshifumi Yamashita
  • Warintorn Sreethawong
  • Wei Guo
  • Wei Zou
  • Yao Qin
  • Yeo Woong Yoon
  • Yin-Fan Lin
  • Yoichi Ninomiya
  • Yoshitaro Takaesu
  • Yuji Omura
  • Yuto Komori
  • Zijun Xu
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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