Name: QCD at the LHC
Start: 2011-08-22T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-08-26T18:00:00+01:00
Location: St Andrews, Scotland

Monday, 22 August 2011
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Soft QCD results from Atlas

09:50 Soft QCD results from CMS

11:20 Hard QCD results from Atlas

12:10 Hard QCD results from CMS
14:15
14:15 - 18:00
Contributions

14:15 Parton Showers and Multiple Parton Interactions - Zoltan Nagy

14:45 Discussion

14:55 The universality of Monte Carlo tunes - Rick Field

15:25 Discussion

15:35 Double Parton Scattering Theory - Jonathan Gaunt

16:30 Soft physics corrections to Jets - Mrinal Dasgupta

17:00 Discussion

17:10 Color flow in hard scattering processes - Simone Marzani

17:40 Discussion
14:30
14:30 - 21:00
Contributions

14:30 W/Z + jet production at CMS - Michael Cutajar (Imperial College London)

14:55 W/Z + jet production at ATLAS - Erik Devetak (Stony Brook)

15:20 W/Z production at LHCb - Simone Bifani (University College Dublin)

15:45 W/Z + jet production at Tevatron - Stefano Camrada (IFAE Barcelona)

16:30 NNPDF update - Luigi Del Debbio (Edinburgh)

16:55 HERAPDF update - Voica Radescu (Heidelberg Physikalisches Institut)

17:20 CTEQ PDFs update - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

19:30 Discussion
20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 PDFs - Robert Thorne (UCL)

09:50 Theory of Jets - Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester)

11:20 Higher Order Calculations - Zoltan Kunszt (ETH Zurich)

12:10 Monte Carlo - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)
14:00
14:00 - 20:55
Contributions

14:00 MSTW PDFs update - Robert Thorne (University College London)

14:25 Review of recent HERA data - Matthew Wing (UCL)

14:55 Overview of the FFNS and VFNS in DIS - Pedro Jimenes-Delgado (ITP Zurich)

15:25 NNLO corrections to the heavy-quark electroproduction - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

16:25 VFNS in the MSTW fit - Robert Thorne (UCL)

16:55 Running-mass definition in the heavy-quark electroproduction - Sergey Alekhin (Protvino)

17:25 ACOT in the NNLO - Pavel Nadolsky (SMU)

19:25 Discussion
14:30
14:30 - 21:00
Contributions

14:30 Status of NNLO calculations - Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

15:00 Discussion

15:15 Recent progress in matching shower MC's and ME's - Marek Schoenherr

15:45 Discussion

16:30 Boosted jet physics - Peter Loch

17:00 Discussion

17:15 W+multi-jets - Joey Huston

17:45 Discussion
14:30 - 21:00
Contributions

14:30 Soft QCD and Correlations results from ALICE - Klaus Reygers

15:00 Correlations at the LHC - Craig Buttar

15:30 Minireview on models for diffractive excitations and the Lund cascade model DIPSY - Gosta Gustafson

16:30 Forward and Diffractive reslts from CMS and ATLAS - Benoit Roland

17:00 Discussion on Future of Soft QCD/Correlations
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Resummation - Lorenzo Magnea (Torino)

09:50 Top Physics - Peter Uwer (HU Berlin)

11:20 Higgs Physics - Giampiero Passarino (INFN Torino)

12:10 QCD 4 BSM - Michael Spannowsky (Oregon)
13:00

13:00 - 21:00
Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Use of PDF's in MC generators - Zoltan Nagy

09:30 Discussion

09:50 Uncertainties in prompt photon predictions - Ciaran Williams

10:20 Discussion

11:15 Impact of jet data on PDF's and standard candles - Sergey Alekhin

11:35 PDF dependence on the Higgs cross section - Robert Thorne

11:55 Discussion

12:15 Re-weighting PDF's using experimental data - Richard Ball

12:45 Discussion
14:00
14:00 - 20:30
Contributions

14:00 Soft QCD results from LHCb - Andrea Contu (University of Oxford)

14:30 ATLAS MC Tuning effort - A. Buckley

15:00 CMS MC Tunning effort - Rick Field (University of Florida)

15:30 PYTHIA MC Status - Richard Corke

16:30 HERWIG MC Status - Christian Roehr

17:00 Discussion on MC and Tuning
14:30
14:30 - 21:00
Contributions

14:30 Tensor reductions of Feynman integrals - Tord Riemann

15:00 Discussion

15:10 Numerical evaluation of loop corrections - Christian Reuschle

15:40 Discussion

15:50 Comments on CKKW-L and truncated showers - Stefan Prestel (Lund)

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Soft-gluon resummation in t-tbar production at hadron colliders - Ben Pecjak

16:50 Resummation effects in hard QCD events - Thomas Becher

17:10 Discussion

17:25 Next 5 years of QCD measurements at the LHC (discussion)
14:30 - 21:00
Contributions

14:30 Overview of Alpha_s measurement - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

15:00 Determination of \alpha_s from event shapes - Thomas Becher (Bern)

15:30 Value of Alpha_s from the HERA data - Voica Radescu (Heidelberg Physikalisches Institut)

16:30 Value of Alpha_s from the NNPDF fit - Richard Ball (Edinburgh)

17:00 Benchmarking of fitting codes - Joey Huston (MSU)

17:30 Benchmarking of the PDFs and Alpha_s correlation - Joey Huston (MSU)

19:30 Discussion on the NLO/NNLO PDFs bechmarking
Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 Summary of "Hard QCD" - Michael Begel (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 Summary of "Soft QCD"

10:00 Summary of "PDFs"

11:00 Concluding remarks - Keith Ellis (Fermilab)