Name: James Stirling Memorial Conference
Start: 2019-09-17T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2019-09-18T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Durham IPPP

James Stirling Memorial Conference

from Tuesday, 17 September 2019 (08:30) to Wednesday, 18 September 2019 (14:00)

Monday, 16 September 2019
Tuesday, 17 September 2019

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Welcome - Keith Ellis (IPPP)
Welcome
- Keith Ellis (IPPP)
09:00 - 09:05
09:05
09:05 - 10:45
Contributions

09:05 Recent theoretical advances in DIS QCD evolution - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

09:30 News from CT18 - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

09:55 News from MMHT - Robert Thorne (University College London)

10:20 News from NNPDF - Richard Ball (Edinburgh)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:55
Contributions

11:10 Machine learning tools for optimizing PDF training - Juan Cruz-Martinez (University of Milan)

11:35 The completion of the HERAPDF2.0 family using NNLO jet fits/ NNLO result for alphas using the recent NNLOjet calculations - Claire Gwenlan (UCL)

12:00 Latest developments from xFitter - Ivan Novikov
12:55 Lunch
Lunch
12:55 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Monojets - Stephen Ellis (University of Washington)

14:15 Rambo, spinors and such - Ronald Kleiss (Nijmegen)

14:30 Higgs and Multi-jets - Zoltan Kunszt (ITP ETH Zurich)

14:45 Sudakovs - Anna Kulesza (University of Muenster)

15:00 Electroweak Phenomena - Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)
15:15 Coffee/Tea
Coffee/Tea
15:15 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 16:10
Contributions

15:40 MRS - Alan Martin (IPPP, Durham)

15:50 and T - Robert Thorne (University College London)

16:00 Polarized Partons - Thomas Gehrmann (Zurich)
16:10
16:10 - 16:45
Contributions

16:10 Central Exclusive Production - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

16:20 KRYSTHAL - Valeri Khoze (IPPP, Department of Physics, Durham University)

16:30 Double/multiple parton interactions and factorisation - Jonathan Gaunt
16:45
16:45 - 17:50
Contributions

16:45 IPPP - Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

17:00 Cambridge and Cavendish - Andy Parker (Cambridge)

17:15 Imperial and Diversity - Jessica Wade (Imperial)

17:30 Dedication of the Stirling Room - Stuart Corbridge (Durham)
18:00 Drinks Reception
Drinks Reception
18:00 - 19:30
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Contributions

09:00 Vector Meson production in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at the ALICE experiment - Orlando Villalobos Baillie

09:25 PDF constraints from ATLAS data - Mark Sutton

09:50 PDF Studies for the CMS experiment - Aram Apyan

10:15 How to include LHCb exclusive J/y data in global PDF analyses - Alan Martin (IPPP, Durham)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Stable covariance matrices for PDF fits - Michael Wilson (University of Edinburgh)

11:20 Discussion on benchmarking/short contributions - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)