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8th MCnet meeting and "QCD in the LHC era" Bryanfest

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Emmanuel College (Cambridge)

Emmanuel College

Cambridge
Mike Seymour, Peter Skands
Description

8th Meeting of the MCnet European Network incorporating a more general meeting to mark the occasion of Bryan Webber's retirement.

Separate information is available about the "Bryanfest" part of the meeting.

  • Wednesday, 22 September
    • Bryanfest
    • 19:15
      Drinks
    • 20:00
      Dinner
  • Thursday, 23 September
    • Monte Carlo Review Editorial Board Meeting

      closed meeting for authors of the Monte Carlo Review

    • Discussion on "soft, wide angle, gluons in parton showers"
      • 1
        Jet rates and parton showers
        Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 2
        Jet Vetoing and Herwig++
        Speaker: Mr Alex Schofield (Manchester)
        Slides
      • 3
        Evolution with subleading color contributions
        Speaker: Dr Zoltan Nagy (DESY)
        Slides
      • 4
        Discussion of Pino's talk
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Student/postdoc status reports/discussion
      • 5
        Recent developments and results with POWHEG-BOX
        Speaker: Dr Emmanuele Re (Durham)
        Slides
      • 6
        Progress on the POWHEG implementation of Chargino/Neutralino pair production in HERWIG++
        Speaker: Mr Ilan Fridman Rojas (Durham)
        Slides
      • 7
        Automisation of ME+PS Merging with NLO Accuracy in Sherpa
        Speaker: Mr Marek Schönherr (Dresden)
        Slides
      • 8
        V-Gamma Production at LHC: NLO in Powheg Method
        Speaker: Mr Dart-yin Soh (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Coffee break
      • 9
        EW NLO in Sherpa
        Speaker: Jennifer Archibald
        Slides
      • 10
        Probabilistic description of coherent bremsstrahlung
        Speaker: Korinna Christine Zapp
        Slides
      • 11
        TBA
        Speaker: Ms Irais Bautista (Santiago)
  • Friday, 24 September
    • Student/postdoc status reports/discussion
      Conveners: Jennifer Archibald, Korinna Zapp (University of Heidelberg)
      • 12
        Double Parton Scattering with Herwig++
        Speaker: Miroslav Myska
        Slides
      • 13
        Colour Reconnection in Cluster Hadronisation
        Speaker: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 14
        Herwig++ and the new ATLAS MB/UE results
        Speaker: Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
        Slides
      • 15
        Are Nc=3!=infinity effects important in parton showers?
        Speaker: Dr Malin Sjoedahl (Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 10:50
        Coffee break
      • 16
        TBA
        Speaker: Ms Ahuja Sudha (Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 17
        Tau Decays in Pythia 8
        Speaker: Mr Philip Ilten (Lund)
        Slides
      • 18
        Searching for scalar Leptoquarks at the LHC
        Speaker: Mr Andreas Papaefstathiou (Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 19
        First comparisons of MC’s with CMS data
        Speakers: Filip Moortgat (ETH Zurich), Mike Seymour (University of Manchester)
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch
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