Name: LoopFest XVI
Start: 2017-05-31T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-06-02T21:30:00-05:00
Location: No location set

LoopFest XVI

from Wednesday, May 31, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 2, 2017 (9:30 PM)

Monday, May 29, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

8:00 AM Refreshments
Refreshments
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
Room: Building 362 / Auditorium Atrium
8:15 AM Welcome - Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory) Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
Welcome
- Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Overview of SM Higgs ATLAS and CMS results - Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef)

9:10 AM Latest LHC results on Standard Model measurements - Emanuela Barberis (Northeastern University)
9:50 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Building 362 / Auditorium Atrium Area
10:10 AM
10:10 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

10:10 AM Towards differential Higgs production at N3LO - Falko Dulat (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:35 AM Precision calculations in Vector-Boson Fusion Higgs production - Frederic Dreyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:00 AM Associated Production of a Top Pair and a Higgs boson to NNLL accuracy at the LHC - Andrea Ferroglia (New York City College of Technology CUNY)

11:25 AM Higgs production at NLO in the Standard Model Effective Theory - Nicolas Deutschmann (Université catholique de Louvain)

11:50 AM EW Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets at the LHC - Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)
12:15 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Building 362 / F108 and E188
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Parton Distribution Functions, αs and Heavy-Quark Masses for LHC Run II - Sven-Olaf Moch (Universität Hamburg)

1:55 PM Parton distributions for LHC applications - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

2:20 PM NNLL resummation with the ARES method - Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)

2:45 PM Resummation of transverse observables in hadronic collisions - Pier Monni (CERN)

3:10 PM Combined threshold and transverse momentum resummation for pt distributions at NNLL - Claudio Museli (INFN - University of Milan)

3:35 PM Vector boson production in joint resummation - Vincent Theeuwes (University at Buffalo - SUNY)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Proposed general structure for parton showers - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

4:45 PM Triple collinear splittings in parton showers - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:10 PM Parton shower developments in Pythia - Stefan Prestel (Fermilab)

5:35 PM NLO merging with MiNLO and NNLOPS: VV and VH - Emanuele Re (CERN/LAPTh)
Thursday, June 1, 2017

8:15 AM Refreshments
Refreshments
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Recent developments in amplitude calculations - Anastasia Volovich (Brown Univesity)

8:55 AM Numerical Unitarity Method for Two-Loop Amplitudes in QCD - Harald Ita (University of Freiburg)

9:20 AM A new method to generate and reduce one-loop amplitudes in OpenLoops - Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich)

9:45 AM Azurite: a package to determine master integrals via computational algebraic geometry - Yang Zhang (ETH Zurich)
10:10 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM NNLO calculations with MATRIX - Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zurich)

10:55 AM Power corrections in the N-jettiness subtraction scheme - Xiaohui Liu (Beijing Normal University)

11:20 AM Phenomenology with Z bosons at the LHC - Rhorry Gauld (ETH Zurich)

11:45 AM Subleading Power Corrections for N-Jettiness Subtractions - Ian Moult (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:10 PM Group Photo + Lunch
Group Photo + Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Building 362 / F108 and E188
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM A new regularization scheme from the loop-tree duality - German Rodrigo (IFIC Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC CSIC-UV))

1:55 PM First Two-Loop Amplitudes with the Numerical Unitarity Method - Ben Page (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

2:20 PM On QCD-QED perturbative computations - Stefano Frixione (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

2:45 PM Double Gauge Boson Production in the Standard Model EFT - Ian Lewis (University of Kansas)

3:10 PM NLO corrections to massive vector color octet pair production - Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)

3:35 PM Three-loop quark form factor at high energy: the leading mass corrections - Tao Liu (University of Alberta)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals with pySecDec - Sophia Borowka (CERN)

4:45 PM Numerical approach to multi-scale multi-loop integrals - Zhao Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:10 PM Automation of EW corrections with NLOX. - Christian Reuschle (Florida State University)

5:35 PM Recent progress in MCFM - Tobias Neumann (University at Buffalo)
Friday, June 2, 2017

8:15 AM Refreshments
Refreshments
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Medium-induced radiative corrections and their application to LHC heavy ion phenomenology - Ivan Vitev (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

8:55 AM Inclusive jets and their substructure - Felix Ringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

9:20 AM The spin-dependent quark beam function at NNLO - Uli Schubert (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:45 AM The proton radius puzzle - Gil Paz (Wayne State University)
10:10 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM Analytic resummation of TMD observables - Varun Vaidya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:55 AM Collinear factorization violation and effective field theory - Kai Yan (Harvard University)

11:20 AM Baikov-Lee representations of cut Feynman integrals - Robert Schabinger (Trinity College, Dublin)

11:45 AM High Energy Behaviour of Form Factors - Taushif Ahmed (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
12:10 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Building 362 / F108 and E188
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM An update on NNLO top-pair production and new ideas for the treatment of heavy flavors in the proton - Alex Mitov (University of Cambridge)

1:55 PM Integration by parts and differential equations from unitarity - Mao Zeng (University of California, Los Angeles)

2:20 PM Asymptotic expansion of Feynman integrals in higher dimensions - Go Mishima (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2:45 PM Four-loop QCD renormalization group functions with different fermion representations of the gauge group - Max Zoller (University of Zurich)
3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Mass Dependence of Higgs Production at Large Transverse Momentum - Hong Zhang (The Ohio State University)

3:55 PM Precise MSSM Higgs mass prediction combining diagrammatic and EFT calculations - Henning Bahl (Max-Planck Institut fuer Physik)

4:20 PM Outlook - Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles)
5:30 PM Bus to dinner location
Bus to dinner location
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM