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, 31 May 2017 (08:00) to Friday, 2 June 2017 (21:30)

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

08:00 Refreshments
Refreshments
08:00 - 08:15
Room: Building 362 / Auditorium Atrium
08:15 Welcome - Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory) Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
Welcome
- Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
08:15 - 08:30
08:30
08:30 - 09:50
Contributions

08:30 Overview of SM Higgs ATLAS and CMS results - Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef)

09:10 Latest LHC results on Standard Model measurements - Emanuela Barberis (Northeastern University)
09:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:10
Room: Building 362 / Auditorium Atrium Area
10:10
10:10 - 12:15
Contributions

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

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

11:00 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 Higgs production at NLO in the Standard Model Effective Theory - Nicolas Deutschmann (Université catholique de Louvain)

11:50 EW Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets at the LHC - Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)
12:15 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Building 362 / F108 and E188
13:30
13:30 - 16:00
Contributions

13:30 Parton Distribution Functions, αs and Heavy-Quark Masses for LHC Run II - Sven-Olaf Moch (Universität Hamburg)

13:55 Parton distributions for LHC applications - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

14:20 NNLL resummation with the ARES method - Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)

14:45 Resummation of transverse observables in hadronic collisions - Pier Monni (CERN)

15:10 Combined threshold and transverse momentum resummation for pt distributions at NNLL - Claudio Museli (INFN - University of Milan)

15:35 Vector boson production in joint resummation - Vincent Theeuwes (University at Buffalo - SUNY)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Proposed general structure for parton showers - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

16:45 Triple collinear splittings in parton showers - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:10 Parton shower developments in Pythia - Stefan Prestel (Fermilab)

17:35 NLO merging with MiNLO and NNLOPS: VV and VH - Emanuele Re (CERN/LAPTh)
Thursday, 1 June 2017

08:15 Refreshments
Refreshments
08:15 - 08:30
08:30
08:30 - 10:10
Contributions

08:30 Recent developments in amplitude calculations - Anastasia Volovich (Brown Univesity)

08:55 Numerical Unitarity Method for Two-Loop Amplitudes in QCD - Harald Ita (University of Freiburg)

09:20 A new method to generate and reduce one-loop amplitudes in OpenLoops - Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich)

09:45 Azurite: a package to determine master integrals via computational algebraic geometry - Yang Zhang (ETH Zurich)
10:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:10
Contributions

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

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

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

11:45 Subleading Power Corrections for N-Jettiness Subtractions - Ian Moult (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:10 Group Photo + Lunch
Group Photo + Lunch
12:10 - 13:30
Room: Building 362 / F108 and E188
13:30
13:30 - 16:00
Contributions

13:30 A new regularization scheme from the loop-tree duality - German Rodrigo (IFIC Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC CSIC-UV))

13:55 First Two-Loop Amplitudes with the Numerical Unitarity Method - Ben Page (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

14:20 On QCD-QED perturbative computations - Stefano Frixione (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

14:45 Double Gauge Boson Production in the Standard Model EFT - Ian Lewis (University of Kansas)

15:10 NLO corrections to massive vector color octet pair production - Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)

15:35 Three-loop quark form factor at high energy: the leading mass corrections - Tao Liu (University of Alberta)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals with pySecDec - Sophia Borowka (CERN)

16:45 Numerical approach to multi-scale multi-loop integrals - Zhao Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:10 Automation of EW corrections with NLOX. - Christian Reuschle (Florida State University)

17:35 Recent progress in MCFM - Tobias Neumann (University at Buffalo)
Friday, 2 June 2017

08:15 Refreshments
Refreshments
08:15 - 08:30
08:30
08:30 - 10:10
Contributions

08:30 Medium-induced radiative corrections and their application to LHC heavy ion phenomenology - Ivan Vitev (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:55 Inclusive jets and their substructure - Felix Ringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:20 The spin-dependent quark beam function at NNLO - Uli Schubert (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:45 The proton radius puzzle - Gil Paz (Wayne State University)
10:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:10
Contributions

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

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

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

11:45 High Energy Behaviour of Form Factors - Taushif Ahmed (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
12:10 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:10 - 13:30
Room: Building 362 / F108 and E188
13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Contributions

13:30 An update on NNLO top-pair production and new ideas for the treatment of heavy flavors in the proton - Alex Mitov (University of Cambridge)

13:55 Integration by parts and differential equations from unitarity - Mao Zeng (University of California, Los Angeles)

14:20 Asymptotic expansion of Feynman integrals in higher dimensions - Go Mishima (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

14:45 Four-loop QCD renormalization group functions with different fermion representations of the gauge group - Max Zoller (University of Zurich)
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:10
Contributions

15:30 Mass Dependence of Higgs Production at Large Transverse Momentum - Hong Zhang (The Ohio State University)

15:55 Precise MSSM Higgs mass prediction combining diagrammatic and EFT calculations - Henning Bahl (Max-Planck Institut fuer Physik)

16:20 Outlook - Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles)
17:30 Bus to dinner location
Bus to dinner location
17:30 - 18:00

18:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:00 - 20:30