Name: LoopFest XIII
Start: 2014-06-17T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2014-06-20T18:40:00-04:00
Location: NY City College of Technology

LoopFest XIII

from Tuesday, 17 June 2014 (17:00) to Friday, 20 June 2014 (18:40)

Monday, 16 June 2014
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

17:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
17:00 - 20:00
Room: Room 632
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
08:00
08:00 - 10:00
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

08:00 Folder Pick-up

08:20 Welcome

08:40 Vector Boson Production at CMS - Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

09:00 Decoupling theoretical uncertainties from Higgs couplings and similar measurements - Kyle Cranmer

09:20 Flavor physics in the LHC era - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University / MCTP)

09:40 A META analysis of parton distribution functions - Pavel Nadolsky
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Namm Hall
10:40
10:40 - 12:20
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

10:40 Automated one-loop calculations with GoSam-2.0 - Gudrun Heinrich

11:00 High multiplicity processes at NLO with BlackHat+Sherpa - Daniel Maitre

11:20 Loop computations automation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO - Valentin Hirschi

11:40 Applications of OpenLoops to Top and Higgs Physics - Stefano Pozzorini

12:00 High multiplicity QCD amplitudes with NJet - Valery Yundin
12:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 13:40
Room: Namm Hall
13:40
13:40 - 15:40
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

13:40 REcursive Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes - Uccirati Sandro

14:00 One-loop Integrand Reduction with Ninja - Peraro Tiziano

14:20 The New Les Houches High Precision Wishlist - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

14:40 NLO electroweak corrections to pp->WW->4 leptons in double-pole approximation at the LHC - Marina Billoni (University of Tuebingen)

15:00 Recent developments in Sherpa - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

15:20 Higgs and Drell Yan at NNLOPS with MiNLO - Giulia Zanderighi
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
Room: Namm Hall
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

16:20 Multijet merging at NLO - Frank Krauss

16:40 Geneva - Simone Alioli (LBNL & UC Berkeley)

17:00 Higher-order corrections to Z branching ratios - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

17:20 Electroweak Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets (A.K.A. VBF + 1 Jet) at NLO QCD - Terrance Figy (The University of Manchester)

17:40 Mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process in the resonance region - Alexander Huss (University of Freiburg)

18:00 Using NLO calculations to constrain top-Z couplings at the LHC - Raoul Rontsch (Fermilab)
Thursday, 19 June 2014
08:20
08:20 - 10:00
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

08:20 Higgs plus Jet at NNLO - Fabrizio Caola

08:40 Precision calculation of Higgs plus one jet at NNLO - Jaquier Matthieu

09:00 Dijet production at NNLO - Currie James

09:20 Sector improved residue subtraction and applications - Heymes David

09:40 Differential distributions at NNLO - Lazopoulos Achilleas
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Namm Hall
10:40
10:40 - 12:20
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

10:40 Resummation for W/Z/H production at large and small p_T - Thomas Becher (Fermilab)

11:00 Factorization and resummation for boosted top production at hadron colliders - Ben Pecjak

11:20 Factorization simplified - Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

11:40 Nonglobal logarithms: the fixed order story - Hua Xing Zhu (Peking University, China)

12:00 Comparing Direct and Effective Methods of Resummation - Christopher Lee
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:40
Room: Namm Hall
13:40
13:40 - 15:40
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

13:40 RG-improved fully differential predictions for top-pair production at hadron colliders - Alessandro Broggio

14:00 Jet broadening in effective field theory - Guido Bell

14:20 Resummed jet bin predictions - Xiaohui Liu

14:40 Multi-Differential Jet Cross-Sections - Duff Neill

15:00 Exact Amplitude-Based Resummation Confronts Experiment: Present and Future - Bennie Ward

15:20 News from jet substructure: soft drop - Simone Marzani
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
Room: Namm Hall
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

16:20 Soft-gluon resummation for four parton hard-scattering processes - Alessandro Torre

16:40 On next-to-eikonal corrections to threshold resummation for electroweak annihilation cross sections - Leonardo Vernazza

17:00 Higgs production in bottom annihilation: Transverse momentum spectrum at NNLO+NNLL - Marius Wiesemann

17:20 Multi-loop unitarity via computational algebraic geometry - Zhang Yang

17:40 Progress on Multiloop Scattering Amplitudes - Pierpaolo Mastrolia

18:00 Two loop corrections to tt and VV production - Andreas von Manteuffel
19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Friday, 20 June 2014
08:20
08:20 - 10:00
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

08:20 Colour, flavour, and multi-jet physics at the LHC - Tom Melia

08:40 Testing the Standard Model with the electron g-2 - Massimo Passera

09:00 Towards differential top pair hadro-production - Gabriel Abelof

09:20 Status of VV' production in NNLO QCD - Dirk Rathlev

09:40 Top quark mass effects in Higgs boson pair production at the LHC - Jonathan Grigo
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Namm Hall
10:40
10:40 - 12:20
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

10:40 Progress on the theory wishlist for multiloop integrals - Johannes Henn

11:00 Magnus and Dyson Series for Master Integrals - Stefano Di Vita

11:20 A novel approach to integration by parts reduction - Robert Schabinger

11:40 BCFW recursion for amplitudes with off-shell gluons - Andreas van Hameren

12:00 Recent progress in HELAC for NLO and NNLO calculations - Costas Papadopoulos
12:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 13:40
Room: Namm Hall
13:40
13:40 - 15:40
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

13:40 The NRQCD matching coefficient at NNNLO and the decay Upsilon -> ll - Peter Marquard

14:00 NNNLO corrections to top quark pair production at threshold at the ILC - Matthias Steinhauser

14:20 Higgs Production at N3LO - Falko Dulat

14:40 Recent Developments in the Calculation of Massive Quark Corrections to Deep Inelastic Scattering at Three Loops - Alexander Hasselhuhn

15:00 Progress towards NNNLO calculations of Higgs production - William Kilgore

15:20 A new paralell code for differential Higgs boson cross sections - Franz Herzog
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
Room: Namm Hall
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Namm Hall
Contributions

16:20 Some four-loop corrections to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - Alexander Kurz

16:40 Understanding J/psi production 40 years after its discovery - JianWei Qiu

17:00 Higgs at the ILC - Sven Heinemeyer (IFCA (CSIC, Santander))

17:20 Summary - David Kosower