KITP Conference: Stress-testing the Standard Model at the LHC

KITP Conference: Stress-testing the Standard Model at the LHC
(May 23-27, 2016)
Coordinators: Bryan Webber, Eric Laenen, Tom LeCompte, and Doreen Wackeroth

Monday, May 23, 2016
	Standard Model Status, Chair: Bryan Webber (U of Cambridge)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Joey Huston (MSU)	LHC Standard Model results 1[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Jeff Berryhill (FNAL)	LHC Standard Model results 2[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	John Campbell (FNAL)	Precision studies of vector boson production[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Radja Boughezal (ANL)	NNLO jet phenomenology for the LHC[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	PDFs, Jets and Forward Scattering, Chair: Dave Soper (U of Oregon)
2:00pm	Maria Ubiali (U Cambridge)	On the PDF Frontier: NNPDF[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Pavel Nadolsky (SMU)	On the PDF Frontier: CTEQ[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Jesse Thaler (MIT)	Theoretical advances in jet substructure[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Ira Rothstein (CMU)	Forward scattering and factorization violation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
	Parton Showers, Matching and Merging, Chair: Lance Dixon (Stanford/SLAC)
9:00am	Dave Soper (U of Oregon)	Ideas behind parton showers, 1984 - 2016[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Fabio Maltoni (Louvain)	NLO Monte Carlos for collider physics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)	Matching and merging fixed orders and parton showers 1[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Christian Bauer (LBNL)	Fully exclusive NNLO / NNLL calculations from GENEVA[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Eric Laenen (Nikhef/Amsterdam)	Next-to-soft radiative corrections in QCD[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Resummation, Low Energy Tests, Chair: Eric Laenen (Nikhef)
2:00pm	Simone Marzani (Buffalo)	Resummation for precision[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Andrew Larkoski (Harvard)	Jet substructure at the precision frontier[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	David Hertzog (U Washington)	Low-energy precision tests of the Standard Model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Ayres Freitas (U Washington)	Standard Model precision tests from high to low energy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
	Precision QCD, Chair: Radja Boughezal (ANL)
9:00am	Frank Petriello (Northwestern)	Techniques for NNLO precision[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Alex Mitov (Cambridge)	Precision QCD predictions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Gudrun Heinrich (MPI Munich)	Calculations beyond one loop: methods, tools and applications[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz)	Calculations beyond one loop: more methods, tools and applications[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm	FREE AFTERNOON-SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, May 26, 2016
	BSM and Top Physics, Chair: Tom LeCompte (ANL)
9:00am	Frank Golf (UCSB)	LHC BSM results[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Dan Whiteson (UC Irvine)	Searching for ugly resonances at the LHC[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Wolfgang Hollik (MPI Munich)	Precision calculations for BSM physics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Martin Beneke (TUM)	Top quark physics[Slides]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Flavor and Electroweak Physics, Chair: Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY)
2:00pm	Julian Wishahi (TU Dortmund)	LHC flavor physics results[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Matthias Neubert (Mainz)	Flavor physics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Fulvio Piccinini (Pavia)	Electroweak radiative corrections for collider physics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Laura Reina (FSU)	Extended electroweak precision fits and their implications[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, May 27, 2016
	Effective Field Theory and Tools, Chair: Laura Reina (Florida State U)
9:00am	Céline Degrande (IPPP Durham)	Effective theory approach for electroweak boson interactions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Marc-André Pleier (Brookhaven)	Multi-boson results and anomalous couplings at the LHC[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Walter Giele (FNAL)	Implementing NNLO into MCFM[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	David Kosower (Saclay)	Results from BlackHat[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	CLOSING SESSION, Chair: Wolfgang Hollik (MPI)
2:00pm	Giulia Zanderighi (CERN/Oxford)	Precision Higgs studies at the LHC[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)	Standard Model Physics at 100 TeV[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCIAlso available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location (See Registration Desk to sign up.)

Monday, May 23, 2016

Standard Model Status, Chair: Bryan Webber (U of Cambridge)

PDFs, Jets and Forward Scattering, Chair: Dave Soper (U of Oregon)

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Parton Showers, Matching and Merging, Chair: Lance Dixon (Stanford/SLAC)

Resummation, Low Energy Tests, Chair: Eric Laenen (Nikhef)

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Precision QCD, Chair: Radja Boughezal (ANL)

Thursday, May 26, 2016

BSM and Top Physics, Chair: Tom LeCompte (ANL)

Flavor and Electroweak Physics, Chair: Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY)

Friday, May 27, 2016

Effective Field Theory and Tools, Chair: Laura Reina (Florida State U)

CLOSING SESSION, Chair: Wolfgang Hollik (MPI)