Thursday

Thursday May 7, 2009, 8:20 AM → 11:30 PM America/Chicago

Lecture Hall (Monona Terrace)

8:20 AM → 10:00 AM Session I¶

8:20 AM → 8:30 AM Welcome¶

Speaker: tba

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Electroweak precision physics¶

Speaker: Jens Erler (IF-UNAM)

Slides erler_LoopFest_2009.pdf

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Higgs searches¶

Speaker: Matt Herndon (UW - Madison)

Slides loophiggs2009.ppt loophiggs2009.ppt

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Precision QCD with jet observables¶

Speaker: Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH)

Slides gehrmann_loopfest09.pdf.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM break

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Numerical calculation of one-loop gluon amplitudes¶

Speaker: Jan Winter (Fermilab)

Slides lfm.pdf

10:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session II¶

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Cross sections for Higgs production¶

Speaker: Daniel de Florian (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Slides deflorian.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM FeynHiggs - An MSSM Higgs Physics Tool¶

Speaker: Heidi Rzehak (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Karlsruhe)

Slides LoopFest09_rzehak.pdf.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Two-loop corrections and techniques for Higgs production and decay with massless gauge bosons¶

Speaker: Christian Sturm (BNL)

Slides sturm.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM NNLO Higgs production via gluon fusion with finite top mass¶

Speaker: Kemal Ozeren (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides loopfest09_ozeren.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session III¶

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM D-Dimensional Generalized Unitarity and Top Quarks¶

Speaker: Marcus Schulze (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Talk1.Schulze.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Automating one loop multi-leg calculations with D- dimensional unitarity¶

Speaker: Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich)

Slides lazopoulos_loopfest.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Numerical approaches to NLO QCD calculations¶

Speaker: Giovanni Ossola (New York City College of Technology (CUNY))

Slides loop09gio.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM break

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM POWHEG¶

Speaker: Paolo Nason (INFN, sez. di Milano Bicocca)

Slides Madison2009.pdf

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Session IV¶

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM SHERPA¶

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

Slides Loopfest09.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM qq-> bbbb with GOLEM-WHIZARD¶

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

Slides jr_loopfest09.pdf.pdf

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Z-boson pair + 1-jet production at NLO QCD¶

Speaker: Stefan Karg (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides LoopFest_Karg.pdf.pdf

7:30 PM → 10:30 PM Dinner - Samba Brazilian Grill - http://www.sambabraziliangrill.com/