Thursday

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

Lecture Hall (Monona Terrace)

Session I

1 Welcome

Speaker: tba

2 Electroweak precision physics

Speaker: Jens Erler (IF-UNAM)

Slides erler_LoopFest_2009.pdf

3 Higgs searches

Speaker: Matt Herndon (UW - Madison)

Slides loophiggs2009.ppt loophiggs2009.ppt

4 Precision QCD with jet observables

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

Slides gehrmann_loopfest09.pdf.pdf

10:00 AM break

5 Numerical calculation of one-loop gluon amplitudes

Speaker: Jan Winter (Fermilab)

Slides lfm.pdf

Session II

6 Cross sections for Higgs production

Speaker: Daniel de Florian (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Slides deflorian.pdf

7 FeynHiggs - An MSSM Higgs Physics Tool

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

Slides LoopFest09_rzehak.pdf.pdf

8 Two-loop corrections and techniques for Higgs production and decay with massless gauge bosons

Speaker: Christian Sturm (BNL)

Slides sturm.pdf

12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

9 NNLO Higgs production via gluon fusion with finite top mass

Speaker: Kemal Ozeren (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides loopfest09_ozeren.pdf

Session III

10 D-Dimensional Generalized Unitarity and Top Quarks

Speaker: Marcus Schulze (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Talk1.Schulze.pdf

11 Automating one loop multi-leg calculations with D- dimensional unitarity

Speaker: Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich)

Slides lazopoulos_loopfest.pdf

12 Numerical approaches to NLO QCD calculations

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

Slides loop09gio.pdf

4:00 PM break

13 POWHEG

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

Slides Madison2009.pdf

Session IV

14 SHERPA

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

Slides Loopfest09.pdf

15 qq-> bbbb with GOLEM-WHIZARD

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

Slides jr_loopfest09.pdf.pdf

16 Z-boson pair + 1-jet production at NLO QCD

Speaker: Stefan Karg (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides LoopFest_Karg.pdf.pdf

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