Friday

Friday May 8, 2009, 8:00 AM → 7:30 PM America/Chicago

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM HERWIRI: Progress on a Precision Event Generator for W and Z Production at the LHC

Speaker: Scott Yost (The Citadel)

Slides Loopfest-2009-Yost-v5.pdf

8:30 AM → 10:00 AM Session V

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Production of squarks and gluinos at the LHC: the EW contributions

Speaker: Maike Trenkel (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides Trenkel-LOOP09.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Process-independent determination of two-loop electroweak next-to-leading logarithms

Speaker: Bernd Jantzen (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides Jantzen-Loopfest.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM break

10:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session VI

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM ttbar production

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

Slides sven.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM resummation and ttbar production

Speaker: Alexander Mitov (YITP)

Slides AlexanderMitov-Loopfest2009.pdf AlexanderMitov-Loopfest2009.ppt

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Two-loop soft anomalous dimensions for heavy quark production

Speaker: Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

Slides Kidonakis.pdf.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Threshold resummation for pair-production of coloured heavy particles at hadron colliders

Speaker: Pietro Falgari (IPPP Durham)

Slides falgari.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Jet substructure

Speaker: Leandro Almeida (YITP, Stony Brook University)

Slides Almeida.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session VII

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Precision event shapes from SCET

Speaker: Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

Slides loopfest-schwartz.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM On-Shell Methods for One-Loop Amplitudes

Speaker: Darren Forde (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides forde.pdf.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Effective field theories and precision calculations in gravitational physics

Speaker: Walter Goldberger (Yale University)

Slides loopfest09.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM break

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Little Randall-Sundrum models: epsilon_K strikes again

Speaker: Ulrich Haisch (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Slides Loopfest09_haisch.pdf

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Session VIII

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM IR singularities of gauge theory amplitudes and resummation

Speaker: Dr Thomas Becher (Fermilab)

Slides loopfest_becher.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Factorization constraints on the structure of IR singularities

Speaker: Prof. Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Slides neubert_LoopFest09.pdf

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Alternative dipole subtraction scheme using Nagy-Soper dipoles

Speaker: Tania Robens (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides robens_loopfest09.pdf