Program

Kavli Auditorium, Kavli Building (Building 51)

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Monday, June 19, 2006

	Speaker	Topic	(MIN)	Chair
	MORNING	OVERVIEW, ILC, LHC		L. Dixon
8:00	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS		60
9:00	Lance Dixon	Welcome	10
9:10	Stefan Dittmaier	Precision Standard Model physics-- overview	40
9:50	Tor Raubenheimer	ILC status and politics	30
10:20	Tom LeCompte	LHC - the first inverse femtobarn	40
11:00	COFFEE BREAK		30
11:30	Ayres Freitas	Toward the complete 2-loop precision electroweak computation	30
12:00 Noon	Stefano Frixione	Monte Carlos at NLO accuracy	40
12:40	LUNCH		80
	AFTERNOON	TWISTORS, NNLO AND BEYOND		D. Wackeroth
2:00	Carola Berger	Bootstrapping one-loop 2->n amplitudes	30
2:30	Thomas Gehrmann	e+e- -> 3 jets at NNLO: Results for all QED-type colour factors	30
3:00	Thomas Becher	B -> Xs + gamma to NNLO: effect of the photon energy cut	30
3:30	COFFEE BREAK		30
4:00	Alex Mitov	Three-loop time-like splitting functions in Mellin space, and NNLO fragmentation	30
4:30	Kirill Melnikov	Fully exclusive NNLO computations	30
5:00	Lance Dixon	Multi-loop miracles in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory	30

	Speaker	Topic	(MIN)	Chair
	MORNING	PRECISION SUSY, HIGGS AND TOP		Z. Kunszt
8:30	REFRESHMENTS		30
9:00	Stephen Martin	Precision relations of masses to Lagrangian parameters in SUSY	30
9:30	Karol Kovarik	SPA project and the on-shell scheme (in the MSSM)	20
9:50	Dominick Stockinger	Regularization of SUSY theories	20
10:10	Fernando Febres Cordero	NLO QCD corrections to W b bbar production at the Tevatron	20
10:30	COFFEE BREAK		30
11:00	Heidi Rzehak	Two-loop contributions to the Higgs sector in the MSSM with complex parameters	25
11:25	Markus Weber	Radiative corrections to Higgs decay to 4 fermions	20
11:45	Andre Hoang	The t-tbar threshold	30
12:15	Adrian Signer	A pNRQCD approach to t-tbar near threshold	25
12:40	LUNCH		80
	AFTERNOON	EVENT GENERATORS AND JET MODELING		U. Baur
2:00	Oliver Brein	Higgs + Jet angular and pT distributions: MSSM versus SM	25
2:25	Peter Skands	Pythia and Vincia	25
2:50	Phil Stephens	HERWIG	25
3:15	COFFEE BREAK		30
3:45	Thorsten Ohl	WHIZARD and O'Mega	25
4:10	Mauro Moretti	ALPGEN	25
4:35	Tilman Plehn	SMADGRAPH/ MADEVENT	25
5:00	Robin Erbacher	Consumer report from CDF	30
6:30	RECEPTION	Hunan Garden - No Host
7:00	DINNER	Hunan Garden - No Host

	Speaker	Topic	(MIN)	Chair
	MORNING	EFTS, RESUMMATION AND INTEGRATION		S. Martin
8:30	REFRESHMENTS		30
9:00	Matthias Neubert	Soft Collinear EFT for colliders	40
9:40	Nikolaos Kidonakis	Threshold resummation & finite-order expansions through NNNLO	30
10:10	Benjamin Fuks	Resummation applied to slepton pair production	30
10:40	COFFEE BREAK		30
11:10	Stefano Pozzorini	Electroweak Sudakov logarithms	30
11:40	Elise de Doncker	Iterated integration for a non-planar two-loop diagram	30
12:10	Alejandro Daleo	Numerical (multi)loop calculations	30
12:40	Stanley Brodsky	The Renormalization Scale Problem	15
12:55	LUNCH		65
	AFTERNOON	PRECISION QCD, MC AND MULTILEG NLO		M. Peskin
2:00	Markus Wobisch	Precision QCD at the Tevatron	30
2:30	Stefan Dittmaier	hadron hadron -> t tbar + jet at NLO	30
3:00	Zoltan Nagy	Parton shower as QCD prediction	30
3:30	COFFEE BREAK		30
4:00	Gudrun Heinrich	A semi-numerical approach to one-loop multi-leg amplitudes	30
4:30	Walter Giele	Numerical computation of one-loop amplitudes	30
5:00	Dave Soper	Summary and outlook	40