SCET Workshop 2008 » Scientific Program

Scientific Program

8:30–8:45
(15′)

Matthias Neubert (Mainz)
Welcome
8:45–9:45
(40′+20′)

Christian Bauer (Berkeley)
A brief history of SCET (from B physics to colliders)
9:45–10:30
(35′+10′)

Dave Soper (Oregon/CERN)
Parton showers from QCD (I)
10:30–10:45

coffee break
10:45–11:30
(35′+10′)

Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz)
Parton showers from QCD (II)
11:30–12:30
(40′+20′)

Frank Tackmann (Berkeley)
GenEva: SCET-friendly event generation
12:30–14:00

lunch break
14:00–14:45
(35′+10′)

Babis Anastasiou (Zürich)
Higgs production at the LHC: NNLO vs. parton showers
14:45–15:45
(40′+20′)

Thomas Becher (Fermilab)
Dynamical threshold enhancement in Drell-Yan production
15:45–16:15

coffee break
16:15–17:00
(35′+10′)

Aneesh Manohar (San Diego)
Electroweak Sudakov logarithms
17:00–17:20
(15′+5′)

Valentin Ahrens (Mainz) *
Threshold resummation for Higgs production
17:20–17:40
(15′+5′)

Jui-yu Chiu (San Diego) *
Electroweak Sudakov corrections to dijet, top and squark production
17:40–18:00
(15′+5′)

Emanuele Mereghetti (Arizona) *
Subleading contributions to the pion form factor

* young scientists session

8:30–9:15
(35′+10′)

Christopher Lee (Berkeley)
Factorization of event shape distributions in SCET
9:15–10:00
(35′+10′)

Thomas Gehrmann (Zürich)
Event shapes at NNLO
10:00–10:20
(15′+5′)

Andrew Hornig (Berkeley) *
Factorization in jet production
10:20–10:35

coffee break
10:35–11:20
(35′+10′)

Matthew Schwartz (Johns Hopkins)
A precise measurement of α_s at LEP using SCET
11:20–12:05
(35′+10′)

Andre Hoang (MPI)
Top jets in the resonance region: Factorization and NLL analysis
12:05–12:25
(15′+5′)

Ambar Jain (MIT) *
Two-loop jet function and jet mass for top quarks
12:25–13:30

lunch break
13:30–14:10
(30′+10′)

Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford)
Four-fermion production near the WW-pair production threshold
14:10–14:45
(25′+10′)

Junegone Chay (Seoul)
Transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions in SCET
14:45–15:20
(25′+10′)

Zoltan Kunszt (Zürich)
Unitary method for one loop calculations
15:45

bus departure to Mainz for social program

* young scientists session

9:00–9:45
(35′+10′)

Martin Beneke (Aachen)
Exclusive b→c c(bar) s decays
9:45–10:30
(35′+10′)

Fulvia de Fazio (Bari)
SCET sum rules for B→P and B→V transition form factors
10:30–10:45

coffee break
10:45–11:25
(30′+10′)

Guido Bell (Karlsruhe)
Modelling light-cone distribution amplitudes from non-relativistic bound states
11:25–12:05
(30′+10′)

Gil Paz (IAS Princeton)
How well can we hope to know the B→X_sγ decay rate?
12:05–12:45
(30′+10′)

Zoltan Ligeti (Berkeley)
Precise predictions for B→X_sI⁺I^-
12:45–14:00

lunch break
14:00–15:00
(40′+20′)

Iain Stewart (MIT)
Outlook
15:00–15:10
(10′)

Matthias Neubert (Mainz)
Closing remarks