MC4BSM-2012

Mar 21, 2012, 6:30 PM → Mar 24, 2012, 6:00 PM America/New_York

PSB 401 (Cornell University - Physical Sciences Building)

Monte Carlo Tools for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Wednesday, March 21

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Software Prep Session

(Pizza provided)

Thursday, March 22

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM MC4BSM Tools I

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)

Slides MC4BSM6_opening.pdf

9:15 AM → 10:00 AM MC Overview – Peter Skands (CERN)

Slides Skands-MC4BSM.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM FeynRules – Claude Duhr (ETH Zurich)

Slides MC4BSM_2012.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM BSM in MADGRAPH - Olivier Mattelaer (FNRS-UCL-CP3)

Slides 12_03_22_MC4BSM_MG5.pdf

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM MC4BSM Tools II

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM BSM in CALCHEP – Neil Christensen (U. of Pittsburgh)

Slides MC4BSM-12.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM BSM in PYTHIA – Stefan Ask (Cambridge)

Slides ask_mc4bsm12.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM BSM in HERWIG - Andreas Papaefstathiou (U. of Zurich)

Slides MC4BSMHerwigpp.pdf

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM MC4BSM Tool Talks III

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM BSM in SHERPA – Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Slides stefan_ithaca_12-03.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM BSM in WHIZARD – Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides 2012_MC4BSM.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM → 7:00 PM Tutorial I

Friday, March 23

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM BSM - Theory I

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM BSM Theory Overview – Patrick Meade (Stony Brook)

Slides meadeMC4BSM.pdf

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Dark Matter at the LHC – Roni Harnik (Fermilab)

Slides DMcollidersMC4BSM.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM BSM Theory II

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Simplified Models – Eder Izaguirre (SLAC)

Slides MC4BSM_SimplifiedModels.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Controlling Backgrounds in New Physics Searches - Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

Slides ozeren.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM The Matrix Element Method at Next to Leading Order - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

Slides IthacaMEM.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Afternoon MC Talks

2:00 PM → 2:45 PM Jet Substructure – Jesse Thaler (MIT)

Slides jthaler_MC4BSM_Nsub.pdf

2:45 PM → 3:15 PM Sector Approach to Parton Showers - Michael Peskin (SLAC)

Slides MC4BSM12-Peskin.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Template Overlap Method for Higgs and New Physics Searches - Seung Lee (KAIST)

Slides Seung_Lee_MC4BSM_2012_March.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee

4:15 PM → 5:45 PM Afternoon MC Talks

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM Automatic Generation of the Lagrangian and FeynRules Model Files in a General Model Beyond the Standard Model – Stefanus Stefanus (U. of Pittsburgh)

Slides Model-Builder-Neil-C.pdf

4:45 PM → 5:15 PM EdgeFinder – David Curtin (Stony Brook)

Slides MT2_EdgetoBump_MC4BSM_23mar2012.pdf

5:15 PM → 5:45 PM MSSM Model Generation and Parameter Scans: A Consumer Report - Ahmed Ismail (SLAC)

Slides Ismail-MC4BSM.pdf

6:15 PM → 7:00 PM Reception/Wine bar (PSB Atrium)

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Workshop Dinner

Saturday, March 24

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Detector Simulation I

9:00 AM Fast Detector Simulation – Stephen Mrenna (Fermilab)

9:30 AM RECAST – Itay Yavin (McMaster U. & Perimeter Institute)

10:00 AM Validation of Geant4 simulation with LHC data – Andrea Dotti (CERN)

Slides MC4BSM_Workshop_-_Geant4_Validation.pdf

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Fast Detector Simulation – Stephen Mrenna (Fermilab)

Slides SFSTalk.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM RECAST – Itay Yavin (McMaster U. & Perimeter Institute)

Slides Yavin-MC4BSM.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Validation of Geant4 simulation with LHC data – Andrea Dotti (CERN)

Slides MC4BSM_Workshop_-_Geant4_Validation.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM ATOM: Automatically testing new theories against exciting results - Chris Vermillion (LBNL)

Slides MC4BSM_ATOM.pdf

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Detector Simulation II

11:00 AM Emulation prescription for CMS detector simulation – Gaurab Sarangi (U. of Florida)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Emulation prescription for CMS detector simulation – Gaurab Sarangi (U. of Florida)

Slides gaurab_mc4bsm.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Discussion Session

Discussion session on "Tools for Theory-Experiment Interaction in
the LHC Era" (pizza lunch provided)

1:30 PM → 4:30 PM Tutorial II