Plenary Session Monday June 15, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Plenary Program
8:30-8:55am	Registration check-in, PAB corridor
8:55-9:00am	Zvi Bern (UCLA): Welcome
	Plenary Program - Chair: L. Dixon
9:00-9:45am	Matthias Artur Weber/CMS (UCLA and CERN): The Standard Model at CMS
9:45-10:15am	Stefan Dittmaier (Freiburg): Dominant O(alpha*alpha_s) corrections to Drell–Yan processes in the resonance region
10:15-10:45am	Andrzej Czarnecki (Alberta): Radiative corrections in bound states
10:45-11:15am	Coffee
	Plenary Program - Chair: D. Kosower
11:15-11:45am	Michal Czakon (Aachen): The NNLO subtraction scheme STRIPPER: implementation and application
11:45am-12:15pm	Giulia Zanderighi (CERN): Fully differential VBF Higgs production at NNLO
12:15-1:30pm	Lunch

Parallel Session I Monday afternoon June 15, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Program: Higgs Session - Chair: J. Reuter
1:30-2:00pm	Ansgar Denner (Wurzburg): Precise predictions for Higgs production in association with top quarks
2:00-2:30pm	Maria Vittoria Garzelli (Hamburg): Implications of recent progress in heavy-quark hadroproduction
2:30-3:00pm	Jun Gao (Argonne National Laboratory): Higher-order corrections to the Higgs-boson pT distribution
3:00-3:30pm	Nicolas Greiner (DESY Hamburg): Higgs plus multi-jets in gluon fusion
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
	Program: Higgs Session - Chair: S. Borowka
4:00-4:30pm	Dominik Kara (Zurich): The rare decay H --> Zgamma in perturbative QCD
4:30-5:00pm	Hendrik Mantler (CERN): The resummed transverse momentum distribution of the Higgs in gluon fusion
5:00-5:30pm	Prakash Mathews (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics): Two-loop QCD amplitudes for Higgs --> b + b-bar + g

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Parallel Session II Monday afternoon June 15, 2015, PAB 1-434

Time	Program: QCD Session - Chair: S. Weinzierl
1:30-2:00pm	Lorenzo Magnea (Torino and INFN): Next-to-leading power threshold logarithms: a status report
2:00-2:30pm	Domenico Bonocore (NIKHEF, Amsterdam): The Drell-Yan process beyond threshold
2:30-3:00pm	Abilio De Freitas (DESY-Zeuthen): Latest results on the 3-loop heavy flavor Wilson coefficients in deep-inelastic scattering
3:00-3:30pm	Nadine Fischer (Monash): Coherent Showers for the LHC
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
	Program: QCD Session - Chair: M. Worek
4:00-4:30pm	Oleksandr Gituliar (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow): Towards three-loop QCD corrections to the time-like splitting functions
4:30-5:00pm	Valentin Hirschi (SLAC): Loop-induced processes with MadGraph5 aMC@NLO
5:00-5:30pm	Stanislaw Jadach (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow): Matching NLO QCD with parton shower in Monte Carlo scheme

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Parallel Session III Monday afternoon June 15, 2015, Kinsey Pavilion 1220B

Time	Program: Electroweak Session - Chair: L. Hofer
1:30-2:00pm	Benedikt Biedermann (Wurzburg): Next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to p p --> mu+mu-e+e- at the LHC
2:00-2:30pm	Alexander Huss (ETH): Mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to gauge-boson production in the pole approximation
2:30-3:00pm	Marco Zaro (LPTHE-UPMC): Electroweak corrections with MadGraph5 aMC@NLO
3:00-3:30pm	Sandro Uccirati (Torino): EW and QCD corrections at NLO with Recola
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
Time	Program: Vector Boson Session - Chair: G. Ossola
4:00-4:30pm	Tania Robens (Dresden): W+W− + jet: compact analytic results
4:30-5:00pm	Lorenzo Tancredi (TTP Karlsruhe): Two-loop QCD corrections to vector boson pair production at the LHC
5:00-5:30pm	Marius Wiesemann (Zurich): Transverse momentum resummation of colorless final states at the NNLO+NNLL

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Plenary Session Tuesday June 16, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Plenary Program - Chair: R.K. Ellis
9:00-9:30am	George Sterman (Stony Brook): A coordinate description of partonic processes
9:30-10:00am	Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg): Rare exclusive decays of Higgs and Z bosons in QCD factorization
10:00-10:30am	Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist): A meta-analysis method for combination of PDF uncertainties
10:30-11:00am	Coffee
	Plenary Program - Chair: A. Denner
11:00-11:30am	Claude Duhr (CERN): Precision Higgs physics at hadron colliders
11:30-12:00pm	Iain Stewart (MIT): An EFT Description of Forward Scattering and FactorizationViolation
12:00-1:30pm	Lunch

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Parallel Session I Tuesday afternoon June 16, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Program: Heavy Quark Session - Chair: F. Febres Cordero
1:30-2:00pm	Johann Kuehn (KIT Karlsruhe): Weak interactions in top-quark pair production at hadron colliders: An update
2:00-2:30pm	Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State): N^3LO calculations for top-quark differential cross sections near partonic threshold
2:30-3:00pm	Gabriel Abelof (Northwestern): Differential top pair production at NNLO
3:00-3:30pm	Andreas Maier (Technische Universität München): The bottom-quark mass from non-relativistic sum rules at NNNLO
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
Time	Program: Electroweak - B. Mistlberger
4:00-4:30pm	Chia-Hsien Shen (Caltech): Non-renormalization theorems without supersymmetry
4:30-5:00pm	Jonas Lindert (Zurich): Automated NLO EW corrections with OpenLoops and and precise predictions for vector boson plus multijet production

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Parallel Session II Tuesday afternoon June 16, 2015, PAB 1-434

Time	Program: Methods - Chair: D. Maitre
1:30-2:00pm	Giovanni Ossola (CUNY): Integrand reduction techniques for NLO and NNLO calculations
2:00-2:30pm	Elise de Doncker (Western Michigan University): Automatic integration for Feynman integrals through 4-loop
2:30-3:00pm	Lars Hofer (IFAE Barcelona): COLLIER: a Complex One-Loop LIbrary in Extended Regularizations
3:00-3:30pm	Anna Kulesza (Münster): Threshold resummation for hadronic collisions with three particles in the final state
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
	Program: Methods - A. De Freitas
4:00-4:30pm	York Schroder (UBB Chillan): Five-loop massive tadpoles
4:30-5:00pm	Thomas Luthe (Bielefeld): Fine-tuning the Laporta approach
5:00-5:30pm	Bennie Ward (Baylor): New developments in exact amplitude-based Resummation in precision theory vs experiment

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Parallel Session III Tuesday afternoon June 16, 2015, Kinsey Pavilion 1220B

Time	Program: QCD Session - J. Trnka
1:30-2:00pm	Karol Kampf (Prague): Radiative corrections for Pi_0 decays
2:00-2:30pm	Adam Kardos (Debrecen): Jet production in the colorful NNLO framework
2:30-3:00pm	Pier Monni (Oxford): Automated resummation for jet observables
3:00-3:30pm	Abdur Rehman (Warsaw): The NNLO counterterm contributions to B (B-bar --> X_s gamma) for an arbitrary charm quark mass
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
	Program: Precision QED Session - Chair: M. Steinhauser
4:00-4:30pm	Alexander Penin (Alberta): High-energy limit of Quantum Electrodynamics beyond Sudakov
4:30-5:00pm	Matteo Fael (Bern)/Massimo Passera (INFN Padova): QED corrections to radiative muon and tau leptonic decays
5:00-5:30pm	Robert Szafron (Alberta): Muon decay in orbit and its role in New Physics searches

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Plenary Session Wednesday June 17, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Plenary Program - Chair: G. Zanderighi
9:00-9:30am	Christian Bauer (LBNL): Results from GENEVA
9:30-10:00am	Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory): NNLO phenomenology with jettiness subtraction
10:00-10:30am	Jonathan Walsh (UC Berkeley and LBNL): The Evolution of Jet Substructure
10:30-11:00am	Coffee

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Parallel Session I Wednesday morning June 17, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Program: QCD Session - Chair: R. Boughezal
11:00-11:30am	Matthieu Jaquier (Zurich): Status of Higgs plus one jet at NNLO
11:30-12:00pm	Bernhard Mistlberger (ETH): Higgs Production: Calculating at N^3LO in QCD
12:00-12:30pm	Mao Zeng (Stony Brook ): Drell-Yan process with jet vetoes: violation of generalized factorization
12:30-1:00pm	Rutger Boels (DESY): Towards a four loop form factor

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Parallel Session II Wednesday morning June 17, 2015, PAB 1-434

Time	Program: Methods Session - Chair: E. Gardi
11:00-11:30am	Carsten Schneider (J.Kepler, Linz): Calculation of 3-Loop massive ladder and V-Diagrams with difference-ring techniques
11:30-12:00pm	Robert Schabinger (Johannes Gutenberg): Advances in the method of differential equations for multi-Loop feynman integrals
12:00-12:30pm	Kasper Larsen (ETH Zurich): Two-loop amplitudes from maximal unitarity
12:30-1:00pm	William Javier Torres Bobadilla (Padua): Generalised unitarity for dimensionally regulated amplitudes within FDF

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Parallel Session III Wednesday morning June 17, 2015, Kinsey Pavilion 1220B

Time	Program: QCD Session - T. Hahn
11:00-11:30am	Philipp Maierhöfer (Durham): Present and future of the OpenLoops matrix element generator
11:30-12:00pm	Sophia Borowka (Zurich): Renormalization scheme dependence of the two-loop QCD corrections to the neutral Higgs-boson masses in the MSSM
12:00-12:30pm	Peter Marquard (DESY): Complete NNNLO QCD prediction for the total top-anti-top S-wave pair production cross section near threshold in e+ e− annihilation
12:30-1:00pm	Kazuhiro Tanaka (Juntendo University): Relation between the QCD resummation procedures for transverse-momentum distributions

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Plenary Session Thursday June 18, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Plenary Program - Chair: S. Dittmaier
9:00-9:45am	Joey Huston / ATLAS (Michigan State ): QCD and electroweak results from ATLAS, and needs for new precision calculations
9:45-10:15am	Philip Ilten (MIT/LHCb): Precision Forward Measurements at LHCb with Vector Bosons
10:15-10:45am	Coffee
	Plenary Program - Chair: C. Duhr
10:45-11:15am	Elisabetta Furlan (Fermilab): Higgs boson production through gluon fusion at N^3LO
11:15am-12:00pm	Stanley Osher (UCLA): What sparsity and L1 optimization can do for you
12:00-1:30pm	Lunch (Lunch meeting of the RADCOR IAB in PAB 4-708)

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Parallel Session I Thursday afternoon June 18, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Program: Vector Boson Session - Chair: C. Duhr
1:30-2:00pm	Fernando Febres Cordero (Freiburg): W+W- Production with Jets at the LHC
2:00-2:30pm	Prerit Jaiswal (Syracuse): Jet-veto resummation for WW production
2:30-3:00pm	Stefan Kallweit (Mainz): W gamma and Z gamma production at the LHC in NNLO QCD
3:00-3:30pm	Thomas Morgan (Durham): Z+1jet at NNLO using antenna subtraction
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
	Program: Vector Boson Session - Chair: S. Kallweit
4:00-4:30pm	Dirk Rathlev (Zurich): Status of diboson production in NNLO QCD
4:30-5:00pm	Vajravelu Ravindran (Inst. of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai): Threshold corrections at N^3LO in QCD for Drell-Yan and Higgs productions at the LHC
5:00-5:30pm	Eric Takasugi (UCLA/CMS): Comparisons of CMS data to NLO QCD in vector boson/photon processes

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Parallel Session II Thursday afternoon June 18, 2015, PAB 1-434

Time	Program: Quantum Field Theory Session - Y. Zhang
1:30-2:00pm	Jaroslav Trnka (Caltech): Singularity structure of maximally supersymmetric scattering amplitudes
2:00-2:30pm	Scott Davies (UCLA): Three- and Four-Loop Ultraviolet Finiteness in Supergravity Theories
2:30-3:00pm	Josh Nohle (UCLA): Nonsupersymmetric Gravity at Two Loops
3:00-3:30pm	German Sborlini (IFIC-Valencia): Loop-tree duality and quantum field theory in 4D
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
Time	Program: Methods Session - E. Furlan
4:00-4:30pm	Alexander Smirnov (Moscow State) FIRE5: a C++ implementation of Feynman Integral REduction
4:30-5:00pm	Damiano Tommasini (NCSR Demokritos): Master integrals and generalized polylogarithms: focus on fast and efficient evaluation
5:00-5:30pm	Yang Zhang (ETH Zurich): Integral reduction via algebraic curves

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Parallel Session III Thursday afternoon June 18, 2015, Kinsey Pavilion 1220B

Time	Program: QCD session - C. Bauer
1:30-2:00pm	Walter Giele (Fermilab): Improved event generation of NLO and NNLO Monte Carlos
2:00-2:30pm	Xiaohui Liu (Maryland): Jettiness as a subtraction scheme for NNLO
2:30-3:00pm	Cen Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory): NLO predictions for effective field theory with MadGraph5 aMC@NLO
3:00-3:30pm	Juergen Reuter (DESY): QCD NLO with Powheg matching and top threshold matching in WHIZARD
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee
	Program: QCD Session - Chair: N. Greiner
4:00-4:30pm	Christian Reuschle (KIT Karlsruhe): NLO efforts in Herwig++
4:30-5:00pm	Gabor Somogyi (Debrecen): Colorful NNLO -- Completely local subtractions for fully differential predictions at NNLO
5:00-5:30pm	Jim Talbert (Oxford): Automated calculations of dijet soft functions in SCET

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Plenary Session Friday June 19, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Plenary Program - Chair: A Kulesza
9:00-9:30am	Einan Gardi (Edinburgh): Long-distance singularities in multi-leg scattering amplitudes
9:30-10:00am	Matthias Steinhauser (KIT): Four-loop relation between the MS-bar and on-shell quark mass
10:00-10:30am	Coffee
	Plenary Program - Chair: M. Neubert
10:30-11:00am	Vladimir Smirnov (Lomonosov Moscow State): Evaluating Feynman integrals by uniformly transcendental differential equations
11:00-11:30am	Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz): A walk on Sunset Boulevard
11:30-1:00pm	Lunch
	Plenary Program - Chair: W. Giele
3:50-4:30pm	R. Keith Ellis (Fermilab): Conference summary

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Parallel Session I Friday afternoon June 19, 2015, PAB 1-425

Time	Program: QCD Session - A. Huss
1:00-1:30pm	Daniel Maitre (IPPP, Durham): High multiplicity processes with BlackHat and Sherpa
1:30-2:00pm	Malgorzata Worek (RWTH Aachen): Matching the Nagy-Soper parton shower at NLO
2:00-2:30pm	Nikolai Zerf (Alberta): Hyperfine splitting in the bottomonium system on the lattice and in the continuum
2:30-3:00pm	James Currie (IPPP Durham): NNLO Corrections to Dijet Production
3:00-3:30pm	Stefan Prestel (SLAC): NNLO matching and shower developments
3:30-3:50pm	Coffee

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Parallel Session II Friday afternoon June 19, 2015, PAB 1-434

Time	Program: Methods Session - Chair: K. Larsen
1:00-1:30pm	Costas Papadopoulos (NCSR Demokritos): Simplified differential equations approach for master integrals
1:30-2:00pm	Andreas von Manteuffel (Mainz): A quasi-finite basis for multi-loop Feynman integrals
2:00-2:30pm	Johannes Schlenk (MPI, Munich): Calculation of multi-loop integrals with SecDec-3.0
2:30-3:00pm	Erik Panzer (IHES and CNRS): Linear reducibility of Feynman integrals
3:00-3:30pm	Chris Wever (NCSR Demokritos): The calculation of a massive planar pentabox with a differential equation method
3:30-3:50pm	Coffee

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