West Coast LHC Theory Network

• 9:15 - 9:30 : Welcome - Winston Ko (UCD)
• 9:30 - 10:15 : SUSY tau and lepton signatures - Max Chertok (UCD) pdf
• 10:15 - 11:00 : Jet Definitions - Dave Soper (U. Oregon) pdf
  • Infrared safety in definitions of observables for short distance physics and why it is important.
  • Cone definitions of jets. The basic definition and some of the variations. Are these OK?
  • KT definition. Advantages and potential disadvantages.
• 11:00 - 11:15 : coffee
• 11:15 - 12:00 : A practical jet primer - Steve Ellis (U. Wash.) ppt
  • What have been the issues with jet algorithms in real experiments?
  • What do all the buzz-words mean?
  • What are the issues likely to be at the LHC?
• 12:00 - 1:00 : lunch
• 1:00 - 1:45 : Jets at the LHC: an experimental perspective - Joey Huston (MSU) pdf
• 1:45 - 2:30 : Event Generation from Effective Field Theory - Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley) pdf
• 2:30 - 2:45 : Discussion
• 2:45 - 3:15 : coffee
• 3:15 - 4:00 : MadGraph/MadEvent v. 4 - Johan Alwall (SLAC) <b><a href=“slides/alwall.pdf|pdf]]
• 4:00 - 4:45 : MARMOSET: Signal-Based Monte Carlo for the LHC- Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley) pdf
• 4:45 - 5:30 : Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Unknowns - Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)
• 5:30 : adjourn

The following people registered:

• John Terning, faculty at UC Davis
• John F. Gunion, Faculty at U.C. Davis
• Hsin-Chia Cheng, faculty at U.C. Davis
• Jay Wacker, Faculty at SLAC
• JoAnne Hewett, faculty at SLAC
• Graham Kribs, Professor at University of Oregon
• Dave Soper, faculty at University of Oregon
• Tom Rizzo, staff scientist at SLAC
• Bob McElrath, postdoc at UC-Davis
• Sean Fleming, faculty at University of Arizona
• Howard Haber, faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Michael Peskin, faculty at SLAC
• Michael Chanowitz, staff at LBNL
• Patrick Fox, Postdoc at LBL
• Jesse Thaler, Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley
• Shufang Su, Faculty at Univeristy of Arizona
• Xinyu Miao, student at University of Arizona
• Ethan Dolle, student at University of Arizona
• Robert Cahn, faculty at LBNL
• Guido Marandella, Postdoc at UC Davis
• Johan Alwall, Postdoc at SLAC
• Roni Harnik, postdoc at SLAC
• Giacomo Cacciapaglia, postdoc at UC Davis
• Rikard Enberg, postdoc at LBL
• Stephen D. Ellis, Faculty at University of Washington
• Mithat Unsal, postdoc at SLAC
• Deva O\'Neil, student at UC Santa Cruz
• John D. Mason, student at UCSC
• Linda Carpenter, postdoc at UC Santa Cruz
• Zhenyu Han, postdoc at UCDavis
• Jamison Galloway, student at UC Davis
• Damien Martin, student at UC Davis
• Nathaniel Craig, Student at Stanford/SLAC
• Mariangela Lisanti, graduate student at Stanford
• Michael Davenport, student at SLAC
• Bryan Smith, student at UC Irvine
• Maxwell Chertok, faculty at UC Davis
• Minjoon Park, postdoc at UC Davis
• Christopher Lee, Postdoc at University of Washington
• Matthew Strassler, faculty at University of Washington
• Masahiro Ibe, postdoc at slac
• Tommer Wizansky, student at SLAC
• John Conley, student at SLAC
• Wu-Ki Tung, faculty at univ washington
• Stuart Raby, faculty at The Ohio State University
• Michael Dine, faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz

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