Program



[Monday February 23] [Tuesday, February 24] [Wednesday, February 25] [Thursday, February 26]


Monday, February 23

12:00-14:00 Registration, welcome and lunch at IWH
14:00-14:50 Graham Kribs/Michael Schmitt New physics beyond the MSSM - new correlations or new signatures?, part 2
15:00-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:50 all TeV-scale models at the LHC (discussion, open end)
18:30 Welcome Buffet at IWH

Tuesday, February 24

9:00-9:50 Dan Tovey Reconstructing masses with missing energy - crucial for dark matter?
10:00-10:50 Koichi Hamaguchi Dark matter and missing energy - what is there apart from SUSY?
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:20 all Dark matter models and searches (discussion)
12:30-14:00 lunch (in town)
14:00-14:50 Shoji Asai Signature-based searches - how realistic and useful are they?
15:00-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:50 all Signatures and searches mostly in supersymmetry (discussion, open end)

Wednesday, February 25

9:00-9:50 Frank Krauss Higher orders and jet merging - what is needed for signals and backgrounds?
10:00-10:50 Gavin Salam Jet structures in new physics and Higgs searches - can we do it?
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:20 all QCD screwing up new physics searches (discussion)
12:30-14:00 lunch (in town)
14:00-14:50 Matt Strassler Non-minimal models - where could they challenge LHC?
15:00-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:50 all QCD versus problematic models at the LHC (discussion, open end)

Thursday, February 26

9:00-9:50 Kyle Cranmer/Daniel Whiteson Modern Statistics - how can we gain some intuition? part 2
10:00-10:50 Patrick Meade/Dirk Zerwas Extracting model parameters - are our techniques fit for the job? part 2
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:20 all What did we learn, what do we want... (discussion)
12:30-14:00 lunch at IWH, end of workshop

Last update: November 10, 2008 by TP