QCD: The Modern View of the Strong Interactions

4 Oct 2009, 17:30 → 9 Oct 2009, 13:30 Europe/Berlin

Einstein-Hall (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Foto: Thomas Huntke

Sunday 4 October

17:30 → 20:00 Registration from 17:30 - 20:00

Monday 5 October

08:00 → 08:50 Registration from 8:00 to 8:50

09:00 → 13:00 Monday morning session

09:00 Opening

09:10 QCD: 37 years later

Speaker: D. Gross

Slides GROSS.pdf

10:00 Parton distribution functions to O(a_s^3)

Speaker: J. Stirling

Slides Berlin2009_Stirling.pdf

10:50 Coffee break

11:20 Heavy flavor contributions to DIS to O(a_s^3)

Speaker: S. Klein

Slides http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~blumlein/QCDCONF/Se_Klein_QCD.pdf

12:10 Monte Carlo simulation of pp-processes

Speaker: S. Frixione

Slides frixione.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:00 Monday afternoon session

14:30 Spin-dependent parton distributions of the nucleon

Speaker: W. Vogelsang

Slides Vogelsang.pdf

15:20 On the interface between lattice results and chiral perturbation theory

Speaker: H. Leutwyler

Slides Leutwyler.pdf

16:10 Coffee break

16:40 Experimental status of the precision of alpha_s

Speaker: S. Bethke

Slides Bethke.pdf

17:10 Hilbert space in deterministic theories

Speaker: G. 't Hooft

Slides GtH_Hilbert_Berlin_09.pptx

Tuesday 6 October

09:00 → 13:10 Tuesday morning session

09:00 Physics at the LHC

Speaker: R. Heuer

Slides heuer_berlin_oct09.pptx

09:50 Nucleon Structure from Lattice QCD

Speaker: G. Schierholz

Slides Schierholz_berlin.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

11:10 Periods, Feynman integrals and number theory

Speaker: F. Brown

Slides Brown.pdf

12:00 Hopf algebras and renormalization

Speaker: D. Kreimer

Slides Kreimer.pdf

13:10 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:00 Tuesday afternoon session

14:30 Integrability and exact anomalous dimensions in Yang-Mills theory

Speaker: M. Staudacher

Slides Staudacher.pdf

15:00 Gauge/gravity duality and QCD observables

Speaker: I. Kirsch

Slides Kirsch.pdf

15:30 Pomeron and the AdS/CFT correspondence

Speaker: J. Bartels

Slides Bartels.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 New global analysis of parton distributions: exploring the large-x domain

Speaker: W. Melnitchouk.

Slides Melnitchouk.pdf

17:00 Cutting methods and MHV

Speaker: N. Glover

Slides glover-berlin.pdf

20:00 → 21:00 Evening talk

slides veltman.ppt

20:00 Challenges at Particle Accelerators: Past, Present, and Future

Speaker: M. Veltman

Wednesday 7 October

09:00 → 13:00 Wednesday morning session

09:00 Large-scale computer algebra calculations of Feynman diagrams

Speaker: J. Vermaseren

Slides Vermaseren.pdf

09:50 Modern summation technologies in computer algebra

Speaker: C. Schneider

Slides Schneider.pdf

10:40 Coffeee break

11:10 Precise charm and bottom quark masses

Speaker: J. Kühn

Slides Kuehn.pdf

11:40 R(s), DIS sum rules and the Crewther Relation in order alpha_s^4

Speaker: K. Chetyrkin

Slides Chetyrkin.pdf

12:10 Top quark production at the LHC in higher orders

Speaker: S.-O. Moch

Slides moch.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:00 Wednesday afternoon session

14:30 The three-loop static potential in QCD

Speaker: M. Steinhauser

Slides steinhauser.pdf

15:00 Mass effects at higher orders of QCD

Speaker: M. Czakon

Slides Czakon.pdf

15:30 Top quark pair production in association with an additional jet: Phenomenological results at next-to-leading order QCD

Speaker: P. Uwer

Slides Uwer.ppt

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Computations of one-loop amplitudes with massive particles

Speaker: S. Badger

Slides Badger.pdf

17:00 Fluid dynamics from AdS/CFT

Speaker: M. Haack

Slides Haack.pdf

17:30 String theory meets collider physics

Speaker: S. Stieberger

Slides Stieberger.pdf

Thursday 8 October

09:00 → 13:00 Thursday morning session

09:00 Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From QCD to Gravity

Speaker: Z. Bern

Slides bern.pdf

09:50 How on-shell methods simplify QCD loop computations at LHC

Speaker: L. Dixon

Slides Dixon.ppt

10:40 Coffee break

11:10 NNLO corrections to e^+e^- --> 3 jets

Speaker: T. Gehrmann

Slides Gehrmann.pdf

12:00 Effective field theory tools for collider physics

Speaker: M. Neubert

Slides neubert_QCD.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 22:30 Thursday afternoon session

14:30 Hadrons in modern constituent quark models

Speaker: W. Plessas

Slides plessas_berlin09.pdf

15:15 Path integral approach to soft exponentiation

Speaker: C. White

Slides white_chris.pdf

15:45 Gauge boson binaries amidst gluonic mesons, a QCD odyssee

Speaker: P. Minkowski

Slides Minkowski.pdf

16:15 Coffee break

16:45 Manufactoring one-loop matrix elements with GOLEM

Speaker: T. Reiter

Slides 091008-reiter-thomas.pdf

17:15 Twoloop QCD corrections to B meson decay

Speaker: T. Huber

Slides Huber.pdf

17:45 Light-front holography and non-perturbative QCD

Speaker: S. Brodsky

Slides Brodsky.pdf

19:30 Conference Dinner

Friday 9 October

08:00 → 13:30 Friday morning session

09:00 Some insights from studies of variants of the standard model

Speaker: R. Shrock

Slides Shrock.pdf

09:30 Non-perturbative heavy quark effective theory

Speaker: R. Sommer

Slides sommer.pdf

10:20 Lattice QCD with Wilson twisted fermions

Speaker: G. Rossi

Slides Rossi.pdf

10:50 Coffee break

11:20 Quark-gluon plasma

Speaker: E. Shuryak

Slides shuryak_berlin09.pdf

12:10 Gauge dynamics at strong coupling from supersymmetry

Speaker: M. Shifman

Slides Shifman.pdf