# PDF School 2009

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at DESY (Hamburg)
 Description The PDF school 2009 covers hard scattering reactions at colliders, both from the theoretical and the experimental side. Emphasis is put on the current information on parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their impact on predcitions and measurements of cross sections at the terascale. The lectures are targeted at Ph.D. students and young postdocs. In addition to the lectures, exercises on the usage of PDFs, PDF error evaluations and related issues will help to deepen the understanding of the topics covered in the lectures. The final day of the school is devoted to a PDF4LHC workshop meeting in which new developments on PDFs for the Large Hadron Collider will be discussed. The school fee is 50 Euros and has to be paid during the registration. On Thursday evening, a conference dinner will be organised. Participants are supposed to arrange for their own accomodation. We recommend starting with the DESY hostel - see http://guest-services.desy.de/hostel_in_hamburg/ Material:
Go to day
• Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• 08:30 - 09:30 Registration 1h0'
• 09:30 - 09:35 Welcome and introduction 5'  Speaker: Dr. Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY) Material:
• 09:35 - 10:30 Introduction to QCD 1 55' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY) Material:
• 10:30 - 10:45 coffee
• 10:45 - 11:45 Introduction to QCD 2 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)
• 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 16:00 Exercises: recursive methods for scattering amplitudes 2h0'  Speaker: Simon Badger (DESY) Material:
• 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee
• 16:15 - 17:15 QCD Fits 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University) Material:
• Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• 09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to QCD 3 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY) Material:
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
• 11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to QCD 4 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)
• 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 16:00 Exercises: alpha_s Evolution 2h0'  Speaker: Ulrich Langenfeld (HU Berlin) Material:
• 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
• 16:30 - 17:30 Deep Inelastic Scattering 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford University) Material:
• Thursday, October 22, 2009
• 09:00 - 10:00 PDFs and Physics at Tevatron and LHC 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University) Material:
• 10:00 - 10:30 break
Coffee
• 10:30 - 11:30 PDF uncertainties and LHC predictions 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Alberto Guffanti (Freiburg University) Material:
• 11:30 - 13:30 Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:00 PDFs in MC, PDF libraries 1h0' ( Sem Room 4 )  Speaker: Zoltan Nagy (DESY) Material:
• 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee
• 15:30 - 16:30 Exercises: PDF error evaluation 1h0'
• 17:00 - 18:00 Predictions and PDFs for the LHC 1h0'  Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University) Material:
• 19:30 - 22:00 School Dinner 2h30'
... in a restaurant in walking distance from DESY
• Friday, October 23, 2009
• 06:45 - 15:45 PDF4LHC Workshop
See agenda at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=70709