LoopFest III

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA

April 1-3, 2004

Program

Thursday, April 1, 2004
8:00 am	Registration
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Ulrich Baur
8:45-9:00 am	David Gross	Welcome
9:00-9:30 am	Planning for and Progress Toward the Linear Collider Jim Brau
9:30-10:00 am	Stefan Dittmaier	The LoopVerein: European activities
10:00-10:30 am	Marco Battaglia	Precision Higgs Physics at the Linear Collider: Experimental Potential and Theory Issues
10:30-11:00 am	Coffee break
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Fred Olness
11:00-11:30 am	Robert Clare	Electroweak Data Fits and the Higgs Boson Mass
11:30-12:00 am	Michael Chanowitz	The direct limit on the Higgs boson mass and the SM fit
12:00-12:30 am	Terrance Figy	NLO QCD Corrections for Higgs Production via Weak-Boson Fusion
12:30-2:00 pm	Lunch
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Zoltan Kunszt
2:00-2:30 pm	Sven Heinemeyer	Precision Observables in the MSSM: Status and Perspective
2:30-3:00 pm	Alberto Sirlin	Bounds on MW, Mt and sin2theta_eff^lept
3:00-3:30 pm	Malgorzata Awramik	Two-loop corrections to the effective mixing angle sin2thetaeff
3:30-4:00 pm	Coffee break
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Sally Dawson
4:00-4:30 am	Carlo Oleari	NLO QCD corrections to W and Z production via vector boson fusion
4:30-5:00 pm	Frank Petriello	High precision QCD at hadron colliders: electroweak gauge boson rapidity distributions at NNLO
5:00-5:30 pm	Martin Beneke	Unstable particle production with effective theory
5:30-6:00 pm	Jose Wudka	CP violation in 5D QED
6:15-7:15 pm	Wine and Cheese Reception
7:15 pm-	Dinner to be arranged

Friday, April 2, 2004
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Thomas Gehrmann
8:30-9:00 am	Oleg Tarasov	Differential Groebner bases technique for calculating two-loop propagator and vertex type Feynman diagrams
9:00-9:30 am	Johann Kuehn	New results on multi-loop calculations
9:30-10:00 am	David Kosower	Merging Parton Showers with Fixed Order
10:00-10:30 am	William Kilgore	Higgs production with b quarks
10:30-11:00 am	Coffee break
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Nigel Glover
11:00-11:30 am	Gudrun Heinrich	A numerical approach to NNLO calculations in QCD
11:30-12:00 am	Davison Soper	Adding parton showers to NLO calculations
12:00-12:30 am	Walter Giele	A Calculational Formalism for Massless One-Loop Integrals
12:30-2:00 pm	Lunch
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Carl Schmidt
2:00-2:30 pm	Thomas Gehrmann	Structure of double real radiation at NNLO
2:30-3:00 pm	Thomas Binoth	One-loop techniques for many legs
3:00-3:30 pm	Babis Anastasiou	A new method for real radiation at NNLO
3:30-4:00 pm	Coffee break
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Alberto Sirlin
4:00-4:30 pm	Kiyoshi Kato	Full one-loop electroweak radiative corrections for LC
4:30-5:00 pm	Giulia Zanderighi	Generalized resummation of QCD final-state observables
5:00-5:30 pm	Pavel Nadolsky	Resummation methods in heavy flavor production
5:30-6:00 pm	Maciek Slusarczyk	Two loop QCD corrections to heavy to light quark transitions
7:00 pm-	Dinner to be arranged

Saturday, April 3, 2004
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Doreen Wackeroth
8:45-9:15 am	Fred Jegerlehner	Status of the muon g-2 and the theoretical uncertainty of the hadronic contributions
9:15-9:45 am	Kirill Melnikov	Hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment
9:45-10:15 am	Kai Diener	Electroweak corrections to deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering
10:15-11:00 am	Coffee break
Plenary session Kohn Hall, KITP Chair: Michael Peskin
11:00-11:30 am	Alexander Mitov	Perturbative Heavy Quark Fragmentation Function at NNLO
11:30-12:00 pm	Shufang Su	Probing Supersymmetry with Neutral Current Scattering Experiments
12:00-12:30 am	Markus Roth	Physical renormalization condition for the quark-mixing matrix
12:30-1:00 pm	Zvi Bern	KITP Collider Physics Program and LoopFest III: Highlights and Outlook
1:00 pm	Adjourn