Name: MPI@LHC'08
Start: 2008-10-26T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2008-10-31T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Perugia

Sunday, 26 October
- Welcome Party
Monday, 27 October
- Welcome & Introduction
  - 1
    
    Local Organization
    
    Speaker: Livio Fano' (PG)
  - 2
    
    Welcome from Perugia Authorities
  - 3
    
    Welcome from University of Perugia - Physics dept.
    
    Speaker: Claudio Ciofi Degli Atti (PG)
  - 4
    
    Welcome from INFN and CMS - Perugia
    
    Speaker: Giancarlo Mantovani (PG)
  - 5
    
    Introduction to the workshop
    
    Speaker: Dr Paolo Bartalini (NTU)
    
    Slides
- Hot Topics
  - 6
    
    Higgs Search at Tevatron
    
    Speaker: Ralf Bernhard
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    CDF: The Underlying Event and Comparisons with MC
    
    Speaker: Rick Field
    
    Slides
  - 10:40
    
    Coffee break
  - 8
    
    Monte Carlo Generators for the LHC
    
    Speaker: Roberto Chierici
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    Total cross sections at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Rohini Godbole
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    Progress in jet search algorithms
    
    Speaker: Matteo Cacciari
    
    Slides
- 12:40
  
  Lunch
- Soft & Hard Multiple Parton Interactions
  - 11
    
    W's as tools to probe multiparton interaction dynamics
    
    Speaker: Daniele Treleani
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Multijet production and S-channel unitarity
    
    Speaker: Ted Rogers
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    QCD Mini-jet contribution to the total cross-section
    
    Speaker: Andrea Achilli
    
    Slides
  - 16:00
    
    Coffee break
  - 14
    
    CDF: Min-Bias Studies at CDF and Comparisons with MC
    
    Speaker: Niccolo' Moggi
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    HERA: MPI in photoproduction
    
    Speaker: Lluis Marti
    
    Slides
Tuesday, 28 October
- Soft & Hard Multiple Parton Interactions
  - 16
    
    CMS: Minimum Bias studies
    
    Speaker: Ferenc Sikler
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    CMS: Underlying Event studies
    
    Speaker: Filippo Ambroglini
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    CMS: Study of Double Hard MPI in 3jet+gamma
    
    Speaker: Florian Bechtel
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 19
    
    ATLAS: Status of the minimum bias events
    
    Speaker: William Bell
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    ATLAS: Underlying Event Studies
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Tricoli
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    ATLAS: Tuning of the QCD Monte Carlo Models
    
    Speaker: Arthur Moraes
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- Soft & Hard Multiple Parton Interactions
  - 22
    
    ALICE: Min-bias Studies at ALICE
    
    Speaker: Raffaele Grosso
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    LHCb: Minimum Bias at LHCb
    
    Speaker: Umberto Marconi
    
    Slides
  - 24
    
    TOTEM: “TOTEM Early Measuremnets”
    
    Speaker: Fabrizio Ferro
    
    Slides
- Small x physics and diffraction
  - 25
    
    Small x pdfs - experimental review
    
    Speaker: Ronan McNulty
    
    Slides
  - 16:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 26
    
    Small x pdfs - diffractive/not diffractive integrated/unintegrated
    
    Speaker: Victor Lendermann
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    Vector meson and dijet production
    
    Speaker: Henri Kowalski
    
    Slides
Wednesday, 29 October
- Small x physics and diffraction
  - 28
    
    CDF experimental results on diffraction
    
    Speaker: Michele Gallinaro
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Theoretical estimates of gap survival
    
    Speaker: Leonid Frankfurt
    
    Slides
  - 30
    
    Gap survival probability and rescattering in diffraction
    
    Speaker: Ada Solano
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 31
    
    Gap survival probability and rescattering in diffraction (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Michele Arneodo
    
    Slides
  - 32
    
    Forward jet close to rapidity gaps & Muller Navelet jets at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mario Campanelli
    
    Slides
  - 33
    
    New phenomena in DIS at very high energies and it's impact on LHC
    
    Speaker: Boris Bloc
- Social Programme
Thursday, 30 October
- Monte Carlo Models
  - 34
    
    Soft interactions in Herwig++
    
    Speaker: Manuel Bähr
    
    Slides
  - 35
    
    Pythia 8
    
    Speaker: Richard Corke
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 36
    
    Sherpa
    
    Speaker: Stefan Höche
    
    Slides
  - 37
    
    Color connections, Multijets
    
    Speaker: Peter Skands
    
    Slides
  - 38
    
    MC event generators: look from hard core QCD theorists
    
    Speaker: Zoltan Nagy
    
    Slides
- 12:45
  
  Lunch
- Monte Carlo Models
  - 39
    
    EPOS and others
    
    Speaker: Klaus Werner
    
    Slides
  - 40
    
    Comparison between tuned generators
    
    Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth
    
    Slides
  - 41
    
    MCs based on the Regge-Gribov approach
    
    Speaker: Ralph Engel
  - 16:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 42
    
    Monte Carlo Implementation of Saturation
    
    Speaker: Krzysztof Kutak
    
    Slides
- Heavy Ions
  - 43
    
    High parton densities and saturation scale
    
    Speaker: Cyrille Marquet
    
    Slides
  - 44
    
    Antishadowing and multiparton scattering in hard-nucl collisions
    
    Speaker: Mark Strikman
    
    Slides
- Social Dinner
Friday, 31 October
- Heay Ions
  - 45
    
    Quarkonia production (production through MPI followed by final state heavy-quark recombination)
    
    Speaker: Andre Mischke
    
    Slides
  - 46
    
    Jets in heavy-ion collisions (emphasis on UE bg subtraction)
    
    Speaker: Magali Estienne
    
    Slides
  - 47
    
    Incoherent parton-parton scattering, nuclear PDFs, and hard pQCD yields in nucleus-nucleus collisions
    
    Speaker: Klaus Reygers
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 48
    
    Heavy-ion perspectives at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Julia Velkovska
- Conclusions & Highlights & Round Table
  
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