Name: TOP2010
Start: 2010-05-30T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-06-04T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Bruges

TOP2010

from Sunday, 30 May 2010 (08:00) to Friday, 4 June 2010 (19:00)

Monday, 24 May 2010
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Friday, 28 May 2010
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Sunday, 30 May 2010

14:00 Registration
Registration
14:00 - 18:00

18:00 Welcome drink
Welcome drink
18:00 - 20:00

20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Hotel

Monday, 31 May 2010

06:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
06:30 - 08:30
Room: Hotel
08:30
08:30 - 12:10
Contributions

08:30 Welcome

08:40 Keynote - Werner Bernreuther (Aachen)

09:10 Tevatron experiments: status and perspectives - Robin Erbacher (UC Davis)

09:50 Physics reach of LHC with 1 fb-1 at 7 TeV - Hwidong Yoo (Purdue Univ.)

11:00 CMS status and first data - Karl Ecklund (Rice University)

11:40 ATLAS status and first data - Peter Maettig (Wuppertal)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 14:20
14:20
14:20 - 19:00
Contributions

14:20 ttbar cross section measurements at Tevatron - Frederic Deliot (CEA)

15:00 Status of ttbar cross section predictions - Sven-Olaf Moch (Berlin)

15:40 Progress in ttbar+jets prediction - Malgorzata Worek (Aachen)

16:20 PDF's and top production - Alberto Guffanti (Freiburg)
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Hotel
Tuesday, 1 June 2010

06:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
06:30 - 08:30
Room: Hotel
08:30
08:30 - 12:10
Contributions

08:30 Top mass measurements at the Tevatron - Oleg Brandt (Goettingen)

09:10 Theoretical issues in top mass reconstruction at hadron colliders - Gennaro Corcella (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

09:50 Bound-state effects in ttbar production - Hiroshi Yokoya (CERN)

11:00 Monte Carlo tools for top physics - Paolo Nason (Milan)

11:40 Multivariate analysis techniques: the Tevatron experience - Florencia Canelli (University of Chicago)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 18:40
Contributions

15:00 Observation of single top at Tevatron with the CDF detector - Jan Lueck (Karlsruhe)

15:40 Observation of single top at Tevatron with the D0 detector - Ann Heinson (UC Riverside)

16:20 Predictions for single-top cross sections - Rikkert Frederix (Zurich)

17:30 The search for single top at LHC - Dominic Hirschbuel (Wuppertal)

18:10 New theoretical results for tW and tH - Chris White (Durham)
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Hotel
Wednesday, 2 June 2010

06:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
06:30 - 08:30
Room: Hotel
08:30
08:30 - 13:00
Contributions

08:30 W+jets as a background to top physics - Steffen Schumann (Heidelberg University)

09:10 V+jets at Tevatron - Lucio Cerrito (Queen Mary, London)

09:50 Backgrounds estimation strategies in CMS - Matthew Barrett (Brunel Univ.)

11:00 Backgrounds estimation strategies in ATLAS - Andrey Loginov (Yale)

11:40 B-tagging, lepton-ID and MET at CMS after the first data - Joris Maes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

12:20 B-tagging, lepton-ID and MET at ATLAS after the first data - Ivo Van Vulpen (NIKHEF)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30

14:30 Excursion
Excursion
14:30 - 17:15

17:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:15 - 18:15

19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 22:30
Room: Brewery "De Halve Maan"
Thursday, 3 June 2010

06:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
06:30 - 08:30
Room: Hotel
08:30
08:30 - 12:10
Contributions

08:30 Top properties at Tevatron with the CDF detector - Datta Mousumi (FNAL)

09:10 Top properties at Tevatron with the D0 detector - Amnon Harel (University of Rochester)

09:50 Charge asymmetry: an appraisal - German Rodrigo (Valencia)

11:00 Spin correlations at Tevatron - Tim Head (Manchester)

11:40 Spin correlations: Tevatron vs LHC - Gregory Mahlon (Penn State University)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 19:30
Contributions

15:00 New Physics searches in top events at Tevatron - Pekka Sinervo (UToronto)

15:40 Fourth generation - George Wei-Shu Hou (Taipei)

16:20 CP violation in top physics - German Valencia (Iowa)

17:30 Reconstruction of jets in top events: ATLAS - Nabil Ghodbane (Clermont-Ferrand)

18:10 Reconstruction of jets in top events: CMS - Roger Wolf (University of Hamburg)

18:50 Boosted tops: physics and reconstruction - Eric Chabert (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles)
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Hotel
Friday, 4 June 2010

06:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
06:30 - 08:30
08:30
08:30 - 12:00
Contributions

08:30 Effective Field Theory for Top Quark Physics - Scott Willenbrock (UIUC)

09:10 Challenges in New Physics searches in top-like events at the LHC - Jean-Raphael Lessard (Victoria)

09:50 The short term strategy and plan for ttbar and single top at the LHC - Pamela Ferrari (NIKHEF)

11:00 A vision from the top - Tao Han (Madison)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00