TOP2010

30 May 2010, 08:00 → 4 Jun 2010, 19:00 Europe/Brussels

Bruges

International Workshop on Top Quark Physics

May 31 - June 4, 2010

Bruges, Belgium

http://www.top2010.be

Sunday 30 May

14:00 → 18:00 Registration

18:00 → 20:00 Welcome drink

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Monday 31 May

06:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 12:10 The dawn of a new (top quark) era

08:30 Welcome

08:40 Keynote

Speaker: Werner Bernreuther (Aachen)

Slides bernreuther.pdf

09:10 Tevatron experiments: status and perspectives

Speaker: Robin Erbacher (UC Davis)

Slides ErbacherTop2010.pdf

09:50 Physics reach of LHC with 1 fb-1 at 7 TeV

Speaker: Hwidong Yoo (Purdue Univ.)

Slides HwidongYoo.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 CMS status and first data

Speaker: Karl Ecklund (Rice University)

Slides Ecklund_CMS_Status.pdf

11:40 ATLAS status and first data

Speaker: Peter Maettig (Wuppertal)

Slides Maettig-ATLAS-3.pdf

12:10 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 19:00 Top in the making (I)

14:20 ttbar cross section measurements at Tevatron

Speaker: Frederic Deliot (CEA)

Slides deliot_ttbarxsectevatron.pdf

15:00 Status of ttbar cross section predictions

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (Berlin)

Slides moch-top2010.pdf

15:40 Progress in ttbar+jets prediction

Speaker: Malgorzata Worek (Aachen)

Slides mworek.pdf

16:20 PDF's and top production

Speaker: Alberto Guffanti (Freiburg)

Slides guffanti_top2010.pdf

17:00 Reception at the City Hall

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday 1 June

06:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 12:10 Precision and Analysis

08:30 Top mass measurements at the Tevatron

Speaker: Oleg Brandt (Goettingen)

Slides 2010_06_01_Top2010_TopMassTevatron_OBrandt_final.pdf

09:10 Theoretical issues in top mass reconstruction at hadron colliders

Speaker: Gennaro Corcella (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Slides corcella_top.pdf

09:50 Bound-state effects in ttbar production

Speaker: Hiroshi Yokoya (CERN)

Slides Yokoya_top2010.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Monte Carlo tools for top physics

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Milan)

Slides Nason.pdf

11:40 Multivariate analysis techniques: the Tevatron experience

Speaker: Florencia Canelli (University of Chicago)

Slides canelli_Top2010.ppt

12:10 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 18:40 Top in the making (II)

15:00 Observation of single top at Tevatron with the CDF detector

Speaker: Jan Lueck (Karlsruhe)

Slides lueck_TOP2010.pdf

15:40 Observation of single top at Tevatron with the D0 detector

Speaker: Ann Heinson (UC Riverside)

Slides Heinson-Bruges_talk_060110.pdf

16:20 Predictions for single-top cross sections

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (Zurich)

Slides frederix.pdf

17:00 Poster session & Coffee break

17:30 The search for single top at LHC

Speaker: Dominic Hirschbuel (Wuppertal)

Slides hirsch_Top2010.pdf

18:10 New theoretical results for tW and tH

Speaker: Chris White (Durham)

Slides white_chris.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Wednesday 2 June

06:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 13:00 Backgrounds & Tagging

08:30 W+jets as a background to top physics

Speaker: Steffen Schumann (Heidelberg University)

Slides Vjets_schumann.pdf

09:10 V+jets at Tevatron

Speaker: Lucio Cerrito (Queen Mary, London)

Slides lcerrito_top2010.pdf

09:50 Backgrounds estimation strategies in CMS

Speaker: Matthew Barrett (Brunel Univ.)

Slides barrett_Top2010.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Backgrounds estimation strategies in ATLAS

Speaker: Andrey Loginov (Yale)

Slides loginov_top2010_final.pdf

11:40 B-tagging, lepton-ID and MET at CMS after the first data

Speaker: Joris Maes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Slides jorismaes.pdf

12:20 B-tagging, lepton-ID and MET at ATLAS after the first data

Speaker: Ivo Van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

Slides IvovanVulpen.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 17:15 Excursion

Starting at the Hotel

17:15 → 18:15 Coffee break

At the Hotel

19:30 → 22:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday 3 June

06:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 12:10 Top Properties

08:30 Top properties at Tevatron with the CDF detector

Speaker: Datta Mousumi (FNAL)

Slides Datta-Top2010-CDF-topprop-2.pdf

09:10 Top properties at Tevatron with the D0 detector

Speaker: Amnon Harel (University of Rochester)

Slides harel.pdf

09:50 Charge asymmetry: an appraisal

Speaker: German Rodrigo (Valencia)

Slides rodrigo_top_Bruges_2010.pdf rodrigo_top_Bruges_2010.pptx

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Spin correlations at Tevatron

Speaker: Tim Head (Manchester)

Slides timhead-spin-corr.pdf

11:40 Spin correlations: Tevatron vs LHC

Speaker: Gregory Mahlon (Penn State University)

Slides Mahlon-TopSpin.pdf

12:10 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 19:30 Beyond Top & Reconstruction

15:00 New Physics searches in top events at Tevatron

Speaker: Pekka Sinervo (UToronto)

Slides sinervo-NewPhysicsinTop3Jun10.pdf

15:40 Fourth generation

Speaker: George Wei-Shu Hou (Taipei)

Slides Hou4thGen.pdf

16:20 CP violation in top physics

Speaker: German Valencia (Iowa)

Slides valencia.pdf

17:00 Coffee break

17:30 Reconstruction of jets in top events: ATLAS

Speaker: Nabil Ghodbane (Clermont-Ferrand)

Slides ghodbane-03-06-2010.pdf

18:10 Reconstruction of jets in top events: CMS

Speaker: Roger Wolf (University of Hamburg)

Slides RogerWolfTOP2010_v2.pdf

18:50 Boosted tops: physics and reconstruction

Speaker: Eric Chabert (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles)

Slides Top2010_BoostedTop_Chabert.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Friday 4 June

06:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 12:00 The future of Top

08:30 Effective Field Theory for Top Quark Physics

Speaker: Scott Willenbrock (UIUC)

Slides Willenbrock_Top2010.pdf

09:10 Challenges in New Physics searches in top-like events at the LHC

Speaker: Jean-Raphael Lessard (Victoria)

Slides TopLikePhysics.pdf

09:50 The short term strategy and plan for ttbar and single top at the LHC

Speaker: Pamela Ferrari (NIKHEF)

Slides ferrari_2010.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 A vision from the top

Speaker: Tao Han (Madison)

Slides VisionFromTop.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch