Prelininary agenda for working group 2, Multi-jet final states and energy flows

CERN March 26-27 2004

Friday March 26
Underlying Events and Minimum Bias
15:30
Conveners Introduction
15:50
Jon Butterworth
Experimental introduction
16:10
Mike Seymour
Theoretical Thoughts
16:30
Five minute adverts

Arthur Moraes
Fits to existing data, inventory of models

Paul Szczypka
Needs of LHCb

Leif Lönnblad
Underlying events in DIS

etc.

17:00
Discussion
17:30
Coffee

Parton Shower and Matrix Elements matching
18:00
Peter Richardson
Overview
18:20
Five minute adverts

Thomas Schörner
NLO+PS

Stanislav Jadach
Constrained Markovian MC

Leif Lönnblad
Tree-level ME+PS in DIS & in pp W+jets

Gennaro Corcella
Matching HERWIG parton showers and exact matrix elements

Frank Krauss
TBA

etc.

18:50 Discussion
19:20 Eating and drinking


Saturday March 27
Multi-jet topologies and multi-scale QCD
09:00
Jacek Turnau
Experimental introduction
09:20
Jeppe Andresen
Theoretical Thoughts
09:40
Five minute adverts

Eduardo Rodrigues
Forward Jets at the LHC

Mrinal Dasgupta
Multi-jet resummations, non-global logs

Hannes Jung
Flavor content of initial state cascades

Jeppe Andresen Forward Physics with BFKL at LL and NLL

Bruce Mellado Tag jets in vector boson fusion

Gianluca Cerminara
Vector boson scattering at LHC

etc.

10:10
Discussion
10:30
Coffee

Rapidity gaps and survival probabilities
11:00
Alexandre Savin
Experimental introduction
11:20
Uri Maor
Theoretical thoughts
11:40
Five minute adverts and discussion

etc.

12:00
Lunch

13:00
Common session with the Diffraction group
13:00
Small group discussions (for non-diffractive people)
15:00
Coffee