West Coast LHC Theory Network -- LBL meeting

Friday, February 3, 2006, at Lawrence Berkeley Lab

• 10:00 - 10:15 : Welcome: - Robert Cahn (LBL)
• 10:15 - 10:45 : Introduction to ATLAS - Gil Gilchriese (LBL) (ppt)

• 10:45 - 11:00 : coffee

• 11:00 - 11:30 : QCD for LHC : What needs to be done? - Steve Ellis (Washington) (ppt)
• 11:30 - 12:00 : QCD for LHC : What needs to be done? - Zvi Bern (UCLA) (ppt)
• 12:00 - 12:30 : Jets and QCD Physics in ATLAS - Peter Loch (Arizona)

• 12:30 - 1:30 : lunch; discussion with ATLAS group on how the ATLAS Collaboration will interact with the theory community

• 1:30 - 2:30 : QCD round table
  • 5 min talks on what is going on in QCD and Standard Model collider physics in the region:
    • Andrzej Czarnecki (Alberta) (ppt)
    • Davison Soper (Oregon)
    • Matthew Schwartz (LBL)
    • Maria Tejeda-Yeomans (Sonora)
    • Stan Brodsky (SLAC)
    • Carola Berger (SLAC)

• 2:30 - 3:00 : Data challenges for theorists: Are they useful? - Matt Strassler (Washington)

• 3:00 - 4:00 : Formal discussion of the role, activities, and future plans of this network
  • Michael Peskin (SLAC)
  • (your contribution here)

• 4:00 : adjourn