2009 CTEQ Summer School

The Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental Project on QCD

(CTEQ)

will organize and conduct the sixteenth
CTEQ Summer School on QCD Analysis and Phenomenology
at

Madison, Wisconsin USA
24 June - 2 July 2009

References in preparation for the Summer School can be found on the CTEQ Pedagogical Page

Topics to be covered:

Focused Introductory Reviews:
Introduction to the Parton Model and Perturbative QCD	(George Sterman)
Deeply Inelastic Scattering	(Stephen Magill)
Production and Evolution of High Energy Jets	(Nikos Varelas)
QCD at e+e- Colliders	(Bill Gary)
Standard Model and Beyond	(Tim Tait)
Detector Basics	(Steve Kuhlmann)

In-depth Analysis and Phenomenology:
Parton Showers and Event Generators	(Davison E. Soper)
Monte Carlo and Event Generators	(Stephen Mrenna)
Experimental Signatures and Backgrounds at the LHC	(Rick Field)
PDFs and Global fits	(Pavel Nadolsky)
Neutrino Physics	(Jorge Morfín)
Higgs at the LHC	(Frank Petriello)
Top Pair and Single Top Production	(Kirsten Tollefson)
Practical NLO and NLO Tools	(Laura Reina)
Heavy Quark Production	(Zack Sullivan)
Particle Astrophysics	(Scott Dodelson)
Heavy Ion Physics	(Peter Steinberg)

Organizing Committee:

Aimee Lefkow and Frank Petriello, University of Wisconsin
Jorge Morfin, Fermilab
Joey Huston, Michigan State University
Steve Kuhlmann and Ed Berger, Argonne National Lab
Fred Olness, Southern Methodist University
Jeff Owens, Florida State University
Davison Soper, University of Oregon
George Sterman, SUNY, Stony Brook

To apply for the school please return the application form, TOGETHER with your curriculum vitæ and publication list, by e-mail, post or Fax to the address listed on the application form. To complete your application package, please have one letter of reference sent to the same address. All materials must be received by 15 April 2009. Please note that enrollment will be limited to 80 participants.

A registration fee of $500 covers the participant's portion of lodging as well as all meals.

EMAIL: CTEQ2009@hep.wisc.edu

FAX: 608-263-0800

POST:

Application Form

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Members of the CTEQ Collaboration

E. Berger-Argonne Lab.	J. Collins-Penn State U.
J. W. Gary-U.C. Riverside	W. Giele-Fermilab
J. Huston-Michigan State U.	C. Keppel-Jefferson Lab. and Hampton U.
S. Kuhlmann-Argonne Lab.	H.-L. Lai-Michigan State U.
T. Lecompte-Argonne Lab.	B. Mellado-U. of Wisconsin
J.G. Morfin-Fermilab	S. Mrenna-Fermilab
P. Nadolsky-Southern Meth. U.	F. Olness-Southern Meth. U.
J. Owens-Florida State U.	F. Petriello-U. of Wisconsin
J. Pumplin-Michigan State U.	J. Qiu-Iowa State U.
L. Reina-Florida State U.	H. Schellman-Northwestern U.
J. Smith-SUNY Stony Brook	D. Soper-U. of Oregon
G. Sterman-SUNY Stony Brook	D. Stump-Michigan State U.
Z. Sullivan-Illinois Inst. of Tech.	W.-K. Tung-Michigan State U.
N. Varelas-U. Illinois at Chicago	W. Vogelsang-SUNY Stony Brook
D. Wackeroth-SUNY Buffalo	C.P. Yuan-Michigan State U.
D. Zeppenfeld-U. Karlsruhe	M. Zielinski-U. of Rochester