From Tejinder.Virdee@cern.ch Sun Jan 6 10:45:55 2008 Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:45:19 +0100 From: Tejinder Virdee To: R.Keith Ellis Cc: Tejinder Virdee , hcp08-iac@fnal.gov, hcp08-loc@fnal.gov Subject: Re: Request for advice on program Dear Keith, Happy New Year. The programme already looks quite good and many good comments have already been made. It has already been mentioned that the top section should be lengthened. Top production is perhaps one of the most important areas of the SM to test how well understood will be the performance of the LHC experiments when data taking starts, quite apart from it leading to backgrounds for any new physics. As you know top production spans experimental measurements of lepton id (incl taus), jet corrections, jet energy scale, b-tagging efficiency etc. For this reason it may be good and of much use to get a 'nuts and bolts' talk from someone at the Tevatron. This comment clearly could also apply to e.g. W and Z production. I will send suggestions for names for speakers later. Best Regards, Jim On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:46 PM, R. Keith Ellis wrote: > > Dear Colleague, > > Thank you for agreeing to serve on the International Advisory > Committee for the Hadron-Collider Symposium, to be held at the > Eagle Ridge resort in Galena, Illinois, 5/27/08-5/31/08. > > Attached please find a draft outline of the program. > I would be pleased to receive your comments on the outline of > the program especially in the following areas. > > 1) General comments on the outline. > 2) Suggestions for theoretical speakers. > 3) Suggestion for experimental and theoretical summary > speakers. > 4) (Experimental speakers are typically controlled by the > collaborations, but please feel free to comment), > > Your comments on the outline of the program will be most useful if they > are received by December 31, 2007. > > Best wishes, > > Keith Ellis >