Marek Schönherr Durham University, IPPP Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics Department of Physics University of Durham Science Laboratories South Rd DURHAM DH1 3LE UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44 191 33 44345 E-mail: marek.schoenherr@cern.ch

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Publications

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PhD Thesis

Diploma Thesis

Lectures

MCnet School CERN, 2024

Introduction to parton showers, matching, and merging I

Introduction to parton showers, matching, and merging II

Introduction to parton showers, matching, and merging III

CTEQ-MCnet School Dresden, Germany, 2021

Electroweak corrections I

Electroweak corrections II

CTEQ School Pittsburgh, USA, 2017

Higher-order corrections in Monte-Carlo event generators I

Higher-order corrections in Monte-Carlo event generators II

African School on Fundamenteal Physics, Kigali, Rwanda, 2016

Monte Carlo event generation: Introduction I&II

Monte Carlo event generation: Introduction III

Monte Carlo event generation: Tutorial

African School on Fundamenteal Physics, Dakar, Senegal, 2014

Monte Carlo event generation: Introduction I&II

Monte Carlo event generation: Introduction III&IV

Monte Carlo event generation: Tutorial

CTEQ School Beijing, China, 2014

Monte Carlo event generators: Introduction I

Monte Carlo event generators: Introduction II

Talks

2024

23/09 - ECFA-UK Meeting on UK studies for the European Strategy Particle Physics Update - "Electroweak precision at e+e− colliders"

06/08 - Frontiers in precision phenomenology: Resummation, Amplitudes, and Subtraction - "The qT spectrum at beyond leading power"

26/06 - Monte-Carlo support tools: future-proofing the bridge between theory and experiment Workshop - "Spin correlations in the event record"

13/03 - Seminar Freiburg - "Precision observables at the LHC and beyond"

2023

22/06 - Seminar Wuerzburg - "Parton showers and formal accuracy"

03/05 - FCC-UK-hh workshop - "Sherpa: High-precision physics in the Standard Model and beyond"

02/05 - IDAS/IAS week on modelling: Computer Models, Simulations, Data and Reality - "Modelling in particle physics"

27/04 - MCnet+ATLAS/CMS Generator Performance Workshop - "Sherpa: performance and statistics"

2022

23/06 - QED in Weak Decays - "YFS soft-photon resummation in hadron decays, systematics and ME corrections"

16/05 - LHCP - "Diboson and triboson production -- theory overview"

11/03 - CMS V+jets Workshop - "Future of V+jets physics theory program"

2021

26/08 - Taming the accuracy of event generators (Part 2) - "Electroweak showers in Sherpa"

16/07 - Performance Analysis Workshop - "Sherpa -- findings and improvements"

07/06 - LHCP - "Monte-Carlo event generation -- tools and challenges"

11/02 - CMS Mulitjets analysis meeting - "Electroweak corrections in Sherpa"

21/01 - Performance Analysis Workshop - "Sherpa"

14/01 - Seminar Wuerzburg - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

2020

14/12 - LHC EFT WG - "EFT in Sherpa"

11/11 - LHC EW WG - precision WG - "Drell-Yan in Sherpa"

11/09 - FCC-UK: a discussion concerning UK involvement in the FCC project - "Theory perspectives at the FCC-ee"

26/06 - ATLAS GIT Subgroup Meeting - "New developments in Sherpa"

18/05 - LHC EW WG - "Computing challenges for the HL-LHC"

05/05 - Seminar Monash - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

17/02 - Workshop on Efficient Computing for High Energy Physics (ECHEP), University of Edinburgh - "Computing challenges for Monte-Carlo event generators"

07/01 - The 2020 Annual Sherpa Meeting, University of Milano Bicocca - "Precision calculations with Sherpa"

2019

21/10 - Royal Society Regional Meeting - "Precise predictions for LHC physics"

03/10 - Seminar QMUL - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

10/09 - LHC EW WG - pPecision WG - "YFS and Photos -- QED FSR modelling in Drell-Yan"

03/07 - LHC EW WG General Meeting - "Yellow Report, status and plans -- Jets and EW bosons group"

02/07 - LHC EW WG General Meeting - "YFS and Photos -- QED FSR modelling in Drell-Yan and vector boson pair production"

20/06 - Seminar Edinburgh - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

11/06 - Parton Showers and Resummation - "Electroweak corrections and parton showers"

28/05 - ATLAS PMG Meeting - "Higher-order EW and QED in Sherpa-3.x"

05/04 - Precision EW @ LHC - "Modeling and tuning in precision physics"

02/04 - Precision EW @ LHC - "Algorithmic uncertainties in pT(V) distributions and ratios"

29/03 - IPPP Steering Committee Meeting - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

20/02 - Higgs-Maxwell Meeting - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

01/02 - CMS SHERPA Workshop - "Sherpa-2.2.6: tutorial intro"

01/02 - CMS SHERPA Workshop - "High-precision Standard Model physics with Sherpa"

22/01 - LHC EW WG - Jets and EW bosons subgroup - "Irreducible backgrounds and measurement uncertainties"

2018

27/11 - Physics Event Generator Computing Workshop - "Generator Optimisation Discussion"

26/11 - Physics Event Generator Computing Workshop - "Sherpa Computing Performance"

23/10 - Seminar Freiburg - "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

17/10 - LHC EW WG - MB subgroup - "Electroweak corrections for triboson production"

02/10 - HP2 Freiburg - "Electroweak corrections for multiparticle final states"

17/09 - TOP2018 Bad Neuenahr - "Modelling and tuning in top quark physics"

29/08 - QCD@LHC 2018 Dresden - "Electroweak corrections in the light of QCD precision"

12/07 - Seminar TU Munich - "Electroweak corrections to LHC physics"

26/06 - LHC DM Working Group - "Vjj theory status"

21/06 - CMS Monte Carlo and Physics Tools Tutorials - "Sherpa-2.2.5: overview, developments and usage"

21/06 - LHC EW WG Meeting - "Benchmark cross sections: comparison with theory predictions"

20/06 - LHC EW WG - Jets and EW bosons meeting - "Sherpa tunes"

20/06 - HL-HE-LHC Workshop - "Tools section discussion"

18/06 - HL-HE-LHC Workshop - "Diboson production in higher order QCD and EW"

07/06 - Colour Reconnection Workshop - "Overview on EW dipoles"

06/06 - Parton Showers and Resummation - "EW corrections in event generators"

17/05 - Collider Cross Talk - "ttbar+jets production"

16/05 - Top WG Meeging - "Electroweak and subleading corrections in ttbar+jets production"

14/05 - HL/HE-LHC WG1 Meeging - "Higher-order QCD+EW predictions for Diboson processes"

04/05 - LHC EW WG - Jets and EW bosons meeting -- "Comparison of inclusive jets: ATLAS, CMS"

12/04 - ATLAS H to ZZ workshop -- "ZZ production"

01/03 - Seminar Lund -- "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

25/01 - LHC Electroweak Working Group Meeting, CERN -- "Sherpa for pTZ and pTW"

2017

13/12 - LHC Electroweak Working Group Meeting, CERN -- "Jets and V+jets -- theory overview"

11/12 - CMS workshop on boosted objects, CERN -- "Higher orders and parton showers"

14/11 - Top! Hammertime (a CMS top quark workshop), CERN -- "Top production in Sherpa"

10/11 - Particle- and Astroparticle Seminar CERN -- "EW corrections for LHC physics"

31/10 - HL- & HE-LHC physics workshop -- "Higher-order EW corrections"

10/09 - Tools 2017 -- "Parton shower matching and merging"

18/07 - Boost 2017 -- "Higher orders and parton showers"

09/06 - Les Houches 2017 -- "Issues at NLO EW"

07/06 - Les Houches 2017 -- "Parton shower uncertainties"

18/05 - Journal Club, Zurich -- "NLO QCD+EW prediction for 2l2n production"

03/05 - ATLAS and CMS Monte-Carlo Workshop -- "NNLOPS and higher-order EW corrections"

02/05 - ATLAS and CMS Monte-Carlo Workshop -- "Sherpa-2.2.3 -- status and prospects"

25/04 - Illuminating standard candles at the LHC - "V+jets -- "Sherpa for V+jets"

16/03 - ATLAS Software & Computing Week -- "Sherpa: scaling on HPCs"

2016

09/11 - Higgs Couplings, SLAC -- "Monte-Carlo simulation and uncertainties"

01/11 - Seminar MSU -- "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

29/08 - CMS Sherpa Tutorial, CERN -- "Sherpa-2.2.1: overview, developments and usage"

23/08 - QCD@LHC, Zurich -- "Sherpa: overview and recent developments"

16/08 - LoopFest XV, Buffalo -- "Electroweak corrections to V+jets production"

04/07 - Parton showers and resummation workshop, Paris -- "Reweighting QCD matrix element and parton shower calculations"

16/06 - LHCP, Lund -- "NLO electroweak corrections in V+jets"

08/06 - M_W Meeting CERN -- "Status of electroweak corrections in Sherpa+OpenLoops"

03/06 - Seminar Goettingen -- "Electroweak corrections for the LHC"

14/04 - Seminar Milano -- "Electroweak corrections for the LHC"

13/01 - LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group Meeting -- "Update of the Les Houches Higgs+jets study using NLO multi-leg approaches and fixed order"

11/01 - ATLAS-CMS Monte-Carlo Generators Workshop -- "Status and perspectives of loop-induced processes"

11/01 - ATLAS-CMS Monte-Carlo Generators Workshop -- "Sherpa Status"

07/01 - Sherpa Users' Day, Dresden -- "Implementation of NLO EW corrections"

07/01 - Sherpa Users' Day, Dresden -- "Systematic uncertainties on-the-fly"

2015

05/10 - ISMD 2015, Wildbad Kreuth -- "Recent developments in Monte-Carlo Event Generators"

22/09 - ATLAS PMG Meeting -- "On-the-fly scale variations in Sherpa"

02/06 - Les Houches -- "MC Group Introduction"

12/03 - Zurich Journal Club -- "NNLOPS -- a comparison"

19/01 - bbh working group, YR4 -- "b-associated Higgs production in Sherpa"

2014

09/12 - Higgs + Jets Workshop, Durham -- "Higgs production at NLO in Sherpa"

18/11 - Seminar Freiburg -- "Electroweak corrections for LHC physics"

20/08 - Boost 2014 -- UCL, London -- "Multijet merging and jet substructure"

11/08 - Top Physics Day -- MIAPP, Munich -- "Precision calculation of top quark pair production in association with jets"

11/06 - Event Generators and Resummation Workshop Muenster -- "Matching and merging in Sherpa"

11/06 - Event Generators and Resummation Workshop Muenster -- "Parton showers: Overview"

13/05 - Seminar Heidelberg -- "NLOPS matching and multijet merging"

01/04 - MCnet meeting - CERN -- "Uncertainties in h+jets production"

15/01 - MPI Munich - ATLAS meeting -- "NLO merging in ttbar+jets"

10/01 - Users of Sherpa Meeting Munich -- "Multijet merging in Sherpa"

08/01 - Zurich Phenomenology meeting -- "Recent developments in Sherpa"

2013

05/12 - LHCphenonet annual meeting CERN -- "Multijet merging at NLO"

06/11 - Zuerich working group meeting -- "Multijet merging at leading and next-to-leading order"

21/10 - CMS meeting on theory uncertainties in Monte-Carlo event generators -- "Theoretical uncertainties in multileg merged samples"

15/10 - Jet substructure for Monte-Carlo tuning Glasgow -- "Jet production and substructure in Sherpa"

02/10 - aQGC Workshop Dresden - "Anomalous gauge couplings in Sherpa"

19/07 - EPS 2013 Stockholm - "Merging of matrix elements and parton showers at NLO accuracy"

18/07 - EPS 2013 Stockholm - "NLO merging in ttbar+jets"

15/07 - Resummation and Parton Showers Durham - "Resummation properties of MEPS@NLO"

27/06 - Aachen Seminar - "Multijet merging at next-to-leading order"

19/04 - Durham Seminar - "Multijet merging at NLO"

12/03 - Zuerich Uni/ETH Seminar - "Multijet merging at next-to-leading order"

2012

20/12 - LHC Higgs XS WG - "pp -> H + n jets with Sherpa -- update"

29/11 - LHC Higgs XS WG - "pp -> H + n jets with Sherpa"

21/11 - CERN - "EW radiation in parton showers"

18/10 - Cambridge Seminar - "NLO+PS matching and multijet merging"

09/10 - EW working group CERN - "Multijet merging at NLO"

26/09 - PDF4LHC - "Uncertainties in NLO+PS matched calculations of inclusive jet and dijet production"

24/09 - EW corrections workshop - "QED corrections in MCs"

20/09 - LHCphenonet midterm meeting Ravello - "Parton shower matching and multijet merging at NLO"

17/09 - TOP2012 Winchester - "Vector boson plus multijet production"

05/09 - HP2 MPI Munich - "Parton shower matching and multijet merging at NLO"

30/08 - ATLAS MC Generators - "QED corrections in Sherpa"

21/08 - QCD@LHC - "Recent developments in Sherpa"

06/07 - ICHEP - "Systematic uncertainties in NLO+PS matching"

15/06 - SLAC seminar - "NLO+PS matching methods and associated uncertainties"

30/05 - Parton shower & resummation workshop - "NLO+PS matching methods and systematic uncertainties"

28/03 - Manchester Seminar - "A critical appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods"

20/03 - LHCPhenonet meeting - "A critical appraisal of NLO+PS methods"

27/02 - NLO+PS workshop - "Improving MC@NLO simulations"

2011

22/11 - Perturbative and non-perturbative uncertainties in NLO MCs"

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