Workshop programme

The shorter presentations are scheduled for 30 min, which means a 20 min presentation followed by 10 min of discussion time. The longer presentations of each experiment and the theory overview are scheduled for a 40 min presentation followed by a scheduled discussion time.

Wednesday, 19 September

15.00- Registration
18.00-19.00 Reception
19.00-20.00 Dinner

Thursday, 20 September

09.15-09.20 Welcome to Durham Alan Martin
09.20-10.00 Diffraction@CDF Konstantin Goulianos
10.00-10.40 Diffraction@HERA Paul Newman
10.40-11.00 Discussion on Tevatron and HERA data
11.00-11.30 Morning coffee
11.30-12.00 CDF proposal for diffractive Higgs search Beate Heinemann
12.00-12.30 POMWIG Monte Carlo Brian Cox
12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.40 Theory overview Mikhail Ryskin
14.40-15.00 Theory discussion
15.00-15.30 Progress in NLO corrections for diffraction Jochen Bartels
15.30-16.00 Discussion on theory and experimental results
16.00-16.30 Afternoon tea
16.30-17.00 Soft diffraction Peter Landshoff
17.00-17.30 Double pomeron dijets Arjun Berera
17.30-18.00 Double pomeron exchange Robert Appleby
19.00-20.00 Conference dinner in Pennington room

Friday, 21 September

09.20-10.00 Diffraction@ATLAS Stefan Tapprogge
10.00-10.40 Diffraction@CMS Albert de Roeck
10.40-11.00 Discussion on LHC experiments
11.00-11.30 Morning coffee
11.30-12.00 Hard diffraction Peter Landshoff
12.00-12.30 Higgs production in rapidity gap events Robert Peschanski
12.30-13.00 The Pomeron -- geometry or partons Terry Sloan
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 Rapidity gaps between jets Leszek Motyka
14.30-15.00 Multigap physics at LHC Konstantin Goulianos
15.00-15.30 QCD overtaking the Pomeron? John Dainton
15.30-15.55 Discussion
15.55-16.00 Goodbye Paul Booth
16.00 Afternoon tea