CONFRONTING QCD WITH EXPERIMENT:
PUZZLES AND CHALLENGES

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DAY 1 (Thursday 7 November)
SESSION I: THE FUNDAMENTALS - Part 1
Chair: J. Collins

• Opening Talk: QCD - Outstanding Puzzles and Challenges (J. Owens)
  9:00-9:25
  Complete presentation: 28 pages, PostScript (676123 bytes), multipage TIFF (535634 bytes)
  
  
• _s:
  • New and old measurements of _s in Fixed-target DIS (D. Harris)
    9:25-9:55 Relevant links
    Complete presentation: 25 pages, PostScript (827420 bytes), multipage TIFF (654758 bytes)
    
    
  • Current status of other _s measurements (P. Burrows)
    9:55-10:20
    Complete presentation: 49 pages, PostScript (1221412 bytes), multipage TIFF (967640 bytes)
    
    
  • Discussion: Is there really an _s problem?
    10:20-10:30
  
  ------- Break (10:30-10:50) -------

• Parton Distributions:
  • Uncertainties in parton distribution functions: What are the sources and can they be quantified? (S. Kuhlmann)
    10:50-11:15 Relevant links
    Complete presentation: 37 pages, PostScript (698498 bytes), multipage TIFF (554050 bytes)
    
    
  • Testing perturbative QCD with structure functions measurements from HERA (C. Pascaud)
    11:15-11:40
    Complete presentation: 28 pages, PostScript (580259 bytes), multipage TIFF (459986 bytes)
    
    
• Fragmentation Functions:
  • Progress in phenomenology and theory. (M. Greco)
    11:40-12:10
    Complete presentation: 39 pages, PostScript (711871 bytes), multipage TIFF (564756 bytes)
    
    
• Discussion: How reliable are these functions?
  12:10-12:30

-------------------- Lunch (12:30-2:00) --------------------

• Jets in e+e- (W. Gary)
  2:00-2:25 Relevant links
  Complete presentation: 41 pages, PostScript (958358 bytes), multipage TIFF (759430 bytes)
  
  
• Jets in Lepton-Hadron Scattering (S. Magill)
  2:25-2:50
  Complete presentation: 21 pages, PostScript (634538 bytes), multipage TIFF (502230 bytes)
  
  
• Jets in hadron colliders (N. Varelas)
  2:50-3:15 Relevant links
  Complete presentation: 41 pages, PostScript (1287382 bytes), multipage TIFF (1019024 bytes)
  
  
• Discussion: Experimental outlook and uncertainties.
  3:15-3:30
  
  ------- Break (3:30-3:50) -------

• NLO calculation of jets in lepton-hadron processes (D. Zeppenfeld)
  3:50-4:15
  Complete presentation: 24 pages, PostScript (458332 bytes), multipage TIFF (363464 bytes)
  
  
• How well do pQCD jets match measured jets in NLO and beyond? (W. Giele)
  4:15-4:40
  Complete presentation: 21 pages, PostScript (672046 bytes), multipage TIFF (531828 bytes)
  
  
• NLO pQCD vs. parton showers: which one works best and where? (M. Seymour)
  4:40-5:05
  Complete presentation: 23 pages, PostScript (428692 bytes), multipage TIFF (339994 bytes)
  
  
• Discussion: How perturbative are jet cross sections, really?
  5:05-5:30

• Inclusive and differential open b production (M. Baarmand)
  9:00-9:25
  Complete presentation: 22 pages, PostScript (576886 bytes), multipage TIFF (456822 bytes)
  
  
• Charm production: overview of fixed-target results (R. Gardner)
  9:25-9:50
  Complete presentation: 23 pages, PostScript (508499 bytes), multipage TIFF (402962 bytes)
  
  
• Perturbative QCD for charm and bottom production (M. Mangano)
  9:50-10:15
  Complete presentation: 23 pages, PostScript (571355 bytes), multipage TIFF (452542 bytes)
  
  
• Discussion
  10:15-10:30
  
  ------- Break (10:30-10:50) -------

• Quarkonia production at pp(bar) colliders (V. Papadimitriou)
  10:50-11:15 Relevant links
  Complete presentation: 49 pages, PostScript (1258563 bytes), multipage TIFF (996972 bytes)
  
  
• Quarkonium in pQCD (E. Braaten)
  11:15-11:40
  Complete presentation: 19 pages, PostScript (322820 bytes), multipage TIFF (256120 bytes)
  
  
• Discussion
  11:40-12:00
  
  -------------------- Lunch (12:00-2:00) --------------------

• QCD issues in Heavy flavor decay: An experimental perspective (K. Honscheid)
  2:00-2:30
  Complete presentation: 23 pages, PostScript (728820 bytes), multipage TIFF (576790 bytes)
  
  
• pQCD and HQET: how well do they explain heavy quark decays? (A. Falk)
  2:30-3:00
  Complete presentation: 20 pages, PostScript (388908 bytes), multipage TIFF (308338 bytes)
  
  
• Discussion: HQET and perturbative QCD
  3:00-3:30
  
  ------- Break (3:30-4:00) -------
  
  
• Wine and Cheese Talk:
  • QCD Studies at High Energy: How important? How precise? (G. Sterman)
    4:00-5:?
    Complete presentation: 24 pages, PostScript (614806 bytes), multipage TIFF (486912 bytes)
    
    

• Direct photons:
  • E706/other experimental results and puzzles (M. Zielinski)
    9:00-9:25
    Complete presentation: 33 pages, PostScript (649954 bytes), multipage TIFF (515398 bytes)
    
    
  • How general is the "k_t" problem? (J. Huston)
    9:25-9:50
    Complete presentation: 50 pages, PostScript (926334 bytes), multipage TIFF (734914 bytes)
    
    
  • How well do we understand the Drell-Yan cross-section? (B. Park)
    9:50-10:15
    Complete presentation: 20 pages, PostScript (534180 bytes), multipage TIFF (422962 bytes)
    
    
  
  ------- Break (10:15-10:35) -------
  

• The varieties of resummation (D. Soper)
  10:35-11:00
  Complete presentation: 17 pages, PostScript (379601 bytes), multipage TIFF (300742 bytes)
  
  
• Threshold resummation for heavy quark production (E. Berger)
  11:00-11:25
  Complete presentation: 27 pages, PostScript (668088 bytes), multipage TIFF (529224 bytes)
  
  
• Issues in resummation (S. Catani)
  11:25-11:50
  Complete presentation: 22 pages, PostScript (771584 bytes), multipage TIFF (610450 bytes)
  
  
• Towards a Precise QCD Calculus: Scale-Setting as Resummation (S. Brodsky)
  11:50-12:15 Relevant links
  Complete presentation: 61 pages, PostScript (1062228 bytes), multipage TIFF (843044 bytes), PDF (903640 bytes)
  
  
• Discussion: How useful is resummation?
  12:15-12:30

-------------------- Lunch (12:30-1:30) --------------------

• Signals for Double-parton scattering and their significance (B. Flaugher)
  1:30-1:55 Relevant links
  Complete presentation: 22 pages, PostScript (664464 bytes), multipage TIFF (525926 bytes), PDF (533330 bytes)
  
  
• QCD issues in nucleus-nucleus collisions (X. Wang)
  1:55-2:25
  Complete presentation: 17 pages, PostScript (339211 bytes), multipage TIFF (268890 bytes)
  
  
• Renormalons and higher-twist (R. Akhoury)
  2:25-2:55
  Complete presentation: 23 pages, PostScript (669952 bytes), multipage TIFF (530356 bytes)
  
  ------- Break (2:55-3:15) -------
  

• Why is BFKL interesting? (A. Mueller)
  3:15-3:45
  Complete presentation: 11 pages, PostScript (274076 bytes), multipage TIFF (216992 bytes)
  
  
• Can lattice QCD and perturbative QCD meet half-way? (P. Mackenzie)
  3:45-4:15
  Complete presentation: 23 pages, PostScript (599729 bytes), multipage TIFF (474948 bytes)
  
  

• General Free-for-all (Lead by Session Chairs)
  What are the Outstanding Puzzles and Challenges?
  4:15 -

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