First meeting at Fermilab on March 4-6, 1999.

WORKING GROUP 1

QCD tools for heavy flavors and new physics searches

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE (for plenary and parallel sessions)

THURSDAY MARCH 4, 1999 (One West)

Plenary session

 11.15-11.25 --Introduction to Working group 1, -- Greg Snow (Nebraska)

 11.25-12.00 -- Recent progress in Pythia , -- Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund)

FRIDAY MARCH 5,  1999 (One West)

Parallel session

14.00-14.15 -- Parton showering at NLO , -- Steve Mrenna (Davis)

14.15-14.30 -- NLO simulation of fb processes, --John Campbell (Fermilab)

14.30-14.45 --Comparison of MC with data, -- Jianming Qian (Michigan)

14.45-15.30 --Discussion

 
SATURDAY MARCH 6,  1999 (One West)

Parallel session

9.00-9.15 --- Tevatron results on b and quarkonium physics , -- Frederic Stichelbaut (Brookhaven)

9.15-9.30 --- Recent progress in b-physics, -- Paolo Nason (Milano)

9.30-9.45 --- Comparison of fixed and variable flavor schemes, -- Jack Smith (SUNY)

9.45-10.30--Discussion

Mon Mar 1 17:18:39 CST 1999 Keith Ellis.