Jon Pumplin

e-mail: pumplin@pa.msu.edu

(517) 884-5563

3240 BPS building

Professor Jon Pumplin
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1116

High Energy Theory at MSU

Courses...

• ISP 215 (Fall 2009)

• Physics 232 (Spring 2008)

• Physics 422 - Classical Mechanics II (Fall 2007)

• Physics 321 - Classical Mechanics I (Spring 2006)

• Physics 201 - Physics computation in FORTRAN (Fall 2005)

• Physics 301 - Physics computation in C++ (Fall 2005)

• Physics 232 - Lecture Notes (Spring 2001)

• Physics 232 - Course details (Spring 2001)

Recent talks...

• PDF uncertainties (CTEQ meeting, Northwestern U, 20--21 November 2009)

• Topics in PDF fitting (PDF4LHC Workshop, DESY, 23 October 2009)

• Measuring PDFs by QCD fitting (PDF School, DESY, 20 October 2009)

• PDF issues for Les Houches (Note for organizing session 9 June, 2009)

• Remarks on b and c quarks (Talk at TOP09 Institute at CERN 5 June, 2009)

• Data SET Diagonalization in global fitting (Talk at PDF4LHC meeting at CERN 29 May, 2009)

• News from CTEQ PDF group and CT09 (Talk at PDF4LHC meeting at CERN 29 May, 2009)

• Run 2 inclusive jets and PDFs (Talk at CTEQ meeting at Argonne National Lab Dec 5-6, 2008)

• Summary talk for Structure Functions working group (convenor's talk at DIS2008 London April 9, 2008)
  Written version for proceedings

• PDF parametrization issues (talk at DIS2008 London April 9, 2008)
  Written version for proceedings

• Techniques in Global Fitting of Parton Distribution Functions (Invited talk by video at BNL workshop on Polarized Parton Distributions Oct 8, 2007.)

• HQ-correct PDFs: CTEQ6.5 (Talk at CTEQ meeting at Dallas Dec 1-2, 2006)

• Light Front Physics and Parton Distributions (Talk at LC2006 Minneapolis May 17, 2006)

• Strangeness and Charm in PDFs (Talk at CTEQ meeting at Argonne National Lab May 12, 2006)

• Alpha series; Intrinsic Charm and b (Talk at CTEQ meeting at Jefferson Lab Nov 12, 2005)

• Parton Distributions (Invited talk at DIS2005 Apr 27, 2005)

• Light Gluino and Global Fitting (MSU Journal Club talk Dec 8, 2004)

• Stability of PDF fits (Talk at CTEQ meeting, Fermilab Oct 30, 2004)

• PDF Techniques (Invited talk at Hera/LHC workshop CERN March 26, 2004)

• PDFs and QCD Global Fitting (Dec 3, 2003) (Brief writeup)

  Invited talk at Riken/BNL workshop on high pT physics (Dec 2 - 6, 2003)

• Fine Art of Global Fitting (Sept 29, 2003) (Brief writeup)

  Invited talk at Ringberg03 workshop on HERA physics (Sept 29 - Oct 3, 2003)

• Parton distribution functions and their uncertainties (April 8, 2003)

  Invited talk at American Physical Society April meeting (Philadelphia April 5-8, 2003)

• DURHAM IPPP WORKSHOP: CTEQ6.1 analysis (Jan 16, 2003)

  Durham (England) IPPP Workshop on Monte Carlo at Hadron Colliders (Jan 14-17, 2003)

• DPF: Parton Distributions and their Uncertainties (May 25, 2002)

  Invited talk at American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields (Williamsburg May 24-28, 2002)

• Les Houches: MSU approach to PDFs (May 24, 2001)

  Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV colliders

• PDFs and Monte Carlos (April 19, 2001)

  Fermilab RunII Workshop on Monte Carlo simulations

• CTEQ open meeting at Argonne National Lab

  PDF Uncertainties (Nov 22, 2000)

• Fermilab RunII Workshops for QCD and Weak Boson physics
  Diffraction and Color Coherence Working Group

  • Double Pomeron physics (March 5, 1999)
  • Allowed states in double pomeron exchange (June 3, 1999)
  • Contribution to proceedings

• Fermilab RunII Workshops for QCD and Weak Boson physics
  Precision Measurements Working Group

  • Plans at MSU for evaluating pdf uncertainties in W physics (June 4, 1999)

• CTEQ workshop at Gull Lake

  • Plans at MSU for evaluating pdf uncertainties in W physics (Oct 29, 1999)

ITERATE: Iterative calculation of Hessian Matrix

Uncertainties of Parton Distribution Functions: the Hessian Method

Kayaking at South Haven (Oct 26, 2003)

Kayaking at Ludington 2003

Resting at TC2004