[Rivet] Rivet rep at CERN BSM workshop, 15-17 June?

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Riveters,

There will be a BSM (re)interpretation meeting in CERN (in the TH 
auditorium) from 15-17 June, and I had agreed to go along to talk about 
Rivet's role as a recasting tool, the role of detector effects and how 
we now have some mechanisms for that, etc.

It now turns out that I can't get childcare cover for that time, and 
with (relatively speaking) a lot of travel this month it's not possible 
for me to go in person. I am happy to write a talk, and will join via 
Vidyo, but we'll have a lot more impact if someone can actually be there 
in the room.

The meeting will also involve some discussion of the "LH analysis 
description accord" proposal, which several of us have strong 
reservations about. Since the MadGraph authors -- also with critical 
opinions -- can't attend, I think it's important that we have someone 
there to put forward our point of view. In particular the tie-in of this 
with Rivet is that we need to be able to *use* whatever format is 
settled on, if any; I can't see how we, or anyone else for that matter, 
can possibly do that with what's been proposed.

So, is anyone available to go and put our case & stand up for "Rivet's 
interests"? David or Holger, maybe?

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow