Improvements on Standard Techniques: Sessions I+II
S. Dittmaier and G. Heinrich (Conveners)

    A list of topics to be covered

• Updated experimental priority wish list
  • -comparison of recent methods and phenomenological results
  • comparison of performance of (semi-)numerical methods for some benchmark examples
  • comparison of different theoretical predictions where available (e.g. leading log+resummed versus NLO, MC@NLO versus other codes,NNLO,?...)
  • comparison of calculations of different group for the same cross section where available
• Inclusion of corrections into existing or new Monte Carlo's
  (related to that:common standards for interface NLO ME <-> shower
  attachment/MC possible at all? if yes, what can be agreed on?)
• How can string inspired/standard approaches maximally profit from each other?
  what do both camps expect to have solved/done in about one year's time? (common sessions, discussions!)
• Automatisation
  several groups work on this, maybe one could achieve some modularity, e.g. exchangeable subroutines for graph generation, generation of dipoles etc. between different groups?