Bulletin 1 
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      W mass workshop, Milano, March 17-18, 2009

Scientific program
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Scheduled talks by the different groups (both theoretical and
experimental) will be the starting point of the discussion on the
different topics.

We are planning to schedule short talks (20 minutes), so that
everybody can become aware of the different codes/tools/calculations,
which are presently available, and of what is used for the data
analysis. However, we would like to ask all the speakers when
preparing this talk to keep in mind that it is meant to be a starting
point of a discussion among experts, i.e. it should not be a canonical
conference talk. Besides a concise status (and limitation) of the
code/tool/calculation/analysis, we suggest that the presenter also
includes a discussion of the most urgent/critical questions he/she
thinks should be addressed at this workshop.

At the moment we have scheduled 5 hours of talks according to the
following tentative schedule:

March 17th
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 9.00-10.40   SANC, HORACE, WGRAD, S.Dittmaier, A.Mueck
10.40-11.10   coffee break
11.10-11.50   2 experimental talks
11.50-12.30   discussion

12.30-14.00   lunch break

14.00-16.00   discussion/work
16.00-16.30   coffee break
16.30-18.30   discussion/work

20.00         workshop dinner


March 18th
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 9.00-10.00   ResBos, M.Grazzini, NNPDF
10.00-10.30   discussion
10.30-11.00   coffee break
11.00-11.40   2 experimental talks
11.40-12.30   discussion

12.30-14.00   lunch break

14.00-16.00   discussion of the workshop report/work to be done 
16.00-16.30   coffee break
16.30-18.30   discussion of the workshop report/work to be done

During the next weeks before the workshop, we would like to prepare
for the discussion sessions by starting collecting questions
and topics that we consider relevant, unclear, urgent in some sense.
To this aim we invite you to prepare a list of your questions/topics and to
send it to Alessandro, who will post them on the workshop webpage.
Having the "urgent questions" on the webpage and discussing them in
advance with your group/colleagues will be an excellent warm-up for
the meeting and hopefully will help to make it more useful to all of us.

Finally, we would like to suggest to produce a workshop report with
the final outcome of the workshop and a collection of results of
"homework" we assign to ourselves during the meeting.  We hope that
the workshop can help to improve the understanding of the extraction
of the W mass and of the determination of its theoretical error.


Webpage
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We think that it could be useful to have at hand references and links
to papers/notes/codes that we consider important for the discussion.
We already provided some information on the workshop webpage at

http://wwwteor.mi.infn.it/~vicini/scienprogr.html

Please have a look to check that these links are correct or need to be
updated.  Also, please let Alessandro know of any other relevant
information that in your opinion should be linked to the workshop
webpage.

Logistics
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Lunches and the workshop dinner will be paid by the University of
Milano. Please, let us know in case you have special dietary
restrictions.
  
Finally, please send us the macaddresses of your wireless and ethernet
cards, so that we can start the authentication and save some time
during the workshop.