The IS is mainly focussed upon QCD and QCD
applications to Standard Model Physics,
and upon radiative corrections (strong and
electroweak) in Standard Model processes.

. The broad lines of research
are the following:

1) LO, NLO and NNLO calculations of QCD processes,

2) Soft gluon resummation

2) QCD in the high energy regime: small x physics,
BFKL pomeron, diffraction.

3) Monte Carlo generators for collider physics.

4) QCD applications to heavy flavour decays.

5) Collider processes


Recent developements and perspective:


*) Analytic or precise numerical calculation of multi-loop contributions
to various processes in QED, QCD and the EW model, by using in
particular the differential equation approach for the evaluation
of the Master Integrals of the problem (BO)

*) Tools at high perturbative orders: analytical and numerical
methods for 1 and 2 loop scattering amplitudes, collinear
factorization structure of QCD matrix elements. (FI)

*) NLO calculation of vector boson pair producton via
vector boson fusion at LHC (MI)

*) EW and multiple photon corrections in Drell-Yan type processes
at LHC (generator HORACE)
O(alpha) and higher oprder QED correction to Higgs
decay into 4 leptons (impact for H mass measurement at LHC) (PV)

*) Joint analysis of low (10GeV) and high (91 GeV)
energy inclusive production of charmed mesons (MI)

*) New processes and study pf matching in ALPGEN,
a generator of complex tree-level processes fo LHC:
single top, fotoni + jets;
ALPGEN is included in the official code of the
experimental collaborations CDF and D0. (PV, FE)

*) A first implementation of a positive weight NLO event generator,
that can be interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs
without overcounting (MIB).

*) Resummation in the transverse momentum distributions in hadronic collisions:
Higgs and W pairs. In preparation: applications to dilepton pair
production at the Tevatron and at the LHC. (FI)

*) Small x physics: relation between MSbar and transverse momentum
factorization.
Perspective: matrix formulation of the small-x evolution equation
that embodies collinear resummation (FI)
Contributions for the construction of the complete kernel of the NLO
BFKL equation for arbitrary color representation in the t-channel.
NLO non-forward BFKL equation (CS).


*) Spin physice: Double transverse-spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan processes,
K-factors in Drell-Yan processes, transversity. (MI)

*) Fracture functions (semi inclusive DIS) formalism developed;
work on applications in progress (PR)


*) B->s gamma decay: finite mass insertions;
resummation in B semileptonic decays. (PR)
EW radiative corrections in heavy quark decays,
EW effects in polarized meson's and muon radiative decays (PR)