QCD at the Dawn of the LHC Era
  Precision computations of QCD and QCD+electroweak emission scattering processes will play an important role in understanding experimental data from the LHC, and thereby in uncovering new physics beyond the Standard Model. Recent years have seen substantial progress in expanding our ability to perform and implement such calculations. I discuss several different topics: the resolution of seeming discrepancies between heavy-quark predictions and measurements; the ongoing program of next-to-next-to-leading order calculations; and also progress in merging the parton-shower and matrix-element calculations. I will also outline some of the techniques emerging from twistor-space string theory and its intellectual progeny. 
David A. Kosower