Theory versus experiments in heavy flavour production

Abstract

I discuss the current status of the comparison between theoretical predictions and experimental data, relevant to the production of open charm and bottom quarks in photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions. I advocate the use of a formalism that matches fixed-order computations to resummed computations in order to make firm statements on heavy flavour production as described by perturbative QCD.

Comments: 10 pages Latex; 7 figures included. Talk given at EPS01, 12 - 18 July 2001, Budapest, Hungary