QCD with Weak Bosons and Jets with ATLAS

The study of W and Z boson production in association with jets in $pp$ collisions at 14 TeV is an important element of the physics program within ATLAS. These processes are not only interesting in their own right as tests of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at the LHC, but also constitute important backgrounds for both Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model physics processes. In these proceedings the benefits and theoretical motivations for the analysis of W/Z+jets events are presented and the experimental challenges briefly reviewed.