lecture Alice offline week
Date/Time: from Monday, 8 October 2007 (08:00) to Friday, 12 October 2007 (20:00) (Europe/Zurich)
Location: 30-7-018 (AT/LHC auditorium)
Description:
Alice offline week. VRVS videoconference in SNOW
Monday, 8 October 2007 09:00 ->12:40 Detector Status    
Monday, 8 October 2007 14:00 ->17:40 Detector Status    
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:40 ->13:20 Detector Status    
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 14:00 ->19:55 Status of simulation & reconstruction    
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:00 ->23:40 Status of Analysis    
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:00 ->18:10 Alignment    
Thursday, 11 October 2007 09:00 ->11:10 CAF    
Thursday, 11 October 2007 11:00 ->19:00 QA session    
Thursday, 11 October 2007 14:00 ->21:30 HLT    
Friday, 12 October 2007 09:00 ->11:30 Calibration    
Friday, 12 October 2007 11:30 ->12:30 Visualization    
Friday, 12 October 2007 14:00 ->20:00 FDR Planning    

 
 Monday, 8 October 2007
Detector Status (09:00 ->12:40 )  
 09:00
ACORDE Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Arturo Fernandez Tellez (High Energy Physics Group)  
 09:40
BCM Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Heinrich Schindler (Technische Universitaet Wien)  
 10:20
FMD Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Kristjan Gulbrandsen (Niels Bohr Institute)  
11:00  Cofee Break (20')
 11:20
GRP Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens)  
 12:00
HMPID Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Annalisa Mastroserio (Univ. + INFN) Levente Molnar (Res. Inst. Particle & Nucl. Phys. - Hungarian Academy of Science)  

12:40  Lunch Break (1h20')
Detector Status (14:00 ->17:40 )  
 14:00
ITS Status (40')    
Domenico Elia (Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica)  
Henrik Tydesjo (CERN)  
  • SDD (15') Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow  
Francesco Prino (INFN, Sezione di Torino - Universita & INFN, Torino)  
  • SSD (15') Slides powerpoint file pdf filedown arrow  
Enrico Fragiacomo (Univ. + INFN)  
 14:40
MUON Status (40')   Slides pdf file   Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN, ORSAY, FRANCE)  
 15:20
PHOS Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))  
16:00  Coffee break (20')
 16:20
PMD Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Zubayer Ahammed (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) - Department of Atomic E)  
 17:00
T0 Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Alla Maevskaya (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))  
Tomasz Malkiewicz (University of Jyvaskyla)  


 
 Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Detector Status (09:00 ->13:20 )  
 09:00
TOF Status (40')    
Annalisa De Caro (Universita degli Studi di Salerno)  
  • Online+Offline Calibration/Alignment (15') Slides powerpoint file pdf file  
Chiara Zampolli (Universita degli Studi di Bologna)  
 09:40
TPC Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf filedown arrow   Haavard Helstrup (Department of Physics and Technology) Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
 10:20
TRD Status (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Christoph Blume (University of Frankfurt)  
 10:50
TRD raw data (10')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Ken Oyama (University of Heidelberg)  
11:00  Coffee Break (20')
 11:20
V0 Staus (40')   Slides pdf file    
Raphael Tieulent (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL) - Universite Claud)  
 12:00
ZDC Status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Sezione di Torino)  
 12:40
EMCAL status (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)  

12:40  Lunch Break (1h20')
Status of simulation & reconstruction (14:00 ->19:55 )  
 14:00
ExB effect in TPC: simulation and treatment in reconstruction (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
 14:15
Memory and CPU consuption for reconstruction. Memsta tool (20')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow    
 14:35
ESD size (10')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf file   Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
 14:45
AliReconstruction: future plans (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
 15:00
Progress with MUON reconstruction (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)  
 15:15
TOF reconstruction: further intergration with common barrel reconstruction classes (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Silvia Arcelli (Univ. + INFN)  
 15:30
ITS reconstruction: progress with feature factorization, material from TGeo (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)  
 15:45
ITS reconstruction: impact of the dead and noisy SSD strips (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf filedown arrow   Enrico Fragiacomo (Univ. + INFN)  
 16:00
ESD clean-up at the physics level: first round (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Iouri BELIKOV (CERN)  


 
 Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Status of Analysis (09:00 ->23:40 )  
 09:00
Status of the analysis framework (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Andreas Morsch (CERN)  
 09:20
Efficiency framework (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Silvia Arcelli (Univ. + INFN)  
 09:40
ESD status (20')   Slides pdf file   Christian Klein-Boesing (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
 10:20
AOD status (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Markus Oldenburg (CERN)  
 10:50
Analysis train on the Grid (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Mihaela Gheata (Institute of Space Sciences ISS)  
 11:10
Analysis on the GRID/CAF: Users experience (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf filedown arrow   Ana Marin (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI)) Renaud Vernet (Consorzio Cometa (Catania))  
 11:30
kDtree, kNN and kN interpolations (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)  
 11:50
Some new statistical tools (20')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow   Marian Ivanov  

12:40  Lunch Break (1h20')
Alignment (14:00 ->18:10 )  
 14:00
News in the alignment framework (30')   Slides pdf file   Raffaele Grosso (CERN)  
 14:30
Detector-detector dependencies in alignment (15')   Slides pdf file   Raffaele Grosso (CERN)  
 14:45
Survey status (30')   Slides pdf file   Ricardo Manuel Salgueiro Domingues da Silva (CERN)  
 15:15
TPC alignment from real survey data (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Marek Kowalski (INP Krakow)  
 15:35
TRD alignment with AliAlignmentTracks (25')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Dariusz Miskowiec (GSI Darmstadt)  
 16:00
ITS Alignment (2h0')    
  • First cosmics run and alignment: comments, remarks and suggestions (20') Slides powerpoint file pdf file  
Adam Jacholkowski (Catania)  
Andrea Dainese (Legnaro)  
  • ITS alignment with AliAlignmentTracks (20') Slides pdf file  
Andrea Rossi (Trieste)  
Sandra Moretto (Padova)  


 
 Thursday, 11 October 2007
CAF (09:00 ->11:10 )
Chairperson: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)
 09:00
Status of the CERN Analysis Facility, Datasets and PDC07 data on CAF (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
 09:30
Recent PROOF developments: Non-tree based analysis and CPU fairshare (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Gerardo GANIS (CERN)  
 09:50
CAF benchmarks (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Marco Meoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
 10:20
Demo of dataset API (20')   Slides pdf file   Gerhard Erich Bruckner  
10:40  Coffee break (20')

QA session (11:00 ->19:00 )  
 11:00
Introduction (20')   Slides pdf file   Yves Schutz (IN2P3/CERN)  
 11:20
Online monitoring (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Filimon Roukoutakis (CERN & University of Athens)  
 11:50
TPC QA (20')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf file   Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
 12:10
SDD QA (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Piergiorgio Cerello (INFN - TORINO)  

12:40  Lunch Break (1h20')
HLT (14:00 ->21:30 )
Chairperson: Dieter Roehrich (University of Bergen)
 14:00
Status of HLT cluster, hardware and interfaces (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)  
 14:20
HLT AliRoot integration simulation/reconstruction (20')   Slides pdf file   Matthias Richter (DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN)  
 14:40
TPC HLT tracking/Offline comparison (40')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf file   Gaute Ovrebekk (University of Bergen) Kalliopi Kanaki (University of Bergen)  
 15:20
HLT Calibration (10')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)  
 15:30
DiMuon tracking (30')   Slides pdf file   Artur Szostak (University of Cape Town)  
16:00  break (30')
 16:30
TRD @ HLT status update (15')   Slides pdf file   Mateusz Ploskon (University Frankfurt)  
 16:45
PHOS @ HLT status update (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Per Thomas Hille (Fysisk institutt)  
 17:00
ITS @ HLT status and discussion (15')   Slides pdf file   Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
 17:15
Raw reader update and discussion (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Per Thomas Hille (Fysisk institutt)  
 17:30
AOB (30')    
reference data
- beam gass
- cosmics
- pp
visualization


 
 Friday, 12 October 2007
Calibration (09:00 ->11:30 )
Chairperson: Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)), Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)
 09:00
Status of Shuttle preprocessors (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster) Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
 09:20
Reconstruction with conditions data produced by the Shuttle (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
 09:40
Status of Calibration in DAQ (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   document unknown type file   Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)  
 10:00
Calibration in DCS + AMANDA status report and plans (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Peter Chochula (CERN)  
 10:20
OCDB: Local Caching of Remote Files (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
 10:40
Status of the dipole magnetic field data analysis (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Ruben Shahoyan (NA60)  

Visualization (11:30 ->12:30 )  
 11:30
Status of visualization (30')   Slides link   Matevz Tadel (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  

12:40  Lunch break (1h20')
FDR Planning (14:00 ->20:00 )  
 14:00
FDR plans and status (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Latchezar Betev (CERN)  
 14:30
The WLCG Common Computing Readiness Challenge 2008 (30')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow   Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)  
 15:00
DAQ in the tesbeams and comissioning excercises (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Roberto Divia (CERN)  
 15:30
DCS in the test beams and comissioning excercises (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Andre Augustinus (CERN)  
 16:00
HMPID testbeam (20')   Slides pdf file   Levente Molnar (INFN Bari)  
 16:20
EMCAL testbeam (20')   Slides link   David Silvermyr (ORNL)  
 16:40
Experience with ongoing PHOS data taking (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Yuri Kharlov (IHEP, Protvino)  
 17:00
Status Report of the Nordic Tier1 (20')   Slides pdf file   Boris Wagner (UiB)