lecture Alice offline week
Date/Time: from Monday, 2 October 2006 (09:00) to Friday, 6 October 2006 (18:00) (Europe/Zurich)
Location: CERN
Chairperson: , Federico Carminati (CERN)
Description:
Monday - VRVS in 'Moon' virtual root
Tuesday afternoon  'Raw data' sesion - remote participation through VRVS (room 'Motorcycle')
Wednesday aftenoon 'Calibration' session - telephone conference for US EMCAL contribution (dial +41(22)767-6542 and ask to join 'ALICE offline')
Thursday session - remote participation through  VRVS in 'Moon' virtual room
Monday, 2 October 2006 09:30 ->20:35 Monday (60-6-002)    
Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:00 ->19:00 Tuesday (13-2-005/160-1-009)    
Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:00 ->18:00 Wednesday (13-2-005)    
Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:30 ->19:45 Thursday (IT auditorium)    
Friday, 6 October 2006 09:00 ->18:00 Friday (IT auditorium)    

 
 Monday, 2 October 2006
Monday (09:00 ->20:05 )  
 09:00
Introduction (45')   Slides powerpoint file   Federico Carminati (CERN)  
 09:45
Overview of the simulation (45')   Slides powerpoint file   Andreas Morsch (CERN)  
10:30  break (30')
 11:00
New results with Fluka (40')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Arian Abrahantes Quintana (CEADEN)  
 11:40
Geant4-Root navigation interface (20')   Slides powerpoint file   Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
12:00  break (2h0')
 14:00
A short introduction (10')   Slides powerpoint file   Iouri Belikov (CERN)  
 14:10
Primary vertex reconstruction using the SPD (15')   Slides powerpoint file   Elisabetta Crescio (Universita degli Studi di Torino) Massimo Masera (Universita degli Studi di Torino) Francesco Prino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
 14:25
Primary vertex reconstruction using the tracks (15')   Slides powerpoint file   Elisabetta Crescio (Universita degli Studi di Torino) Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Massimo Masera (Universita degli Studi di Torino) Francesco Prino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
 14:40
Update on the TRD reconstruction: electron PID, remarks on ESD tracks, systematics in PDC06 data (30')   Slides pdf file   Silvia Masciocchi (GSI)  
 15:10
Common track parametrization in the barrel (15')   Slides powerpoint file   Iouri BELIKOV (CERN)  
15:30  break (30')
 16:00
Factorization of the reconstruction features (15')   Slides powerpoint file   Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
 16:15
Update on the V0 classes (15')   Slides powerpoint file   Boris Hippolyte (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))  
 16:30
Evaluation of the d0 resolution from data (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Andrea ROSSI (Padova)  
 16:45
MUON trigger chambers efficiency and quality with upstream reconstructed tracks (20')   Slides pdf file   Bogdan Vulpescu (LPC Clermont-Ferrand)  
 17:05
Discussion (1h0')   tbc  


 
 Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Tuesday (09:00 ->19:00 )
Raw data and detector commissioning.
 09:00
Introduction. Raw data "tutorial". (1h0')   Cheshkov, C.  
 10:00
DAQ presentation (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Carena, F.  
 10:15
MOOD status (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Roukoutakis, F.  
10:30  break (30')
 11:00
Reports from detectors (2h0')    
  • TPC (15')
Ivanov, M. Cheshkov, C.  
  • PHOS (30') Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf file  
Polichtchouk. B.  
Elia, D.  
Shileev, K.  
13:00  break (1h0')
 14:00 ( 160-1-009 )
Reports from detectors (cont.) (3h45')    
Susanta K. Pal  
Crescio, E.  
Fragiacomo, E.  
Blume, C.  
De Caro, A.  
Finck, Ch.  
  • FMD (30')
Christensen, Ch.H.  
Maevskaia, A.  
Cheynis, B.  
Scomparin, E.  
  • ACCORDE (30')
tbc  
Jennifer Klay (LLNL)  
 17:45 ( 160-1-009 )
HLT presentation (15')   tbc  
 18:00 ( 160-1-009 )
Conclussions and Summary (15')   Cheshkov, C.  


 
 Wednesday, 4 October 2006
Wednesday (09:00 ->18:00 )  
 09:00
Detector calibration readiness status (20')   Slides powerpoint file   Yves Schutz  
 09:20
News on the OCDB access framework (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
 09:40
Status of the SHUTTLE (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
 10:10
Algorithm for DCS Archive DB data reduction (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
10:30  break (30')
 11:00
Reports from the detectors (2h0')    
Henrik Tydesjo (CERN)  
Elisabetta Crescio (INFN Torino)  
Enrico Fragiacomo (INFN Trieste)  
  • TPC (15') Slides pdf file   document unknown type filedown arrow  
Haavard Helstrup (CERN)  
Raphaelle Bailhache (GSI)  
Chiara Zampolli (INFN Bologna)  
Boris Polichtchouk (IFVE)  
Enrico Scomparin (INFN Torino)  
13:00  break (1h0')
 14:00
Reports from the detectors (2h0')    
Kirill Shileev (INR)  
Alberto Baldisseri (CEA-Saclay)  
  • FMD (15') Slides presentation file powerpoint file pdf file  
    Ian has taken ill, and will not present.
Ian Gardner Bearden (NBI)  
Basanta Kumar Nandi (IIT)  
Tomasz Malkiewicz (University of Jyvaskyla)  
Brigitte Cheynis (INPL)  
Arturo Fernandez Tellez (University of Puebla)  
Jennifer Klay (LLNL)  
 16:00
Summary from the alignment workshop (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Adam Jacholkowski (Universita di Catania)  


 
 Thursday, 5 October 2006
Thursday (09:00 ->19:45 )  
 09:00
Experience with the distributed data analysis (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens)  
 09:30
Analysis using PROOF on CAF (30')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
 10:00
Analysis framework (30')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow   text powerpoint file pdf file   Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
10:30  break (30')
 11:00
A proposal for an analysis framework for MC (20')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)  
 11:20
Status of magnetic field analysis (20')   Slides pdf file   Ruben Shahoyan (NA60)  
 11:40
Status of the alignment (30')   Slides pdf file   Raffaele Grosso (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
 12:10
Visualization: requirements from the physics board (15')   Slides powerpoint file pdf file   Yiota Foka (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))  
 12:25
Visialization of raw-data & digits: TPC example and discussion (35')   slides link   Matevz Tadel (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
13:00  break (1h0')
 14:00
GRID and distributed computing (3h0')    
Latchezar Betev (CERN)  
  • Installation and comissioning of ALICE VO-boxes and AliEn services - procedures and typical problems (30') Slides powerpoint file pdf file  
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)  
  • Preparation for the user analysis phase of PDC'06 (30') Slides pdf file  
Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
  • Improvements of the AliEn-LCG interface (30') Slides powerpoint file pdf file  
Stefano Bagnasco (INFN)  
Pablo Saiz (CERN)  
  • AMON - AliEn services monitoring and control framework (20') Slides powerpoint file pdf file  
Catalin Cirstoiu (CERN)  
  • File transfer services - overview of results and experiences (30') Slides powerpoint file pdf file  
Costin Grigoras (CERN)  
 17:00
Requirements and proposals from the physics working groups (1h30')   Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow   document link   Yves Schutz (CERN)  


 
 Friday, 6 October 2006
Friday (09:00 ->18:00 )
Material: agenda link
 09:00
Preparation for first physics with ALICE (9h0')   agenda link