Name: First ATLAS-SouthCaucasus Software/Computing Workshop & Tutorial
Start: 2010-10-25T13:00:00+04:00
End: 2010-10-29T22:00:00+04:00
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

First ATLAS-SouthCaucasus Software/Computing Workshop & Tutorial

from Monday, 25 October 2010 (13:00) to Friday, 29 October 2010 (22:00)

Monday, 25 October 2010
13:00 General introduction and ATLAS software
13:00 - 18:45
Room: Bld.5
Contributions

13:00 Registration

13:30 Welcome addresses

14:10 ATLAS Status and News - Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa)

14:30 Introduction to ATLAS software - Markus Elsing (CERN)

16:00 Event and detector data model - James William WALDER (Lancaster University) Vakhtang Tsulaia (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)

16:30 Geometry Description for Cavern Background - Archil Surmava (GCCEC, GTU) Besk Kekelia (GCCEC, GTU)

17:00 Physics analysis examples - James William WALDER (Lancaster University) Miguel Villaplana Perez (IFIC)

17:30 Development of the ATLAS 3D event display - Giorgi Gvaberidze (GCCEC, GTU)

18:00 Introduction to ATLAS datasets, nomenclature and AMI dataset discovery - Solveig Albrand (LPSC)
18:45 Georgian National Art Concert

18:45 - 20:00

20:00 Early bird reception

20:00 - 23:00
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
10:00 ATLAS Grid and Grid infrastructure
10:00 - 13:00
Room: Bld.5
Contributions

10:00 Introduction to the ATLAS Grid - Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa)

10:30 ATLAS data distribution and access model - Jim Shank (Boston University)

11:00 Access to databases and conditions data - Vakhtang Tsulaia (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)

11:30 Networking and Grid infrastructure in Georgia - Ramaz Kvatadze (GRENA)

12:00 Networking and Grid infrastructure in Azerbaijan - Pǝrvin Aliyeva (IPANAC Baku)

12:30 Distributed computing in Armenia: current status and perspectives - Hrachya Astsatryan (IIAP Yerevan)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Metadata and data selection
14:00 - 18:00
Contributions

14:00 RunQuery and associated tools - Beate Heinemann (LBNL and UC Berkeley)

14:45 Luminosity database, COMA and TAGs - Elizabeth Gallas (Oxford)

15:30 COOL conditions tag browser - Vladimer Shekriladze (GCCEC, GTU)

16:30 Practical session I: Finding data on the Grid, Setting up Your Account and Athena - James William WALDER (Lancaster University) Miguel Villaplana Perez (IFIC) Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)
20:00 Reception

20:00 - 23:00
Wednesday, 27 October 2010

09:00 Excursion
Excursion
09:00 - 23:00
Thursday, 28 October 2010
10:00 Grid and data selection
10:00 - 13:30
Contributions

10:00 Practical session II: Running jobs on the Grid - James William WALDER (Lancaster University) Miguel Villaplana Perez (IFIC) Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)

12:30 Overview of the ATLAS distributed computing monitoring system - Laura Sargsyan (YerPhI)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
15:00 Data selection and analysis
15:00 - 18:15
Contributions

15:00 Practical session III: Complex data searches - Beate Heinemann (LBNL and UC Berkeley) Solveig Albrand (LPSC)

16:00 Practical session IV: Make your own D3PD - Elizabeth Gallas (Oxford) James William WALDER (Lancaster University) Miguel Villaplana Perez (IFIC)

17:15 Practical session V: Final analysis with Proof - James William WALDER (Lancaster University)
Friday, 29 October 2010
10:00 Tier-3s and networking
10:00 - 13:00
Contributions

10:00 ATLAS concept of Tier-3s - Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa) Jim Shank (Boston University)

10:45 Experience in South Caucasus and other countries with local Grid connections and work models for running jobs on the Grid - (discussion)

12:00 Networking infrastructure at Tbilisi State University - Archil Elizbarashvili (TSU Tbilisi)

12:30 Networking infrastructure at Georgian Technical University - Zaza Tsiramua (GTU Tbilisi)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Physics analysis
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 J/ψ cross-section measurement - Vato Kartvelishvili (Lancaster University)
15:00 Discussion and Conclusions
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Round-table discussion - Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa)

16:00 Close-out - Sharmazanashvili Alexander (Georgian Academy of Sciences)
19:00 GALA DINNER

19:00 - 22:00