TileCal Week (Outside) iThemba LABS Cape Town

Name: TileCal Week (Outside) iThemba LABS Cape Town
Start: 2025-09-29T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-03T21:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

29 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 3 Oct 2025, 21:30 Europe/Zurich

iThemba LABS Auditorium Old Faure Road, FAURE 7131 South Africa

Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA)), Ryan Peter Mckenzie (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand), Henric Wilkens (CERN), Mpho Gift Doctor Gololo (University of Johannesburg (ZA)), Phumlani Zipho Ngcobo (University of Zululand (ZA))

Description

The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter community will gather at iThemba LABS in South Africa from September 29 to October 3, 2025, for the third TileCal Week of the year, and the fourth one held outside CERN, following the meetings in Rio de Janeiro in 2008, Tbilisi in 2018 and Pisa in 2023.

TileCal Week will be hosted by iThemba LABS, with support from the local organizing team and the broader South African high-energy physics community.

Contact

mukesh.kumar@cern.ch

Registration

TileCal Week 2025 Registration

Participants

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Henric Wilkens

Join via phone

Monday 29 September
- 09:15 → 09:30
  Welcome Address 15m
  Welcome address:
  1. Prof. Makondelele Victor Tshivhase, ithemba LABS Managing Director (~5 mins)
  2. Prof. Deena Naidoo, Head of School, School of Physics, WITS (~8 mins)
  Speakers: Deena Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
  
  thanks.pdf
  
  thanks.pptx
  
  welcome.pdf
  
  welcome.pptx
- 09:30 → 11:00
  
  Future Tile Calorimeter
  
  Conveners: Henric Wilkens (CERN), Rute Costa Batalha Pedro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
  
  [agenda]
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:00
  
  Testbeam analysis
  
  Convener: Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 15:30
  
  Phase-II Upgrade project
  
  Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 15:30 → 15:45
  
  Short break 15m
- 15:45 → 17:30
  
  Social Program: iThemba Tour
  
  [information Sunset Safari]
Tuesday 30 September
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Phase-II Upgrade project
  
  Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  Phase-II Upgrade project
  
  Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Phase-II Upgrade project
  
  Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 16:00 → 16:20
  
  Short break 20m
- 16:20 → 17:40
  
  Phase-II Upgrade project
  
  Conveners: Fernando Carrio Argos (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)), Giulio Usai (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
  
  [agenda]
Wednesday 1 October
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Software and Computing
  
  Conveners: Sanya Solodkov (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Siarhei Harkusha (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM)), Yuri Smirnov (Northern Illinois University (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  Data Preparation and Performance: Calibrations
  
  Conveners: Antonio Jesus Gomez Delegido (CERN), Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon), Jana Faltova (Charles University (CZ))
  
  [agenda]
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 15:30
  
  Hardware and Operations
  
  Conveners: Bernardo Sotto-Maior Peralva (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)), Danijela Bogavac (IFAE), Irakli Minashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Jalal Abdallah (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Stanislav Nemecek (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)), Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))
  
  [agenda]
- 15:30 → 15:45
  
  Short break 15m
- 15:45 → 17:15
  
  Hardware and Operations: incl. ITC replacement
  
  Conveners: Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Danijela Bogavac (IFAE), Irakli Minashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Jalal Abdallah (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Stanislav Nemecek (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))
  
  [agenda]
Thursday 2 October
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Data Preparation and Performance: Run-3 Performance
  
  Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon)
  
  [agenda]
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  Data Preparation and Performance: Run-3 Performance
  
  Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon)
  
  [agenda]
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 14:00 → 15:30
  
  Data Preparation and Performance: Run-3 Performance
  
  Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon)
  
  [agenda]
- 15:30 → 15:45
  
  Short break 15m
- 15:45 → 18:30
  
  Institute Board
  
  Convener: Luca Fiorini (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))
  
  [agenda]
- 19:00 → 22:00
  
  Social Program: Collaboration Dinner
  
  [information Sunset Safari]
Friday 3 October
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Data Preparation and Performance: HL-LHC Performance
  
  Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon), Tomas Davidek (Charles University (CZ))
  
  [agenda]
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:00
  
  Data Preparation and Performance: HL-LHC Performance
  
  Conveners: Archil Durglishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)), Helena Santos (LIP - Lisbon), Tomas Davidek (Charles University (CZ))
  
  [agenda]
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 13:00 → 21:30
  
  Social Program: Sunset Safari
  
  [information Sunset Safari]