Name: ALICE Offline week
Start: 2012-10-03T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-10-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

ALICE Offline week

from Wednesday, 3 October 2012 (08:00) to Friday, 5 October 2012 (18:00)

Monday, 1 October 2012
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
09:00 Preparation for upgrade
09:00 - 12:30
Room: IT Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Federico Carminati (CERN)

09:10 Offline requirement for the upgrade - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

09:40 DAQ Upgrade - Pierre Vande Vyvre (CERN)

10:00 HLT Upgrade - Thorsten Kollegger (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

10:20 Update on fast simulation prototype - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

11:20 Parallelising AliRoot reconstruction II - Mihai Niculescu (ISS - Institute for Space Science (RO))

11:40 Parallelising AliRoot reconstruction I - Raffaele Grosso (University of Houston (US))
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Thursday, 4 October 2012
09:00 Calibration
09:00 - 11:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

09:00 CPass0/CPass1 experience - Chiara Zampolli (Universita e INFN (IT))

09:20 Automatic procedure for CPass statistics - Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

09:40 Merging performance and requirements - Mikolaj Krzewicki (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

10:10 T0 experience - Alla Maevskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

10:15 TPC experience - Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Mikolaj Krzewicki (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

10:20 TOF experience - Chiara Zampolli (Universita e INFN (IT))

10:25 TRD experience - Raphaelle Bailhache (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

10:30 SDD experience - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)

10:35 Mean Vertex experience - Davide Caffarri (Universita e INFN (IT))
11:30 Analysis
11:30 - 13:10
Contributions

11:30 PWG-JE Analysis - Christian Klein-Boesing (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))

11:50 PWG-CF Analysis - Michael Weber (University of Houston (US))

12:10 PWG-HF Analysis - Shingo Sakai (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

12:30 PWG-GA Experience with HIJING+Signals - Friederike Bock (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

12:50 PWG-LF - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (University of Houston (US))
13:10 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:10 - 14:00
14:00 Data Quality Monitoring
14:00 - 16:10
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

14:00 DQM system and detectors status - Francesca Bellini (Universita e INFN (IT)) Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

14:20 Software (DQM and Offline) - Adriana Telesca (CERN) Barthelemy Von Haller (CERN) Mihai Niculescu (ISS - Institute for Space Science (RO))

14:50 Detector reports
16:30 Analysis Trains (session primarily targeted at train operators)
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Status & Planned Improvements - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)

16:50 Improvement of Analysis Efficiency - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

17:10 Train operator forum: Discussion on future improvements
Friday, 5 October 2012
09:00 Grid and AF
09:00 - 13:00
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

09:00 The Helmholtz Association project "Large Scale Data and Anlysis" (LSDMA) - Christopher Jung (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

09:20 PandaGRID experiences with AliEn v.2-20 - Kilian Schwarz (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

09:40 Popularity service - Armenuhi Abramyan (ANSL (Yerevan Physics Institute) (AM)) Narine Manukyan (ANSL (Yerevan Physics Institute) (AM))

10:00 The commercial cloud - a cost estimate - Oksana Shadura (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UA))

10:40 JAlien - Alina Gabriela Grigoras (Nat. Acad. of Sciences of Ukraine (UA)) Costin Grigoras (CERN)

11:00 AliEn v.2-20 - Pablo Saiz (CERN)

11:20 The PROOF roadmap - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)

11:40 Summary of the 2012 AF operations - Martin Vala (Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK))

12:00 Summary of 2012 Grid operations - Latchezar Betev (CERN)