Alice offline week

from Monday 7 July 2008 (08:00) to Friday 11 July 2008 (18:30)
CERN (40-S2-D01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Jul 2008
8 Jul 2008
9 Jul 2008
10 Jul 2008
11 Jul 2008
AM
09:00
Detector Status (until 18:30)
09:00 First Physics Discussion - Karel Safarik (CERN)  
09:30 ACORDE Status Report  
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10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 CTP Status Report  
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11:20 EMCAL Status Report - Jennifer Klay (Cal Poly)  
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12:00 FMD Status Report - Christian Holm Christensen (Niels Bohr Institute)  
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12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 HMPID Status Report  
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14:40 ITS Status Report - Massimo Masera (Universita degli Studi di Torino)  
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15:25 --- Coffee Break ---
15:55 MUON Status Report - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN, ORSAY, FRANCE)  
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16:35 PHOS Status report - Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE)) Boris Polichtchouk (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))  
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09:00
Detector Status (until 19:45)
09:00 First Physics Discussion - Karel Safarik (CERN)  
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09:30 PMD Status Report - Ajay Kumar Dash (Institute of Physics)  
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10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 RAW Status Report  
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11:20 T0 Status Report - Alla Maevskaya (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))  
12:00 TOF Status Report - Chiara Zampolli (Universita degli Studi di Bologna) Annalisa De Caro (Universita degli Studi di Salerno)  
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 TPC Status Report - Marek Kowalski (Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN) Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
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14:40 TRD Status Report  
15:20 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50 V0 Status Report - Brigitte Cheynis (Institut National de Physique Nucl et Phys. Part. (IN2P3-CNRS))  
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16:30 ZDC Status Report - Chiara Oppedisano (Universita degli Studi di Torino)  
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09:00
Simulation & Reconstruction (until 18:00)
09:00 First Physics Discussion - Karel Safarik (CERN)  
10:15 --- Coffee ---
10:45 Steering the Reconstruction Parameters - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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12:30 ITS Tracking - Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)  
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13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 Updates in the TRD Reconstruction Framework - Dr Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)  
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14:30 TPC: ExB Correction - Marian Ivanov, Magnus Mager, Jens Wiechula  
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15:00 TPC: Gain Calibration and PID - Marian Ivanov Alexander Kalweit  
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15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00 Status of the Event Display - Matevz Tadel (CERN)  
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09:00
Analysis Status & Experience (until 12:30)
09:00 First Physics Discussion - K. Safarik  
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09:30 Status of the Analysis Framework - Mr Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
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10:00 Status of the Analysis Train - Mihaela Gheata (Institute of Space Sciences ISS)  
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10:20 PWG4 Analysis - Dr Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)  
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10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10 Analysis Framework: User Experience - Dr Silvia Masciocchi (GSI)  
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11:30 PWG2 Analysis - Adam Kisiel (Ohio State University)  
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11:50 Development of the PWG3 Muon Analysis Code - Roberta Arnaldi (Universita degli Studi di Torino)  
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12:10 Analysis of PDC08 Muon Productions - Nicole Bastid (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))  
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09:00
CAF Status & Experience (until 12:35)
09:00 First Physics Discussion - Karel Safarik (CERN)  
09:30 PROOF roadmap - Fons Rademakers (CERN)  
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10:00 Developments in the core PROOF code - Gerardo GANIS (CERN)  
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10:30 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
10:50 PROOF@CAF - the ALICE prompt analysis facility - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
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11:20 Statistics of CAF usage, interaction with the GRID - Marco Meoni (CERN)  
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11:50 Experiences with analysis on CAF - Arian Abrahantes Quintana (Center of Technological Applic.& Nuclear Developm.CEADEN)  
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12:05 Experiences with analysis on GSIAF - Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
HLT Demonstration at ACR/P2 (until 18:30) (ACR)
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Grid Status & Experience (until 17:30)
14:00 Data production - getting ready for LHC startup - Latchezar Betev (CERN)  
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14:30 AliEn central services - structure and operation - Costin Grigoras (CERN)  
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14:50 The AliEn build system (code now available also for MicroC/OS-II) - Alina Gabriela Grigoras (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))  
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15:10 Virtualization - the road ahead - Predrag Buncic (CERN)  
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15:40 User analysis - how to get the best out of AliEn (without breaking it) - Pablo Saiz (CERN)  
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16:10 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
16:30 Experiences with analysis on the Grid - Ana Marin (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))  
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17:00 Global data access through xrootd - Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))