Name: ACAT 2008
Start: 2008-11-03T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2008-11-07T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

ACAT 2008

from Monday 3 November 2008 (08:00) to Friday 7 November 2008 (18:00)

Monday 3 November 2008
08:45
08:45 - 10:20
Contributions

08:45 Introduction to ACAT 2008 - Federico Carminati (CERN)

08:55 Introduction to Morning Session - Denis Perret-Gallix (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))

09:00 Aspects of Intellectual Property Law for HEP Software Developers - Lawrence Pinsky (University of Houston-Unknown-Unknown)

09:40 The Blue Brain Project - Simulation-based Research in Neuroscience - Felix Schuermann
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 12:40
Contributions

10:40 Higgs bbbar decay at NNLO and beyond : the uncertainties of QCD predictions - Andrei Kataev (Institute for Nucleaer Research , Moscow, Russia)

11:20 High-Precision Arithmetic and Mathematical Physics - David Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

12:00 Are SE Architectures Ready For LHC - Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC))
14:00
14:00 - 18:15
Contributions

14:00 g-Eclipse - user and developer friendly access to Grids and Clouds - Ariel Garcia (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE, GERMANY)

14:25 Dedicated Services to Support Data Replication over GRID using ATLAS Distributed Data Management System. - Mikhail Titov (Moscow Physical Engineering Inst. (MePhI))

14:50 The PanDA System in the ATLAS Experiment - Paul Nilsson (University of Texas at Arlington)

15:15 ALICE Analysis Framework - Andrei Gheata (ISS/CERN)

16:10 Distributed analysis in CMS using CRAB: the client-server architecture evolution and commissioning - Giuseppe Codispoti (Dipartimento di Fisica)

16:35 Mass Storage System for Disk and Tape resources at the Tier1. - Pier Paolo Ricci (INFN CNAF)

17:00 ATLAS Handling Problematic Events in Quasi Real-Time - Hegoi Garitaonandia (NIKHEF)

17:25 Large Scale Job Management and Experience in Recent Data Challenges within the LHC CMS experiment. - Stuart Wakefield (Imperial College London)

17:50 MDT data quality assessment at the Calibration centre for the ATLAS experiment at LHC - Elena Solfaroli (INFN RomaI & Universita' di Roma La Sapienza) Monica Verducci (INFN RomaI)
14:00 - 18:15
Contributions

14:00 Multi-threaded event processing with JANA - David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab)

14:25 TMVA- the toolkit for multivariate data analysis - Joerg Stelzer (DESY)

14:50 PDE-FOAM - a probability-density estimation method based on self-adapting phase-space binning - Dominik Dannheim (CERN)

15:15 The Role of Interpreters in High Performance Computing - Axel Naumann (CERN)

16:10 The ATLAS Conditions Database Model for the Muon Spectrometer - Monica Verducci (INFN RomaI)

16:35 PARADIGM, a Decision Making Framework for Variable Selection and Reduction in High Energy Physics - Sergei V. Gleyzer (Florida State University)

17:00 Track Reconstruction and Muon Identification in the Muon Detector of the CBM Experiment at FAIR - Andrey Lebedev (GSI, Darmstadt / JINR, Dubna)

17:25 Fireworks: A Physics Event Display for CMS - Christopher Jones (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)

17:50 An overview of the b-Tagging algorithms in the CMS Offline software - Christophe Saout (CMS, CERN & IEKP, University of Karlsruhe)
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Unitarity Methods For 1-Loop Amplitudes - Warren Perkins (Swansea University UK)

14:25 From moments to functions in higher order QCD - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

14:50 Computational aspects for three-loop DIS calculations - Mikhail Rogal (DESY)

15:15 Recent developments of GRACE - Yoshimasa KURIHARA (KEK)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 18:15
Contributions

16:10 Recent Progress of Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics and Readiness for the LHC Start - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

16:35 Standard SANC Modules - Vladimir Kolesnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))

17:00 Mathematical model of magnetically interacting rigid bodies - Stanislav Zub (National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Techn)
Tuesday 4 November 2008
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 Java based software for High-Energy and Astro-physics - Tony Johnson (SLAC)

09:40 Introduction to The LLVM Compiler System - Chris Lattner
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 12:00
Contributions

10:40 Data Analysis with PROOF - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)

11:20 MonALISA : A Distributed Service System for Monitoring, Control and Global Optimization - Iosif Legrand (CALTECH)
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Profiling Post-GRID analysis - Akira Shibata (New York University)

14:25 Distributed Computing in ATLAS - Guido Negri (Unknown)

14:50 The CMS Tier 0 - Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

15:15 Data transfer infrastructure for CMS data taking - Ricky Egeland (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
14:00 - 18:15
Contributions

14:00 VISPA: a Novel Concept for Visual Physics Analysis - Tatsiana Klimkovich (RWTH-Aachen)

14:25 Petaminer: Efficient Navigation to Petascale Data Using Event-Level Metadata - Alexandre Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:50 Interactive Data Analysis with PROOF, Experience at GSI - Anna Kreshuk (GSI)

15:15 C++ and Data - Axel Naumann (CERN)

16:10 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - John Alison (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

16:35 Recent Improvements of the ROOT Fitting and Minimization Classes - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

17:00 Efficient Level 2 Trigger System Based on Artificial Neural Networks - Sonia Khatchadourian (ETIS - UMR CNRS 8051)

17:25 Sophisticated algorithms of analysis of spectroscopic data - Miroslav Morhac (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Tools for systematic event generator tuning and validation - Andy Buckley (Durham University)

14:25 The Monte Carlo generators in CMS - Paolo Bartalini (CERN)

14:50 Development, validation and maintenance of Monte Carlo event generators and generator services in the LHC era - Mikhail Kirsanov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Moscow)

15:15 LCG MCDB and HepML, next step to unified interfaces of Monte-Carlo Simulation - Sergey Belov (JINR, Dubna)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10

Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 18:15
Contributions

16:10 Early Experience with the CMS Computing Model - Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

16:35 Using constraint programing to resolve the multi-source / multi-site data movement paradigm on the Grid - Michal ZEROLA (Nuclear Physics Inst., Academy of Sciences, Praha)

17:00 Evolution of the STAR Framework OO model for the Multi-Core era - Valeri FINE (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

17:25 XCFS - an analysis disk pool & filesystem based on FUSE and xroot protocol - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

17:50 Job Centric Monitoring for ATLAS jobs in the LHC Computing Grid - Tim Muenchen (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
16:10 - 18:15
Contributions

16:10 Hadronic Physics in Geant4: Improvements and Status for LHC Start - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

16:35 Two approaches to Combining Significances - Sergey Bityukov (INSTITUTE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, PROTVINO)

17:00 Radiative corrections to Drell-Yan like processes in SANC - Andrej Arbuzov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))
Wednesday 5 November 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 CompHEP status report (version 4.5) - Alexander Sherstnev (University of Oxford)

09:40 Multivariate Methods in Particle Physics: Today and Tomorrow - Harrison Prosper (Department of Physics, Florida State University)

10:40 LHC phenomenology at next-to-leading order QCD: theoretical progress and new results - Thomas Binoth (University of Edinburgh)

11:20 Code quality from the programmer's perspective - Paolo Tonella (FBK-IRST)
14:00
14:00 - 18:15
Contributions

14:00 The commissioning of CMS computing centres in the WLCG Grid - Andrea Sciaba' (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

14:25 The DAQ/HLT system of the ATLAS experiment - André dos Anjos (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

14:50 VARIOUS RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS IN GRID BY MEANS OF VIRTUALIZATION OF WORKING NODES - Alexander Kryukov (Skobeltsyn Institute for Nuclear Physics Moscow State University)

15:15 The Advanced Resource Connector for Distributed LHC Computing - David Cameron (University of Oslo)

16:35 FairRoot Framework - Mohammad Al-Turany (GSI DARMSTADT)

17:00 The CMS Framework for Alignment and Calibration - Gero Flucke (Universität Hamburg)

17:25 A prototype of a dinamically expandable Virtual Analysis Facility - Dario Berzano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and University of Torino)

17:50 Software development, release integration and distribution tools for the CMS experiment - David Lange (LLNL)
14:00 - 18:15
Contributions

14:00 A Numeric Comparison of Feature Selection Algorithms for Supervised Learning - Giulio Palombo (University of Milan - Bicocca)

14:25 Tau identification using multivariate techniques in ATLAS - Marcin Wolter (Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

14:50 The ALICE Global Redirector. A step towards real storage robustness. - Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

15:15 WebDat: Bridging the Gap Between Unstructured and Structured Data - Jerzy Nogiec (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)

16:10 MINUIT Package Parallelization and applications using the RooFit Package - Alfio Lazzaro (Universita' degli Studi and INFN, Milano)

16:35 ATLAS trigger status and results from commissioning operations - Biglietti Michela (UNIVERSITY OF NAPOLI and INFN)

17:00 Software Validation Infrastructure for the Atlas High-Level Trigger Validation Infrastructure for the ATLAS High-Level Trigger - Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - COPPE/Poli)

17:25 Application of the rule-growing algorithm RIPPER to particle physics analysis - Markward Britsch (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik (MPI)-Unknown-Unknown)

17:50 Enhanced Gene Expression Programming for signal-background discrimination in particle physics - Liliana Teodorescu (Brunel University)
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Current status of FORM parallelization - Mikhail Tentyukov (Karlsruhe University)

14:25 New implementation of the sector decomposition on FORM - Takahiro Ueda (KEK)

14:50 FormCalc 6 - Thomas Hahn (MPI Munich)

15:15 Numerical Evaluation of Feynman Integrals by a Direct Computation Method - Fukuko YUASA (KEK)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 18:15
Contributions

16:10 Numerical calculations of Multiple Polylog functions - Yoshimasa Kurihara (KEK)

16:35 New results for loop integrals - Tord Riemann (DESY)

17:00 Feynman Diagrams, Differential Reduction and Hypergeometric Functions - mikhail kalmykov (Hamburg U./JINR)
Thursday 6 November 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:40
Contributions

09:00 Getting ready for next generation computing - Volker Lindenstruth (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)

09:40 CernVM - a virtual appliance for LHC applications - Predrag Buncic (CERN)

10:40 Forget multicore! The future is many-core: An outlook to the explosion of parallelism likely to occur in the LHC era - Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:20 Porting Reconstruction Algorithms to the Cell Broadband Engine - Ivan Kisel (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany)

12:00 Throughput Computing in C++ - Anwar Ghuloum (Intel Corporation)
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Contributions

14:00 Many-core Round Table - How to prepare for the future
Friday 7 November 2008
09:00
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:00 Computing Technology for Physics Research - Summary - Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, United States)

09:30 Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools - Summary - Thomas Speer (Brown University)

10:30 Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Summary - Kiyoshi Kato (Kogakuin University)

11:00 ACAT2008 Summary - Federico Carminati (CERN)

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