ACAT 2008

from Monday, November 3, 2008 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 7, 2008 (6:00 PM)
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 3, 2008
Nov 4, 2008
Nov 5, 2008
Nov 6, 2008
Nov 7, 2008
AM
8:45 AM
Monday, 03 November 2008 - Morning session 1 (until 10:20 AM)
8:45 AM Introduction to ACAT 2008 - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)  
Slides
8:55 AM Introduction to Morning Session - Denis Perret-Gallix (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))  
9:00 AM Aspects of Intellectual Property Law for HEP Software Developers - Lawrence Pinsky (University of Houston-Unknown-Unknown)  
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9:40 AM The Blue Brain Project - Simulation-based Research in Neuroscience - Mr Felix Schuermann  
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM
Monday, 03 November 2008 - Morning session 2 (until 12:40 PM)
10:40 AM Higgs bbbar decay at NNLO and beyond : the uncertainties of QCD predictions - Dr Andrei Kataev (Institute for Nucleaer Research , Moscow, Russia)  
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11:20 AM High-Precision Arithmetic and Mathematical Physics - David Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)  
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12:00 PM Are SE Architectures Ready For LHC - Mr Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC))  
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9:00 AM
Tuesday, 04 November 2008 - Morning session 1 (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Java based software for High-Energy and Astro-physics - Tony Johnson (SLAC)  
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9:40 AM Introduction to The LLVM Compiler System - Mr Chris Lattner  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM
Tuesday, 04 November 2008 - Morning session 2 (until 12:00 PM)
10:40 AM Data Analysis with PROOF - Dr Gerardo Ganis (CERN)  
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11:20 AM MonALISA : A Distributed Service System for Monitoring, Control and Global Optimization - Iosif Legrand (CALTECH)  
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9:00 AM
Wednesday, 05 November 2008 (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM CompHEP status report (version 4.5) - Dr Alexander Sherstnev (University of Oxford)  
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9:40 AM Multivariate Methods in Particle Physics: Today and Tomorrow - Dr Harrison Prosper (Department of Physics, Florida State University)  
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM LHC phenomenology at next-to-leading order QCD: theoretical progress and new results - Dr Thomas Binoth (University of Edinburgh)  
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11:20 AM Code quality from the programmer's perspective - Paolo Tonella (FBK-IRST)  
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9:00 AM
Thursday, 06 November 2008 (until 12:40 PM)
9:00 AM Getting ready for next generation computing - Prof. Volker Lindenstruth (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)  
9:40 AM CernVM - a virtual appliance for LHC applications - Predrag Buncic (CERN)  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM Forget multicore! The future is many-core: An outlook to the explosion of parallelism likely to occur in the LHC era - Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)  
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11:20 AM Porting Reconstruction Algorithms to the Cell Broadband Engine - Dr Ivan Kisel (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany)  
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12:00 PM Throughput Computing in C++ - Dr Anwar Ghuloum (Intel Corporation)  
9:00 AM
Friday, 07 November 2008 (until 11:30 AM)
9:00 AM Computing Technology for Physics Research - Summary - Dr Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, United States)  
9:30 AM Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools - Summary - Dr Thomas Speer (Brown University)  
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10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Summary - Prof. Kiyoshi Kato (Kogakuin University)  
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11:00 AM ACAT2008 Summary - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)  
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PM
2:00 PM
Computing Technology for Physics Research (until 6:15 PM)
2:00 PM g-Eclipse - user and developer friendly access to Grids and Clouds - Dr Ariel Garcia (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE, GERMANY)  
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2:25 PM Dedicated Services to Support Data Replication over GRID using ATLAS Distributed Data Management System. - Mikhail Titov (Moscow Physical Engineering Inst. (MePhI))  
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2:50 PM The PanDA System in the ATLAS Experiment - Paul Nilsson (University of Texas at Arlington)  
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3:15 PM ALICE Analysis Framework - Mr Andrei Gheata (ISS/CERN)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM Distributed analysis in CMS using CRAB: the client-server architecture evolution and commissioning - Giuseppe Codispoti (Dipartimento di Fisica)  
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4:35 PM Mass Storage System for Disk and Tape resources at the Tier1. - Pier Paolo Ricci (INFN CNAF)  
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5:00 PM ATLAS Handling Problematic Events in Quasi Real-Time - Hegoi Garitaonandia (NIKHEF)  
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5:25 PM Large Scale Job Management and Experience in Recent Data Challenges within the LHC CMS experiment. - Dr Stuart Wakefield (Imperial College London)  
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5:50 PM MDT data quality assessment at the Calibration centre for the ATLAS experiment at LHC - Dr Monica Verducci (INFN RomaI) Dr Elena Solfaroli (INFN RomaI & Universita' di Roma La Sapienza)  
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2:00 PM
Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools (until 6:15 PM)
2:00 PM Multi-threaded event processing with JANA - Dr David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab)  
2:25 PM TMVA- the toolkit for multivariate data analysis - Joerg Stelzer (DESY)  
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2:50 PM PDE-FOAM - a probability-density estimation method based on self-adapting phase-space binning - Dr Dominik Dannheim (CERN)  
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3:15 PM The Role of Interpreters in High Performance Computing - Axel Naumann (CERN)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffe Break ---
4:10 PM The ATLAS Conditions Database Model for the Muon Spectrometer - Dr Monica Verducci (INFN RomaI)  
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4:35 PM PARADIGM, a Decision Making Framework for Variable Selection and Reduction in High Energy Physics - Sergei V. Gleyzer (Florida State University)  
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5:00 PM Track Reconstruction and Muon Identification in the Muon Detector of the CBM Experiment at FAIR - Mr Andrey Lebedev (GSI, Darmstadt / JINR, Dubna)  
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5:25 PM Fireworks: A Physics Event Display for CMS - Dr Christopher Jones (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)  
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5:50 PM An overview of the b-Tagging algorithms in the CMS Offline software - Mr Christophe Saout (CMS, CERN & IEKP, University of Karlsruhe)  
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2:00 PM
Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 1 (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Unitarity Methods For 1-Loop Amplitudes - Warren Perkins (Swansea University UK)  
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2:25 PM From moments to functions in higher order QCD - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)  
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2:50 PM Computational aspects for three-loop DIS calculations - Dr Mikhail Rogal (DESY)  
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3:15 PM Recent developments of GRACE - Dr Yoshimasa KURIHARA (KEK)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM
Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 2 (until 6:15 PM)
4:10 PM Recent Progress of Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics and Readiness for the LHC Start - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)  
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4:35 PM Standard SANC Modules - Vladimir Kolesnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
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5:00 PM Mathematical model of magnetically interacting rigid bodies - Dr Stanislav Zub (National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Techn)  
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5:25 PM ---  ---
2:00 PM
Computing Technology for Physics Research - Session 1 (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Profiling Post-GRID analysis - Dr Akira Shibata (New York University)  
2:25 PM Distributed Computing in ATLAS - Guido Negri (Unknown)  
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2:50 PM The CMS Tier 0 - Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
3:15 PM Data transfer infrastructure for CMS data taking - Mr Ricky Egeland (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA)  
Poster
2:00 PM
Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools (until 6:15 PM)
2:00 PM VISPA: a Novel Concept for Visual Physics Analysis - Tatsiana Klimkovich (RWTH-Aachen)  
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2:25 PM Petaminer: Efficient Navigation to Petascale Data Using Event-Level Metadata - Alexandre Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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2:50 PM Interactive Data Analysis with PROOF, Experience at GSI - Anna Kreshuk (GSI)  
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3:15 PM C++ and Data - Axel Naumann (CERN)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - Mr John Alison (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)  
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4:35 PM Recent Improvements of the ROOT Fitting and Minimization Classes - Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)  
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5:00 PM Efficient Level 2 Trigger System Based on Artificial Neural Networks - Ms Sonia Khatchadourian (ETIS - UMR CNRS 8051)  
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5:25 PM Sophisticated algorithms of analysis of spectroscopic data - Miroslav Morhac (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)  
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5:50 PM ---  ---
2:00 PM
Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 1 (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Tools for systematic event generator tuning and validation - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)  
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2:25 PM The Monte Carlo generators in CMS - Dr Paolo Bartalini (CERN)  
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2:50 PM Development, validation and maintenance of Monte Carlo event generators and generator services in the LHC era - Dr Mikhail Kirsanov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Moscow)  
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3:15 PM LCG MCDB and HepML, next step to unified interfaces of Monte-Carlo Simulation - Mr Sergey Belov (JINR, Dubna)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM
Computing Technology for Physics Research - Session 2 (until 6:15 PM)
4:10 PM Early Experience with the CMS Computing Model - Dr Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
Slides
4:35 PM Using constraint programing to resolve the multi-source / multi-site data movement paradigm on the Grid - Mr Michal ZEROLA (Nuclear Physics Inst., Academy of Sciences, Praha)  
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5:00 PM Evolution of the STAR Framework OO model for the Multi-Core era - Dr Valeri FINE (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)  
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5:25 PM XCFS - an analysis disk pool & filesystem based on FUSE and xroot protocol - Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
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5:50 PM Job Centric Monitoring for ATLAS jobs in the LHC Computing Grid - Mr Tim Muenchen (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)  
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4:10 PM
Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 2 (until 6:15 PM)
4:10 PM Hadronic Physics in Geant4: Improvements and Status for LHC Start - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)  
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4:35 PM Two approaches to Combining Significances - Dr Sergey Bityukov (INSTITUTE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, PROTVINO)  
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5:00 PM Radiative corrections to Drell-Yan like processes in SANC - Dr Andrej Arbuzov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
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5:25 PM ---  ---
2:00 PM
Computing Technology for Physics Research (until 6:15 PM)
2:00 PM The commissioning of CMS computing centres in the WLCG Grid - Dr Andrea Sciaba' (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)  
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2:25 PM The DAQ/HLT system of the ATLAS experiment - Dr André dos Anjos (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)  
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2:50 PM VARIOUS RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS IN GRID BY MEANS OF VIRTUALIZATION OF WORKING NODES - Alexander Kryukov (Skobeltsyn Institute for Nuclear Physics Moscow State University)  
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3:15 PM The Advanced Resource Connector for Distributed LHC Computing - David Cameron (University of Oslo)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:35 PM FairRoot Framework - Dr Mohammad Al-Turany (GSI DARMSTADT)  
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5:00 PM The CMS Framework for Alignment and Calibration - Gero Flucke (Universität Hamburg)  
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5:25 PM A prototype of a dinamically expandable Virtual Analysis Facility - Dario Berzano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and University of Torino)  
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5:50 PM Software development, release integration and distribution tools for the CMS experiment - David Lange (LLNL)  
2:00 PM
Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools (until 6:15 PM)
2:00 PM A Numeric Comparison of Feature Selection Algorithms for Supervised Learning - Dr Giulio Palombo (University of Milan - Bicocca)  
Slides
2:25 PM Tau identification using multivariate techniques in ATLAS - Dr Marcin Wolter (Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)  
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2:50 PM The ALICE Global Redirector. A step towards real storage robustness. - Dr Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))  
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3:15 PM WebDat: Bridging the Gap Between Unstructured and Structured Data - Dr Jerzy Nogiec (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM MINUIT Package Parallelization and applications using the RooFit Package - Dr Alfio Lazzaro (Universita' degli Studi and INFN, Milano)  
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4:35 PM ATLAS trigger status and results from commissioning operations - Dr Biglietti Michela (UNIVERSITY OF NAPOLI and INFN)  
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5:00 PM Software Validation Infrastructure for the Atlas High-Level Trigger Validation Infrastructure for the ATLAS High-Level Trigger - Mr Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - COPPE/Poli)  
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5:25 PM Application of the rule-growing algorithm RIPPER to particle physics analysis - Dr Markward Britsch (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik (MPI)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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5:50 PM Enhanced Gene Expression Programming for signal-background discrimination in particle physics - Liliana Teodorescu (Brunel University)  
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2:00 PM
Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 1 (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Current status of FORM parallelization - Mikhail Tentyukov (Karlsruhe University)  
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2:25 PM New implementation of the sector decomposition on FORM - Dr Takahiro Ueda (KEK)  
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2:50 PM FormCalc 6 - Thomas Hahn (MPI Munich)  
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3:15 PM Numerical Evaluation of Feynman Integrals by a Direct Computation Method - Dr Fukuko YUASA (KEK)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM
Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 2 (until 6:15 PM)
4:10 PM Numerical calculations of Multiple Polylog functions - Dr Yoshimasa Kurihara (KEK)  
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4:35 PM New results for loop integrals - Tord Riemann (DESY)  
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5:00 PM Feynman Diagrams, Differential Reduction and Hypergeometric Functions - Dr mikhail kalmykov (Hamburg U./JINR)  
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5:25 PM --- Round Table - Event generation: are we ready for LHC? ---
2:00 PM
Thursday, 06 November 2008 (until 6:00 PM)
2:00 PM Many-core Round Table - How to prepare for the future