Name: "ROOT Turns 20" Users' Workshop
Start: 2015-09-15T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2015-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Schweizerhof, Saas-Fee

Monday 14 September 2015
Tuesday 15 September 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:10 ROOT Development Roadmap - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)

09:55 Fons and ROOT - Fons Rademakers (CERN)

10:15 Rene and ROOT - Rene Brun (CERN)

10:40 A few words - Federico Carminati (CERN)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Presentations
Presentations
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Highlights and Analysis of the Answers to the ROOT Users' Survey - John Harvey (CERN)

11:50 Modern C++ Interfaces for ROOT - Axel Naumann (CERN)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Root-Based Analysis in ATLAS - Nils Erik Krumnack (Iowa State University (US))

14:25 Web- and Grid based ROOT analysis, and national ROOT analysis tutorials in ATLAS - Arturos Sanchez Pineda (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))

14:45 Moving CMS developers and analysis community to ROOT6 - David Lange (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))

15:10 The Data Intensive ANAlysis (DIANA/HEP) project - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Presentations
Presentations
16:00 - 17:50
Contributions

16:00 ROOT in ATLAS TDAQ - Jiri Masik (University of Manchester (GB))

16:25 Experiences with ROOT for ALICE analyses - Jochen Klein (CERN)

16:50 FairRoot - Florian Uhlig (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

17:10 ROOT on C++ Modules - Vasil Georgiev Vasilev (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Wednesday 16 September 2015
09:00 Presentations
Presentations
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Writing good C++14 - Bjarne Stroustrup (Morgan Stanley)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Presentations
Presentations
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 JavaScript ROOT - Bertrand Bellenot (CERN) Sergey Linev (GSI DARMSTADT)

11:25 ROOTaaS: ROOT as a Service - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

11:50 Python bindings for C++ using PyROOT/cppyy: the experience from PyCool in COOL - Andrea Valassi (CERN)

12:10 Project Everware: running complicated analysis pipelines made easier - Tim Head (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 Hiking!
Hiking!
14:00 - 17:00
Thursday 17 September 2015
09:00 Presentations
Presentations
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Powering a Player-First Culture with Massive Gameplay Data: A Sneak Peek at Data and Electronic Arts - Navid Aghdaie (Electronic Arts)

09:45 Explicitly Data-Parallel Programming with C++ - Matthias Kretz (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

10:15 ROOT's New Website - Danilo Piparo (CERN) Nefeli Iliana Kousi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)) Nefeli Iliana Kousi (Academy of Athens (GR))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Presentations
Presentations
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Collaborative development of software and methods for genomic data analysis - Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL))

11:40 The future of ROOT with R - Omar Andres Zapata Mesa (Metropolitan Institute of Technology and University of Antioquia (CO))

12:00 Simulating Grid Cells using ROOT - Jochen Kerdels (University of Hagen)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Presentations
Presentations
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 How to bring Modern Machine Learning to HEP - Tobias Golling (Universite de Geneve (CH))

14:20 RooFit status & development - Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

14:40 TFormula, random numbers and more news from the Math Department - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

15:05 Graphics News: new Palettes, Transparency, Interactive editing, LaTex Dump... - Olivier Couet (CERN)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Presentations
Presentations
16:00 - 17:50
Contributions

16:00 Evolution of multiprocessing in ROOT - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)

16:20 PROOF Analysis Framework - Isidro Gonzalez Caballero (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

16:40 TGeo reloaded - beyond the legacy - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

17:00 An alternative placement method for the geometry package - Angel Perea Martinez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))

17:15 DD4hep, a Detector Description Solution for High Energy Physics Experiments - Nikiforos Nikiforou (CERN)
18:30 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:30 - 21:30
Friday 18 September 2015
09:00 Presentations
Presentations
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 ROOT I/O: Status and Perspectives - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:30 First experiments with TTree I/O parallelisation - Enric Tejedor Saavedra (CERN)

09:50 XRootD and ROOT Considered - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

10:10 Analyzing LHC experiment software in terms of obsolete memory utilization with a focus on ROOT objects - Nathalie Rauschmayr (CERN)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Presentations
Presentations
11:00 - 12:35
Contributions

11:00 THttpServer class in ROOT - Sergey Linev (GSI DARMSTADT)

11:20 Packaging ROOT for Fedora and EPEL - Mattias Ellert (Uppsala University (SE))

11:40 Go4 Version 5 - a ROOT based online and offline analysis environment - Joern Adamczewski-Musch (GSI)

12:00 Julia: a fast dynamical language for technical computing and data analysis - Joosep Pata (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

12:20 Event Visualisation Environment of ALICE - Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Presentations
Presentations
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 ROOT and NASA - Kerry Lee (NASA)

14:20 ALFA: Next generation concurrent framework for ALICE and FAIR experiments - Mohammad Al-Turany (CERN)

14:40 The Belle II Experiment: ROOT 6 at the High-intensity Frontier - Thomas Hauth (KIT)

15:00 Object oriented data analysis at the BGO–OD experiment - Oliver Freyermuth (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Wrap-up Discussion - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)