Name: Alice offline week
Start: 2008-10-20T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-10-24T19:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Alice offline week

from Monday, 20 October 2008 (08:00) to Friday, 24 October 2008 (19:30)

Monday, 20 October 2008
09:00 Detector Status
09:00 - 17:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Federico Carminati (CERN)

09:30 ACORDE Status Report - Pedro Podesta Lerma (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares-Universidad Nacional Autonoma de)

10:00 CTP Status Report

11:00 PHOS Status report - Boris Polichtchouk (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))

11:30 FMD Status Report - Christian Holm Christensen (Niels Bohr Institute)

12:00 HMPID Status Report - Giacomo Volpe (INFN)

13:30 ITS Status Report

14:30 ZDC Status Report - Chiara Oppedisano (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

15:00 MUON Status Report - Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN, ORSAY, FRANCE)

16:00 PMD Status Report - Ajay Kumar Dash (Institute of Physics)

16:30 RAW Status Report - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

17:00 T0 Status Report - Alla Maevskaya (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
09:00 Detector Status
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

09:00 TOF Status Report - Annalisa De Caro (Universita degli Studi di Salerno) Chiara Zampolli (CERN)

09:30 TPC Status Report - Marian Ivanov (CERN)

11:00 TRD Status Report - Christoph Blume (Institut fuer Kernphysik)

11:30 V0 Status Report - Brigitte Cheynis (Institut National de Physique Nucl et Phys. Part. (IN2P3-CNRS))

12:00 EMCAL Status Report - Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
13:30 Grid Status & Experience
13:30 - 17:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

13:30 gLite services development status - Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD)

14:00 xrootd in CASTOR2 and storage for analysis - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

14:30 The xrootd Global Redirector in action - Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

15:00 AliEn Catalogue and services optimization - Pablo Saiz (CERN)

16:00 CernVM News - Predrag Buncic (CERN)

16:30 Study for an AliEn-ARC interoperability - Philippe Gros (Lunds Universitet)

17:00 Reconstructio of RAW data - experiences - Latchezar Betev (CERN)
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
09:00 Simulation & Reconstruction
09:00 - 18:15
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

09:00 TRD reconstruction - Status and Perspectives - Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)

09:30 High pT Particle Identification with the TPC - Annalisa Mastroserio (Univ. + INFN)

10:00 Primary-Vertex Reconstruction with TPC-only Tracks - Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

10:45 Online Reconstruction - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

11:15 GRP Status - Chiara Zampolli (CERN)

11:30 Status of ITS alignment - Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

11:45 ITS alignment with AliAlignmentTracks - Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste)

12:00 Muon Spectrometer Alignment - Javier Castillo Castellanos (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN))

14:00 AliEve News - Matevz Tadel (CERN)

14:30 TRD analysis and QA in AliEve - Alexandru BERCUCI (GSI & Heidelberg University) Benjamin Hess

15:00 Visualization of secondary vertices and cascades - Boris Hippolyte (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))

15:20 Visualization of heavy flavour vertices - Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

15:55 Experience with usage of AliEve - Adam Jacholkowski (Universita di Catania)

16:10 Visualization of event-embedding - Adam Kisiel (Ohio State University)
Thursday, 23 October 2008
09:00 Analysis Status & Experience
09:00 - 12:15
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

09:00 Status of the Analysis Framework - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

09:30 MC Particle Information in the AOD - Christian Klein-Boesing (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

09:45 Status of CORRFW - Renaud Vernet

10:00 Experience and Requirements from PWG3 (Heavy Flavor) - Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

11:00 Experience and Requirements from PWG2 - Adam Kisiel (Ohio State University)

11:25 Experience and Requirements from PWG3 (Muons) - Roberta Arnaldi (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

11:40 Experience and Requirements from PWG4 - Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 40-S2-D01
14:00 HLT session
14:00 - 18:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

14:00 Status and experiences from the global runs - Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)

14:15 Status SDD on-line compression - Mario Sitta (Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Fac. Sci. MFN-Alessandria (Italy))

14:30 Status FMD on-line reconstruction - Hans Hjersing Dalsgaard (Unknown)

14:45 HLT Trigger infrastructure - Oeystein Djuvsland (Department of Physics & Technology-University of Bergen-Unknown)

15:35 The TPC CA tracker - update - Sergey Gorbunov (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)

15:55 TPC / TRD track matching - Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionen forschung mbH (GSI))

16:10 ITS tracking / V0 in the HLT - which way to go? - Sergey Gorbunov (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)

16:30 Overview HLT Physics trigger - Mateusz Andrzej Ploskon (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universitaet)

16:40 Discussion - Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)
Friday, 24 October 2008
09:00 CAF/GSIAF Status & Experience
09:00 - 12:35
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

09:00 PROOF roadmap - Fons Rademakers (CERN) Gerardo GANIS (CERN)

09:30 RAW data reconstruction using PROOF - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

10:00 New CERN CAF facility - parameters, usage statistics, user support - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster) Marco Meoni (CERN)

10:50 GSIAF facility - parameters, usage statistics, user support - Kilian Schwarz (GSI)

11:20 Virtual Analysis Facility prototype - Stefano Bagnasco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 13:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
13:30 First Physics Meeting
13:30 - 19:30
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

13:30 Introduction - Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN)

13:45 Status of first paper - Karel Safarik (CERN)

14:00 Strategy for dn/dh paper at 10TeV/14TeV - Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN) Karel Safarik (CERN)

14:15 Status of paper on Multiplicity - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

14:30 Status of paper on d/dpT or dn/dpT - Harald Appelshaeuser (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ.-Unknown-Unknown)

14:45 Prospects for measuring multiplicity with FMD as First Physics - Jens-Jorgen Gaardhoje (Niels Bohr Institute)

15:00 What have we learned from first beams? - TBD

16:00 Calibrating the V0 and understanding the efficiency and acceptance - Jean-Yves Grossiord (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL))

16:15 Using the V0 to separate SD, DD and ND events in pp collisions - Birmingham group member

16:35 What we can expect from TOTEM - Karsten Eggert (CERN)

16:55 Theory update - Martin Poghosyan (Yerevan Physics Institute) O.Nachtmann (tbc), A.B. Kaidalov (tbc)

17:10 Discussion with all participants