Alice offline week

from Monday, 20 October 2008 (08:00) to Friday, 24 October 2008 (19:30)
CERN (40-S2-D01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Oct 2008
21 Oct 2008
22 Oct 2008
23 Oct 2008
24 Oct 2008
AM
09:00
Detector Status (until 17:30)
09:00 Introduction - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)  
09:30 ACORDE Status Report - Pedro Podesta Lerma (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares-Universidad Nacional Autonoma de)  
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10:00 CTP Status Report  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 PHOS Status report - Boris Polichtchouk (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))  
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11:30 FMD Status Report - Christian Holm Christensen (Niels Bohr Institute)  
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12:00 HMPID Status Report - Giacomo Volpe (INFN)  
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12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30 ITS Status Report  
14:30 ZDC Status Report - Chiara Oppedisano (Universita degli Studi di Torino)  
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15:00 MUON Status Report - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN, ORSAY, FRANCE)  
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 PMD Status Report - Ajay Kumar Dash (Institute of Physics)  
16:30 RAW Status Report - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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17:00 T0 Status Report - Alla Maevskaya (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))  
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09:00
Detector Status (until 12:30)
09:00 TOF Status Report - Annalisa De Caro (Universita degli Studi di Salerno) Chiara Zampolli (CERN)  
09:30 TPC Status Report - Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 TRD Status Report - Christoph Blume (Institut fuer Kernphysik)  
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11:30 V0 Status Report - Brigitte Cheynis (Institut National de Physique Nucl et Phys. Part. (IN2P3-CNRS))  
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12:00 EMCAL Status Report - Dr Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)  
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09:00
Simulation & Reconstruction (until 18:15)
09:00 TRD reconstruction - Status and Perspectives - Dr Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)  
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09:30 High pT Particle Identification with the TPC - Annalisa Mastroserio (Univ. + INFN)  
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10:00 Primary-Vertex Reconstruction with TPC-only Tracks - Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)  
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10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 Online Reconstruction - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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11:15 GRP Status - Chiara Zampolli (CERN)  
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11:30 Status of ITS alignment - Andrea Dainese (Universita degli Studi di Padova)  
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11:45 ITS alignment with AliAlignmentTracks - Andrea Rossi (Universita & INFN, Trieste)  
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12:00 Muon Spectrometer Alignment - Javier Castillo Castellanos (Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN))  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 AliEve News - Matevz Tadel (CERN)  
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14:30 TRD analysis and QA in AliEve - Benjamin Hess Alexandru BERCUCI (GSI & Heidelberg University)  
15:00 Visualization of secondary vertices and cascades - Boris Hippolyte (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))  
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15:20 Visualization of heavy flavour vertices - Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)  
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15:25 --- Coffee Break ---
15:55 Experience with usage of AliEve - Adam Jacholkowski (Universita di Catania)  
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16:10 Visualization of event-embedding - Adam Kisiel (Ohio State University)  
09:00
Analysis Status & Experience (until 12:15)
09:00 Status of the Analysis Framework - Mr Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
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09:30 MC Particle Information in the AOD - Christian Klein-Boesing (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))  
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09:45 Status of CORRFW - Renaud Vernet  
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10:00 Experience and Requirements from PWG3 (Heavy Flavor) - Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Experience and Requirements from PWG2 - Adam Kisiel (Ohio State University)  
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11:25 Experience and Requirements from PWG3 (Muons) - Roberta Arnaldi (Universita degli Studi di Torino)  
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11:40 Experience and Requirements from PWG4 - Dr Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)  
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09:00
CAF/GSIAF Status & Experience (until 12:35)
09:00 PROOF roadmap - Fons Rademakers (CERN) Gerardo GANIS (CERN)  
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09:30 RAW data reconstruction using PROOF - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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10:00 New CERN CAF facility - parameters, usage statistics, user support - Marco Meoni (CERN) Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
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10:30 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
10:50 GSIAF facility - parameters, usage statistics, user support - Dr Kilian Schwarz (GSI)  
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11:20 Virtual Analysis Facility prototype - Stefano Bagnasco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Grid Status & Experience (until 17:30)
13:30 gLite services development status - Dr Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD)  
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14:00 xrootd in CASTOR2 and storage for analysis - Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
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14:30 The xrootd Global Redirector in action - Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))  
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15:00 AliEn Catalogue and services optimization - Pablo Saiz (CERN)  
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15:30 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
16:00 CernVM News - Predrag Buncic (CERN)  
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16:30 Study for an AliEn-ARC interoperability - Philippe Gros (Lunds Universitet)  
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17:00 Reconstructio of RAW data - experiences - Latchezar Betev (CERN)  
more information
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
HLT session (until 18:30)
14:00 Status and experiences from the global runs - Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)  
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14:15 Status SDD on-line compression - Mario Sitta (Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Fac. Sci. MFN-Alessandria (Italy))  
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14:30 Status FMD on-line reconstruction - Hans Hjersing Dalsgaard (Unknown)  
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14:45 HLT Trigger infrastructure - Oeystein Djuvsland (Department of Physics & Technology-University of Bergen-Unknown)  
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15:05 --- Coffee Break ---
15:35 The TPC CA tracker - update - Sergey Gorbunov (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)  
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15:55 TPC / TRD track matching - Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionen forschung mbH (GSI))  
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16:10 ITS tracking / V0 in the HLT - which way to go? - Sergey Gorbunov (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)  
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16:30 Overview HLT Physics trigger - Mateusz Andrzej Ploskon (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universitaet)  
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16:40 Discussion - Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)  
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
First Physics Meeting (until 19:30)
agenda
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 - Karel Safarik (CERN) Jean-Pierre Revol (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  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
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 - O.Nachtmann (tbc), A.B. Kaidalov (tbc) Martin Poghosyan (Yerevan Physics Institute)  
17:10 Discussion with all participants