Alice offline week

8 Oct 2007, 08:00 → 12 Oct 2007, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

30-7-018 (AT/LHC auditorium)

Alice offline week. VRVS videoconference in SNOW

Monday 8 October

09:00 → 12:40 Detector Status

09:00 ACORDE Status

Speaker: Arturo Fernandez Tellez (High Energy Physics Group)

Slides ACORDE_TALK.pdf ACORDE_TALK.ppt

09:40 BCM Status

Speaker: Heinrich Schindler (Technische Universitaet Wien)

Slides BCM_Status_Offline.pdf BCM_Status_Offline.pptx

10:20 FMD Status

Speaker: Kristjan Gulbrandsen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides FMD_OFFLINE_2007_10_08.pdf FMD_OFFLINE_2007_10_08.ppt

11:00 Cofee Break

11:20 GRP Status

Speaker: Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens)

Slides GRP-OffWeek-October2007.pdf GRP-OffWeek-October2007.ppt

12:00 HMPID Status

Speakers: Annalisa Mastroserio (Univ. + INFN), Levente Molnar (Res. Inst. Particle & Nucl. Phys. - Hungarian Academy of Science)

Slides HMPID_status_Oct_2007.pdf HMPID_status_Oct_2007.ppt

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:40 Detector Status

14:00 ITS Status

14:40 MUON Status

Speaker: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN, ORSAY, FRANCE)

Slides offline_overview.pdf

15:20 PHOS Status

Speaker: Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))

Slides PHOS_offline_status.pdf PHOS_offline_status.ppt

16:00 Coffee break

16:20 PMD Status

Speaker: Zubayer Ahammed (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) - Department of Atomic E)

Slides pmd1_talk.pdf pmd1_talk.ppt

17:00 T0 Status

Speaker: Alla Maevskaya (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))

Slides T0offlineStatussep07.pdf T0offlineStatussep07.ppt

Tuesday 9 October

09:00 → 13:20 Detector Status

09:00 TOF Status

09:40 TPC Status

Speakers: Haavard Helstrup (Department of Physics and Technology), Marian Ivanov (CERN)

Slides

• calibration2007_0910.pdf
• TPCStatus.pdf
• TPCStatus.ppt

10:20 TRD Status

Speaker: Christoph Blume (University of Frankfurt)

Slides trd_status.pdf trd_status.ppt

10:50 TRD raw data

Speaker: Ken Oyama (University of Heidelberg)

Slides 20070911-RawData.pdf 20070911-RawData.ppt

11:00 Coffee Break

11:20 V0 Staus

Slides v0_oct07.pdf

12:00 ZDC Status

Speaker: Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Sezione di Torino)

Slides ZDC_AOWOct07.ppt.pdf ZDC_AOWOct07.ppt.ppt

12:40 EMCAL status

Speaker: Dr Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)

Slides EMCAL-Offline-Status.pdf EMCAL-Offline-Status.ppt

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 19:55 Status of simulation & reconstruction

14:00 ExB effect in TPC: simulation and treatment in reconstruction

Speaker: Marian Ivanov (CERN)

Slides ExBPResentation.pdf ExBPResentation.ppt

14:15 Memory and CPU consuption for reconstruction. Memsta tool

Slides

• CPUandMemory.pdf
• CPUandMemory.ppt
• MemoryChecker.pdf
• MemoryChecker.ppt

14:35 ESD size

Speaker: Marian Ivanov (CERN)

Slides

• ESDsize.pdf
• ESDsize.ppt
• ESDsize.ppt

14:45 AliReconstruction: future plans

Speaker: Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides AliReconstruction.pdf AliReconstruction.ppt

15:00 Progress with MUON reconstruction

Speaker: Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)

Slides ALICE-Offline_091007.pdf ALICE-Offline_091007.ppt

15:15 TOF reconstruction: further intergration with common barrel reconstruction classes

Speaker: Silvia Arcelli (Univ. + INFN)

Slides TOFReco091007.pdf TOFReco091007.ppt

15:30 ITS reconstruction: progress with feature factorization, material from TGeo

Speaker: Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Slides DaineseITStracker.pdf DaineseITStracker.ppt

15:45 ITS reconstruction: impact of the dead and noisy SSD strips

Speaker: Enrico Fragiacomo (Univ. + INFN)

Slides

• 20071008_OfflineWeek_EnricoFragiacomo.pdf
• 20071008_RecSession_EnricoFragiacomo.pdf
• 20071009_recsession_EnricoFragiacomo.pdf
• 20071009_recsession_EnricoFragiacomo.ppt

16:00 ESD clean-up at the physics level: first round

Speaker: Iouri BELIKOV (CERN)

Slides PWG1_09.10.2007.pdf PWG1_09.10.2007.ppt

Wednesday 10 October

09:00 → 23:40 Status of Analysis

09:00 Status of the analysis framework

Speaker: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)

Slides OW_10_10_07.pdf OW_10_10_07.ppt

09:20 Efficiency framework

Speaker: Silvia Arcelli (Univ. + INFN)

Slides CF-Offline-101007.pdf CF-Offline-101007.ppt

09:40 ESD status

Speaker: Christian Klein-Boesing (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides 2007-10-10_OfflineWeek.pdf

10:20 AOD status

Speaker: Markus Oldenburg (CERN)

Slides AOD.pdf AOD.ppt

10:50 Analysis train on the Grid

Speaker: Mihaela Gheata (Institute of Space Sciences ISS)

Slides mihaela-oct07.pdf mihaela-oct07.ppt

11:10 Analysis on the GRID/CAF: Users experience

Speakers: Ana Marin (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI)), Renaud Vernet (Consorzio Cometa (Catania))

Slides

• offlineCernOct07.pdf
• offlineCernOct07.ppt
• R.Vernet_OfflineWeek20071001.pdf

11:30 kDtree, kNN and kN interpolations

Speaker: Dr Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)

Slides kDTree.pdf kDTree.ppt

11:50 Some new statistical tools

Speaker: Marian Ivanov

Slides

• ToolKit2.pdf
• ToolKit2.ppt
• TStatToolkit.pdf
• TStatToolkit.ppt

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 18:10 Alignment

14:00 News in the alignment framework

Speaker: Raffaele Grosso (CERN)

Slides AlFrNews.pdf

14:30 Detector-detector dependencies in alignment

Speaker: Raffaele Grosso (CERN)

Slides AlDependencies.pdf

14:45 Survey status

Speaker: Ricardo Manuel Salgueiro Domingues da Silva (CERN)

Slides AOW_October_2007_-_SurveyData.pdf

15:15 TPC alignment from real survey data

Speaker: Marek Kowalski (INP Krakow)

Slides TPC_Alignment-2007.pdf TPC_Alignment-2007.ppt

15:35 TRD alignment with AliAlignmentTracks

Speaker: Dariusz Miskowiec (GSI Darmstadt)

Slides 2007-10-10.pdf 2007-10-10.ppt

16:00 ITS Alignment

Thursday 11 October

09:00 → 11:10 CAF

09:00 Status of the CERN Analysis Facility, Datasets and PDC07 data on CAF

Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides caf3_nocover.pdf caf3_nocover.ppt

09:30 Recent PROOF developments: Non-tree based analysis and CPU fairshare

Speaker: Gerardo GANIS (CERN)

Slides GG-AliceOFW-11Oct2007.pdf GG-AliceOFW-11Oct2007.ppt

09:50 CAF benchmarks

Speaker: Marco Meoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides 20071011_OfflineWeek.pdf 20071011_OfflineWeek.ppt

10:20 Demo of dataset API

Speaker: Gerhard Erich Bruckner

Slides 2007-10-11-proofdsapi.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

11:00 → 19:00 QA session

11:00 Introduction

Speaker: Yves Schutz (IN2P3/CERN)

Slides QAOctobre07.pdf

11:20 Online monitoring

Speaker: Filimon Roukoutakis (CERN & University of Athens)

Slides AOffW-20071011-AID-Roukoutakis.pdf AOffW-20071011-AID-Roukoutakis.ppt

11:50 TPC QA

Speaker: Marian Ivanov (CERN)

Slides

• QualityAssurance.pdf
• QualityAssurance.ppt
• QualityAssurance.ppt

12:10 SDD QA

Speaker: Dr Piergiorgio Cerello (INFN - TORINO)

Slides SDD-QA-oct2007.pdf SDD-QA-oct2007.ppt

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 21:30 HLT

14:00 Status of HLT cluster, hardware and interfaces

Speaker: Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)

Slides HLT-Status-Offline-Week-2007-10-11.pdf HLT-Status-Offline-Week-2007-10-11.ppt

14:20 HLT AliRoot integration simulation/reconstruction

Speaker: Mr Matthias Richter (DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN)

Slides AliRoot-HLT_2007-10-11.pdf

14:40 TPC HLT tracking/Offline comparison

Speakers: Gaute Ovrebekk (University of Bergen), Kalliopi Kanaki (University of Bergen)

Slides

• TPCOfflineWeek101007.pdf
• TPCOfflineWeek101007.ppt
• TPCOfflineWeek101007.ppt

15:20 HLT Calibration

Speaker: Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)

Slides HLT-Calibration-Offline-Week-2007-10-11.pdf HLT-Calibration-Offline-Week-2007-10-11.ppt

15:30 DiMuon tracking

Speaker: Artur Szostak (University of Cape Town)

Slides dHLTOffline2007.pdf

16:00 break

16:30 TRD @ HLT status update

Speaker: Dr Mateusz Ploskon (University Frankfurt)

Slides TRD-HLT-Offline-Week-October-07-mp.pdf

16:45 PHOS @ HLT status update

Speaker: Per Thomas Hille (Fysisk institutt)

Slides HLT_status_101007.pdf HLT_status_101007.ppt

17:00 ITS @ HLT status and discussion

Speaker: Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides hlt-its-11-10-2007.pdf

17:15 Raw reader update and discussion

Speaker: Per Thomas Hille (Fysisk institutt)

Slides DecoderStaus.pdf DecoderStaus.ppt

17:30 AOB

reference data - beam gass - cosmics - pp visualization

Friday 12 October

09:00 → 11:30 Calibration

09:00 Status of Shuttle preprocessors

Speakers: Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)), Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides pp_status.pdf pp_status.ppt

09:20 Reconstruction with conditions data produced by the Shuttle

Speakers: Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)), Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides OfflineVsShuttle_OW_121007.pdf OfflineVsShuttle_OW_121007.ppt

09:40 Status of Calibration in DAQ

Speaker: Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)

document DAs.html

Slides 2007_10_12__Offline_week_-_DAQ_DA_status.pdf 2007_10_12__Offline_week_-_DAQ_DA_status.ppt

10:00 Calibration in DCS + AMANDA status report and plans

Speaker: Peter Chochula (CERN)

Slides DCS_Status_and_Amanda_News.pdf DCS_Status_and_Amanda_News.ppt

10:20 OCDB: Local Caching of Remote Files

Speaker: Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides LocalCaching_OW_121007.pdf LocalCaching_OW_121007.ppt

10:40 Status of the dipole magnetic field data analysis

Speaker: Ruben Shahoyan (NA60)

Slides dip_rs1.pdf dip_rs1.ppt

11:30 → 12:30 Visualization

11:30 Status of visualization

Speaker: Matevz Tadel (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides http://mtadel.home.cern.ch/mtadel/mydoc/aow-12.10.2007/alieve-status.html

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 20:00 FDR Planning

14:00 FDR plans and status

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

Slides Offline_week_12_10_07.pdf Offline_week_12_10_07.ppt

14:30 The WLCG Common Computing Readiness Challenge 2008

Speaker: Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)

Slides

• ALICE-CCRC`08.pdf
• ALICE-CCRC`08.ppt
• CCRC`08.pdf
• CCRC`08.ppt

15:00 DAQ in the tesbeams and comissioning excercises

Speaker: Roberto Divia (CERN)

Slides FDR.12Oct07.DAQ.pdf FDR.12Oct07.DAQ.ppt

15:30 DCS in the test beams and comissioning excercises

Speaker: Andre Augustinus (CERN)

Slides OfflineDCS20071012.pdf OfflineDCS20071012.ppt

16:00 HMPID testbeam

Speaker: Levente Molnar (INFN Bari)

Slides HMPID_FDR_Status_LM.pdf

16:20 EMCAL testbeam

Speaker: David Silvermyr (ORNL)

Slides http://dsilverm.web.cern.ch/dsilverm/presentations/EMCAL20071012/TestBeam_Silvermyr.ppt

16:40 Experience with ongoing PHOS data taking

Speaker: Yuri Kharlov (IHEP, Protvino)

Slides FDR-PHOS.pdf FDR-PHOS.ppt

17:00 Status Report of the Nordic Tier1

Speaker: Boris Wagner (UiB)

Slides talk-offline-week-10-07.pdf