Alice offline week

from Monday 8 October 2007 (08:00) to Friday 12 October 2007 (20:00)
30-7-018 (AT/LHC auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Oct 2007
9 Oct 2007
10 Oct 2007
11 Oct 2007
12 Oct 2007
AM
09:00
Detector Status (until 12:40)
09:00 ACORDE Status - Arturo Fernandez Tellez (High Energy Physics Group)  
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09:40 BCM Status - Heinrich Schindler (Technische Universitaet Wien)  
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10:20 FMD Status - Kristjan Gulbrandsen (Niels Bohr Institute)  
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11:00 --- Cofee Break ---
11:20 GRP Status - Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens)  
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12:00 HMPID Status - Annalisa Mastroserio (Univ. + INFN) Levente Molnar (Res. Inst. Particle & Nucl. Phys. - Hungarian Academy of Science)  
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09:00
Detector Status (until 13:20)
09:00 TOF Status  
09:40 TPC Status - Haavard Helstrup (Department of Physics and Technology) Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
10:20 TRD Status - Christoph Blume (University of Frankfurt)  
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10:50 TRD raw data - Ken Oyama (University of Heidelberg)  
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 V0 Staus  
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12:00 ZDC Status - Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Sezione di Torino)  
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12:40 EMCAL status - Dr Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN Frascati)  
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09:00
Status of Analysis (until 23:40)
09:00 Status of the analysis framework - Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)  
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09:20 Efficiency framework - Silvia Arcelli (Univ. + INFN)  
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09:40 ESD status - Christian Klein-Boesing (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
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10:20 AOD status - Markus Oldenburg (CERN)  
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10:50 Analysis train on the Grid - Mihaela Gheata (Institute of Space Sciences ISS)  
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11:10 Analysis on the GRID/CAF: Users experience - Ana Marin (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI)) Renaud Vernet (Consorzio Cometa (Catania))  
11:30 kDtree, kNN and kN interpolations - Dr Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)  
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11:50 Some new statistical tools - Marian Ivanov  
09:00
CAF (until 11:10)
09:00 Status of the CERN Analysis Facility, Datasets and PDC07 data on CAF - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
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09:30 Recent PROOF developments: Non-tree based analysis and CPU fairshare - Gerardo GANIS (CERN)  
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09:50 CAF benchmarks - Marco Meoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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10:20 Demo of dataset API - Gerhard Erich Bruckner  
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
QA session (until 19:00)
11:00 Introduction - Yves Schutz (IN2P3/CERN)  
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11:20 Online monitoring - Filimon Roukoutakis (CERN & University of Athens)  
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11:50 TPC QA - Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
12:10 SDD QA - Dr Piergiorgio Cerello (INFN - TORINO)  
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09:00
Calibration (until 11:30)
09:00 Status of Shuttle preprocessors - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster) Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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09:20 Reconstruction with conditions data produced by the Shuttle - Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
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09:40 Status of Calibration in DAQ - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)  
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10:00 Calibration in DCS + AMANDA status report and plans - Peter Chochula (CERN)  
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10:20 OCDB: Local Caching of Remote Files - Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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10:40 Status of the dipole magnetic field data analysis - Ruben Shahoyan (NA60)  
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11:30
Visualization (until 12:30)
11:30 Status of visualization - Matevz Tadel (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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PM
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Detector Status (until 17:40)
14:00 ITS Status  
14:40 MUON Status - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN, ORSAY, FRANCE)  
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15:20 PHOS Status - Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))  
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 PMD Status - Zubayer Ahammed (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) - Department of Atomic E)  
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17:00 T0 Status - Alla Maevskaya (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))  
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12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Status of simulation & reconstruction (until 19:55)
14:00 ExB effect in TPC: simulation and treatment in reconstruction - Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
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14:15 Memory and CPU consuption for reconstruction. Memsta tool  
14:35 ESD size - Marian Ivanov (CERN)  
14:45 AliReconstruction: future plans - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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15:00 Progress with MUON reconstruction - Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)  
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15:15 TOF reconstruction: further intergration with common barrel reconstruction classes - Silvia Arcelli (Univ. + INFN)  
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15:30 ITS reconstruction: progress with feature factorization, material from TGeo - Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)  
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15:45 ITS reconstruction: impact of the dead and noisy SSD strips - Enrico Fragiacomo (Univ. + INFN)  
16:00 ESD clean-up at the physics level: first round - Iouri BELIKOV (CERN)  
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12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Alignment (until 18:10)
14:00 News in the alignment framework - Raffaele Grosso (CERN)  
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14:30 Detector-detector dependencies in alignment - Raffaele Grosso (CERN)  
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14:45 Survey status - Ricardo Manuel Salgueiro Domingues da Silva (CERN)  
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15:15 TPC alignment from real survey data - Marek Kowalski (INP Krakow)  
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15:35 TRD alignment with AliAlignmentTracks - Dariusz Miskowiec (GSI Darmstadt)  
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16:00 ITS Alignment  
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
HLT (until 21:30)
14:00 Status of HLT cluster, hardware and interfaces - Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)  
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14:20 HLT AliRoot integration simulation/reconstruction - Mr Matthias Richter (DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN)  
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14:40 TPC HLT tracking/Offline comparison - Gaute Ovrebekk (University of Bergen) Kalliopi Kanaki (University of Bergen)  
15:20 HLT Calibration - Jochen Thaeder (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP) - Ruprecht-Karls-Universita)  
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15:30 DiMuon tracking - Artur Szostak (University of Cape Town)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 TRD @ HLT status update - Dr Mateusz Ploskon (University Frankfurt)  
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16:45 PHOS @ HLT status update - Per Thomas Hille (Fysisk institutt)  
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17:00 ITS @ HLT status and discussion - Cvetan Cheshkov (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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17:15 Raw reader update and discussion - Per Thomas Hille (Fysisk institutt)  
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17:30 AOB  
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
FDR Planning (until 20:00)
14:00 FDR plans and status - Latchezar Betev (CERN)  
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14:30 The WLCG Common Computing Readiness Challenge 2008 - Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)  
15:00 DAQ in the tesbeams and comissioning excercises - Roberto Divia (CERN)  
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15:30 DCS in the test beams and comissioning excercises - Andre Augustinus (CERN)  
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16:00 HMPID testbeam - Levente Molnar (INFN Bari)  
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16:20 EMCAL testbeam - David Silvermyr (ORNL)  
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16:40 Experience with ongoing PHOS data taking - Yuri Kharlov (IHEP, Protvino)  
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17:00 Status Report of the Nordic Tier1 - Boris Wagner (UiB)  
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