Welcome to NICA days 2019 and IVth MPD Collaboration Meeting in Warsaw

from Monday 21 October 2019 (07:55) to Friday 25 October 2019 (23:59)
CZiITT (Conference room...)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019
25 Oct 2019
AM
08:00 --- Registration of the Participants ---
09:00
NICA Days 2019 General Session (until 13:00)
09:00 Opening of the conference and welcome by the Vice-Rector of WUT - Prof. Rajmund Bacewicz  
09:10 Welcome from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education - Dr Grażyna Żebrowska  
09:30 Poland in JINR - Michael Waligórski  
09:40 NICA project at JINR - Prof. Vladimir Kekelidze  
10:00 MPD Experiment and WUT - Adam Kisiel (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
10:20 Status of the MPD - Viacheslav Golovatyuk (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
10:45 --- Coffe break ---
11:10 Concept of the Spin Physics Detector - Dr Vladimir Ladygin (VBLHEP JINR)  
11:35 Physics program of the SPD experiment at NICA. - Dr Alexey Guskov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
12:00 Is orbital angular momentum efficiently transferred to spin degreeds of freedom at NICA energies? - Prof. Alejandro Ayala (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)  
12:25 Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for WUT in the MPD Experiment - WUT, JINR, MPD representatives  
08:00 --- Registration of the Participants ---
08:45 CAEN S.p.a. - Jacopo Givoletti  
09:00
MPD Collaboration Meeting for general audience (until 12:30)
09:00 FAIR-NICA Cooperation - Paolo Giubellino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
09:30 Short-lived resonances and neutral mesons in the physical program of the NICA-MPD - Viktor Riabov (NRC Kurchatov Institute PNPI (RU))  
09:55 Current status of the Time-of-Flight system of the MPD - Mr Vadim Babkin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
10:20 Mini Beam-Beam monitoring: a wake-up trigger detector for the TOF of MPD - Dr Lucio F. Rebolledo-Herrera (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico / Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 Development of the Fast Interaction Trigger for MPD experiment - Mr Victor Rogov (JINR)  
11:40 Correlation femtoscopy at NICA energies - Pavel Batyuk (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
12:05 Feasibility studies of femtoscopic measurements in MPD - Daniel Henryk Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
08:00 --- Registration of the Participants ---
09:00
MPD Collaboration Meeting (until 13:00)
09:00 A “vector finder” approach to track reconstruction in the Inner Tracking System of MPD/NICA. - Dmitry Zinchenko (JINR)  
09:25 Performance studies of anisotropic flow with MPD at NICA - Arkadiy Taranenko (NRNU MEPhI)  
09:50 Study of energy distributions in FHCal - Dr Alexander Ivashkin (INR RAS)  
10:15 Centrality Determination in Heavy-ion Collisions with MPD (NICA) - Mr Petr Parfenov (NRNU MEPhI (RU) INR RAS (RU))  
10:40 MPD electromagnetic calorimeter simulation - Mr Maxim Martemianov (NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - ITEP (RU))  
11:05 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Quark Matter presentation rehearsal - Adam Kisiel (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
12:05 Extraction of multiple parton interactions from forward-backward multiplicity correlations - Eleazar Cuautle Flores (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))  
12:30 Beauty = Truth. On the role of aestheics in physics - Dr Tomasz Miller (Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Jagiellonian University)  
08:00 --- Registration of the Participants ---
09:00
International Collaborators (until 09:20)
09:00 FAIR's SIS100 Quadrupole Dublet Modules - production and supply line overview - Kamil Kozlowski (GSI)  
09:20
Industrial Session (until 10:30)
09:20 Present and Future CAEN instrumentation 2019 - Jacopo Givoletti  
09:40 Rittal company presentation - Łukasz Segieda  
09:45 Development of the Intelligent Power Distribution System - Rami Faraj  
10:10 CiS Silicon detectors Development, Prototyping, Production, Test, Assembly - Ralf Röder  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:05
NICA Technical Session (until 12:10)
11:05 Naming and Numbering Convention for the Equipment Database of the NICA project. - Michalina Milewicz-Zalewska (Joint Institute for Nuclear Reactions)  
08:30
TeFeNICA Session (until 11:50)
08:30 Development and optimization of mpdroot software - Wojciech Żurkowski Daniel Osinski  
08:40 Management of the Monte Carlo simulation process in the MPD experiment on the NICA cluster - Łukasz Sawicki  
08:50 Managing large scale computing for MPD experiment - Krzysztof Dygnarowicz (Warsaw University of Technology)  
09:00 Implementation of THERMINATOR generator to the MpdRoot environment. - Filip Jakubczak Mr Maksymilian Odziemczyk  
09:10 Integration of the Therminator model with the MpdRoot environment - Robert Mikoś  
09:20 Application of PROOF system to optimization processes of physical analysis for the MPD experiment - Kacper Skelnik  
09:30 Modelling Au-Au collisions in NICA collider energy spectrum using MPD programming environment - Maja Tureczek-Zakrzewska Marta Monikowska  
09:40 Implementation of algorithms for reconstruction and identification of baryons, including strange baryons, in MPD experiment - Jakub Zielinski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
09:50 Particle identification based on combined information from ToF and TPC - Mr Tomasz Zawiślak (Warsaw University of Technology)  
10:00 Quality Assurance of particle collision simulation in MPDRoot - Aleksandra Mazur  
10:10 Development and optimization of detector visualization and MPD data - Arkadiusz Czarnecki (Warsaw University of Technology)  
10:20 Development of visualisation for MPD experiment - Mateusz Kowal  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Naming and numbering application development for Equipment Database - Adam Biegański Jakub Mrówczyński  
11:00 Cable tester design for NICA-MPD Platform - Grzegorz Nakielny (Warsaw University of Technology)  
11:10 Design and Implementation of a control and measurement system for testing the quality of Fiber Optic Tracks for the Slow Control System of the BM@N and MPD-NICA experiment - Dawid Kraśko  
11:20 Upgrade of the MPD/TOF Test Stand Gas System and Control Software - Mr Filip Mąkolski  
11:30 Time synchronization of electronic devices in RACKs NICA-MPD-PLATFORM using GPS NI-9467-c-RIO - Kamil Chęć Monika Wasilewska Piotr Sawicki  
11:40 Fire extinguishing unit software development for the Slow Control system of the MPD-ToF detector - Nikita Dunin (JINR)  
11:50 --- Lunch break ---
PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:25
NICA Days 2019 General Session (until 17:00)
14:30 Finding resonances, unitarity, peculiarities and traps - Dr Robert Kamiński (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)  
14:55 String fusion effects at NICA energies - Dr Vladimir Kovalenko (St Petersburg State University (RU))  
15:20 QCD phase diagram at NICA - K+/pi+ horn effect and light clusters in THESEUS Topic: Heavy-Ion Collisions and QCD Phase Diagram at NICA - David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw)  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Pixel detectors for the Inner Tracking System of NICA MPD - Dr Vladimir Zherebchevsky (Saint-Petersburg State University)  
16:20 MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM OF BM@N EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT AND PROSPECTS FOR MPD - Vitaly Shutov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
16:40 Study of 6He - d reactions at the ACCULINNA-2 separator - B.Z. Zalewski (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
17:00
MPD Institutional Board (until 19:00)
17:00 Common Fund and Publication Policy Discussion - Prof. Itzhak Tserruya (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
19:00 --- Welcome Drink ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
MPD/NA61 Joint Session (until 18:00)
14:00 Particle production properties at SPS energy range - recent results from NA61/SHINE experiment. - Szymon Mateusz Pulawski (University of Silesia (PL))  
14:25 Fluctuations and correlations study at NA61/SHINE - Daria Prokhorova (St Petersburg State University (RU))  
14:50 Open charm measurements plans in NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS - Pawel Piotr Staszel (Jagiellonian University (PL))  
15:10 NA61/SHINE detector upgrade - Dariusz Tefelski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
15:35 ALICE technologies proposed for the VD of NA61/SHINE in connection to the future MPD Si tracker - Grigori Feofilov (St Petersburg State University (RU))  
15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 Upgrade of the NA61/SHINE ToF system based on a MRPCs for the NICA experiments - Mr Aleksandr Dmitriev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
16:45 Synergy in the development of forward hadron calorimeters for NA61, BM@N, MPD and CBM experiments - Fedor Guber (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))  
17:05 Non-standard GEM foils for gaseous detectors - Magdalena Kuich (University of Warsaw (PL))  
17:25 Convolutional neural network for centrality determination in fixed target experiments - Denis Uzhva (St Petersburg State University (RU))  
18:00 --- Gala Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
MPD Collaboration Meeting (until 18:20)
14:00 MPD Yoke production status - Dr Nikolai Topilin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
14:20 Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the MPD at NICA - Igor Tyapkin (JINR)  
14:40 Main parameters of MPD Electromagnetic Calorimeter in Latest Geometry Version. - Dr Viacheslav Kulikov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute” − ITEP, Moscow 117218, Russia)  
15:00 Full MPD Ecal. Data Base - Mrs Larisa Stolypina (JINR)  
15:20 Status of FHCal - Dr Alexander Ivashkin (INR RAS)  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 A MAPS based Inner Tracking System of the Multi-Purpose Detector at the NICA collider - Dr Yuri Murin (JINR)  
16:20 Status of the proposal for a beam-beam monitoring system for the MPD - Prof. Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans (Universidad de Colima)  
16:40 The demonstrator of Cosmic Ray Detector (MCORD) for the MPD detector. - Dr Marcin Bielewicz (Nacional Centre for Nuclear Research)  
17:00 visualization of online and archived equipment values of BM@N and MPD experiments - Petr Chumakov (JINR)  
17:20 Event simulation and reconstruction in the BM@N experiment - Sergei Merts  
17:40 Software developments for detectors experimental hardware - Dmitry Egorov (JINR)  
12:10 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
NICA Technical Session (until 18:00)
14:00 HIC simulations with different EoS models - Dr Hovik Grigorian  
14:40 The dosimetry protection of the MPD Electronic Equipment at the new NICA Collider – the prototype system - Arkadiusz Chłopik (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
15:00 Beam-Beam Collisions Monitor for NICA - Dr Grigori Feofilov (St Petersburg State University (RU))  
15:20 MPD TPC Status - Sergei Movchan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
15:50 TPC electronics cooling design status - Vladimir Chepurnov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:25 STATUS OF THE FRONT-END ELECTRONICS FOR THE TIME-OF-FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS IN THE MPD EXPERIMENT - Mikhail Buryakov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
16:45 Surface characterization techniques for studying heavy ion irradiation effects in materials - Andrzej Olejniczak (JINR)  
17:25 Average high energy neutron flux distribution in the Quinta sub-critical assembly irradiated with proton beam of 0.66 GeV energy applying the actinide spectral index method - Marcin Szuta (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
17:45 Probing the QCD critical end point through multi-messenger observations of compact stars and heavy ion collisions. - David Edwin Alvarez Castillo  
12:35
TeFeNICA Session (until 17:05)
12:35 XYZ Scanner for magnetic field studies - Witold Olech  
12:45 Conception and development of the system for the magnetic field strength measurement in the NICA-MPD PLATFORM surroundings created using NI myRIO technology - Jakub Głuch Paulina Marikin (Faculty of Physics of Warsaw University of Technology)  
12:55 Embedded data processing using NI MyRIO and LabVIEW for magnetic field measurements - Hanna Gałach  
13:05 R&D of the r, φ scanner mechanical construction for the scintillator detector background radiation measurements - Monika Nadolna Martyna Winnik  
13:15 α, β, γ radiation monitoring in the working area of the MPD Slow Control electronic equipment. - Ms Marta Robak (Warsaw Univeristy of Technology, Faculty of Physics) Ms Anita Zagrobelna (Warsaw Univeristy of Technology, Faculty of Physics) Ms Alicja Jakubowska (Warsaw Univeristy of Technology, Faculty of Physics)  
13:25 Design and heat transfer simulations for the MPD-TOF detector cooling system - Agata Ptak (WUT)  
13:35 Data Aquisition from spectrometry and dosimetry systems using LabView environment - Ms Paulina Zawadzka (Warsaw University of Technology) Ms Ewelina Kołpa (Warsaw University of Technology) Ms Urszula Dąbrowska (Warsaw University of Technology)  
13:45 Analyzing the thermal images taken by Fluke TiS20 thermal imager - Filip Protoklitow  
13:55 Heat transfer simulation of the BM@N -STS detector - Maciej Czarnynoga (Politechnika Warszawska)  
14:05 Heat transfer simulations for three TOF-MPD detector modules - Mr Kacper Nowacki (Warsaw University of Technology)  
14:15 Optimalization of the gas distribution system for the MPD-TOF detector module - Mr Andrzej Ryczek  
14:25 The prototype of an air based cooling system for the Slow Control System of the MPD-TOF detector - Anna Szumigała Michał Maciałowicz  
14:35 Heat transfer simulation of the MPD-TPC detector - Maciej Czerkawski  
14:45 Heat simulations for the pxi module and rack 42u - Michał Gałązka (Warsaw University of Technology)  
14:55 Analysis of background radiation with a scintillation counter - Kamila Kempny Anna Kierznowska Paweł Dębowski  
15:05 Design of cooling system for equipment installed in RACK's 42U 19" - Bartlomiej Juruc  
15:15 Setup of the heat transfer inside the TOF-MPD detector - Krystian Idźkowski Jakub Zdziebłowski  
15:25 Integration of temperature monitoring software inside the Master and Slave 19 ” RACK cabinets for the Slow Control System of the MPD-TOF detector - Monika Kutyła (Warsaw University of Technology)  
15:35 Software for device designed to measure radiation absorption of various materials - Mr Maciej Marcinkiewicz (WUT) Mr Michał Foltys (WUT)  
15:45 Monitoring and stabilistation of the test laboratory enviornment Time od Flight for NICA - MPD - PLATFORM - Jędrzej Kołaś Klaudia Pachulska (Warsaw University of Technology)