Management Meeting

2017-12-22 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 22 December 2017
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Management Meeting

2017-12-29 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 29 December 2017
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Management Meeting

2018-01-05 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 5 January 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00


Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  1. Preparations for Run 18
  2. Production, calibration and embedding - (Run 17 pp)
  3. blind analysis recommendation - ready for report to collab?
  4. Collab. meeting
  5. BNL review of Forward proposals
  6. Spencer and low pt e+e- (see his mail to lfs spectra on a proposed path forwards)
  7. DIS abstracts
  8. AOB

Management Meeting

2018-01-12 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 12 January 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  1. Preparations for Run 18
  2. Production, calibration and embedding - (Run 17 pp)
  3. Forward Upgrades
  4. PAC meeting
  5. Collab. meeting
  6. AOB

Management Meeting

2018-01-19 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 19 January 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Management Meeting

2018-01-26 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 26 January 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Management Meeting

2018-02-02 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 2 February 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  • Run 18 Preparations -
    •   Fast kicker
    •    FMS
  • Forward upgrade 1 pager
  • Issues arising from collab. meeting
    •  How to proceed with ABC
    •  Put out call now for Blind analyses?
    •    Service task lists and approval
    •    Uploading talks to Drupal 
  • Production and calibration status
  • EPD sector--> ALICE request
  • News letter

Management Meeting

2018-02-09 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 9 February 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Management Meeting

2018-02-16 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 16 February 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  • Run 18 Preparations
  • ABC committee
  • BUR committee
  • Service task discussion with juniors
  • Production and calibration status
  • EPD sector--> ALICE request
  • News letter

Management Meeting

2018-02-23 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 23 February 2018
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Meeting starts 12:45pm BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  • Run 18
  • Run 18 shut-down preparations
  • ABC
  • BUR
  • DIS and QM preparations
  • Service tasks
    • Centrality definition in STAR
  • AOB

Management Meeting

2017-09-08 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 September 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  1. TPC outer sector replacement
  2. Conveners
  3. CME focus group
  4. Analysis meeting
  5. AOB

Management Meeting

2017-09-15 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 September 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  1. Upgrades + Summer Shut down
  2. Production and Calibration
  3. Planning for next run  - Isobar switching, Early GPCs, Embedding readiness, Shifts
  4. Blind analysis committee - See Emails below sent to Council and BulkCorr
  5. Upcoming meetings - STAR-CBM, Analysis, Collab
  6. Abstract submission to big conferences
  7. AOB

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Dear Olga, Council members,

 We appreciate that the discussion of the PAC recommendations ongoing and that Olga has called for an in-person discussion at the Collab. meeting in Jan. However, we think that if we do decide to implement a blind analysis we need to start planning on a shorter timescale. Exploring how to perform a blind analysis would be beneficial for STAR independent of the PAC recommendation. Given the high profile status of results, it is critical that we work as hard as possible to remove any possible perception of bias in our analysis.

Blinding analyses is not trivial and we need to proceed carefully and ensure the full procedure for blinding, accessing the blinded data, deciding when the reveal is done and what steps will/can be taken after need to be spelled out clearly and agreed upon by the whole collaboration.

 We are therefore writing to ask for the Council's support in forming a committee, selected from the whole collaboration, to investigate possible implementations that reports back to the Management and Council for final discussion. 
Thanks 
Helen and Zhangbu


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Dear BulkCorr,

CME is a very important topic at STAR and of the HI
field, as reflected in e.g., the STAR BUR Run18
request and PAC=E2=80=99s recommendations. In view of the
ongoing discussions on current CME studies at STAR,
as well as the PAC=E2=80=99s recommendation of performing
blind analyses with Isobar data, at several peoples
suggestions we have formed a CME focus group,
that Jiangyong and Paul have agreed to co-Chair.

The focus of the group will include, but not be limited
to, the following:

1. how to perform blind analyses for the CME studies
with Isobar data
2. understand the connection and difference among
different CME observables
3. work together on the next CME paper in small
systems and beyond

The group will have regular meetings that are publicly
announced with a hyper news list, to which all are
welcome to subscribe. We expect that the CME focus
group will operate in a similar fashion to the focus
groups such at the BES and flow groups. The chairs
of the focus group have no official =E2=80=9Cpower=E2=80=9D; approval
of the physics results will remain with the BulkCorr
conveners.

Thanks,
Zhenyu for the STAR management

Management Meeting

2017-09-22 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 22 September 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  • Production and Calibration
  • Upgrades/Readiness for Run 18
  • Collaboration meeting
  • Blind Analysis committee - Jim D. , Jerome, Wei Li, Mike L., Gang,  Lanny, Ernst, Paul Ex-officio - Zhenyu and Grigory.
  • AOB

Management Meeting

2017-09-29 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 29 September 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  • iTPC review
  • Blind analysis committee (Proposed charge to committee pasted below)
  • Dropbox
  • Nuanced "no preliminary" proposal
  • AOB


Charge for the Blinding Committee:

Committee is requested to  document recommendations on procedures for how STAR should implement a blind analysis for the CME related studies on the upcoming isobar data. The committee should work in conjunction with CME focus group as necessary.

The committee should consider the

  •     The techniques used to blind the data and how the unblinding rubric should be stored
  •     Which analyses should be blinded and what is expected from collaborators who plan on contributing to such analyses"
  •     What are the minimal conditions that must be met before an unblinding can be considered. What procedure and timeline should the unblinding procedure follow.
  •     What steps, if any, can be taken in the analysis after the unblinding, How do we then proceed to publicly announcing the data,
The committee should aim to finish its deliberations for presentation to the management by early January. The management aims to seek endorsement  by the Council at the January 2018 collaboration meeting.

Management Meeting

2017-10-06 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 6 October 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Management Meeting

2017-10-13 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 13 October 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  1. Summer shutdown progress
  2. Production and Calibration status
  3. Cold QCD workforce needs
  4. Isobar switching committee
  5. Analysis meeting
  6. Newletter
  7. AOB

Management Meeting

2017-10-20 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 20 October 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
Meeting starts 10am BNL Time - BlueJeans Conference ID : 160455989

Agenda:
  1. Summer shutdown progress
  2. Production and Calibration status - especially 53 GeV
  3. EPD and other upgrades
  4. Analysis meeting
  5. DNP - any issues?
  6. STC -new members before QM 
  7. New convener LFS-UPC
  8. Review article
  9. AOB

Management Meeting

2017-10-27 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 27 October 2017
BlueJeans ID : 160455989, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
 Agenda: 

1) Detector status 

    iTPC+eTOF/EPD commissioning way before the run starts? 
    Maybe in January/February for a week?

2) Analysis Meeting preparation 

3) Collaboration meeting plan 
    LBL? 

4) calibration (run 17) and production status 

5) dN/dx status and plan 

6) other items 

Management Meeting

2017-11-03 10:00
America/New York
Friday, 3 November 2017
, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

PID efficiency

For the particle identification efficiency study, we tried two methods to select the "pure" sample.