Plenary Session - PWG reports

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Report from Light Flavour Spectra PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileLijuan Ruan (BNL)
09:30Report from Bulk Correlations PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 filePaul Sorenson (BNL)
10:00Report from Ultra Peripheral PWG ( 00:30 ) 0 filesYury Gorbunov (Creighton University)
10:30
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
11:00Report from Spin PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileErnst Sichtermann /James Sowinski (LBNL/Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)
11:30Report from Jet-like Correlations PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileJoern Putschke (Yale University)
12:00Report from Heavy Flavour PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileXin Dong (LBNL )

Collaboration Dinner

Plenary Session - Collaboration Business

TimeTalkPresenter
17:00STAR Council Meeting Report ( 00:20 ) 0 filesHank Crawford
17:20Open Discussion on Collaboration Issues ( 00:40 ) 0 filesNu Xu

Plenary Session - Beam Energy Scan

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Update of Energy scan program in STAR ( 00:30 ) 2 filesGrazyna Odyniec (LBNL)
14:30Run - 10 Plans from Light Flavour Spectra PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 fileLijuan Ruan (BNL)
14:50Run - 10 Plans from Bulk Correlations PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 filePaul Sorensen (BNL)
15:10Run - 10 Plans from Heavy Flavour PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 fileManuel Calderon (UC Davis)
15:30Run - 10 Plans from Jet-like correlations PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJoern Putschke (Yale University)
15:50
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
16:20Run - 10 Plans from Ultra Peripheral Collisions PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 fileYury Gorbunov (Creighton University)
16:40Discussion ( 00:20 ) 0 filesALL (Creighton University)

Plenary Session - Science and Computing

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00TOF progress and readiness ( 00:20 ) 1 fileFrank Geurts (Rice)
09:20E/BEMC GEANT geometry study and reshape ( 00:20 ) 2 filesJason C. Webb (Valparaiso)
09:40h-/h+ Update and Calibration Readiness for Run 9 Processing ( 00:30 ) 1 fileGene Van Buren (BNL)
10:10Embedding activities and status ( 00:20 ) 1 fileRenee Fatemi (UKY)
10:30
Coffee break ( 00:20 )
 
10:50Computing activities overview ( 00:30 ) 1 fileJerome Lauret (BNL)
11:20Database activities and performance tuning ( 00:20 ) 2 filesDmitry Arkhipkin (BNL)
11:40Multi-source data access and movement ( 00:20 ) 1 fileMichal Zerola (NPI/ASCR)
12:00KISTI facility readiness, a status report ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJerome Lauret (BNL)
12:20Grid and network tuning activities ( 00:20 ) 2 filesDoug Olson (LBNL)
12:40Online tracking for High Level Trigger in STAR ( 00:20 ) 1 fileXiangming Sun (LBNL)

Plenary Theory Session - Thermalization

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Dileptons ( 00:45 ) 1 fileVolker Koch (LBNL)
09:45How to Find the QCD Critical Point at RHIC, if it is at mu_B <= 400 MeV ( 00:45 ) 1 fileKrishna Rajagopal (MIT)
10:30
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
11:00STAR results on thermalization ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBedanga Mohanty (VECC)
11:30Candidate future measurements for thermalization using light quark carrying hadrons STAR ( 00:30 ) 0 filesAihong Tang (BNL)
12:00Candidate future measurements for thermalization using heavy quark carrying hadrons and direct radiation STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 fileThomas Ullrich (BNL)
12:30Discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 filesALL (BNL)

Lunch

Lunch

STAR Council Meeting

Opening Plenary Session - STAR Status

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Welcome and STAR Status ( 00:15 ) 0 filesNu Xu (LBNL)
09:15STAR physics overview ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBedanga Mohanty (VECC)
09:45Upgrades Progress ( 00:30 ) 1 fileFlemming Videbaek (BNL)
10:15
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
10:45Operations run 9 and preparation for run 10 ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBill Christie (BNL)
11:15Report from Non Photonic Electron Task Force ( 00:30 ) 1 fileHuan Zhong Huang (UCLA)
11:45FMS Review Report and Analysis Introduction ( 00:30 ) 1 fileLes Bland (BNL)
12:15Update from Spin Task Force ( 00:30 ) 1 fileErnst Sichtermann (LBNL)

Social event - BBQ

Juniors Afternoon Session

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00STAR in LHC era (Lecture) ( 00:50 ) 1 fileHelen Caines (Yale Univ.)
14:50HLT - Run 9 results and Run 10 preparation ( 00:20 ) 1 fileHao Qiu (IMP, Lanzhou)
15:10Centrality determination in d+Au collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 fileChitrasen Jena (LBNL/IoP, Bhubaneswar)
15:30
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
16:00Low pT J/psi production in d+Au collisions ( 00:20 ) 0 filesOlga Hajkova (Czech Technical Univ.)
16:20Pixel readout electronics for HFT in STAR - firmware ( 00:20 ) 1 fileXiangming Sun (LBNL)
16:40Discussion on Junior Affairs ( 00:20 ) 0 filesAll (all)

Lunch

Juniors Morning Session

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00QCD in Hadron Physics: Partons, Factorization, ... ( 00:50 ) 1 fileFeng Yuan (LBNL)
09:50FMS + FTPC analysis: status report ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJim Drachenberg (Texas A&M Univ.)
10:10FHC cosmic ray test ( 00:20 ) 1 fileXuan Li (Shandong Univ.)
10:30
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
11:00K/pi and p/pi fluctuation study using Run 7 data ( 00:20 ) 1 fileHui Wang (Michigan State Univ.)
11:20v1 analysis at 22.4 GeV CuCu data using BBC event plane ( 00:20 ) 1 fileYadav Pandit (Kent State Univ.)
11:40Search for QCD Critical Point: High Moment of Event by Event Multiplicity Distribution ( 00:20 ) 1 fileXiaofeng Luo (LBNL/USTC)

STAR Collaboration Meeting (Fall 2009 LBL)

2009-10-05 09:00
2009-10-10 12:30
Etc/GMT-4
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from Monday, 5 October 2009 to Saturday, 10 October 2009
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Conference organizing committee information :

Hans Georg Ritter - Local Chair

Jim Sowinski - Chair program committee

Conference duration: 6 days

Meeting of the Collaboration

Meeting website

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2009 Walgo data results

Uber-preliminary run9 results

Discussion on documents and issues for CD-1

Speaker : All


Talk time : 15:00, Duration : 02:00

 Discussion on Document status, cost& schedule, management as needed for CD-1 review documents.

Global Support Structure, Assembly, and installation

Speaker : Eric Anderssen ( LBL )


Talk time : 14:15, Duration : 00:45

HFT Physics

Speaker : Nu Xu ( LBL )


Talk time : 13:30, Duration : 00:45