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Council meeting

Banquet

Plenary Session: PWG perspective & summary

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Report from council meeting ( 00:30 ) 1 fileGary Westfall
14:30Report from LF Spectra PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileAnthony Timmins (Univ. of Houston)
15:00Report from Heavy Flavor PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileJaro Bielcik (CTU Prague)
15:30
Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
 
16:00Report from BulkCorr PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileDaniel Cebra (UC Davis)
16:30Report from JetCorr PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileOlga Evdokimov (UIC)
17:00Report from UPC PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileWlodek Guryn (BNL)
17:30Report from Spin PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 fileRenee Fatemi (Univ. of Kentucky)

Plenary Session: Software

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Tracking review results summary and committee findings ( 00:30 ) 1 fileOlga Evdokimov (UIC)
09:30Calibration status overview for Run 11, R&D and path toward Run 12 ( 00:30 ) 2 filesGrant Webb (UKY)
10:00Embedding activities, status report ( 00:20 ) 1 fileTerence Tarnowsky (MSU)
10:20
Coffee break ( 00:20 )
 
10:40S&C status and overview ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJerome Lauret (BNL)
11:00FMS software status, structure and plan forward ( 00:20 ) 1 fileThomas Burton (BNL)
11:20FGT software readiness ( 00:20 ) 2 filesAnselm Vossen (CEEM)
11:40HFT software status, plan forward ( 00:20 ) 1 fileSpiros Margetis (KSU)
12:00Cloud computing, why, what and where? ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJerome Lauret (BNL)

Plenary Session: Upgrade+decadal plan+eSTAR, Run12 preparation

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Status of the FGT upgrade ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBernd Surrow
14:30Status of the HFT upgrade ( 00:30 ) 1 fileFlemming Videbaek
15:00Status of the MTD upgrade ( 00:30 ) 1 fileLijuan Ruan
15:30
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 
16:00Status of the Roman Pot upgrade ( 00:30 ) 1 fileWlodek Guryn/J.H. Lee
16:30Plan for the STAR upgrade workshop ( 00:30 ) 1 fileHuan Huang
17:00Run12 preparation ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBill Christie
17:30A fixed-target program for STAR: Capabilities, Challenges, and some preliminary results ( 00:30 ) 1 fileDaniel Cebra

Plenary Session: Theory

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Opening ( 00:30 ) 0 filesNu Xu
14:30From Confinement to Asymptotic Freedom: the Shrinking Radius of Hadrons ( 00:50 ) 0 filesTamar Friedmann
15:20
Coffee break ( 00:20 )
 
15:40Heavy quakonium spectral function ( 00:50 ) 0 filesPeter Petreczky
16:30Hydrodynamics and di-lepton productions ( 00:50 ) 0 filesKevin Dusling

Junior's day

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Spokesperson's welcome to juniors ( 00:30 ) 0 filesNu Xu
09:30root, automake and doxygen ( 00:25 ) 1 filePatrick Huck
09:55Particle Identification in Au+Au 200 GeV ( 00:25 ) 1 fileChris Powell
10:20
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 
10:50Jet-hadron correlations in heavy-ion collisions ( 00:25 ) 1 fileAlice Ohlson
11:15Non flow and flow contributions in di-hadron correlations ( 00:25 ) 1 fileChanaka De Silva
11:40Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry ( 00:25 ) 1 fileLen Eun
12:05
Lunch ( 01:55 )
 
14:00K/pi fluctuations in the BES ( 00:25 ) 1 fileTerry Tarnowsky
14:25Moments analysis in the BES ( 00:25 ) 1 fileDaniel MacDonald
14:50Identified particle production in the BES ( 00:25 ) 1 fileSamantha Brovko
15:15
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 
15:45Photoproduction at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider with STAR ( 00:25 ) 1 fileDilan Madagodahettige Don
16:10Di-lepton production in Au+Au 200 GeV ( 00:25 ) 2 filesJie Zhou
16:35Junior rep statements ( 00:25 ) 0 files
18:00
Reception ( 22:00 )
 

STAR collaboration meeting (Nov14-18, 2011), LBNL, CA

2011-11-14 08:00
2011-11-18 18:00
America/Los Angeles
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from Monday, 14 November 2011 to Friday, 18 November 2011
Conference organizing committee information :
Scientific program committee:
Gene Van Buren
Renee Fatemi
Huan Huang
Hiroshi Masui (Chair)
Saskia Mioduszewski
Janet Seger
Anthony Timmins
Zhangbu Xu
Xin Dong
Nu Xu
Conference duration: 5 days

 STAR collaboration meeting at LBNL

Checking Ohm's Law with TPC current

We checked Ohm's law with TPC average currents in RunXI AuAu200GeV RFF dEdx calibration sample and it gives

Some Additional band in dEdx vs p distribution in AuAu 200 RFF

I see some additional band in dEdx vs p distribution in AuAu 200 RFF(the left down corner).

Update on Cosmic QA

Speaker : Stephen Gliske


Talk time : 11:05, Duration : 00:20

Brief update.  Includes raw QA plots and covariances/correlations for a run taken on Sept 26th with FGTs 10, 11 and 13

Details Regarding Cosmic QA Software

Speaker : S. Gliske ( Argonne )


Talk time : 11:00, Duration : 00:20

Discussion regarding details of the software organization for Cosmic QA.

Minutes

Speaker : Stephen Gliske


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

Minutes

HFT quarterly

2011-09-27 09:00
2011-09-28 13:30
America/New York
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
room 2-84 Physics Department BNL, at 13:00 (GMT), duration : 04:30

 HFT face to face meeting

 

September 27, 2011

Room 2-84  Physics Department, BNL

 

Key points for talks:

 

Technical progress and issues.

Expected progress for next ½ year.

Resource overview and needs.

Slow control considerations, interlocks.

Lab space needs at BNL.

 

Tuesday:

 

9.00    Welcome and settling in

9.15    Overview and Status (FVidebaek)

10.00  Financial status, Tracking, Change control (S.Morgan)

10.30  Break

11.00  PXL electronics and status (L.Greiner)

11.45  IST (G.vNieuwenhuizen)

12.30  Lunch

 

13.30  PXL mechnaics

14.00  Integration (D.Beavis)

14.30  CF fabrication and IGT plans (EA (remote))

16.00  Sub meetings

·      Integration – star ops

·      Budgeting, Change control Sarah, Flemming, Bob Ernst

 

 

Wednesday 28

9.15 SSD overview (J.Thomas), el (MLeVine)

10.00  Software     (S.Margetis)

11.00 Roundtable discussion on issues, organization, priorities.

 

 

 

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TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Welcome ( 00:15 ) 0 filesF.Videbaek
09:15Project Status and overview ( 00:45 ) 1 fileF.Videbaek
10:00Financial status, tracking change control ( 00:30 ) 1 fileSarah Morgan
10:30Break ( 00:30 ) 0 files
11:00PXL electronics ( 00:45 ) 1 fileLeo Greiner
11:45IST overview ( 00:45 ) 1 fileGerrit van Nieuwenhuizen (MIT)
13:30PXL mechanics ( 00:30 ) 0 filesHoward Wieman
14:00Integration ( 00:30 ) 1 fileDana Beavis
14:30CF fabrication for PXL, IST and Global Structures ( 00:20 ) 0 filesEric Andersen
15:00Sub meetings ( 02:01 ) 0 files
20:009.00 Wednesday - SSD overview ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJim Thomas
20:209.30 Wednesday - SSD electronics ( 00:20 ) 1 fileMicheal LeVine
20:4010.00 Wednesday Software ( 00:20 ) 1 fileSpiros margetis
21:0010.30 Wednesday Round table discussion on issues, organization prorities ( 00:20 ) 0 files

pp2pp analysis

2011-12-21 09:00
2011-12-21 11:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
1-189 Physics, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00
TimeTalkPresenter
10:30Effects of changes of polarizations and various parameters on AN/r5 ( 00:20 ) 1 fileKin Yip

pp2pp analysis

2011-12-28 09:00
2011-12-28 11:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
1-189 Physics, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00
TimeTalkPresenter
10:00Totem ( 00:30 ) 1 fileIgor
10:30paper ( 00:30 ) 3 files
11:00Beam Divergence ( 00:20 ) 1 fileKin Yip

pp2pp analysis

2012-01-04 09:00
2012-01-04 11:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
1-189 Physics, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00

pp2pp analysis

2011-12-07 09:00
2011-12-07 11:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
1-189 Physics, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00
TimeTalkPresenter
10:00Diffraction Dissociation Issues, Physics ( 00:30 ) 1 fileDave Underwood
10:30Final geometry ( 00:30 ) 0 filesIgor and Wlodek
11:00Run 12 ( 00:20 ) 0 files
11:20Central Production in 2009 data ( 00:20 ) 1 fileLeszek Adamczyk (Cracow)

pp2pp analysis

2011-12-14 09:00
2011-12-14 11:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
1-189 Physics, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00
TimeTalkPresenter
10:00Results with the final geometry ( 00:30 ) 1 fileKin
10:30Paper ( 00:30 ) 2 filesJH

pp2pp analysis

2011-11-02 10:00
2011-11-02 12:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
1-189 Physics, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00
TimeTalkPresenter
10:00A_N and r5 using the latest alignment and cross-angle corrections ( 00:20 ) 1 fileKin Yip