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STAR Management Meeting

2009-10-01 11:00
2009-10-01 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 1 October 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

           Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 1245695 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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  Agenda:

1) STAR Collaboration preparation - Bedanga

2) Run10 shift and QA board - Olga

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               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency:

  1)

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) STAR TOF Close Out Review, Aug. 10-11. Review report and The Plan.

   4) STAR FMS Review agenda, Sept. 1-2, BNL, P. Jacobs (chair). Review report

              

               Future Meetings:

 

                1) STAR Regional meeting: Sept. 25-26, Rio, Brazil

    2) SQM2009: Sept. 27-Oct. 2, Buzios, Brazil

    3) STAR Collaboration meeting, Oct. 5-10, Berkeley

    4) DNP 2009, Oct. 13 - 17, Waikoloa

    5) STAR-DoE HFT CD-1 review, postpond to Nov., BNL

    6) APS April meeting, Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC. (abstract deadline: Oct. 23, 2009)

STAR Management Meeting

2009-09-17 11:00
2009-09-17 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 17 September 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

           Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 923532 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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  Agenda:

1) MOU - Nu (Committee: Nu, Jamie, Jerome, Hank, Renee, Subhasis)

2) FMS review report and action items - Nu

3) STC new members - Nu

4) phi-meson analysis 

5) Run10 shift and QA board - Olga

6) New proposals and budget - Flemming

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               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency: Jerome, Bill, Bernd, Olga, Flemming, Nu, Jamie

  1) MOU Task Force: Hank, Jerome, Nu will meet and draft the first verison of the charges and goals for the committee

  2) FMS review report: send a message to FMS folks and request their inputs by Wednesday, Sept. 23rd.

  3) STC:

  4) phi-meson: ask the task force leader to report the status

  5) New proposals: Flemming will make a first draft on the Call for upgrade proposals soon.

  6) SHift: Olga will send a note to the management.

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) STAR TOF Close Out Review, Aug. 10-11. Review report and The Plan.

   4) STAR FMS Review agenda, Sept. 1-2, BNL, P. Jacobs (chair). Review report

              

               Future Meetings:

 

                1) STAR Regional meeting: Sept. 25-26, Rio, Brazil

 

    2) SQM2009: Sept. 27-Oct. 2, Buzios, Brazil

    3) STAR Collaboration meeting, Oct. 5-10, Berkeley

    4) DNP 2009, Oct. 13 - 17, Waikoloa

    5) STAR-DoE HFT CD-1 review, postpond to Nov., BNL

    6) APS April meeting, Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC. (abstract deadline: Oct. 23, 2009)

Upgrades Progress

Speaker : Flemming Videbaek ( BNL )


Talk time : 09:45, Duration : 00:30

STAR physics overview

Speaker : Bedanga Mohanty ( VECC )


Talk time : 09:15, Duration : 00:30

Run - 10 Plans from Light Flavour Spectra PWG

Speaker : Lijuan Ruan ( BNL )


Talk time : 14:30, Duration : 00:20

Report from Light Flavour Spectra PWG

Speaker : Lijuan Ruan ( BNL )


Talk time : 09:00, Duration : 00:30

STAR Management Meeting

2009-09-10 11:00
2009-09-10 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 10 September 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

           Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 923521 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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  Agenda:

1) MOU - Nu (Committee: Nu, Jamie, Jerome, Hank, Renee, Subhasis)

2) Run8 data analysis -Jerome / Bedanga

3) BulkCorr / HF PWG conveners


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               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency: Bernd, Bill, Jerome, Flemming, Nu, Bedanga, Olga, Helen.

  1) WAH activities: (i) TPC supporting structures worked! (ii) ShowerMAx fues are changed/tested.

  2) MOU task force: nothing happened since last Friday. Will start the process this week, - Nu

  3) Run8 data process, h+/h- differences: before run8, charged hadrons are averaged, h=(h+ + h-)/2; Waiting for run9 preliminary results (in two weeks); possible workshop focused on the issues; precising calibration procedure(s), automake the process;

 4) Conveners

 5) STC: a message to the management from Nu

 6) Olga - phi-meson issue: discuss next Thursday, needs a summary document

 7) Olga - shift sign up: training requirements, ... Shift sign up starts early Oct. for 20 weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) STAR TOF Close Out Review, Aug. 10-11. Review report.

  Future Meetings:

    1) STAR FMS Review (draft agenda), Sept. 1-2, BNL, P. Jacobs (chair)

    2) STAR-DoE HFT CD-1 review, postpond to Nov., BNL

    3) STAR Regional meeting: Sept. 25-26, Rio, Brazil

    4) SQM2009: Sept. 27-Oct. 2, Buzios, Brazil

    5) STAR Collaboration meeting, Oct. 5-10, Berkeley

    6) DNP 2009, Oct. 13 - 17, Waikoloa

    7) APS April meeting, Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC. (abstract deadline: Oct. 23, 2009)

2009.09.04 Test of corrected EEMC geometry: SVT, slow-simulator on/off, pre-shower migration

Test of corrected EEMC geometry: shower shapes (bug 1618)

Monte-Carlo setup:

09 Sep

September 2009 posts

Global Support Structure, Assembly, and installation

Speaker : Eric Anderssen ( LBL )


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

IST sub-system

Speaker : Bernd Surrow ( MIT )


Talk time : 11:35, Duration : 00:45

SSD electronics Upgrade

Speaker : Micheal LeVine ( BNL )


Talk time : 10:50, Duration : 00:45

Pixel detector

Speaker : Howard Wieman ( LBL )


Talk time : 09:45, Duration : 00:45

 Pixel detector sub-system:

mechanical and electric

Project Overview

Speaker : Flemming Videbaek ( BNL )


Talk time : 09:00, Duration : 00:45

 Introduction to meeting;

Version 0 of  CD-1 review talk

HFT meeting

2009-09-03 09:00
Etc/GMT-5
Thursday, 3 September 2009
room 3-192 Physics, BNL, at 13:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

 HFT pre-dry run. 

The meeting will have a number of talks that matches those for the CD-1 review of the HFT project. 

In addition there will be discussion on outstanding issues surrounding CDR, other document, cost and schedule.

A real dry-run will be scheduled in about one month; and the review likely in the week of November 9.

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Project Overview ( 00:45 ) 1 fileFlemming Videbaek (BNL)
09:45Pixel detector ( 00:45 ) 1 fileHoward Wieman (LBL)
10:30Break ( 00:20 ) 0 files
10:50SSD electronics Upgrade ( 00:45 ) 1 fileMicheal LeVine (BNL)
11:35IST sub-system ( 00:45 ) 0 filesBernd Surrow (MIT)
13:30HFT Physics ( 00:45 ) 2 filesNu Xu (LBL)
14:15Global Support Structure, Assembly, and installation ( 00:45 ) 1 fileEric Anderssen (LBL)
15:00Discussion on documents and issues for CD-1 ( 02:00 ) 0 filesAll

STAR Management Meeting

2009-09-04 11:00
2009-09-04 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Friday, 4 September 2009
BNL, 50-I-189, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

           Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 1202597 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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  Agenda:

1) MOU - Nu (Committee: Nu, Jamie, Jerome, Hank, +1, +2)

2) Run8 data analysis -Jerome / Bedanga

3) Next Analysis Meeting (UTA) - Nu


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               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency: Bernd, Bill, Nu, Bedanga, Jamie, Flemming

  1) More on MOU next Thursday. MOU effort combined with Shift, Reviews, and other Decadal Plan related efforts withi STAR.

  2) More on FMS review report next Thursday.

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) STAR TOF Close Out Review, Aug. 10-11. Review report.

  Future Meetings:

    1) STAR FMS Review (draft agenda), Sept. 1-2, BNL, P. Jacobs (chair)

    2) STAR-DoE HFT CD-1 review, postpond to Nov., BNL

    3) STAR Regional meeting: Sept. 25-26, Rio, Brazil

    4) SQM2009: Sept. 27-Oct. 2, Buzios, Brazil

    5) STAR Collaboration meeting, Oct. 5-10, Berkeley

    6) DNP 2009, Oct. 13 - 17, Waikoloa

2009.08.27 fixed EEMC geometry: pre-shower sorted shower shapes & eta-meson comparison

Test of corrected EEMC geometry: shower shapes (bug 1618)

Monte-Carlo setup is desribed he

2009.08.25 Test of corrected EEMC geometry: shower shapes

Test of corrected EEMC geometry (bug 1618)

Monte-Carlo setup is desribed here

ROOT-based analysis for the FMS

Speaker : Steven Heppelmann ( PSU )


Talk time : 15:10, Duration : 00:40

Cockcroft-Walton HV system

Speaker : Leonard Eun ( PSU )


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