RAL ATLAS Meetings

The RAL ATLAS Group Meetings are every other Tuesday at 10am (UK time) in Zoom room 648-0709-3559 (passcode 35151305), and usually for those at RAL in CR21 (R1).

Meeting Schedules and Agendas

Specific meeting locations and all contributions can be found in the (protected) ATLAS - RAL PPD indico pages, as follows:

Year 2023:

• 24 January 2023 in CR03

Year 2022:

• 20 December 2022
• 6 December 2022 Robin Middleton, OTP
• 22 November 2022 (Zoom only)
• 8 November 2022
• 25 October 2022
• 11 October 2022
• 27 September 2022
• 13 September 2022
• 1 September 2022 (Thursday). Kelland O'Reilly (Will's summer student), neural networks and parameterized transfer factors
• 16 August 2022
• 19 July 2022 Scott Hurley (graduate placement with Tim), ACTS CPU performance monitoring and optimisation; Mark Ludlow (Jens' summer student), Reading Ancient Scrolls
• 5 July 2022
• 21 June 2022
• 7 June 2022
• 24 May 2022
• 10 May 2022 Eva Guilloton, Large Radius Tracking for Trigger; Robin Middleton, OTP
• 26 April 2022 in CR11 in R3.
• 12 April 2022
• 29 March 2022 in CR11 in R3.
• 15 March 2022 Gareth Bird, Commissioning of L1Calo phase I upgrade at ATLAS: development and testing of eFEX and FTM modules
• 28 February 2022
• 1 February 2022
• 18 January 2022 Zoom only. Steve McMahon, Review of priorities for the year
• 11 January 2022 Zoom only.

Year 2021:

• 7 December 2021
• 26 October 2021
• 12 October 2021 on Zoom and CR21.
• 28 September 2021 on Zoom and CR11 in R3.
• 14 September 2021 on Zoom and CR21.
• 17 August 2021 Summer Student Talks
• 20 July 2021
• 6 July 2021 Will Buttinger, Stats project
• 22 June 2021 Bill Murray, H+->WA status
• 8 June 2021
• 25th May 2021 followed by paper reading discussion
• 11th May 2021
• 27th April 2021
• 13th April 2021
• 30th March 2021
• 16th March 2021
• 2nd March 2021
• 16th February 2021 CB voting, round 2
• 2nd February 2021
• 19 January 2021

Year 2020:

• 8 December 2020 chaired by Robin Middleton
• 24 November 2020
• 27 October 2020
• 13 October 2020
• 29 September 2020
• 15 September 2020
• 2 September 2020 (Wednesday 10am)
• 18 August 2020
• 4 August 2020 Large Radius Tracking for the HLT - Emir Muhammad
• 21 July 2020
• 7 July 2020
• 23 June 2020 (this and subsequent meetings in our new regular Zoom room)
• 9 June 2020 (on Zoom)
• 26 May 2020 (on Zoom)
• 12 May 2020 (on Zoom)
• 27 April 2020 News and update from L1Calo (on Zoom)
• 14 April 2020 (on Zoom)
• 31 March 2020 Steve McMahon, Introduction; group reports (on Zoom)
  • previous meetings were usually in CR21 (R1) at RAL and Vidyo "room"
• 17 March 2020 Steve McMahon, Tracker Group status; Stephen Haywood, SHE Code 32
• 3 March 2020 Report from ATLAS Week
• 18 February 2020 Dmitry Emeliyanov, HLT News; Gary Zhang, SC29 Ionising Radiation
• 21 January 2020 Feedback from ATLAS UK in Cambridge. Bruce Gallop, SHE Code 17.
• 7 January 2020 Plans for 2020 (all)

Year 2019:

• 17 December 2019 Quiz, SC01, R115, FTM, and look back at 2019.
• 26 November 2019 Ben Smart, SHE Code 6: Risk Management; Status of HLT
• 12 November 2019 Dmitry Emeliyanov, SHE Code 5: Incident Reporting and Investigation
• 29 October 2019 Group reports
• 15 October 2019 Stephen Haywood, Summary from Berlin
• 17 September 2019 Ben Smart, ITk (Pix) Status @ RAL
• 3 September 2019 Group reports
• 20 August 2019 Summer student talks
• 5 August 2019 Summer student talks
• 23 July 2019 Robin Middleton, Status report on L1Calo
• 9 July 2019 Group reports
• 25 June 2019 in CR25, R1. Stephen Haywood, ATLAS Week news
• 11 June 2019 Decisions for next ATLAS Week
• 28 May 2019 Monika Wielers, Physics progress
• 30 April 2019 in CR25, R1. Steve McMahon, ITk @ RAL Status
• 16 April 2019
• 19 March 2019 John Matheson, Pixel Endcap
• 19 February 2019 Summary of ATLAS Week
• 5 February 2019 Feb Elections; Bc*
• 22 January 2019 Group reports
• 8 January 2019 QMUL Summary

Year 2018:

• 11 December 2018 Monika Wielers, RAL Analysis activities
• 27 November 2018
• 13 November 2018 Group reports
• 30 October 2018 John Baines, HLT Status
• 16 October 2018 News from ATLAS Week; Craig Sawyer, ITk & ITk Modules
• 2 October 2018 Group reports
• 18 September 2018 Steve McMahon et al, ITk Status
• 4 September 2018
• 7 August 2018 Student presentations
• 24 July 2018 Group reports, L1 Calo update
• 10 July 2018
• 12 June 2018 Monika Wielers, News on PPD Physics Analysis
• 29 May 2018 Group reports
• 17 April 2018 Stewart Martin-Haugh, Status of PPD HLT work
• 3 April 2018 Group reports
• 20 March 2018 Bill Murray, HGTD
• 5 March 2018 Stephen Haywood, Summary of ATLAS Week, Group reports
• 20 February 2018
• 30 January 2018 in CR11, R3
• 16 January 2018 Feedback from Birmingham

Year 2017:

• 5 December 2017 Group reports, Feedback from Birmingham and STFC Leadership meetings
• 21 November 2017
• 7 November 2017 Group reports
• 24 October 2017 9am, Stephen Haywood, Feedback from ATLAS Week
• 26 September 2017 Bruce Barnett, L1Calo
• 12 September 2017 Group reports, travel plans, Eclipse
• 15 August 2017 Group reports, Student presentations, Reading ancient scrolls
• 1 August 2017
• 18 July 2017 Group reports
• 4 July 2017 Stephen Haywood, Report from ATLAS Week, Monika Wielers, group physics activities
• 23 May 2017 Rebecca Fair, Track Finding with GPUs, Group reports
• 9 May 2017 Institutional Commitments
• 25 April 2017 Group reports
• 11 April 2017 Stewart Martin-Haugh, HLT
• 14 March 2017 News from ATLAS Week, OTP and travel, Dave Sankey, Phase 2 Triggering
• 14 February 2017 Graham Lee, ITk Vertexing
• 17 January 2017 Feedback from Liverpool ATLAS UK meeting

Year 2016:

• 6 December 2016 Craig Sawyer, Tracking
• 22 November 2016 Group reports
• 8 November 2016 Monika Wielers, Upgrade ITk Studies
• 25 October 2016 Group reports, Feedback from ATLAS Week and ECFA Workshop
• 11 October 2016 at 9:30am. Julie Kirk, HLT and FTK
• 13 September 2016 Dave Sankey, L1 Trigger
• 16 August 2016 Steve McMahon, Interaction with Oxford on ITk, Student Reports (Ghazal, Stuart, Sam, Andrew, Ambose)
• 2 August 2016 Group reports, Student Reports (Alex & Jonathan)
• 5 July 2016 Group reports, Feedback from ATLAS Week
• 21 June 2016 CB matters
• 24 May 2016
• 10 May 2016
• 26 April 2016
• 12 April 2016
• 29 March 2016
• 15 March 2016
• 1 March 2016 Feedback from ATLAS Week
• 16 February 2016
• 2 February 2016
• 19 January 2016 Summary from ATLAS-UK Week

Year 2015:

• 8 December 2015 Discussion of ATLAS results
• 24 November 2015
• 10 November 2015
• 27 October 2015
• 13 October 2015
• 29 September 2015 Jens Dopke, Pixel Operations, Monika Wielers, Scoping Document
• 15 September 2015
• 18 August 2015
• 21 July 20145
• 7 July 2015 Craig Sawyer, ITk tooling for modules
• 23 June 2015
• 9 June 2015
• 26 May 2015
• 12 May 2015 Monika Wielers, physics plans
• 28 April 2015
• 14 April 2015
• 17 March 2015 13:30 in CR12. Dave Sankey, L1Calo
• 3 March 2015
• 17 February 2015
• 3 February 2015 - Stephen Haywood, Feedback from Brighton ATLAS UK, Tim Adye, Higgs combinations

Year 2014:

• 9 December 2014 - Lab 12 opening
• 25 November 2014
• 11 November 2014
• 28 October 2014
• 14 October 2014
• 30 September 2014
• 16 September 2014
• 2 September 2014 - summer student project reports
• 19 August 2014 - summer student project reports
• 5 August 2014 - Norman Gee, TDAQ in Copenhagen; summer student project reports
• 22 July 2014 - summer student project reports
• 8 July 2014
• 24 June 2014 - 9:30am, followed by paper discussion
• 11 June 2014
• 27 May 2014
• 13 May 2014
• 29 April 2014 - Monika Wielers, Group analysis activities; L1Calo status
• 15 April 2014
• 1 April 2014 - Monika Wielers, Same-sign dileptons
• 18 March 2014
• 18 February 2014 - Monika Wielers, Exotics in Israel
• 4 February 2014 - Stephen Haywood, notes from Edinburgh; John Baines HLT status; Norman Mccubbin, Heavy Ions

Year 2013:

• 10 December 2013 - Steve McMahon, IBL
• 26 November 2013 - Stephen Haywood, Report from STFC Leadership Conference
• 12 November 2013 - Stephen Haywood, News from Marrakesh
• 1 October 2013
• 17 September 2013 - ATLAS posters
• 3 September 2013 - Tom Farrell, DC-DC stave testing; Thomas Smith, FTK b-jets
• 6 August 2013
• 23 July 2013 - Peter Phillips, ITK Upgrade
• 25 June 2013
• 11 June 2013 - STFC Special Measures
• 28 May 2013
• 30 April 2013 - Declan Millar, SCT Leakage currents
• 16 April 2013 - Bill Murray, Higgs pT; Weiming Qian, L1Calo Upgrade
• 2 April 2013
• 19 March 2013 - Bruce Barnett, L1Calo operations
• 19 February 2013 - Julie Kirk, HLT status
• 5 February 2013
• 22 January 2013 - Steve McMahon, SCT Status

Year 2012:

• 11 December 2012 - Rhys Owen, L1Calo
• 27 November 2012
• 13 November 2012 - Dmitry Emeliyanov, Pixel clusterization on GPUs
• 30 October 2012
• 16 October 2012 - Robin Middleton, L1 Calo Upgrade status
• 2 October 2012
• 4 September 2012 - Bill Murray, All you ever wanted to know about Statistics
• 21 August 2012 - Matthew Robson, HLT, Tom Hadavizadeh, L1Calo π⁰ Veto
• 7 August 2012 - Steve McMahon, Status of SCT
• 24 July 2012
• 10 July 2012 - Peter Phillips, Status of Tracker Upg
• 26 June 2012
• 12 June 2012 - Norman Gee & Robin Middleton, Status of L1Calo Ops
• 29 May 2012
• 15 May 2012 - John Baines, Status of HLT
• 1 May 2012
• 17 April 2012
• 3 April 2012 - Bill Murray, H→γγ toys
• 20 March 2012 - Tim Adye, SM Higgs Combination news
• 21 February 2012
• 7 February 2012 - Bill Murray, Gamma+Z
• 24 January 2012
• 10 January 2012

Year 2011:

• 13 December 2011 - Will Dearnaley, B->J/psi phi, Tim Adye, Higgs combination news
• 21 November 2011
• 1 November 2011
• 18 October 2011 - Stephen Haywood, ATLAS Week Summary
• 4 October 2011 - Bill Murray, gamma-b-b
• 20 September 2011 - Upgrade plans
• 13 September 2011 - Jacob Blamey, L1 Calo algorithms for upgrade
• 23 August 2011 - Dmitry Emeliyanov, GPUs for the HLT
• 9 August 2011
• 26 July 2011
• 12 July 2011
• 28 June 2011
• 14 June 2011 - MPI
• 31 May 2011 - Authorship
• 17 May 2011
• 3 May 2011 - Bill Murray, Higgs
• 19 April 2011 - Bill Scott, Wjj
• 5 April 2011 - Jan Strube, Multi-parton interactions
• 22 March 2011
• 8 March 2011
• 22 February 2011
• 8 February 2011
• 25 January 2011
• 11 January 2011

Year 2010:

• 14 December 2010 - Bill Scott, W+Jets paper
• 30 November 2010 - Bill Murray, Heavy Ions
• 16 November 2010 - Jan Strube, multi-parton interactions
• 2 November 2010 - Bill Murray, Higgs in ATLAS with 2011 data; Adam Stewart, Jet correlations
• 19 October 2010 - Alastair Dewhurst, B-Physics
• 5 October 2010
• 21 September 2010
• 16 September 2010 - Special meeting at 10:00, Naomi Nickerson and Zhenzhen Ma, Multi-parton Interactions
• 7 September 2010 - Rudi Apolle, Data-driven QCD background determination for Weν analyses
• 24 Aug 2010 - Bill Scott, Top Background Studies
• 10 Aug 2010 - Tim Adye, Multi-parton Interactions
• 27 July 2010
• 13 July 2010 - Shifts
• 29 June 2010
• 15 June 2010
• 1 June 2010 - Ellie Davies, Review of W/Z-->leptons note
• 18 May 2010 - Jan Strube, Gamma + jets and Bill Scott, Review of Phi-Note
• 4 May 2010 - Monika Wielers, Trigger Performance Previous meetings were held at 10:30am:
• 20 April 2010 - Bill Murray, Performance Paper; Jan Strube, Alastair Dewhurst, analysis news
• 6 April 2010
• 26 March 2010 - (note this is 3pm on Friday) Stephen Haywood, ATLAS Start-up
• 9 March 2010 - Bill Murray, Review of the Performance Paper
• 26 February 2010 - (note this is 2pm on Friday)
• 9 February 2010 - John Baines, ID trigger Conf Note; James Murray, MadGraph bb gamma
• 26 January 2010 - Jan Strube, Overview of the ATLAS Distributed Analysis Tutorial in Edinburgh
• 12 January 2010 - Discussion of our PhD Student proposals
• 5 January 2010 - ATLAS RAL Physics discussion day

Year 2009:

• 15 December 2009
• 1 December 2009 - Norman Gee, ATLAS Upgrade
• 17 November 2009 - Bill Murray, SCT module geometry with Cosmics
• 3 November 2009 - Stephen Haywood, ATLAS Organisation
• 20 October 2009 - Feedback from Barcelona ATLAS Week
• 6 October 2009 - Marc Weber, ATLAS Tracker Upgrade
  Previous meetings were held on a three-weekly (and for a time weekly) schedule at 11am:
• 22 September 2009
• 8 September 2009 - Kevin Tilley, Jet Energy Scales
• 18 August 2009 - Rudi Apolle, Update on data-driven electron shower shape extraction for the HLT
• 21 July 2009 - Monika Wielers, New electron and photon identification selections (trigger and offline)
• 30 June 2009 - Julie Kirk, Trigger studies for direct and indirect Jpsimumu
• 9 June 2009 - Tim Adye, Inner Detector Tracking Validation
• 26 May 2009 - Ben Samways, A data-driven method for W boson cross-section measurements in the W->en channel
• 19 May 2009 - Stephen Burke, Distributing and accessing ATLAS data
• 28 April 2009 - discussion of PPD ATLAS computing facilities; and Bill Murray, Silicon tracker efficiency
• 7 April 2009 - Carly Mattravers, Missing ET studies
• 17 March 2009 - Bill Murray, Reducing Dimensionality Dn->D1
• 24 February 2009 - Monika Wielers, Summary of Beatenberg Workshop on Trigger
• 3 February 2009 - Michael Nash, triggering fully hadronic ttH events
• 13 January 2009 - Ben Samways, Triggering on Cosmics

Year 2008:

• 9 December 2008 - Stephen Haywood, Tracking Performance
• 25 November 2008 - studentships
• 11 November 2008 - it was decided to have these meetings on a three-weekly basis
• 4 November 2008 - discussion (no slides)
• 28 October 2008 - discussion (no slides)
• 21 October 2008 - Ellie Davies, HLT electron selection and optimisation
• 14 October 2008 - discussion (no slides)
• 7 October 2008 - Jan Strube, DPD production
• 30 September 2008 - discussion (no slides)
• 23 September 2008 - discussion (no slides)
• 16 September 2008 - discussion (no slides)

Earlier meetings chaired by Bill Murray (June 2006 to August 2008).

Vidyo Connection

Since 31 March 2020, these have been replaced by Zoom.

• Vidyo Meeting Details:
  • Room name: RAL_ATLAS_group_two-weekly_meeting
  • Extension: 109222327
  • Meeting PIN: 1957
  • Moderator: Tim ADYE
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