Generalities

We expect 40 students with courses in english, ~20 Students from Turkey. There should be 10 groups of 4 students each. The school to be 7 days, long at least half a day free time. The location is identified as Ankara, Turkey. TAEK (turkish atomic energy authority) confirmed to be the hosting institute. The school is planned for 1 .. 7 February 2010. The web page of the school is here

Goals of the school

Introduce the basics of Trigger and Data acquisition
Expose the students to a maximum variety of topics
Show the TDAQ examples from small and large experiments (from Na59 to CMS/ATLAS experiments)

Make sure that the lab exercises are completed and beneficial to the students

People

Advisory committee (incomplete)

Samim Erhan (UCLA)
Sergio Cittolin (ETH)
Gokhan Unel (UCI)
Jorgen Petersen(xCERN)
Markus Joos (CERN)
Livio Mapelli (CERN)
Ali Alacakir (TAEK)
Robert McLaren (CERN)
Niko Neufeld (CERN)

Teachers and tutors - Travel details

Notes:

• People travelling on the ACEOLE budget must contact Evelyne Dho before making arrangements

Draft schedule

Note: Initials after a lecture indicate that a lecturer has been identified

Day0Lectures

The lab exercise proposals

If you want to propose a Lab exercise please add it to the list below using this template

Lab time table (aka "Sudoku")

Notes: G: = ID of the student group T: = Initials of the tutor

Material

In 4-R-7 we have got so far:

• 1 VMEbus crate (Owner: Joos)
• 1 VP317 SBC (Owner: Joos)
• 1 Corbo (Owner: Joos)
• 5 Scintillators with PMTs (Owner: Wilkens)
• 1 HV PSU (Owner: Wilkens)
• 2 HV cables (Owner: Wilkens)
• 1 scope (Owner: Joos)
• 1 PMT (Owner: Wotschack)
• 1 NIM Discriminator (Owner: lab2)
• 1 NIM crate, Pool 96690064 (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 CAEN NIM 145, Pool 49950142 (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 CAEN NIM 2255, Nikhef (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 LeCroy NIM 465, pool 44080325 (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 LRS NIM 429, #13796 (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 LRS NIM 688AL, Pool 44000014 (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 LeCroy NIM 688AL, Pool 44000178 (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 SEN NIM FE 274, Heidelberg (Owner: Unel (via CMS contact))
• 1 CAEN V792 (rented from the El. Pool)
• 2 NIM delay units (EL. Pool)
• 50 USB PicoBoards (bought from Playfull Invention Company, Canada)
• 1 RS232 PicoBoard (from Gokhan)
• 1 HallProbe with 3 GH700 sensors (borrowed as a sample probe from Advanced Design Consulting, Responsible: Dan Savu)
• 2 Power supplies KEITHLEY 2410 (rented from the El. Pool) [for PicoBoard/Hall Probe Exercise]
• 5 PCs, 5 screens, 5 keyboards, 5 mouses, 5 network cables, 1 KVM (to reduce device number), 1 HP switch (from LHCb, responsible: JC Garnier)

Other material

From A. Folley: 1 Scintillator w/o PMT and some optical grease
From J. Wotschack: 6 PMTs (Philips), 3 PMT bases, 1 scintillator (raw material)

Testing of scintillators from ATLAS test beam

-- MarkusJoos - 30 Jun 2009

Meetings/decisions/actions

Actions 20/01/ 2010

What	Who	Status
Put names of TAEK person in charge for lab ex. 7 & 8 in twiki table	Gokhan
Put full information of transportation to and from the airport in Ankara on website	Gokhan
Prepare name tags	Gokhan?
Has the material for the turkish exercises arrived in Ankara? Have the NIM crates and oscilloscopes been provided?	People in Ankara	Ongoing
Flight to Ankara(people flying on 29.1): Departure time and flight number to be confirmed Shuttle from CERN to the airport to be organised	Evelyne	Ongoing
Lab exercises: still not all tutors defined	tutors	Ongoing
Lectures to be uploaded to a protected Web site for review and consistency checking	Lecturers	Ongoing
Someone has to set-up a protected site (can we use Indico?) for the lectures	Gokhan	Done
Shipping of the material: Due to a change in the way of transportation (air) there have been extra costs. It has to be negociated with Boltas how they will be distributed	Evelyne / CERN shipping / Robert / Ling	Ongoing
Flight to Geneva(people flying on 8.2): Departure time will be ~8:00 (to be confirmed by Evelyne): Organize a shuttle for transport to the airport	Local organizers	Ongoing
"Ankara fine dining": Some proposals for places to have dinner and some advice on transportation	Local organizers	Ongoing
Finance Status	Yi Ling	Ongoing
Assembly of application survey, CV from applicants	Erkcan	Done
Server for the Lab	Sergio / Gokhan	Done
Sending of equipment (time, space and cost estimation)	Markus / Gokhan	Done
Information of lectures for prep school on indico page	Erkcan	Done
Fill in Shipping Table	All	Done
Post “Sudoku” on twiki	Gokhan	Done but to be revised once the labs have been reduced to 10+1/2
Arrival and departure time to be filled in in Twiki table	All	Done
Fill in table in twiki dates for lab rehearsals	all person in charge of lab	Done
Put on website the exact location of the school	Gokhan	Done
Registration desk to be set up on Saturday evening	Gokhan	Done
Enquire to TAEK about power cord	Gokhan	Done
Application deadline to be changed on website	Gokhan	Done
Receive Posters	Gokhan	Done
Enquire computer availability from Turkey(possible sponsorship?)	Gokhan	Done
Collection of the list of institutes and universities to send out posters	Gokhan	Done
Another column in lab exercise table to specify availability of equipment: all available OR still missing something	Gokhan	Done.
Replace lecturer information link with information of lab exercise	Gokhan	Done
Sending of Poster	Gokhan	Done
Receive PICOs	Dan	Done
Contact experiments	Gokhan	Done (LHC+compass)
Financial support "To be reviewed case by case" sentence replacement	Erkcan	Done. New text here
Website lecturer information link activation	Gokhan	Link to be removed
Send reminder email (with deadline) of traveling time to Ankara	Gokhan	Extra column added in Twiki table
Table: lab exercises	Markus	Number of exercises has been reduced to 10. Some merging to be done by the respective responsibles. Table may have to be adapted to interdependency of exercise 3 on 2a
Request 15 computers from TAEK	Gokhan	only 5 !
Finalise questionnaire (Q)	All	Done
Pool cost estimation	Markus	Done
Email to Summer School	Gokhan/Robert	Done
Few lines of intro for the Q	Robert/Ozgur	Done
Prepare questionnaire Web Page	Erkcan/Ozgur	Done
Print Posters	TAEK	Done
Accommodation Check	Gokhan	Done
Ask photos from TAEK	Gokhan	Done
Email Summer Students	Robert/Seamus	Done
Request a person from TAEK to come to CERN	Gokhan	Done, OK
Finish indico page	Gokhan	Done

-- YiLingHwong - 20-Jan-2010

Meeting 20.08.09 Markus, Jorgen, Gokhan, Robert (feel free to edit)

• The timescale will be:- Sept: define exercises, Oct: setup, Nov:practice, Dec: Pack and ship, Feb: Test
• Robert will find a room - done! - the room 104 R-B03 should be available from Oct until Dec
• Markus is in charge of the Labs
• Markus will draft a template for the Lab exercises - done.
• Gokhan will set up a mailing list for all concerned
• Gokhan will setup a sharepoint site and an Indico page
• Weekly meetings will be held on Thursdays at 12h00 in resto 1

-- RobertMcLaren - 20 Aug 2009