This is the TWIKI page of ISOTDAQ2019 in London

2/3 April – 11/12 April 2019

The main purpose of this Twiki is to share information relevant for the organization of the school

NOTE: The school will be 1 day longer than in Vienna. We will have one additional lab and two additional lectures

Related Web sites

School home page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/739424/overview

SharePoint site: https://espace2013.cern.ch/isotdaq-sharepoint

Key dates

1 August (or 1 September): start of publicity
1 December: End of application period (if needed: 1 January)
1 January: Start of evaluation period
1 February: Notification of the students (at the latest)
2/3 April: Start of the school

Action items

Item	target date	to be done by	Done	Remarks
Establish a financial plan	1 July	Local organizers	in progress	Reviewing final numbers from RHUL conferencing
Fix the final date and duration of the school	1 August	Local organizers	done	School will be one day longer than in 2018 - RHUL conferencing have confirmed availability of rooms.
Update the new e-group "isotdaq-staff@cern.ch"	1 August	Markus	partially	Vienna colleagues have been removed
Create a Web site	1 August	Local organizers	done	Includes a tentative schedule - indico page created
Create a poster	1 August	Local organizers	done	Copy of Vienna poster received
Look for sponsors	-	COC, LOC, volunteers	in progress	LOC investigating through UK funding agency (STFC) and RHUL physics
Open CERN conference account	1 August	BvH	done	-
Organize Kick-Off meeting	1 July	BvH	done	-
Collect channels for making publicity	1 August	All	done	-
Start publicity campaign	1 August	All	done	1 September will also be OK
Prepare repo for labs	-	BvH	done
Confirm the availability of the lecturers and tutors	1 December	BvH	done	-
Look for new tutors to fill the holes	1 December	COC	done	-
Look for new lecturers to fill the holes	1 December	COC	done	-
Organize training of new tutors	1 December	COC	ongoing	-
Set up the exercises by using local material	15 December	All	no	experienced tutors to provide help
Shipping of material to London	1 March	COC	no	What will be shipped depends on the status of the locally set up exercises

Issues for later

Think about the home-work (C programming) and how to make sure that all students do it
Decide on policy for funding the travel of tutors and lecturers

Teachers and tutors - Availability for ISOTDAQ2019

Name	Availability 2019	Arrival and departure dates	Funding
Alessandro Marchioro (CERN)	YES	10.4. - 11.4.	CERN
Markus Joos (CERN /ATLAS)	YES	31.3. - 13.4.	CERN
Enrico Pasqualucci (INFN/ATLAS)	YES	3.4 - 12.4	INFN
Francesca Pastore (RHUL/ ATLAS)	YES	1.4 - 12.4	RHUL
Hannes Sakulin (CERN/CMS)	YES	3.4. - 12.4.	CERN
Andrea Negri (INFN/ATLAS)	YES	2/4 to 8/4	INFN
Kostas Kordas	YES	4/4 to 12/4	A.U.Thessaloniki & ISOTDAQ
Mauricio Feo	YES	2/4 - 12/4	NIKHEF & ISOTDAQ
Roberto Ferrari	YES	3/4 - 12/4	INFN
Manoel Barros Marin	YES	2/4 - 12/4	CERN & ISOTDAQ
Gokhan Unel	YES	3 - 6 April	UCI
Martin Purschke	YES	3-9 April	ISOTDAQ & BNL
Serguei Kolos	YES	8-11 April	ISOTDAQ & UCI
Paolo Durante	YES	3/4 - 8/4	CERN
Fabrice Le Goff	YES	02/04 - 05/04	CERN
Alessandro Thea (RAL/CMS)	YES	02/04 - 05/04	RAL
Barthélémy von Haller	YES	2/4 to 6/4	CERN
Petr Zejdl	YES	3/4 - 9/4	CERN
Tommaso Colombo	YES	8/4 - 12/4	CERN
Gianluca Lamanna	YES	2/4 - 12/4	INFN & ISOTDAQ
Dominique Gigi	YES	7/4 to 12/4	CERN
Sophie Baron	YES	7/4 to 8/4	CERN
Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler	YES	5/4 to 10/4	DESY
Adam Abed Abud	YES	02/04 - 12/04	CERN
Gary Boorman	YES	4/4 to 12/4	CERN
Andrew Rose	YES	4/4 to 4/4	Imperial College
Adriaan Rijllart	YES	3/4 to 5/4	CERN
Danilo Cicalese	YES	2/4 - 12/4	CERN
Wojciech Brylinski	YES	2/4 - 12/4	ISOTDAQ
Marc Dobson	YES	3/4 - 8/4	CERN
Cristovao Beirao	YES	2/4 - 13/4	CERN & ISOTDAQ
Vincenzo Izzo (INFN/ATLAS)	YES	2/4 - 12/4	INFN
Giovanna Lehmann Miotto	YES	10/4 - 11/4	CERN
Johannes Martin Wuthrich	YES	2/4 - 12/4	ETHZ & ISOTDAQ
Piotr Wysocki	YES	10/4-12/4	INTEL

Overview of lectures

Number	Duration	Day	Title (Vienna)	confirmed or likely Lecturer (London)
1	60	TBD	Introduction to data acquisition	Andrea Negri
2	60	TBD	Networking for data acquisition systems	Fabrice Le Goff
3	60	TBD	Introduction to VME bus	Markus Joos
4	60	TBD	Introduction to trigger	Alessandro Thea
5	60	TBD	Trigger hardware	Andrew Rose
6	60	TBD	Microcontrollers	Mauricio Feo
7	60	TBD	PCIexpress	Paolo Durante
8	60	TBD	Introduction to FPGAs	Hannes Sakulin
9	60	TBD	Modular electronics	Markus Joos
10	60	TBD	DAQ hardware	Vincenzo Izzo
11	60	TBD	LabVIEW	Gary Boorman
12	60	TBD	Introduction to detector readout	Gokhan Unel
13	60	TBD	Timing for DAQ	Sophie Baron
14	60	TBD	Programming for today's physicist and engineers	Alessandro Thea
15	60	TBD	TDAQ design: from test beam to medium size experiment	Roberto Ferrari
16	60	TBD	DAQ software	Enrico Pasqualucci
17	60	TBD	Optical links	Paolo Durante
18	60	TBD	A scalable, portable DAQ system design	Martin Purschke
19	60	TBD	An Introduction to medical imaging devices	Martin Purschke
20	120	TBD	Microelectronic technologies for HEP Instrumentation	Alessandro Marchioro
21	60	TBD	GPU in HEP: online high quality trigger processing	Gianluca Lamanna
22	60	TBD	Design and implementation of a monitoring system	Serguei Kolos
23	60	TBD	Intelligent triggering: pattern recognition with Associative Memories and other tools	Kostas Kordas
24	60	TBD	The Trigger and DAQ system of the EUDET-type beam telescopes	Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler
25	60	TBD	Continuous DAQ systems (DUNE, protoDUNE)	Giovanna Lehmann-Miotto
26	60	TBD	Advanced FPGA programming	Manoel Barros Marin
27	60	TBD	T/DAQ for the LHC experiments and upgrades	Francesca Pastore
28	60	TBD	What LHC TDAQ can learn from Facebook	Manos Karpathiotakis
29	60	TBD	Strategies on storage from Intel	Piotr Wysocki

Candidate lectures and lecturers

Title / subject of the lecture	Potential speaker	Additional information
Waveform Digitizing and Signal Processing	Stefan Ritt, PSI - Gary Eric Boorman also proposed to do it (2019)	not available this year
TBD	Jacopo Pinzino	ISOTDAQ 2012
Machine learning with FPGAs	Sioni Paris Summers	expert FPGA, from CMS L1, Imperial College
TBD	Andrew Rose (Imperial)	CMS L1 (Particle Flow in FPGA)
Threaded programming and trigger/reco software	Stuart Martin-Haugh (RAL)	ATLAS Trigger Core Software Co-Convener
Project management	Will ?

General Information for Visitors

Visa

All attendees are advised to check if they will require a Visa to enter the United Kingdom. For official confirmation, please consult the UK government website:

https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

If you will need a visa, and have not already done so, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can provide you with an invitation letter.

Passport Expiry

Due to the ongoing political uncertainty regarding the UK's departure from the European Union, we advise anyone travelling to the school to ensure that their passport will be valid for at least two months after arrival in the country. Should your passport expire before then, we recommend you consult with your national passport authority and renew your passport if recommended to do so.

Payment (Tutors and lecturers)

After a review of costs the accommodation fee will be 100 CHF per night for all staff.

The amount has to be transferred to the following CERN-held bank account:

Bank: UBS SA - GENEVE
IBAN: CH66 0024 0240 FP10 0541 3
SWIFT: UBSWCHZH80A
Account holder: CERN-CONFERENCES

IMPORTANT: Please be sure to clearly indicate the name of the conference (ISOTDAQ 2019) and the budget code (34935) as the reason for the payment. Otherwise your payment may not be recognized.

Note on bank SWIFT code - it has been pointed out that the SWIFT code to be used for the payment is registered as 'UBS AG-Zurich' rather than 'UBS AG-Geneve'. This is expected and doesn't imply any problem with the transfer.

Some banks have requested the address of the payment recipient in order to process payment of the school fee. Should this be needed, the address to use is that of CERN itself:

CERN
Esplanade des Particules 1
1217 Meyrin
Switzerland

Should it prove useful, it is also possible to pay the conference fee with a CERN inter-departmental transfer (i.e. a TID). To do this please:

use the same budget code as before, 34935
indicate 'ISOTDAQ 2019’ as a reference in the transfer
add Barthelemy Von Haller as creditor

Arrival Times on Campus

Please note, the on-campus accommodation at RHUL will be available for you to check in to from 4pm (UK time) on the day of your arrival. Check-in will be open until 10pm. If you need to arrive outside of this time window please let us know as soon as possible so that alternative arrangements can be made.

Accessibility and Medical Requirements

In order to ensure that we provide any necessary support, please let us know if you have any disability which requires accessibility assistance or adaptation to lecture or teaching areas. Please also inform us if you have any medical requirements (e.g. storage of medication) where we can provide assistance.

Special Dietary Requirements

Please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements (including if you are vegetarian of vegan) or if you have any allergies or food intolerance.

Status of the labs

Availability of tutors and equipment

Lab	CERN responsible	Description	Confirmed / Likely Tutors 2017	Equipment to be provided by RHUL	Lab Book
1	Joos	VMEbus programming	Joos	1 monitor (with DVI-I cable), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB)	TBD
2	Joos	NIM	Pastore, Negri, Izzo	One digital oscilloscope and one function generator. One voltmeter and a tiny screw driver	TBD
3	Joos	NIM & scintillator	Ferrari, Kordas	One digital oscilloscope, one voltmeter, one tiny screw driver	TBD
4	Joos	Muon DAQ	Pasqualucci, Beirao	1 monitor (with DVI-I cable), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB)	TBD
5	Sakulin	FPGA	Gigi / Zejdl	1 monitor (VGA), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB)	TBD
6	Sakulin	MicroTCA	Sakulin / Dobson	1 monitor (VGA), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB)	TBD
7	Durante	LabView	Boorman, Rijllart	1 monitor (VGA or HDMI (not yet defined)), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB), 1 Power Cable	TBD
8	Durante	ADCs	Barros Marin	One digital oscilloscope (possibly high-end),1 monitor (VGA or HDMI (not yet defined)), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB)	TBD
9	von Haller	Networking	Le Goff, Abed Abud	1 monitor with VGA cable (and power), 1 keyboard, 1 mouse, 4 power chords (for our computers and switch)	Done (Gitlab)
10	Sakulin	Microcontroller	Feo, von Haller	1 PC with internet access (+FullHD screen, keyboard, mouse), 1 generic power supply with banana plugs (up to 12V/3A), 1 support stand + 2 clamps similar to the attached image.	TBD
11	Durante	Storage systems	Durante, Colombo	1 monitor (VGA), 1 keyboard (USB) and one mouse (USB) for the server we'll ship, plus one desktop so more than one student can do the exercise in parallel	TBD
12	von Haller	Control systems	Brylinski, Cicalese	2 Desktop PCs running CC7 connected to the network, 2 monitors (with DVI cable), 2 keyboards (USB) and two mouse (USB)	TBD
13	Durante	SoC FPGA	Wuthrich	2 monitors (VGA), 2 keyboards (USB), 2 mouses (USB)	TBD
14	von Haller	GPU	Lamanna	mouse, keyboard and a large monitor	TBD
Secret	Joos	Beam Telescopes	Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler	1 scope (4 channels); lab PSUs for 2 (6V@<1A, 8V@<2A); 1 function generator	TBD

General: 20-30 power cords

GitLab repository for the labs

Candidate labs

Title / subject of the lap	Proposed by	Additional information
beam telescope	Hendrik Jansen (DESY)	proposal from 2015. Was not in the program of Vienna

Candidate tutors

Name	Background	Interested in exercise	financial status
Evgenia Voulgari	ISOTDAQ2015	2	UNCLEAR
Marcelo Vicente	ISOTDAQ2015	FPGA (ex13)	UNCLEAR
Ioannis Xiotidis	ISOTDAQ2016	2 (or 5)	UNCLEAR
Wes Gohn	Tutor in Budapest	1,2,3 and 6	TBD
Suerfu Burkhant<suerfu64@gmail.com>	ISOTDAQ 2017	5, 10 and others	unclear
Mandakini Ravindra Patil	ISOTDAQ 2011	TBD	Travel: institute. Hotel and Subsistence: ISOTDAQ
Jacopo Pinzino	ISOTDAQ 2012	5, 14 (or others)	had volunteered in 2019 for the SoC lab but came too late. Contact him for the 2020 edition
Sioni Paris Summers	CMS L1, FPGA expert	any, interest in FPGA and MC	no travel (London)