Pierre Auger Collaboration Meeting

Malargüe

November 11 - 15, 2002

Registration Opens Sunday evening, November 10, at Convention Center

Payment must be in pesos, please

Registration $30

Celebration Lunch $35

Auger shirt $20

Auger lapel pin $5

Contributions to the City’s

“Fund for the Restoration of Malargüe’s Historic Buildings” can be made at the Registration desk

Monday November 11
Plenary Session ROOM CANELO (RED)
09:00	10:30	Advisory Group Meeting, Office Building Meeting Room.
10:30	11:00	Break
11:00	11:30	Welcome & Status of the Observatory A. Watson, H. Blüemer
11:30	11:45	Management report Paul Mantsch
11:45	14:00	Lunch
14:00	16:30	Task groups discussions
		SDE Workshop, Tiina Suomijarvi organizer ROOM CALDEN (YELLOW & BLACK) Status, Schedule and QA of different SDE sub-tasks.
		FD and FDE Workshop, J. Kleinfeller, P. Privitera, D. Camin, M. Kleifeges organizers VISITOR’S CENTER OFFICE BUILDING 1)AB production and pre-integration test, Michela Chiosso (10’) 2) Corrector Ring final test: pictures of Vega. Determination of the spot size with the german and brazilian rings.  Vitor de Souza (15’) 3) Star tracking for absolute telescope pointing. Viviana Scherini (15’) 4) Drum Calibration. Jeff Brack (15’) 5) Piece to piece calibration. J. Matthews (10’) 6) First test for fluorescence yield measurement at Campinas. Ernesto Kemp (15’)
		SD Workshop, I. Allekotte & P. Mazur org. ROOM CANELO (RED) Specifications for resins and tanks……………………………………………xx’ Cabling and accessories……………………………………………………………………………xx’ Liner manufacturing………………………………………………………………………………………xx’ Assembly issues…………………………………………………………………………………………………xx’ Water plant……………………………………………………………………………………………………………xx’
16:30	17:00	Break
17:00	19:00	Task groups discussions
		Open
		Atmospheric Monitoring Results I, John Matthews org. ROOM CALDEN (YELLOW & BLACK) 1. Horizontal attenuation monitor and weather stations (Brian Fick) 15min = 10min talk + 5min discussion) 2. Aerosol phase function monitor (John Matthews) 15m 3. Cloud monitors (Adelaide) 15m 4. Star Monitor (Paul Sommers) 10m 5. Radiosondes (Hans Klages) 10m 6. Los Leones and Coihueco LIDAR              - Laser system (Mike Roberts)   5m            - Steering mechanism and cover  (Torino) 10m            - DAQ systems (Slovenia)   10m            - Software/Remote control (Torino/Slovenia) 10m 7. VAOD measurements with the LIDARs (Mike Roberts/Miguel Mostafa) 10m
		SD-SDE-COMMUNICATIONS Integration, Ingo Allekotee, Tiina Suomijarvi and Paul Clark organizers ROOM CANELO (RED)
19:00	20:00	Publication Committee Meeting, Danilo Zavrtanik organizer Exact time depends on D.Z.’s arrival to Malargüe. MEETING ROOM, OFFICE BUILDING

Tuesday November 12
Plenary Session ROOM CANELO (RED)
09:00	09:45	Collaboration Board Meeting I, T. Dova & P. Sommers Issues for discussion
09:45	10:30	Analysis: the next stages, Alan Watson and Paolo Privitera organizers
10:30	11:00	Break
11:00	12:30	Analysis: the next stages, continuation. 1)FD Calibration and Atmosphere: summary of Chicago Wkshop. B. Fick (15’) 2)FD Shower Reconstruction: summary of Chicago Wkshop. P. Sommers (15’) 3)Analysis of EA FD data set. Valerio Verzi (10’) 4)Horizontal FD Showers. Pedro Facal (10’) 5)Hybrid reconstruction. Vitor de Souza (10’)
12:30	14:30	Lunch
14:30	15:30	Analysis: the next stages, continuation. Pierre Billoir Toko Yamamoto Maximo Ave (or Enrique Zas).
15:30	16:00	Break
16:00	19:30	Parallel sessions
16:00	18:30	Quality Management Review: SDE, organizer T. Suomijarvi ROOM MAITEN (BLUE) General Statement on Task Quality Results and Objectives Paul Mantsch 10’ Project Quality Management J. Blowers 20’ Discussion on the system development and audit plan 30’ Task Quality Correspondent Yves Ades 15’ Task Leaders Jim Beatty and Tiina Suomijarvi 15’ Discussion on the SDE improvements objectives 30’ Task Leaders Conclusions 30’
16:00	18:00	FD Analysis Tasks, P. Privitera organizer ROOM CALDEN (YELLOW & BLACK) Tasks implementation (30 min) 1) Trigger Studies. S. Petrera (15 min) 2) Shower reconstruction. F. Guarino (10 min) 3) Shower geometry. P. Sommers (10 min) 4) On the electromagnetic energy estimation in FD. V. Verzi (15’) 5) Fluorescence yield treatment in reconstruction. B. Dawson (10 min) 6) Studies on energy deposits in EAS. Markus Risse (15 min) 7) Hybrid simulation. Vitor de Souza (15 min) 8) FD Simulation as Analysis tool. Luis Prado (10 min)
18:00	19:30	FD Online software, H.-J. Mathes organizer ROOM CALDEN (YELLOW & BLACK)
20:30	22:00	Clase Pública: Estado del Observatorio Pierre Auger SALA CANELO (RED)

Wednesday November 13
Plenary Session
08:30	11:00	Advisory Group Meeting, Office Building.
09:00	10:45	EA calibration/monitoring by EA Data, Organizer: K. Arisaka ROOM CANELO (RED) 5min Katsushi Arisaka Introduction 10min Xavier Bertou EA calibration, status and prospects 10min Clementina Medina Muon Data analysis – EA 10min Tohru Ohnuki Calibration by Raw Muon data 10min Arisaka (for Arun) Low gain vs High Gain (TBA) [Conversion from "Muon hump" to "VEM"] 10min Tom Paul/Mccauley GEANT4 at Northeastern 10min Stephane Ranchon GEANT4/SDSim/Laura at LAL 10min Sylvie/Isabelle SDSim at IPNO 10min Alberto Etchegoyen Study at Tandar (TBA) 10min Arisaka (for Slater) GEANT3 at UCLA 10min Discussion
10:45	12:30	Collaboration Board Meeting II, T. Dova & P. Sommers ROOM CANELO (RED) Draft agenda: 1. Financial matters - Construction plan: Cost estimate and budget - Construction funding; common fund and operating fund - Report from Country Representatives about the expected future funding 2. Memberships - Presentation of new groups. - Approval of Institutions with signed Memoranda of Understanding - Mailing lists 3. Project management issues - New task leaders 4. Report from Conference Committee 5. Publication Committee - Report of papers handled - Publication policy 6. ICETOP's request to use Auger tank simulation code 7. Report on European Union activities in which Auger takes part 8. Organization of shifts for observatory operation 9. Organization for next ICRC (Japan) 10. Next meeting Suggested date: week of April 28 11. A.O.B
12:30	14:30	Lunch
Plenary Session ROOM CANELO (RED) Chairman: Alan Watson
14:30	15:30	FD (including buildings), Status & Schedule, J. Kleinfeller & P. Privitera organizers
15:30	16:30	FDE, Status & Schedule, M. Kleifges & D. Camin organizers
16:30	17:00	Break
17:00	17:30	COMMS, Status and Schedule, P. Clark organizer
17:30	18:30	SD (Including Surveying), Status & Schedule, I. Allekotte & Peter Mazur, organizers
18:30	19:30	SDE, Status & Schedule, J. Beatty & T. Suomijarvi, organizers
20:30	22:00	Public Lecture in English: Status of the Pierre Auger Observatory ROOM CANELO (RED)

Thursday November 14
Plenary Session ROOM CANELO (RED) Chairman: Giorgio Matthiae
09:30	10:30	Education, Public Relations and Visitor Center, Status & Schedule, Beatriz Garcia and Greg Snow organizers
10:30	10:45	Address by the CNEA’s President, Professor J. Abriata to the International Collaboration. Presented by Dr. A. Etchegoyen
10:45	11:15	Break
11:15	12:15	Open
12:15	14:00	Lunch
14:00	15:00	Physics Session I or Analysis Task organization discussion, org.
15:00	15:30	Break
15:30	17:30	Task groups discussions
		SD-SDE PMT Testing and assembling, I. Allekotte and K. Arisaka organizers ROOM MAITEN (BLUE)
		DPA discussion VISITOR’S CENTER, OFFICE BUILDING 1. S. Argiro', Software Development, 15 min 2. A. Cordier, Data Management, 20 min 3. S. Sciutto, Internet       15 min 4. S. Dagoret, SDSim developments    20 min 5. S. Dagoret, CMT/CVS experience    10 min 6. V. de Souza, Hybrid Simulation     20 min 7. O. Pisanti, Neutrino Simulation   20 min
		OPEN ROOM NORTE DIRECCIÓN DE TURISMO
17:30	18:30	Data bases for non-event data VISITOR’S CENTER, OFFICE BUILDING What to store?   * Detector description (e.g. coordinates)   * Calibration   * Monitoring   * Atmosphere   * Weather Who provides (and enters) the data?   * Identify sub-systems and responsible (sub-) tasks How is the data available for off-line work?   * Transfer of data   * Access within off-line software and other means
18:30	19:30	FD-CDAS working group meeting, H-J Mathes, A. Letessier-Selvon organizers ROOM MAITEN (BLUE)
18:30	19:30	SD assembly, deployment and readiness review C. Hojvat, chairman ROOM NORTE DIRECCIÓN DE TURISMO
20:30	22:00	Clase Pública: Estado del Observatorio Pierre Auger SALA CANELO (RED)

Friday November 15
09:00	11:00	Technical Board Meeting, Office Building
09:00	10:45	Informal Discussion on Calibration and Monitoring, Katsushi Arisaka organizer ROOM CANELO (RED) Systematic errors of using "VEM" Calibration constant data base What parameters should be recorded How often do we update? Data structure Who maintains? More data taking for better calibration Comparison of "Muon hump", "VEM", and "Inclined Muons". LED data taking Organization of subgroups Group1: Campinas/Orsay/Puedla/Torino Group2: Baril/Tandar/CSU/Northeastern/UCLA Group3: LAL/Cd\F/Rio de Janeiro
10:30	11:00	Break
11:00	13:00	Task groups discussions
		Atmospheric Monitoring Results II, John Matthews organizer ROOM MAITEN (BLUE) 1. Los Leones LIDAR data analysis (Torino,Slovenia,UNM)         20m + 10m (and comments about any hardware changes needed) 2. Los Leones LIDAR test/commisioning schedule. (UNM) 20m + 10m 3. Implementation of atmospheric data base and atmospheric      20m + 10m corrections in the MC and analysis programs. (Mike Roberts, Chihwa Song)
		SDE Workshop, Continuation, Tiina Suomijarvi organizer ROOM CANELO (RED) Status, Schedule and QA of different SDE sub-tasks.
		OPEN ROOM SUR DIRECCIÓN DE TURISMO
13:00		Pierre Auger Detector Celebration Castillos de Pincheira Transportation provided 14:00 Welcome with empanadas and wine Horse riding Trekking to Castillo across de Malargüe River 15:30 Parrillada y asado Entertainment with Argentine música folclórica