LHCb Software Week  Agenda  :  24-26 November, 1999

Wednesday 9 a.m. SICb  (160/1-009)

- Status of SICb (ppt)                                                                             A.Jacholkowska
- Production schedule and performance   (ppt)                                        E. van Herwijnen
- SICb production at DRAL   (ppt)                                                       C.Brew
- MAP - Status of the project  (ps)                                                        M.McCubbin
- MAP - Results of using a storage server and experience with Linux (ppt) I. Last
- SICb migration - Separation of simulation and reconstruction parts (ppt) F.Ranjard

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Wednesday 2 p.m. Reconstruction (160/1-009)

This session is devoted to getting the status of the pattern recognition algorithms and prospects for integration with the GAUDI framework.

- Structure of Reconstruction program (ppt)                                        M Cattaneo
- Status of Track Fitting framework    (ps)                                         M. Needam
- Tracking pattern recognition studies  (ppt)                                        R. Hierck
- Status of RICH pattern recognition and integration with GAUDI (ppt)D.Liko/N.Neufeld
- OO design of clustering algorithms for LHCb CALOrimeters(ppt)    V. Breton
- Status of Calorimeter software    (pdf)                                             I. Korolko
- Status of Muon Digitization Software   (ppt)                                      P.Colrain
- Prospects for VELO transition to GAUDI   (ppt)                             D. Steele
- Discussion

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Thursday 9 a.m.  GAUDI   (160/1-009)

Information will be given on the new features contained in the latest release of GAUDI.

- Overview of release             (ppt)           P. Mato
- Update on Event model       (ppt)            P. Binko
- Geometry description model (ppt)           P. Mato on behalf of I. Belyaev
- Detector description persistency (ppt)     R. Chytracek
- N-tuples in Gaudi        (ppt)                   M. Frank
- New JobOptions service     (ppt)            S. Probst
- Analysis examples that use framework (ppt)  G. Corti

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Thursday 2 p.m.  VISUALISATION / EVENT DISPLAY (160/1-009)

- building an event display with GAUDI     (ppt)                                 P.Mato
- a framework for the user interface, menus etc    (ppt)                        G. Barrand
- first attempt at an event display using WIRED    (ppt)                       E. van Herwijnen
- JODA : Java event display and analysis tool for RICH testbeam(ppt) N. Neufeld

Thursday 4 p.m.  SIMULATION (160/1-009)

- plans for building a complete geometry model   (ppt)                             G. Gracia
- prospects for integration of physics event generators with GAUDI (ps)   P.Bartalini
- first experiences with GEANT4 in simulation of calorimeter (pdf)           I.Korolko

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Friday 9 a.m. Computing Model (160/1-009)

- Overview of workplan   (ppt)                                F Harris
- Planning for LHC Computing
        o    in the UK    (ppt)                                     A Halley
        o   in Germany  (ps)                                       M Schmelling
       (NB input from other countries would be welcome too.....)
- Discussion   

Friday 11 a.m. Open discussion (160/1-009)

Time to put forward your questions, concerns, suggestions on any issues e.g.
- OO issues -  learning C++ and OOAD, training needs, design and code review needs, books, ...
- development tools - compilers, debuggers, use of CVS and CMT, ...
- access to information - meetings, web, videoconferencing,...

Please try to let me know your questions in advance so that material can be prepared to answer them.

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Friday 2 p.m. Summary (160/1-009)
Agree list of actions and work programme
Fix dates for software weeks in 2000