ACAT2013

16 May 2013, 08:00 → 21 May 2013, 23:30 Asia/Shanghai

The 15th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT2013) is to be hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing on May 16 – 21, 2013.

Conference Photo acat2013.jpg

Thursday, 16 May

09:00 → 12:40 Plenary

Conveners: Dr Denis Perret-Gallix (LAPP/IN2P3-CNRS) , Prof. Jianxiong Wang (Theory Group, IHEP)

09:00 Opening

Speaker: Prof. Hesheng CHEN (IHEP,Beijing)

09:10 Lessons learned from the Kei computer project

Speaker: Prof. Yoshio Oyanagi (Kobe University)

Slides ACAT2013.ppt

09:55 Data-intensive High Performance Computing and Analysis in Solid Earth Sciences

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Pierre Vilotte (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS - UMR7154))

Slides ACAT-2013-Vilotte.pdf

10:40 Conference Photo, Coffee Break

11:10 "Multiloop QCD: 33 years of continuous development"

Speaker: Dr Konstantin Chetyrkin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Slides acat13.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:50 Track 1

Conveners: Prof. David Britton (University of Glasgow) , Prof. Yoshio Oyanagi (Kobe University)

14:00 Performance quality monitoring system(PQM) for the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment

Speaker: Yingbiao Liu (IHEP)

Slides ACAT2013_PQM.pdf

14:25 A concurrent vector-based steering framework for particle transport

Speaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Slides acat13.pdf

14:50 ALICE expert system

Speaker: Mr Costin Ionita (CERN)

Slides ALICE_expert_system.pptx

15:15 Skipped

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 CMS Use of a Data Federation

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides elmer-acat-data-federation.pdf

16:35 Usage of the CMS Higher Level Trigger Farm as a Cloud Resource

Speaker: Dr David Colling (Imperial College)

Slides HLT_ACAT_not_corrupt.pptx

17:00 Experience, Use, and Performance Measurement of the Hadoop File System in a Typical Nuclear Physics Analysis Workflows

Speaker: Mr Evan Sangaline (UC Davis)

Slides Use_of_Hadoop_File_System_for_Nuclear_Physics.pdf

17:25 Fast event generation system using GPU

Speaker: Prof. Junichi Kanzaki (KEK)

Slides kanzaki_evgen_on_gpu.pdf

14:00 → 17:50 Track 2

Convener: Dr Weidong Li (IHEP)

14:00 A Neural-Network Clusterisation Algorithm for the ATLAS Silicon Pixel Detector

Speaker: Dr Katharine Leney (University of the Witwatersrand)

Slides ACATTalk.pdf

14:25 The Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker

Speaker: Dr Tapio LAMPÉN (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Slides tlampen_acat13.pdf

14:50 Maximum likelihood reconstruction in the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment

Speaker: Dongmei Xia (IHEP)

Slides Maximum_likelihood_reconstrunction_for_the_Daya_Bay_experiment_ACAT2013.pdf

15:15 Sophisticated high-resolution deconvolution algorithms for data processing in nuclear spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr Vladislav Matoušek (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Slides Matousek_ACAT2013.ppt

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 Supernova Trigger in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

Speaker: Mr Hanyu Wei (Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University)

Slides SNEWSDAYABAYACAT2013.pdf

16:35 skipped

17:00 Advanced Analysis Techniques in the Search for Production of a Higgs Boson in Association with Top Quarks at CMS

Speaker: Jason Slaunwhite (CMS / Notre Dame)

Slides Slaunwhite_ACAT.pdf

17:25 Data Analysis of Tracks of Heavy Ion Particles in Timepix Detectors

Speaker: Mr Son Hoang (University of Houston)

Slides ACAT-2013.pdf

14:00 → 17:50 Track 3

Conveners: Dr Andrej Arbuzov (JINR, Dubna, Russia) , Dr Daniel Maître (IPPP Durham)

14:00 Automated One-loop Computation in Quarkonium Process within NRQCD Framework

Speaker: Mr Feng Feng (CHEP)

Slides FFeng.pdf

14:25 Contraction of 1-loop 5-point tensor Feynman integrals

Speaker: Dr Tord Riemann (DESY)

Slides riemann-acat-2013.pdf

14:50 Generators BCVEGPY and GENXICC for doubly heavy mesons and baryons

Speaker: Prof. Xing-Gang Wu (China Democratic League)

Slides BCVEGPY_GENXICC_ACAT2013.pdf

15:15 SANC system and its applications for LHC

Speaker: Dr Renat Sadykov (JINR, Dubna, Russia)

Slides sadykov_acat2013.pdf

15:40 Coeff Break

16:10 New developments in FeynRules

Speaker: Mr Adam Alloul (IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides acat2013.pdf

16:35 Three-loop beta-functions and anomalous dimensions in the SM

Speaker: Dr Alexander Bednyakov (JINR)

Slides ACAT2013_bednya.pdf

17:00 Development of an object oriented lattice QCD code ``Bridge++''

Speaker: Dr Satoru Ueda (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK)

Slides ACAT2013.pdf

17:25 Recent developments on FORM

Speaker: Dr Takahiro Ueda (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides FORM41-ACAT2013.pdf

Friday, 17 May

09:00 → 12:30 Plenary

Conveners: Axel Naumann (CERN) , Prof. Yoshimitsu SHIMIZU (KEK)

09:00 From Black Holes to Cosmology : The Universe in the Computer

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Pierre LUMINET (Observatoire de Paris - CNRS)

Slides universe-computer-pekin1.pdf

09:45 Large-Scale Application on TianHe-1A and HPC in China

Speaker: Dr Xiangfei Meng (NSCC-TJ, China)

Slides NSCC-TJ_&_TH-1A.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Solution of Loop Integrals in Quantum Field Theory using Modern Summation Methods

Speaker: Dr Carsten Schneider (RISC, J. Kepler University, Linz)

Slides ACAT13.pdf

11:45 Analitical calculation of heavy quarkonia production processes in computer

Speaker: Dr Victor Braguta (IHEP)

Slides report.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:50 Track 1

Conveners: Prof. David Britton (University of Glasgow) , Dr Jerome Lauret (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:00 GPU for Real Time processing in HEP trigger systems

Speaker: Dr Piero Vicini (INFN)

Slides gap_acat2013_PV.pptx

14:25 Flexible data transport for the online reconstruction of FAIR experiments

Speaker: Dr Mohammad Al-Turany (GSI Darmstadt)

Slides Flexible_data.pptx

14:50 High performance computing activities in hadron spectroscopy at BESIII.

Speaker: Dr Beijiang Liu (IHEP)

Slides LIUBJ_ACAT2013.pdf

15:15 Influence of distributing a Tier-2 data storage on physics analysis

Speaker: Mr Jiri Horky (Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Slides Acat2013.Jiri.Horky.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 Initial explorations of ARM processors for scientific computing

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides elmer-acat-arm.pdf

16:35 JAliEn - A new interface between the AliEn jobs and the central services

Speaker: Alina Gabriela Grigoras

Paper converted from accepted docx to pdf by twain ACAT2013-JAliEn.docx

Slides JAliEn-ACAT2013.pdf JAliEn-ACAT2013.pptx

17:00 Less is more. Why Oberon beats mainstream in complex applications

Speaker: Prof. Fyodor Tkachov (Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)

Slides ACAT_2013_2_oberon_PUB.pdf

17:25 Managing a Tier-2 Computer Centre with a Private Cloud Infrastructure

Speaker: Stefano Bagnasco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Slides BagnascoACAT2013.pdf

14:00 → 17:50 Track 2

Conveners: Mr Federico Carminati (CERN) , Liliana Teodorescu (Brunel Univ.)

14:00 Simulation-aided optimization of detector design using portable representation of 3D objects

Speaker: Mr Jan Balewski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides 2013-05-ACAT13-ver3.pdf

14:25 The automated matrix element methods and its applications at LHC

Speaker: Mr Alexandre Mertens (CP3 - Université Catholique de Louvain)

Slides ACAT2013.pdf

14:50 skipped

15:15 Multidimensional polynomial regression and fit function uncertainty

Speaker: Dr Peter Kövesárki (University of Bonn)

Paper Kovesarki_-_robot_v3.pdf

Slides Kovesarki_regression_robot.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 Quasi-optimal weights: a versatile tool of data analysis

Speaker: Prof. Fyodor Tkachov (Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)

Slides ACAT_2013_1_quasioptimal.pdf

16:35 FLES: First Level Event Selection Package for the CBM Experiment

Speaker: Prof. Ivan Kisel (University of Frankfurt)

Slides Kisel_-_FLES_-_ACAT_2013.pdf

17:00 ATLAS Trigger Simulation with Legacy Code using Virtualization Techniques

Speaker: Mr Gorm Galster (The Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Presentation.pdf

17:25 Designing DAG-shaped classifiers for fast triggers

Speaker: Mr Djalel Benbouzid (LAL, University of Paris-Sud, CNRS)

Slides talk.pdf

14:00 → 17:50 Track 3

Conveners: Dr Toshiaki Kaneko (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) , Wengan Ma

14:00 Numerical multi-loop calculations with SecDec 2.1

Speaker: Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides SecDecACAT.pdf

14:25 Theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena : new approach for numerical calculation of anomalous dimensions.

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kompaniets (St-Petersburg State University, Russia)

Paper corrected version of paper

Slides mk_acat2013.pdf

14:50 FormCalc 8

Speaker: Thomas Hahn (MPI for Physics)

Slides talk.pdf

15:15 The BlackHat Library for One-Loop Amplitudes

Speaker: Dr David Kosower (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)

Slides The_BlackHat_Library_for_One-Loop_Amplitudes_(May_17,_2013).pptx

15:40 Coffe Break

16:10 Feynman Loop Integral Computation on Hybrid Platforms

Speaker: Prof. Elise de Doncker (Western Michigan University)

Slides ACAT2013-yuasa.pdf

16:35 QCD Corrections to the Drell-Yan Process for Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Zykunov (Belarussian State University of Transport)

Slides zykunov-ACAT2013.pdf

17:00 Precise calculation for heavy gauge boson production in the LHT model

Speaker: Mr Lei Guo (University of Science and Technology of China)

Slides guolei(acat2013).pdf

17:25 The computation of cross sections in brane world models

Speaker: Mr Dmitry Kirpichnikov (INR RAS, MSU)

Slides Kirpichnikov4.pdf Kirpichnikov_ACAT_2013_Slides.pdf

Saturday, 18 May

08:30 → 12:30 Plenary

Convener: Dr David Kosower (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)

08:30 Visit to BEPCII

Speaker: Dr Bin Gong (IHEP)

09:45 Role of Multivariate Analysis in LHC physics

Speaker: Pushpalatha Bhat

Slides Pushpa_ACAT2013.pptx

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Opportunities and choice in a new vector era

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (CERN openlab)

Slides A.Nowak-Opportunities_and___choice___in_a_new_vector_era_(ACAT2013).pdf

11:45 Automatic calculation in Quarkonium Physics

Speaker: Dr Bin Gong (IHEP)

Slides acat2013_gongb.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:50 Track 1

Convener: Axel Naumann (CERN)

14:00 Analysis of performance improvements for host and gpu interface of the APENet+ 3D Torus network.

Speaker: Prof. Piero Vicini (INFN Roma)

Slides acat2013_apenet.pdf

14:25 Performance optimizations for distributed analysis in ALICE

Speaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Paper Acat2013_gheata_v2.pdf

Slides ACAT13_analysis_performance_1.pptx

14:50 Use of Checkpoint-Restart for Complex HEP Software on Traditional Architectures and Intel MIC

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides elmer-acat-checkpoint-restart.pdf

15:15 Study of cache performance in distributed environment for data processing

Speaker: Mr Dzmitry Makatun (Nuclear Physics Institute of Academy of Science of Czech Republic)

Slides ACAT2013-CachePerformance-Makatun.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 TGeoCad – An interface between ROOT and CAD systems

Speaker: Mrs Cinzia Luzzi (University of Ferrara - CERN)

Slides TGeoCADACAT.pdf

16:35 The ATLAS Muon and Tau Trigger

Speaker: Dr Lidia Dell'Asta (Boston University)

Slides Lidia_ACAT_final.pdf

17:00 The evolution of the Trigger and Data Acquisition System in the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Dr Attila Krasznahorkay (New York University)

Slides ATLAS_TDAQ_Evolution.pdf

17:25 The FairRoot Framework

Speakers: Dr Dmytro Kresan (GSI Darmstadt) , Dr Florian Uhlig (GSI Darmstadt) , Dr Mohammad Al-Turany (GSI Darmstadt) , Dr Radoslaw Karabowicz (GSI Darmstadt)

Slides FairRoot_acat2013.pptx

14:00 → 17:50 Track 2

Conveners: Mr Eric CONTE (GRPHE) , Prof. Ivan Kisel (University of Frankfurt)

14:00 MadAnalysis 5: a framework dedicated to phenomenological investigations at LHC

Speaker: Mr Eric CONTE (GRPHE / IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides MadAnalysis_ACAT2013.pdf

14:25 DELPHES 3: A modular framework for fast-simulation of generic collider experiments

Speaker: Dr Michele Selvaggi (UCL)

Slides delphes_acat.pdf

14:50 Event Reconstruction and Analysis in the R3BRoot Framework

Speaker: Dr Dmytro Kresan (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)

Slides kresan_ACAT2013.ppt

15:15 Simulations of nuclear experiments framework

Speakers: Mr Bartlomiej Hnatio (FLNR JINR, Dubna, Russia && AGH, Cracow, Poland) , Sonya Baraeva

Slides simone_final.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 A Wavelet Based Analysis System for Monitoring Information

Speaker: Dr Iosif Legrand (CALTECH / CERN)

Slides MonALISA_ACAT_13_v81.pdf

16:35 Concepts and Plans towards fast large scale Monte Carlo production for ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Elmar Ritsch (University Innsbruck/Austria, CERN)

Slides 20130518-ACAT-ATLAST_fast_MC_chain.pdf

17:00 skipped

17:25 Optimizing the ATLAS code with different profilers

Speaker: Mr Sami Kama (Southern Methodist University)

Slides ProfilingATLAS.pdf

14:00 → 17:50 Track 3

Conveners: Thomas Hahn (MPI for Physics) , Dr Tord Riemann (DESY)

14:00 Automated NLO calculations with GoSam

Speaker: Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides GosamACAT.pdf

14:25 Computation of multi-leg amplitudes with NJet

Speaker: Dr Valery Yundin (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides yundinACAT.pdf

14:50 Automatic one-loop calculations with OpenLoops

Speaker: Philipp Maierhoefer (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich)

Slides maierhoefer.pdf

15:15 LiteRed: a new powerful tool for the reduction of multiloop integrals

Speaker: Dr Roman Lee (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides LeeAcat2013_.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 Special functions in Higher Loop Calculations: harmonic, generalized harmonic, and binomial sums, polylogarityms and special constants

Speaker: Prof. Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

Slides ACAT13.pdf

16:35 Multi-loop Integrand Reduction with Computational Algebraic Geometry

Speaker: Dr Simon Badger (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Badger_ACAT13.pdf

17:00 FAPT: a Mathematica package for calculations in QCD Fractional Analytic Perturbation Theory

Speaker: Mr Viacheslav Khandramai (Gomel State Technical University)

Slides Khandramai_ACAT.pdf

17:25 One loop integration with hypergeometric series by using recursion formulae

Speaker: Dr Norihisa Watanabe (KEK)

Slides Watanabe.pdf

Sunday, 19 May

09:00 → 12:30 Plenary

Conveners: Dr Denis Perret-Gallix (LAPP/IN2P3-CNRS) , Dr Jerome Lauret (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 Automated computation of scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Giovanni Ossola (New York City College of Technology - CUNY)

Slides acat2013_go.pdf

09:45 Advances in tracking and trigger concepts

Speaker: Prof. Ivan Kisel (University of Frankfurt)

Paper Kisel_ACAT_2013_Article.pdf

Slides Kisel_ACAT_2013.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Future Storage Architectures for Large Data-Analysis Systems

Speaker: Robert Triendl (Japan, DataDirect Networks)

Slides ACAT_Triendl.pdf

11:45 Grid AND Cloud evolution from now onward

Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides Bird-ACAT-190513.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:20 Plenary

Convener: Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

14:00 XData: Sugon all-in-one BigData Machine

Speaker: Dr Huaiming Song (Sugon)

Slides XData-Sugon_all-in-one_BigData_Machine.pdf

14:30 ATLAS Distributed Computing: Experience and Evolution

Speaker: Dr Armin Nairz (CERN)

Slides ACAT2013_ArminNairz_19-5-2013.pdf

14:55 The NLO Calculations of heavy quarkonium production at B factories

Speaker: Dr Yu-Jie Zhang (Beihang University)

Slides Yu-Jie_Zhang.pdf

15:20 Coffee Break

15:50 Round Table:Open-source, knowledge sharing and scientific collaboration

Speakers: Dr Denis Perret-Gallix (LAPP/IN2P3-CNRS) , Prof. Gang Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics) , Prof. Lawrence Pinsky (Physics Department, University of Houston) , Dr Tord Riemann (DESY)

Slides

• acat2013-round-table-01.pdf
• acat2013-round-table-02.pdf
• acat2013-round_table_intro.pdf

17:20 → 17:45 Poster Presentation

17:20 A Web-Based Development Environment for Collaborative Data Analysis

Speaker: Mr Marcel Rieger (RWTH Aachen, III. Physikalisches Institut A)

Poster VISPA_Poster

17:25 Experiance of ROOF cluster maintenance and operation at Joit Institute for Nuclear Research for ALICE data analysys.

Speaker: Mr Martin Vala (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

Poster PROOF_JINR_Martin_ACAT2013_4.pptx

17:30 Flasher Identification at Daya Bay

Speaker: Mr Qingwang Zhao (IHEP)

Poster posterACAT_Flasher_Identification_at_Daya_Bay.pdf

17:35 Data Quality Monitoring for the ATLAS trigger System during the first data taking period of the Large Hadron Collider

Speakers: Dr Attila Krasznahorkay (New York University) , Dr Denis Oliveira Damazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Poster ACAT2013_DQ.pdf

17:40 Documenting through activity diagrams

Speaker: Juan Jose Lopez Villarejo (CERN)

Slides VINCIAposterACAT2013.001.tiff

18:30 → 20:30 Banquet

Monday, 20 May

08:30 → 16:30 Social Event

Tuesday, 21 May

09:00 → 12:30 Plenary

Conveners: Dr Denis Perret-Gallix (LAPP/IN2P3-CNRS) , Prof. Jianxiong Wang (Theory Group, IHEP)

09:00 Summary Track 1

Speaker: Axel Naumann (CERN)

Slides Track1-ACAT2013-Axel.pdf

09:45 Summary Track 2

Speaker: Dr Katharine Leney (University of the Witwatersrand)

Slides Track2Summary.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Summary Track 3

Speakers: Dr Andrej Arbuzov (JINR, Dubna, Russia) , Dr Daniel Maître (IPPP Durham)

Slides SummaryTrack3.pdf Track3_summary_part2.pdf

11:45 Summary

Speaker: Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)

Slides GranFinale.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break