Agenda : Updated Thursday, November 08, 2001
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EUSO General Collaboration Meeting and EUSO Technical Meetings Annecy, France, 2-5 October 2001 Preliminary agenda
2 October 2001 : EUSO General Collaboration Meeting - Coordination : A.Parmar.
09h30 - 09h45
Welcome and Introduction . ( P.Nedelec )
09h45 - 10h45
" ESA Phase A ": Structure, Activities, Timeline. ( A. Parmar/G.Gianfiglio )
10h45 - 11h15
" EUSO Instrument Phase A " : Structure , Activities , Timeline. ( L.Scarsi ).
11h15 - 11h30
Coffee break
11h30 - 12h30
AGASA - Hires data interprétation (M. Teshima).
12h30 - 13h00
Discussion
13h00 - 15h00
Lunch
15h00 - 15h40
Nationally funded activities- General status on approval/ funding by national Agencies /Institutions. reports from : Italy, France, Portugal, Japan, USA.
15h40 - 16h30
Instrument subsystems ( 1 - 10 ): reports on the status of Pre-Phase A activities.
16h30 - 16h45
Coffee break
16h45 - 17h15
" Science " W.G. : discussion and set-up (G. Giannini)
17h15 - 17h30
"Outreach: menu " W.G. discussion and set-up(F. Vannucci).
17h30 - 18h05
Summary of "Day one"- General discussion .
18h15
Conclusions (G. Gianfiglio, A. Parmar, O. Catalano, L. Scarsi)
List of EUSO Subsystems, as defined in ESTEC, EUSO Meeting, 8-9 May 2001:
  1. System - Structure (P. Attinà, Alenia )
  2. Optics ( Y. Takahashi; UAH )
  3. Focal surface (H. Shimizu, Riken )
  4. F.E. Analog (J.P. Mendiburu, EUSO France )
  5. F.E. Digital (M. Pallavicini, EUSO Italy )
  6. Trigger and OBDH (O. Catalano, EUSO Italy )
  7. Atmosphere Sounding (G. Fiocco, EUSO Italy )
  8. Simulations (G. D'Alì Staiti, EUSO Italy )
  9. Science Operations and Data Center (C. Espirito Santo, EUSO Portugal )
  10. Scientific Data Analysis (M.C. Maccarone, EUSO Italy ).

5' each report.
3 October 2001 : EUSO Technical Meeting - Coordination : O.Catalano.
09h00 - 09h15
I.W.G. : Finalization , General Introduction. ( O. Catalano )
09h15 - 10h00
EUSO System overview ( P. Attina' )
10h00 - 10h45
Optics: Status and Progress Report . ( Y. Takahashi )
10h45 - 11h15
Discussion
11h15 - 11h30
Coffee break
11h30 - 12h15
Focal surface detector : Status and Progress Report . ( H. Shimizu )
12h15 - 12h30
Discussion
12h30 - 14h15
Lunch
14h15 - 14h30
Contribution to the definition of the focal surface ( P.Gorodetsky )
14h30 - 14h50
 Optical adapters for me MAPMTs (Light guides and lenses) ( A. Petrolini )
14h50 - 15h10
Focal surface geometry, micro-cell and macrocelles design ( A. Petrolini )
15h15 - 15h30
Discussion
15h30 - 16h00
Front End electronics: FEE ASIC ( M. Pallavicini
16h00 - 16h30
FE electronics ( J.P. Mendiburu )
16h30 - 16h45
Coffee break
16h45 - 18h15
FrontEnd Electronics (cont.) -
  • Macrocell benchmark (T. Patzak)
  • A possible technical solution to recover the dispersion on the pixels caused by the optics point spread function. ( O. Catalano ) (20')
  • First results from macrocell test system (F. Fontanelli) (15')
  • Discussion (35')
4 October 2001 : EUSO Technical Meeting (cont.) - Coordination : O.Catalano.
09h30 - 11h00

Digital and Control Electronics

  • Read out and trigger electronics scheme. ( G. Gugliotta ) (30')
  • Control and data handling electronics and power supply conversion (P. Bastia)(30')
  • Discussion (30'
11h00 - 11h20
Coffee break
11h20 - 12h45
 Background measurements:
  • ULTRA ground calibration and BABY 2001 balloon flight: preliminary results ( G. Gugliotta-S. Giarrusso ) (30')
  • Direct CR background estimations (J. Paul) (25')
  • Discussion (30')
12h45 - 13h00
"Eusion" (V. Vanucci)
13h00 - 14h30
Lunch
14h30 - 16h30
Simulations:
  • Status and progress report on EUSO simulation programs ( G. D'Ali' Staiti ) (20')
  • On going activity on Neutrino and EECR simulations . (S. Bottai ) (25')
  • "Fast" simulations: status report (E. Plagnol) (20')
  • Detector simulation (M. Pallavicini/A.Petrolini) (30')
  • Discussion (25')
16h30 - 16h45
Coffee break
16h45 - 18h15
Software environment for simulations and data analysis:
  • Introduction to the data analysis: data content and s/w environment (M.C. Maccarone) (10')
  • Using ROOT in EUSO (P. Nedelec) (10')
  • The ROOT development kit (R. Brun) (40')
  • ROOT for the HESS experiment (J. Guy) (20')
  • Discussion (20')
    • 5 October 2001 : EUSO Technical Meeting (cont.) - Coordination : G. Fiocco.
    09h00 - 11h00
    		 Atmosphere sounding and atmospheric phenomena
    • LIDAR: status and progress report. (G.Fiocco ) (45')
    • The CWPR LIDAR (V. Mitev)(15').
    • Simulation results of a MC code for atmospheric phenomena . ( I. Kostadinov ) (30')
    • Discussion (45')
        11h00 - 11h15
        Coffee break
        5 October 2001 : EUSO General Collaboration Meeting - Coordination : L. Scarsi.
        11h15 - 13h00
        Instrument subsystems: Task distributions and Statements of Work (L. Scarsi)
        13h00 - 15h00
        Lunch
        15h00 - 18h00
        Instrument subsystems: Task distributions and Statements of Work (cont.) (L. Scarsi)
        18h00 - 18h15
        Conclusions

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