SFT Group Meeting 28th January 2005 News John Harvey Garfield Rob Veenhof a short history, current status and outlook AOB

2005 MAPS Exercise Has started – deadline for completion is March 15th Will be paperless for the first time – eMAPS see Bulletin Procedure is unchanged One new feature is that Supervisors will get to sign Leave Requests

Summer Student Requests in 2005 Development of software for visualisation of high-dimentional data (Ianna Osborne) Development of a Web Based Interface to PROOF (Fons) Style manager in ROOT (Ilka) Development of a set of units and acceptance tests for the math library project (Lorenzo/Andras) Implementation of a new geometrical shape with elliptical cross-section in Geant4 (Vladimir Grichine) Study of low energy hadrons in bulk matter (Gunter/Vladimir Ivantchenko) SPI – Alberto has promised 2 proposals Total = 8

Conferences and Schools in 2005 Please let me know well in advance if there is a conference/school you wish to attend this year for planning budget for trying to cover spectrum of interesting events – No CHEP’05 see http://cdsweb.cern.ch/events/ (total of 334!) e.g. 24 - 28 Jan Object-oriented Programming - The Essernce Of Modern Software Engineering: Practical Software Technology Decisions (OOP 2005) Feb 7-11 Conference On Grid Computing (GlobusWORLD 2005) April 17-21 Monte Carlo 2005 Topical Meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA May 9-13 HEPiX Spring 2005 Karlsruhe May 22-27 ACAT 05 X International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis techniques in Physics Research, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany 4 - 10 Jun 200514th IEEE - NPSS Real Time Conference 2005 Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society (RT 2005) Oct 23-29 IEEE NSS/MIC Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Keys Take action to mitigate the thefts Too many keys in circulation for our locks Propose to replace all locks with the exception of the Visitor’s room (SB 54) Propose to acquire new lock not used elsewhere at CERN neither in the past nor in the future Will keep tight control and records of all new keys in circulation

Work Room Is in use Canon copier – also a fax scanner and network printer Group library Office equipment Water fountain Area set aside for installing servers Mac server Geant 4

Other News Geant 4

Next Meeting February 25th at 10.00 in 32/1-A24