1. Slide 1/7 SFT Group Meeting 14 th October 2005 1. News John Harvey 2. Savane behind the scenes Mathieu Roy 3. Report from IEEE NSS Conference in Puerto Rico Manuel Gallas 4. News from Geant4 Workshop/Collaboration Meeting i. User Workshop - Applications of Geant4 Gunter Folger ii. Collaboration Meeting - Geant4 developments Alex Howard iii. Collaboration News John Apostolakis 5. AOB

2. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 2/7 New PH Appointments Jean Jacques Blaising will take over as PH department head starting in January 2006 Jean Jacques would like to introduce Michael Doser

3. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 3/7 SFT Personnel News Axel Naumann started as a new staff member on 1st November  Axel was working on D0 at Fermilab  Also worked on ROOT in parallel – C++ parser for auto doc generation  ROOT – Dictionaries WP : CINT / Reflex integration Eric Poinsignon leaves us at the end of November Anna Kreshuk will start as a PJAS in December working on the ROOT/Math project Congratulations to Vladimir Ivantchenko  Vladimir is currently in Soma Bay, Egypt receiving an award from Russian Education and Science Forum for being one of the most cited and published Russian authors

4. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 4/7 LCG Comprehensive Review by LHCC AA Phase II planning and status Pere Mato The ROOT project in LCG Rene Brun Databases developments in POOLGiacomo Govi Status of Generator projectPaolo Bartalini Closeout session attended by Area Managers : Pere can comment

5. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 5/7 CHEP06 in Mumbai, India Feb 13-18 PH participation (people + abstracts) summarised herehere  11 people from SFT will attend Deadline for abstract submission has passed  Track coordinators will be very busy for next couple of weeks Alan Silverman has organised a number of cheap air tickets  please try to take advantage of them  you should have been contacted by France Bogey for your requirements  accompanying persons can also benefit from these tickets Visa request must be submitted to Wagons-Lit by mid January at latest  \\ph-sft.web.cern.ch\ph-sft\chep06\IN_embassy_form3[1].pdf \\ph-sft.web.cern.ch\ph-sft\chep06\IN_embassy_form3[1].pdf  Passport valid minimum 6 months after the returned date of the trip  2 pictures  1 copy of "carte de légitimation"  1 invitation letter Medical advice : see www.safetravel.chwww.safetravel.ch

6. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 6/7 Other conferences Please let me know if you are interested in attending another conference in 2006  consider those not necessarily HEP-oriented  good to be outward looking and to establish contacts outside  e.g. Computational Science and Applications (http://www.iccsa.org)http://www.iccsa.org

7. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 7/7 Office Moves being planned Please contact me if you wish to discuss an office move

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9. SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s 14 October, 2005Slide 9/7 SFT Christmas Dinner Proposal : dinner at the Barbaro Restaurant.  See http://www.lebarbaro.com/http://www.lebarbaro.com/  23 positive responses so far Barbecue plus buffet style – mexican ambience (+music) The restaurant is located between Grilly and Divonne We have tentatively reserved it for Thursday Dec 15 th  clash with ALICE dinner  should we change to Wednesday Dec 14 th ? We need to give the restaurant numbers by Nov 23 rd  please tell Nathalie whether you will come and how many as soon as possible  family and guests are of course welcome to join us Request for car pooling – we will try to organise this