GRETINA Signal Decomposition Workshop

Keen building, room 707, Physics Department,

Florida State University 31 May - 2 June, 2005

The program is given below with links to the talk presentations. Photographs and the list of participants also are available.

The wonderful conference poster and classic group photo are also available.

Tuesday 31 May

9:00 a.m. Welcome / Introductions

Overview talks

- GRETINA I-Yang Lee

- Majorana Reyco Henning

- TIGRESS Chris Pearson

- Signal decomposition requirements Mario Cromaz

Decomposition / PSA

- Introduction:

- definition of the problem David Radford

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

Decomposition / PSA Continued

- Adaptive grid search David Radford

- Singular value decomposition Isodoros Doxas

- Sequential quadratic programming David Radford

- Other matrix methods Pierre Desesquelles

5:30 p.m. Session ends

Wednesday 1 June

9:00 a.m. Decomposition / PSA Continued

- Genetic algorithms Michael Schlarb

& Neural networks

- Wavelet transformations Torsten Beck

- Double-sided Ge strip detectors Thomas Niedermayr

- Basis generation calculation I-Yang Lee

- detector scanning, calibrations Augusto Macchiavelli

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 p.m. Decomposition / PSA Continued

- Alternate coordinate systems & Time Fitting David Radford

Signal Preprocessing / conditioning

- Event building

- Event time alignment David Radford

-Test data sets

-simulated data

- in-beam data Paul Fallon

5:30 p.m. Session ends

Thursday 2 June

9:00 a.m. Performance metrics

-Performance and failure modes Mario Cromaz

-figures of merit

-effects of missing segments etc. David Radford

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 p.m. Performance metrics Continued – open discussion

- AGATA scanning plans Juergan Gerl

- Test data sets

-Majorana / MSU

Planning and task assignments

- Identify high priority tasks

- Associated resources & people

5:00 p.m. Workshop ends

Workshop Discussion Notes – John Pavan