NEWS of 2013

Student of Georgian Technical University Jaba GIKOSHVILI defended Master’s Degree dissertation with its title “Development of Geometrical Models of Muon System of ATLAS Detector on the base of CATIA”. He was working in GCCEC since February, 2011 and passed special

GCCEC issue decree of commendation to 2 members – Archil SURMAVA and Nikoloz TSUTSKIRIDZE for the successful tasks they have done for ATLAS simulation. Archil SURMAVA has completed new small wheel assembly transformation from CATIA to XML and done corresponding

GCCEC has done analysis of ATLAS coils position using simulation packages (XML). It was found ~32mm discrepancy between real position and XML. Report has been shared with ATLAS simulation community which brought lot of discussion about the possible effect. (download

GCCEC signed new memorandum of cooperation with Georgian Technical University. Both parties have agreed with joint participation in ATLAS (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) software development project. GCCEC will provide join team with 3D geometrical CATIA modelling and C++ programming staff, with

ATLAS collaboration, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) together with Georgian team (GCCEC, GTU) signed addendum to ATLAS agreement AA366/10 for prolongation of work up to the end of 2014. Document was signed by ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola GIANOTTI; ATLAS computing coordinator Hans Von

GCCEC and University of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia) signed memorandum about collaboration and joint activity with CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). It was declared that memorandum will contribute considerably into the development of curriculum of educational programs at University and support University students

GCCEC initiate meeting between collaborative parties about the status of development of COOL Tag Browser for ATLAS software. E.Gallas (Oxford), A.Formica (Sacley), D.Barberis (CERN), M.Borodin (CERN) where attended. Also, D.South (Desy, Germany) and group from GTU (Georgia) were connected remotely.