NEWS

2ND DAY OF SCGCCW’2016

2nd day of workshop was excursion, to relax a bit after tiring first day, let our guest see beauties of Georgia and come closer to our traditions, we visited really beautiful places such as Okatse and Martvili Canyons, of course

1ST DAY OF SCGCCW’2016

1st day of Workshop was dedicated to Big Data Processing, Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Distributing Computing and Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Distributing Computing. 12 presentations where done by speakers from CERN, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi State University.

PHD DISSERTATION

Gerogian Teams member Niko Tsutskiridze defended his Thesis: Development of the Geometrical Description of the ATLAS Detector for the Simulation and Reconstruction Software Packages, studies about given subject were done in Cern.

GET ON CMS SIMULATION EXPERTS MEETING

Georgian Engineering Team (GET) participated on CMS experiment simulation experts meeting. GET represented methodologies and results of collaborative work with ATLAS experiment. Projects of compare analyses of ATLAS detector geometry descriptions implemented in simulation and reconstruction tasks were considered. Results

ATLAS LOOKING FOR TO NEW COOPERATION

ATLAS Technical Coordination group sent to Georgian team new package for investigation of possibility for fabrication of New Small Wheel (NSW) aluminum structure in Georgia. Package contains detailed technical specifications and 96 drawings. NSW is part of ATLAS detector to

CMS SPOKESPERSON VISITING GEORGIA

Georgian Technical University (GTU) hosted spokesperson of CMS collaboration (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Senior Scientist, Prof Tiziano CAMPORESI. Purpose of visit was investigation capabilities of Georgian Universities for possible new collaborative projects. He met with top management of GTU and ministry

MEETING WITH PITTSBURGH UNIVERSITY GROUP

Georgian team has on-line meeting with VP1 software tolls developer group from Pittsburgh University – Dr Joseph BOUDREAU, Dr Edward MOYSE and Riccardo Maria BIANCHI. It was discussed cooperation aspects of join development of VP1 software. VP1 – Virtual Point

NEW SMALL WHEEL CALCULATIONS

Georgian team together with mechanical engineers from Georgian Technical University and Georgian manufacturing company “Elita-Burgi” investigated possibilities for the fabrication and assembly of New Small Wheel facilities in Georgia. Package includes fabrication of JD disk which is 22 tonnes and

NEW STAFF ENROLMENT

Georgian team integrate Mrs GLONTI Lali for participation in collaborative work at CERN. Mrs GLONTI has long and successful experience working at CERN in ATLAS experiment. She’s started in 2007 from project of reconstruction, assembling and testing of Low Voltage

NEW AGREEMENT HAS BEEN SIGNED

Georgian Technical University and ATLAS experiment has signed agreement for continuation of collaborative project started in 2010. New agreement signed for 2 years up to the end of 2016. Georgian Team will proceed work for 4 working packages employing 8FTE