Symposium on Statistical Issues in Data Acquisition

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

July 16, 2004

8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45	Welcome and Overview of Sessions Bob Jacobsen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Karen Kafadar University of Colorado at Denver Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS)
Session One: Capturing & Analyzing Data in Fundamental Physics
8:50-9:10	Introduction to High Energy Physics (HEP) Data Bob Jacobsen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:10-9:25	The Future of HEP Data at the Large Hadron Collider Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:25-10:00	Statistical Issues in Cosmology Julian Borrill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:00-10:45	Discussion
10:45-11:00	Break
Facilities Tours and Discussion
11:00-12:30	Tours (in parallel) Advanced Light Source Facility (ALS) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
12:30-1:30	Lunch
Session Two: Data Acquisition & Analysis in the Earth Sciences
1:30-1:50	General Architecture of EOSDIS Data Capture and Storage Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1:50-2:10	Issues Arising from Data Pre-Processing Prior to Analysis Wendy Meiring, University of California at Santa Barbara
2:10-3:15	Discussion
3:15-3:30	Lunch
Session Three: High Performance Computing
3:30-3:50	Long-Running Simulations on High Performance Computers George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:50-4:20	Discussion
Wrap-up Discussion
4:20-5:00	Moderated by Ed Wegman George Mason University Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS)
6:00-7:30	Dinner