Second Workshop on Data Preservation and Long Term Analysis in HEP
1st Bulletin: 26 March 2009
The Second Workshop on Data Preservation and Long Term Analysis in HEP
will take place from Tuesday 26 - Thursday 28 May 2009 in California, UDA
USA at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The workshop will consist of three days of plenary talks, working group and discussion sessions, where the
main objectives are: to review the physics objectives of data
persistency in HEP; to exchange information on the analysis model
used by HEP experiments; to address the hardware and software
persistency issue; to review the funding programs and other existing
international initiatives; and to converge to a common set of
recommendations for future experiments.
Details about the workshop may be found at:
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/dplta
including registration. A workshop fee of $xx is requested to cover the planned social programme, which
includes a working workshop dinnner on the Tuesday evening at the
Altona museum:
. We are working towards having a final report ready in time for Lepton Photon 2009.
There is a registration fee of $55 for the Workshop and a separate fee of $30 for the social event.
The social event will be held at the Computer History museum. (http://www.computerhistory.org) There will be a tour plus dinner. Please sign up for this by the first day of the workshop. The fee covers the transportation, tour and dinner. Transportation will be provided to/from the social event from SLAC.
Hotels:
Twenty rooms at the on site guest house (http://www.altonaermuseum.de/altonaer_museum.html
Acommodation options are also indicated on the registration form and
include the on-site DESY hostel (40 places) or the Novotel (20
places), situated in the nearby Albert-Einstein-Ring, using the
reservation code "DPLTA" until 8 January 2009.
From Hamburg Airport, take the S1 s-bahn to Othmarschen and from there
the number 1 bus to "Bahrenfeld Trabrennbahn" for the Novotel (3 stops)
or "Zum Huenengrab / DESY" for DESY (5 stops). The journey time from the
airport is about 1 hour and the ticket costs 2.60 euro. Alternatively, a taxi costs
about 30 euro and takes 25 minutes. A map of the area around DESY is here:
stanford.edu/dept/rde/guesthouse/) have been blocked off (until April 24th) for DPLTA participants. The cost is $83/night. Other accomodation options are presented on the General Information page.
Travel:
Information concerning getting to SLAC and locating the conference rooms is provided on the General Information page.http://www.desy.de/~southd/desyArrival.png
Further details will be posted on the workshop agenda in the coming weeks.