issue with Barbara/Rinaldo's student
by Diego Gonzalez Diaz
Dear IAC, IOC and LOC colleagues,
May I ask you to weigh in here?. What do you propose as a sensible
course of action?.
all the best
Diego
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Request for Information
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:21:29 +0200
From: bliberti <bliberti(a)roma2.infn.it>
Organization: INFN Tor Vergata
To: Diego Gonzalez Diaz <diego.gonzalez.diaz(a)cern.ch>
Dear Diego,
I am very sorry for your answer.
When we discussed the opportunity to accept remote talks, I understood
we were
focussing on invited talks, because in that case, the in-person presence
could be
particularly important and significant.
I missed that this was instead assumed as a general rule for all
participants,
my fault probably.
In particular, talking about insulting the participants is rather
offensive to both
me and Alessandro, who have always followed the rules and also have great
respect for our colleagues.
Alessandro Rocchi is a young researcher, at the moment he has just been
hired by a
different research institute (not INFN) and he cannot travel or even
stay on leave.
This is the reason for our request.
So if this cannot be accommodated we will be forced to cancel the two talks.
I believe this would be a loss not only for us but also for the conference.
Best regards
Barbara
Il 2024-08-28 23:34 Diego Gonzalez Diaz ha scritto:
> Dear Barbara
>
> Remote talks are being taken in the following cases:
>
> - Invited talks.
> - Unexpected changes or unforeseen circumstances (not the case,
> apparently)
>
> Breaking this rule would create troubles with other participants that
> have already
> designated replacement speakers. It is also very bad for the
> conference to enable remote
> talks as a rule.
>
> Moreover, Alessandro has two talks, that will make the insult to the
> participants who could
> not come very apparent.
>
> It seems to me that he should come. I can arrange cheap rooms (160E
> for 6 days) and we can
> waive the fee. This is already more than what we have done for any
> participant.
>
> Is he a PhD student?.
>
> all the best
>
> Diego
>
>
>
> On 28/08/2024 15:27, bliberti wrote:
>> Hi Diego,
>> I'm very sorry to bother you personally,
>> I remember the week before the conference was very intense for me...
>> almost worse than the conference itself!
>>
>> Unfortunately, I won't be able to be there, and I'm very sorry.
>> It will be a success!
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, my colleague Alessandro Rocchi is forced to make the
>> presentation remotely,
>> He cannot go on a work mission because he is no longer associated
>> with the INFN.
>> How should he register? Does he have to pay the full fee? Is there a
>> reduced fee for remote talks?
>> It's very important to me that he can give the talk...
>> I look forward to your instructions.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Soon
>> Barbara
>>
--
Barbara Liberti
1 month, 3 weeks
Re: [RPC2024IAC] R: Fwd: RPC 2026 workshop
by santonic
Ciao Marcello,
ti ho girato, all'indirizzo di Bari, una mail del gruppo di Rio in cui
si candida a RPC 2026. Dimmi se l'hai ricevuta o devo rimandartela al
cern.
Saluti
Rinaldo
Il 2024-08-27 14:06 Marcello Abbrescia ha scritto:
> Dear Rinaldo, all,
>
> which was the first candidacy for hosting the RPC2026 conference? I
> did miss this.
>
> All the best, thanks a lot
> Marcello
>
> -------------------------
>
> Da: santonic <santonic(a)roma2.infn.it>
> Inviato: sabato 24 agosto 2024 12:09
> A: stefano bianco <stefano.bianco(a)lnf.infn.it>; RPC2024
> <rpc2024(a)igfae.usc.es>; Gabriella Pugliese
> <gabriella.pugliese(a)cern.ch>; rpc2024iac(a)igfae.usc.es
> <rpc2024iac(a)igfae.usc.es>; rpc2024ioc(a)igfae.usc.es
> <rpc2024ioc(a)igfae.usc.es>; rpc2024loc(a)igfae.usc.es
> <rpc2024loc(a)igfae.usc.es>
> Oggetto: [RPC2024IAC] Fwd: RPC 2026 workshop
>
> Dear IAC-IOC members,
>
> as from the following mail of prof Livio Conti (University Uninettuno
> Rome Italy), we have now a second candidacy for hosting RPC-2026. I am
>
> happy to see this increasing interest of the particle physics
> scientific
> community for our conference. As usual we will discuss the site choice
>
> for RPC-2026 in a dedicated meeting in Santiago.
>
> Regards
>
> Rinaldo
>
> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Oggetto: RPC 2026 workshop
> Data: 2024-08-21 00:48
> Mittente: "Conti, Livio" <livio.conti(a)uninettunouniversity.net>
> Destinatario: santonic <santonic(a)roma2.infn.it>,
> giuseppe.iaselli(a)ba.infn.it
> Cc: "piergiorgio.picozza(a)roma2.infn.it"
> <piergiorgio.picozza(a)roma2.infn.it>
>
> Dear Prof. Rinaldo and Prof. Iaselli,
>
> I write to you on behalf of the "Uninettuno High-energy" research
> group,
> that I have the honour to coordinate at the Uninettuno University in
> Rome.
>
> I am writing to you in order to present the candidacy of our Research
> Group, on behalf of Uninettuno University, to host the organization of
> the RPC workshop in Rome in September 2026.
>
> I kindly ask you to formally submit our proposal to the International
> Board of the RPC workshop, also in view of the next meeting in
> Santiago,
> for a preliminary discussion and the need evaluation.
>
> Let me briefly summarize some information about Uninettuno University
> and our research group.
>
> The Uninettuno University headquarter is located in the centre of
> Rome,
> the building overlooks the “Largo di Torre Argentina” square,
> where
> Julius Caesar is believed dead, less than 1 km far from the Coliseum.
>
> Uninettuno also has about 40 Technological Poles all around Italy and
> we
> carry exams in more than 50 centres around the world. Uninettuno hosts
> 5
> Faculties and enrols approximately 23.000 students, from 164
> different
> countries. We offer more than 70 different study programs (including
> undergraduate, graduate, post lauream masters and PhD/doctorate
> courses).
>
> The “Uninettuno High-Energy” Research Group includes 2 full
> professors, 6 associate professors, 4 researchers, 4 PhD students, 10
> graduate students and 15 undergraduate students. My Colleagues have a
> long tradition in development and building of particle detectors for
> experiments at accelerators at CERN and Tevatron, as well as for
> cosmic
> rays’ detection carried out on ground, on stratospheric balloons and
> on satellite. Between these detectors we have also contributed in
> developing several experiments based on RPC mainly conceived for muons
> detection. At present the physicists of our Group are members and
> actively participating to several collaboration such as:
>
> * satellite missions CSES-01 (in orbit since 2018) and -02
> (launch
> scheduled by the end of 2024) for observations of particle and
> electromagnetic fields in near-Earth geomagnetic cavity on Low Earth
> Orbit. On each CSES satellite is installed a particle detector (named
> HEPD-01 and -02 respectively) able to measure charged particles such
> as
> Van Allen trapped particles and cosmic rays; count events generated in
> the calorimeters by GRB emissions; TLE and TGF phenomena; etc.;
>
> * JEM-EUSO program, which includes several pathfinder missions
> such as
> EUSO-TA at Telescope Array (Utha, US), EUSO-SPB and EUSO-SPB2 on
> balloon, MINI-EUSO on the International Space Station, etc. These
> experiments have been conceived to detect ultra-high energy cosmic
> rays
> as well as ultraviolet terrestrial emissions, TLE, TGF, etc.;
>
> * DUNE experiment at Fermilab. We just started participating
> in the
> Italian collaboration to DUNE experiment aimed at studying neutrino
> oscillations and CP violation.
>
> * SWGO, LAGO collaboration, muon tomography and other ground
> based
> experiments built with RPC for cosmic rays’ observation.
>
> A plus of having the RPC conference in Uninettuno could be:
>
> * to have an international meeting exactly in the centre of
> Rome, fully
> reachable by metro, busses and taxi in the stenographic contest of
> Roman
> Forum. We have a fully equipped conference room that could well fulfil
> all the needs of venue and logistics. The centre of Rome is full of
> hotels and B&B with a large range of good prices. The participants to
> the conference could easily find a good room with acceptable prices
> nearer that 100 m from the Uninettuno headquarter and conference hall.
> * In case the International Board would be interested, we
> could also
> provide for free to broadcast the RPC conference (or some sessions or
> starting/closing events) live on the Internet with the needed
> restrictions (if any) or even fully open (if appropriate) to
> colleagues
> by remote or interested guests.
> * to organize the conference in Uninettuno would take
> advantage of
> allowing a large participation of the colleagues of the numerous
> community of researchers from other Universities of Rome, research
> Institutes and Laboratories involved in RPC researches that could
> contribute to a large and fruitful scientific debate on the related
> experiments for a good success of the conference.
>
> It would be useful for Group and University to have few information
> about the organisation of previous RPC meetings and the needs for the
> planned event such as:
>
> * the mean numbers of participants that have attended to the
> RPC
> meeting in last years;
> * the requirements (space and network connectivity) of the
> meeting room
> where the RPC workshop could be hosted;
> * the range/suggested value of the fees;
> * the structure / sessions you can suggest for the program of
> the
> event.
>
> On the basis of the suggestion and requests of the International Board
> for the RPC workshop we can write a detailed proposal to be evaluated
> by
> the Board.
>
> Best regards,
> Livio Conti
> On behalf of the “Uninettuno High-Energy” Research Group.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Prof. Livio Conti
> Assistant Professor of Physics
> Research Group "Uninettuno - Earth"
> Faculty of Engineering
> Uninettuno University
> C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 39
> 00186, Roma, Italy
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1 month, 3 weeks
Fwd: RPC 2026 workshop
by santonic
Dear IAC-IOC members,
as from the following mail of prof Livio Conti (University Uninettuno
Rome Italy), we have now a second candidacy for hosting RPC-2026. I am
happy to see this increasing interest of the particle physics scientific
community for our conference. As usual we will discuss the site choice
for RPC-2026 in a dedicated meeting in Santiago.
Regards
Rinaldo
-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: RPC 2026 workshop
Data: 2024-08-21 00:48
Mittente: "Conti, Livio" <livio.conti(a)uninettunouniversity.net>
Destinatario: santonic <santonic(a)roma2.infn.it>,
giuseppe.iaselli(a)ba.infn.it
Cc: "piergiorgio.picozza(a)roma2.infn.it"
<piergiorgio.picozza(a)roma2.infn.it>
Dear Prof. Rinaldo and Prof. Iaselli,
I write to you on behalf of the "Uninettuno High-energy" research group,
that I have the honour to coordinate at the Uninettuno University in
Rome.
I am writing to you in order to present the candidacy of our Research
Group, on behalf of Uninettuno University, to host the organization of
the RPC workshop in Rome in September 2026.
I kindly ask you to formally submit our proposal to the International
Board of the RPC workshop, also in view of the next meeting in Santiago,
for a preliminary discussion and the need evaluation.
Let me briefly summarize some information about Uninettuno University
and our research group.
The Uninettuno University headquarter is located in the centre of Rome,
the building overlooks the “Largo di Torre Argentina” square, where
Julius Caesar is believed dead, less than 1 km far from the Coliseum.
Uninettuno also has about 40 Technological Poles all around Italy and we
carry exams in more than 50 centres around the world. Uninettuno hosts 5
Faculties and enrols approximately 23.000 students, from 164 different
countries. We offer more than 70 different study programs (including
undergraduate, graduate, post lauream masters and PhD/doctorate
courses).
The “Uninettuno High-Energy” Research Group includes 2 full
professors, 6 associate professors, 4 researchers, 4 PhD students, 10
graduate students and 15 undergraduate students. My Colleagues have a
long tradition in development and building of particle detectors for
experiments at accelerators at CERN and Tevatron, as well as for cosmic
rays’ detection carried out on ground, on stratospheric balloons and
on satellite. Between these detectors we have also contributed in
developing several experiments based on RPC mainly conceived for muons
detection. At present the physicists of our Group are members and
actively participating to several collaboration such as:
* satellite missions CSES-01 (in orbit since 2018) and -02 (launch
scheduled by the end of 2024) for observations of particle and
electromagnetic fields in near-Earth geomagnetic cavity on Low Earth
Orbit. On each CSES satellite is installed a particle detector (named
HEPD-01 and -02 respectively) able to measure charged particles such as
Van Allen trapped particles and cosmic rays; count events generated in
the calorimeters by GRB emissions; TLE and TGF phenomena; etc.;
* JEM-EUSO program, which includes several pathfinder missions such as
EUSO-TA at Telescope Array (Utha, US), EUSO-SPB and EUSO-SPB2 on
balloon, MINI-EUSO on the International Space Station, etc. These
experiments have been conceived to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays
as well as ultraviolet terrestrial emissions, TLE, TGF, etc.;
* DUNE experiment at Fermilab. We just started participating in the
Italian collaboration to DUNE experiment aimed at studying neutrino
oscillations and CP violation.
* SWGO, LAGO collaboration, muon tomography and other ground based
experiments built with RPC for cosmic rays’ observation.
A plus of having the RPC conference in Uninettuno could be:
* to have an international meeting exactly in the centre of Rome, fully
reachable by metro, busses and taxi in the stenographic contest of Roman
Forum. We have a fully equipped conference room that could well fulfil
all the needs of venue and logistics. The centre of Rome is full of
hotels and B&B with a large range of good prices. The participants to
the conference could easily find a good room with acceptable prices
nearer that 100 m from the Uninettuno headquarter and conference hall.
* In case the International Board would be interested, we could also
provide for free to broadcast the RPC conference (or some sessions or
starting/closing events) live on the Internet with the needed
restrictions (if any) or even fully open (if appropriate) to colleagues
by remote or interested guests.
* to organize the conference in Uninettuno would take advantage of
allowing a large participation of the colleagues of the numerous
community of researchers from other Universities of Rome, research
Institutes and Laboratories involved in RPC researches that could
contribute to a large and fruitful scientific debate on the related
experiments for a good success of the conference.
It would be useful for Group and University to have few information
about the organisation of previous RPC meetings and the needs for the
planned event such as:
* the mean numbers of participants that have attended to the RPC
meeting in last years;
* the requirements (space and network connectivity) of the meeting room
where the RPC workshop could be hosted;
* the range/suggested value of the fees;
* the structure / sessions you can suggest for the program of the
event.
On the basis of the suggestion and requests of the International Board
for the RPC workshop we can write a detailed proposal to be evaluated by
the Board.
Best regards,
Livio Conti
On behalf of the “Uninettuno High-Energy” Research Group.
--------------------------------------------
Prof. Livio Conti
Assistant Professor of Physics
Research Group "Uninettuno - Earth"
Faculty of Engineering
Uninettuno University
C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 39
00186, Roma, Italy
1 month, 3 weeks
invited talk by Roberto Cardarelli declined
by RPC2024
Dear all,
We received the unexpected news that Roberto must turn down the
invitation due to personal reasons. This means that we have one
slot free for an invited talk and, I might suggest, given the scope of
the session,
to consider again the two talks for which there was no broad consensus
(yet no opposition):
- Piotr Gasik (phenomenology of discharges on gaseous detectors from
MPGD experience, beyond the Raether limit)
- Alberto Blanco (applications BHEP)
If Piotr accepts, we might want to swap his talk and Paulo's (if Paulo
can make it).
If I get no email against, I would invite Piotr by Wd 23:59, giving him
until Monday to accept.
Otherwise, I'd move on with Alberto.
all the best,
D.
1 month, 3 weeks
program proposal
by RPC2024
Dear all,
please find a first version of the program, structured in 7 sessions. I
would be happy to take
your comments up to Saturday 17th, then I will upload it to INDICO.
Byond that date, we could
keep iterating if needed, of course, specially fine-tuning, upon
agreement with the contributors.
I add here some relevant notes, on things I had to do more or less
discretionaly, given the circumstances.
The 5 cases appear in black, with a shadow of grey in the file program.xlsx:
1- Upgrade CMS contribution on trigger to talk, upon modification of the
title and scope.
2- Upgrade ANUBIS experimental results to talk, upon modification of the
title and scope.
3- Upgrade a last contribution on ecogases from poster to talk, to
better fit the program.
4- Include a heavily sponsored and interesting talk by CAEN.
5- Include a summary talk.
I would have liked to iterate 1-3 with the IOC/IAC before-hand, but I
fear is more practical in this way,
as only with a first program in hand one can really make the necessary
fine-tuning.
looking forward to your comments,
all the best
Diego
2 months, 1 week
Fwd: Re: RPC 2026 workshop
by santonic
Dear all,
as from the enclosed mail of Sandro Fonseca, the first candidate to host
RPC2026 Conference, is the Rio-UERJ group of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
I am very glad of this candidacy. As usual we will make the final
decision at Santiago in a IAC-IOC joint meeting.
Regards
Rinaldo
-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: Re: RPC 2026 workshop
Data: 2024-08-07 15:23
Mittente: Sandro Fonseca <sandro.fonseca.cern(a)gmail.com>
Destinatario: iaselli <giuseppe.iaselli(a)ba.infn.it>, Rinaldo Santonico
<rinaldo.santonico(a)roma2.infn.it>
Cc: Luiz Mundim <luiz.mundim(a)cern.ch>, Alberto Santoro
<Alberto.Santoro(a)cern.ch>, Wagner De Paula Carvalho
<wagner.de.paula.carvalho(a)cern.ch>
Dear Pino and Rinaldo,I would like to inform you that I am coming to
participate in the RPC 2024 workshop in September. I am glad to meet
with you at Santiago de Compostela. Likewise, I am preparing our
proposal to organize the RPC 2026 workshop in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
I would like to add some additional information about the organization
of previous RPC workshop in our proposal. Let me know if you can clarify
some point that I summarized them below.
- Average numbers of participants in the last years
- Minimum space required to host an RPC workshop
- Maximum value of the fees
- Typical length of the workshop (how many days)
- what types of sessions are usually proposed
See you soon.
Best regards,
Sandro Fonseca
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 2:24 AM Sandro Fonseca
<sandro.fonseca.cern(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Pino and Rinaldo,
>
> Thanks for your support concerning our proposal.
> It will be a pleasure to be with you during the Santiago de Compostela
> conference.
>
> I look forward to seeing you there.
> Sandro Fonseca de Souza
> On behalf of the Rio-UERJ group
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM iaselli
> <giuseppe.iaselli(a)ba.infn.it> wrote:
>
> Dear Sandro,
> Thanks a lot for your interest in organizing the 2026 RPC conferenze.
> Rinaldo has already explained you the procedure.
> We will take note of your mail. Make sure somebody from your institute
> (hope you can join the conferenze in Santiago)
> can briefly present the initiative at the conference IAC in September.
> Of course I would be personally very happy.
> Ciao Pino
>
> Il giorno 25 mag 2024, alle ore 13:41, santonic
> <santonic(a)roma2.infn.it> ha scritto:
> Dear Sandro,
>
> your proposal is the first one for RPC-2026 and I will promptly
> inform the IAC-IOC committee.
> In our organization, the choice of the next conference site is
> usually announced at the end of the previous conference. In our
> case this will be at the end of the second September week.
> Personally I am very happy of this proposal and hope that this
> will encourage a strong participation of Latin American groups.
> Hope to meet you in Santiago.
>
> With my best regards
>
> Rinaldo
>
> Il 2024-05-23 14:25 Sandro Fonseca De Souza ha scritto:
> Dear Giuseppe and Rinaldo,
> I am Sandro Fonseca, associate professor at Rio de Janeiro State
> University/Brazil. Our group has strong engagement with CMS-Muon-RPC
> Project, where I am deputy PM working together with Salvatore
> Buontempo and Gabriella Pugliese. I am writing to you because I would
> like to start preliminary discussions with you as RPC workshop
> International Board members, in order to draw a proposal for my home
> institute to organise the RPC workshop at Rio de Janeiro/Brazil on
> Sept 2026. Below, you can find a brief summary of information on our
> home institute and our group in CMS collaboration.
> Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) is one of the main state
> public universities in Brazil, enrolling approximately 30,000
> students, 2,000 faculty members and 6,000 staff members. It offers 40
> undergraduate programs, unfolded in different qualifications,
> education, and bachelor courses. The university also boasts 92
> graduate programs, divided into 54 master's degree programs and 38
> doctorate degree programs.
> The Physics Institute at UERJ was founded in 1966. It currently has
> 407 students (80% graduate, 20% undergraduate), 77 faculty members and
> 26 staff members, in 4 main departments: High Energy & Nuclear
> Physics, Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Applied
> Physics & Physics Education.
> The High Energy & Nuclear Physics department specifically holds 19
> faculty members, 4 associate researchers, 2 full professors, 14
> graduate students and 5 undergraduate students. The group is involved
> in several projects within the CMS/LHC experiment at CERN, both in
> collaboration for construction and maintenance of detectors (such as
> CASTOR, PPS and RPC) and in data analyses in several physics topics.
> Concerning our expertise regarding the organisation of international
> conferences, we have hosted a CMS Week in Rio de Janeiro(2017) and we
> also promote a traditional international HEP school, LISHEP [0], since
> 1993, when it was established by Prof. Alberto Santoro. This annual
> international event aims to contribute for the development of HEP
> community in Brazil and Latin America and to discuss main hot topics
> with speakers from different countries.
> We would also like to clarify some information about the organisation
> of previous RPC workshop:
> - Average numbers of participants in the last years
> - Minimum space required to host an RPC workshop
> - Maximum value of the fees
> - Typical length of the workshop (how many days)
> - what types of sessions are usually proposed
> Let me know if we can clarify those points above and we can draft a
> preliminary proposal to be available for the Internacional committee
> of RPC workshop.
> Best regards,
> Sandro Fonseca
> On behalf to Rio-UERJ group
> [0]
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.lishep.uerj.br/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R0... [1]
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.lishep.uerj.br/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R0...
2 months, 1 week
last minute information (action needed, if possible)
by RPC2024
Dear colleagues,
Below some news:
- We are in discussions with NIM-A to publish the proceedings.
- There are 61 registrations (many of which will not present a
contribution) and 90 talks, of which I estimate
~5 will be remote. So there is a huge imbalance, that is creating a very
substantive problem for the organizers
so I once again have to encourage you, in particular representatives of
big collaborations, to secure registrations
and also the names of the speakers timely (do not take this statements
in general, certainly some collaborations
are being timely).
- Note that, as said in an earlier circular, there are some rooms
available, at extremely good prices. They can
disappear at any moment, so please let me know if you are interested, as
soon as possible. The contact person
should provide the name, surname, ID, address and email address.
all the best
Diego
2 months, 2 weeks