Lectures to newcomers

Introductory lectures to PhD and MSc students

• Introduction to heavy-ion physics and ALICE

  * Introduction to heavy-ion physics
  * The ALICE Experiment

• The Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) of Alice

• Introduction to the analysis framework

• Introduction to ROOT

• Alice offline

• Introduction to the ALICE offline framework

  * ALICE Event and Track Selection
  * Analysis Task in the ALICE AliPhysics framework
  * Interactive Run

• The analysis framework of ALICE

  * Analysis Task in the ALICE AliPhysics framework

• How to start using the O2 framework

Introduction to Quark Cluster

If you have an Utrecht University computing (Solis) account, you can get access to the quark cluster in Utrecht. Discuss with your supervisor whether this is useful and who to ask to activate your account.

• UU GRASP computing page.

Introduction to stoomboot

Stoomboot is the computing cluster at Nikhef

• Introduction to interactive data analysis on stoomboot
• Template task for interactive run
• Introduction to batch data analysis on stoomboot
• Bash script to be used for batch analysis
• Partial list of LHC10h runs

Introduction to GRID analysis

GRID is the computing grid from CERN

• Introduction to individual user data analysis on the GRID
• Tarball with files for the individual user data analysis on the GRID
• Introduction to organized data analysis on the GRID using the trains

• Usage of ALICE software and running analysis at Nikhef