1. June 1, 20071 ALICE Offline Tutorial Markus Oldenburg – CERN Markus.Oldenburg@cern.ch June 1, 2007 – University of São Paulo

2. June 1, 20072 Help! How and where to find more information available online at: http://cern.ch/Oldenburg -> Seminarshttp://cern.ch/Oldenburg

3. June 1, 20073 Analysis Task Force alice-project-analysis-task-force@cern.ch contact this list if you have troubles with the analysis ask Yves.Schutz@cern.ch about how to subscribeYves.Schutz@cern.ch Alice offline alice-off@cern.ch hardcore email list about offline/computing issues contact Peter.Hristov@cern.ch about how to subscribePeter.Hristov@cern.ch Alice all general Alice email list the ALICE secretaries should have signed you up automatically if not, contact alice.secretariat@cern.chalice.secretariat@cern.ch Important email list and addresses

4. June 1, 20074 In case you have specific problems (and dont dare to send an email to a specific email list), try to get an answer from the following people: Be polite! They get tons of personal requests per day. correct ROOT, Geant3, AliRoot versions: Peter.Hristov@cern.chPeter.Hristov@cern.ch PROOF/CAF: Jan.Fiete.Grosse-Oetringhaus@cern.chJan.Fiete.Grosse-Oetringhaus@cern.ch ALICE specific GRID problems (e.g. certificates): Latchezar.Betev@cern.chLatchezar.Betev@cern.ch aliensh problems/requests: Andreas.Peters@cern.chAndreas.Peters@cern.ch physics analysis on the GRID: Panos.Christakoglou@cern.chPanos.Christakoglou@cern.ch general analysis related questions: Yves.Schutz@cern.chYves.Schutz@cern.ch better use the analysis task force list right away, since Yves will post your message there in any case Physics related questions (e.g. Whom shall I contact if I want to do an … analysis?): Karel.Safarik@cern.ch any other problem, questions, …: Markus.Oldenburg@cern.chMarkus.Oldenburg@cern.ch People to contact

5. June 1, 20075 Latest version to the offline tutorial http://indico.cern.ch/http://indico.cern.ch/ -> Alice Experiment -> Offline; find the latest Tutorial entry ROOT home page http://root.cern.ch AliRoot Primer http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/AliRoot/primer.html Coding conventions http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/AliRoot/Coding-Conventions.html PROOF and CAF http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/CAF/index.html References

6. June 1, 20076 Registration – Certificates: http://alien.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Alice/UserRegistration https://ca.cern.ch/ca/ AliEn: http://alien.cern.ch Gshell: http://alien.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AliEn/GAPI User's guide: http://project-arda-dev.web.cern.ch/project-arda- dev/alice/apiservice/AA-UserGuide-0.0m.pdf References: AliEn I

7. June 1, 20077 aliensh Grid Command Online Reference V1.0 http://project-arda-dev.web.cern.ch/project-arda- dev/alice/apiservice/guide/guide-1.0.htm Previous tutorials: http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/Tutorial/ Event Tag System: http://pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEventTagSyste m/EventTags.html#Event%20tag%20system https://edms.cern.ch/document/788315/1 https://edms.cern.ch/document/788315/1 (INTERNAL NOTE) References: AliEn II

8. June 1, 20078 Creation of tag files: http://pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEventTa gSystem/EventTagsCreation.html#Create%20tags%20h owto Analysis using the Event Tag System: http://pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEventTa gSystem/EventTagsAnalysis.html#Analysis%20with%20 tags References: AliEn III

9. June 1, 20079 File catalog structure – Queries: http://pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEventTagSyste m/RunTags.html#Run/File%20metadata File level metadata: http://cern.ch/Oldenburg/MetaData/MetaData.doc Analysis framework http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=19&s essionId=3&materialId=slides&confId=a056304 References: AliEn IV