Graduate School in Physics and Astrophysics ------------------------------------------- ANNUAL REPORT ------------------------------------------- Fill with a text editor (without TAB or formatting) Repeat fields for each course as necessary. ------------------------------------------- name: Maximiliano Puccio email: maximiliano.puccio@to.infn.it ciclo: XXIX ciclo year completed (1,2 or 3): 1 supervisor: Prof. Massimo Masera ------------------------------------------- GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSES (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) code: 06 title: Calorimetry in particle physics experiments teacher: Dr. Roberta Arcidiacono hours: 16 ------------------------------------------- SUMMER SCHOOLS, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS (only those attended in the current year) title: ESC14 place: Ce.U.B. Bertinoro webpage: https://web2.infn.it/esc14/ days: 19th-25th October 2014 talk or poster (Y/N): N * final examination successfully passed title: XXIV Giornate di Studio sui Rivelatori place: Torino webpage: http://www.gsr.unito.it/ days: 4 (28-31 October 2014) talk or poster (Y/N): N ------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP (only those attended in the current year) title: Fifth International Workshop for Future Challenges in Tracking and Trigger Concepts place: Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany webpage: https://indico.gsi.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2715 days: 12-14 May 2014 talk or poster (Y/N): N title: ALICE Physics week 2014 (INTERNAL ALICE WORKSHOP) place: CERN webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/event/347071/ days: 5 (24-28 November 2014) talk or poster (Y/N): N ------------------------------------------- VISITS AND STAGES (only those done in the current year) institution: GSI place: Darmstadt, Germany starting date: 3rd March 2014 days: 3rd-14th July 2014 ------------------------------------------- TEACHING ACTIVITIES (only those done in the current year) Tutoraggio di MECCANICA / corso A (16 ore) --------------------------------------------------- Research activity/Publications in the current year (max characters 2500) During the last year I worked on the upgrade of the Inner Tracking System (ITS) of ALICE experiment at CERN. In this context I made a preliminary study on the feasibility of Huffman compression of the reconstructed points data. In addition to this activity I also developed a tracking algorithm based on cellular automata. This algorithm showed to be faster than the algorithm used for the current ITS approximately by a factor 600. Further developments of this algorithm are ongoing. Lately I also started a physics analysis on the yield of deuterons and their collective behaviour in heavy ion collisions. Publications as a member of the ALICE collaboration can be found at the following url: http://cern.ch/go/c6Fl BE AWARE: research activity and Pubs are not evaluated as didactic credits, but are requested to trace the PhD students' career