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: Riccardo Russo email: rrusso@to.infn.it ciclo: XXVII year completed (1,2 or 3): 1 supervisor:Stefania Beole' ------------------------------------------- GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSES (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) code: 08 title:Mixing and CP violation teacher:Fabrizio Bianchi hours: 12 code: 04 title: Quantum field theory at finite temperature teacher:Marzia Nardi hours: 12 ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- SUMMER SCHOOLS, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS (only those attended in the current year) title: ALICE Offline Tutorial place: Cern, Switzerland webpage: http://aliweb.cern.ch/Offline/AliRoot/Manual.html Dates May 9-10, 2012 talk or poster: N title: INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS 2012 place: Erice webpage:http://www.ccsem.infn.it/issp2012/ days: 23 June – 2 July 2012 talk or poster (Y/N): D+ meson production in pp collisions with the ALICE detector (talk) title: XXII GIORNATE DI STUDIO sui RIVELATORI place: Torino webpage: http://www.gsr.unito.it/ days: 12-15 June 2012 talk or poster (Y/N): Charm production in heavy ion collisions (talk) ------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP (only those attended in the current year) title: ALICE Physics Week place: Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati webpage: http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/?q=apwfrascati2012 days: April 16th to 20th 2012 talk or poster (Y/N): none title: Quark Matter 2012 place: Washington DC webpage:http://qm2012.bnl.gov/ days: August 13-18 2012 talk or poster (Y/N): D+ meson production in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector (poster) title: Incontro Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare 2012 place: Catania webpage: http://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=4794 days: November 12-14 2012 talk or poster (Y/N): None ------------------------------------------- VISITS AND STAGES (only those done in the current year) institution:CERN place: Geneva starting date: 24 days during 2012 - proof of these visits can be shown if needed days: 24 --------------------------------------------------- Research activity/Publications in the current year (max characters 2500) Study of Dplus meson production in pp and Pb-Pb collisions in the ALICE central barrel: more specifically, study of the fraction of Dplus mesons coming from B decay and study of Dplus meson production as a function of centrality in the 2011 Pb-Pb data sample. Service tasks for PhD students in the ALICE Collaboration: - Quality Assurance of the data collected during 2012 for the Inner Tracking System (periods LHC12a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h) - Calibration of the Silicon Drift Detectors (periods LHC12 d-e-h)