Minutes, Unfolding Meeting, 15 September 2010
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Present: 
Fred Stober (Karlsruhe, CMS), Natalie Milke (Dortmund, IceCube), Sergey Kalinin (Wuppertal, ATLAS), Gero Flucke (DESY, CMS), Nikolai Gagunashvili (Island), Tim Adye (RAL, ATLAS), Thomas Peiffer (Karlsruhe, CMS), Thomas Schoerner (DESY, CMS), unidentified phone bridge

Minutes: 
Thomas Schoerner

INDICO page:
https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3377

0. Action items
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- Thomas : proceedings
- All: volunteer to read proceedings
- All: comment on WIKI page / edit your own method etc. (methods, literature)
- Nikolai: Send around reference to NIMA article from 1990
- Gero / Thomas: Put SVN documentation on WIKI page
- Tim / Gero / Wolfgang F.: Insert RooUnfold into SVN
- Thomas: provide dump area and make known
- All: document some of their tests on WIKI page (in testing methods sections)
- Gero: doodle for next meeting in about 4-6 weeks.

1. Short introduction of all participants
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Outcome see list of participants above. 

2. Short reports from CMS and ATLAS
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- CMS (Gero): --> see Gero's slides at the INDICO page above
	Gero also reported at the German CMS meeting last week, and 
	the suggestion was raised (not a new one?) to integrate with ROostats.
- ATLAS: (Tim): typically bin-by-bin corrections used, or d"Agostini method. Tim not aware of deep ongoing discussions. 

3. Proceedings of the workshop in May
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Thomas waiting for one contribution from Goettingen. Then would like to distribute articles for some shallow proof-reading. Volunteers welcome. 

4. WIKI page
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https://www.wiki.terascale.de/index.php/Unfolding_Framework_Project

- Gero and Christoph collected information for all (most relevant) methods. Comments and editing highly welcome. 
- Access to the page via one-time registration (see Gero's slides)
- Everybody invited to put literature on the bottom of the wiki page

5. News
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- RooUnfold (Tim): new version out -- see Tim's slides on the INDICO page
- Nikolai G.: Working on "unfolding of parameters" - extracting physical parameters of physics distributions without really unfolding. Ressembles method from 1990 NIMA article 

6. Infrastructure
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- SVN server 
  --- accessible now - please register with Gero / Thomas if you are interested! Next step: Put RooUnfold in
  --- Question: How to integrate with e.g. TRUEE? Put it into Hamburg repository? Or only develop interface in HH and only keep fixed version in HH (development still on SVN server in Dortmund)?
- bug tracking: not yet
- dump area: Thomas will prepare AFS dump area for collecting test samples etc.

7. next steps
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- SVN steps with RooUnfold and TRUEE?
- Start on checking / testing
  --> will be issue of next meeting
- next meeting in about 4-6 weeks, focusing on testing. Nikolai will report on his work. Other contributions?