Andrea Parenti, WP-76 (DAQ & Control Systems) - XFEL
Office: 2.17, Albert-Einstein-Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
Mailing Address: Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49(0)40.8998.6945
FAX: +49(0)40.8998.1905
e-mail: andrea.parenti @ xfel.eu

About myself

Here you can find my Curriculum Vitae.

My activities

Since March 2012, member of the WP-76 (DAQ & Control Systems) at the European XFEL GmbH.
11.2010-02.2012: member of the Experiment Control group at HASYLAB, DESY.
08.1998-11.2010: member of the ZEUS Collaboration: more information here.
11.2007-11.2010: member of the CMS Collaboration: more information here.
11.2000-11.2007: PhD student and Post-Doc at the Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei" (University of Padua): more information here.

My PhD thesis (10.2003)

Search for multi-lepton events with the ZEUS detector at HERA and VCMVD: an algorithm for MVD tracking at TLT: PDF file or gzipped PS file (also available as DESY THESIS);
Slides for the defence: pdf and ps.gz file.

My degree thesis (in italian, 07.2000)

Ricerca di risonanze nelle collisioni e-p col rivelatore ZEUS ad HERA (July 2000): ps.gz and pdf file;
Errata Corrige: ps.gz and pdf file;
Slides for the defence: ps.gz and pdf file.

Physics, in particular HEP

General: Physics web, Scientific American, Interactions.org.
Experiments: ZEUS (at DESY - Hamburg), CMS (at CERN - Geneva)
Other sites: Fermilab (USA), KEK (Japan), SLAC (USA)
Universities etc.: Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei" (University of Padua), INFN (sezioni di Padova, Legnaro)
Libraries: DESY, Department of Physics (Padua), and Padua University
e-Print Archives: German mirror, Main site
Video-conference service: Padova web-page, EVO
Math & Physics: Trygonometry, Calculus@Internet, Statistics and error theory (in italian), SUSY
Linux: Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, rpmfind, rpmbone.
Computing: Punto Informatico, Numerical Recipes, Fortran 77 manual, C++ tutorial, An introduction to gcc, Latex (online help, CTAN, Slides, Prosper package), HTML tutorial, IT at CERN,

Useful links

Free SMS: Freesmee
Printers in DESY, Padova, CERN.
Phonebooks: DESY, Padova, CERN.
CMS Padova, CMS meetings
Chamber Commissioning (old page), MC documentation.
Web anonymizers: Proxy Guy, Anonymouse, hidemyass.

Travels, free time

Google
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public Transportation
Universal Currency Converter
Youth hostels in Italy, and abroad
Weather Forecasts: Intellicast, LaMMA (Toscana), Guide Alpine della Lombardia, Meteotrentino, Arpa Veneto
Trekking and climbing: CAI, Sicuri in Montagna, CAI - Sesto F.no, Mountain Wilderness (IT), Jollypower (training for climbing), Paths in Toscana.
Climbing sites: Maiano (FI), Monsummano (PT), Vecchiano (PI), Rocca Pendice (PD), Falesie in Veneto.
Public Libraries: in Florence Area, in Padua Area
Dictionaries:WWWebster Dictionary (english), Hyperdictionary, Dizionario Italiano (italiano), La Repubblica - Dizionari, Italian verbs conjugator, Leo (Deutsch), Pons (Deutsch), travlang's Translating Dictionaries
(Obsolete) link collections/guides for: Padua, Geneve, Florence, Hamburg.
Italian news: la Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, il Manifesto, il Sole 24 Ore, Ansa, Televideo RAI
International news: the Economist, the Guardian, CNN, RedNet
Radio streaming: radio-locator, live365
Music: AllMusicGuide, Ultimate Band List
Music stores: JPC, Zweitausendeins (Hamburg).
Art: Mark Harden's Artchive
e-Books: bibliomania, Letture creative, Liber Liber, http://www.forgottenbooks.org/.
Movies at cinema: TrovaCinema, Film & Chips, Movieconnection.it
Movies on TV: Movies on Italian TV.
Movie guides: AllMovieGuide, Movie DataBase, Baldini e Castoldi, Filmup
Lingua veneta: linguaveneta.it, raixevenete.

Research in Italy

Andrea Parenti

Last modified: Fri Mar 2 9:17:36 CET 2012