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Organization & contacts

The TauPOG has three subgroups, which are focused on triggers (TauTRIG), Calibration-Quality-Modelling (TauCQM), algorithms (TauALGO).

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L2["<b>TauPOG L2</b><br><a href='mailto:michal.bluj@cern.ch'>Michał Bluj</a>,<br><a href='mailto:izaak.neutelings@cern.ch'>Izaak Neutelings</a><br>(<a href='mailto:cms-pog-conveners-tau@cern.ch'>contact</a>)"]:::tbx;
TRG["<b>TauTRIG L3</b><br><a href='mailto:botao.guo@cern.ch'>Botao Guo</a>,<br><a href='mailto:youngwan.kim@cern.ch'>Youngwan Kim</a><br>(<a href='mailto:cms-tau-trigger-conveners@cern.ch'>contact</a>)"]:::tbx;
ALG["<b>TauALGO L3</b><br><a href='mailto:pritam.palit@cern.ch'>Pritam Palit</a>,<br><a href='mailto:lucas.russell@cern.ch'>Lucas Russell</a><br>(<a href='mailto:cms-tau-algo-conveners@cern.ch'>contact</a>)"]:::tbx;
CQM["<b>TauCQM L3</b><br><a href='mailto:Alexei.Raspereza@desy.de'>Alexei Raspereza</a>,<br><a href='mailto:gourab.saha@cern.ch'>Gourab Saha</a><br>(<a href='mailto:cms-tau-cqm-conveners@cern.ch'>contact</a>)"]:::tbx;
L2 --> TRG;
L2 --> ALG;
L2 --> CQM;

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The contacts are:

Topic	Contact
RECO/SW (online)	Looking for contact !
RECO/SW (offline)	Pritam Palit
Phase II (online)	Elena Vernazza
Phase II (offline)	Paola Mastrapasqua
MC	Lucas Russell
Embedding	Christian Winter
Validation (online)	Andreas Grüber
Validation (offline)	Gourab Saha
HLT RelVal (Run 3)	Matheus Coelho
HLT RelVal (Phase II)	Eunsu Kim

The contacts to the Physics Analysis Group (PAG) are:

Topic	Contact
B2G	Andrew Melo
EXO	Andrea Cardini
HIG	Stepan Zakharov
NPS/SUS	Anagha Aravind
SMP	Naila Islam

TauPOG's Hall of Fame of Taulumni

Below is an incomplete list of TauPOG L2 and L3 conveners. Note that from 2022, the TauID group became TauCQM (Calibration-Quality-Modelling). Please let us know if somethings wrong or missing!

M.V. Acosta: TauPOG L2 (2012–2014)
B. Allmond: TauTRIG L3 (2023–2026)
I. Andreou: TauALGO L3 (2023–2025)
K. Androsov: TauTRIG L3 (2019–2020), TauPOG L2 (2020–2022)
E. Asilar: TauCQM L3 (2021–2022)
A. Attikis: TauCQM L3 (2022–2024)
C. Bernet: PF/TauPOG L2 (2008–2010?)
M. Bluj: TauTRIG L3 (2011–2015), TauPOG L2 (2015–2017, 2024–present)
M. Burkart: TauTRIG L3 (2019–2021)
C. Caillol: TauID L3 (2016–2018)
A. Cardini: TauID L3 (2020–2021), TauCQM L3 (2021–2022), TauPOG L2 (2023–2025)
R. Cavanaugh: PF/TauPOG L2 (2007–2008?)
V. D'Amante: TauTRIG L3 (2022–2024)
O. Filatov: TauALGO L3 (2022–2023)
E. Friis: TauPOG L2 (2013?)
G. Galloni: TauID L3 (2017–2019)
S. Gennai: PF/TauPOG L2 (2008–2012?)
B. Guo: TauTRIG L3 (2025–present)
P. Janot: PF/TauPOG L2 (2007–2009?)
P. Jez: TauID L3 (2013–2015), TauPOG L2 (2014–2015)
Y. Kim: TauTRIG L3 (2026–present)
V. Krishna Nair: TauTRIG L3 (2021–2023)
O. Lavoryk: TauALGO L3 (2023–2025)
A.-C. Le Bihan: TauPOG L2 (2021–2023)
S. Lehti: TauTRIG L3 (2016–2018)
R. Manzoni: TauTRIG L3 (2015–2017), TauPOG L2 (2018–2020)
P. Mastrapasqua: TauCQM L3 (2023–2025)
A. Mohammadi: TauID L3 (2014–2016)
A. Nayak: TauTRIG L3 (2012–2013), TauID L3 (2014–2017)
I. Neutelings: TauID L3 (2019–2021), TauPOG L2 (2025–present)
I. Ojalvo: TauTRIG L3 (2014–2015), TauPOG L2 (2016–2018)
P. Palit: TauALGO (2025–present)
A. Raspiareza: TauCQM L3 (2023–present)
D. Roy: TauCQM L3 (2022–2023)
L. Russel: TauALGO (2024–present)
G. Saha: TauCQM L3 (2024–present)
S. Savin: TauID L3 (2010–2011), TauPOG L2 (2011–2012)
H. Sert: TauTRIG L3 (2019–2020)
M. Shchedrolosiev: TauALGO (2022–2023)
J. Steggemann: TauPOG L2 (2017–2018)
T. Strebler: TauTRIG L3 (2017–2018)
X. Sun: TauTRIG L3 (2023–2025)
Y. Takahashi: TauID L3 (2015–2017)
C. Veelken: TauID L3 (2010–2013), TauPOG L2 (2013–2015)
Y. Wen: TauID L3 (2018–2020)
L. Wezenbeek: TauTRIG L3 (2020–2022)
D. Winterbottom: TauPOG L2 (2022–2024)
R. Wolf: TauPOG L2 (2019–2021)

Meetings

TauPOG meetings on Indico (weekly overview):

Tau POG: bi-weekly: Monday, 16:00 (CERN) (contact).
Tau CQM: bi-weekly Monday, 16:00 (CERN) (contact).
Tau ALGO: weekly Tuesday, 16:00 (CERN) (contact).
Tau TRIG: weekly Monday, 14:00 (CERN) (contact).
Tau upgrade: on-call [currently inactive].

Contact & Communications

Please direct all your questions on CMS Talk. Otherwise, you can contact the L2 and/or L3 conveners with the e-mail adresses linked in the Organization section.

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