Dear MCgroupies

Here comes summary of MC group meeting on Jan 8 2009:

- Announcements
 -announce opening of a new experimental postdoc position for the MC group
 -Interest from J. Huston&S. Mrenna on PDF4MC approach
 -outlined program for MC group, starting from PDF4MC fits using HERA data over validation of parton showers to tuning tevatron data
 - discussion about new meeting date, Thursday seems problematic for some.
   doodle page set up, please indicate, which date is best for you:
   http://www.doodle.com/wne6dmnerc4z7psi
   PLEASE sign up there
 - it was recommended to send out wider invitations to the discussion weeks (Pheno-weeks)

- PDF library (Z. Nagy)
 Zoltan presented his approach of a new C++ pdf library, including the latest pdf parametrisations

- Announcements form Leader of Ana-Center
 Thomas pointed out again to combine efforts of the different groups of the Anacenter
 He will give a next Tuesday a DESY seminar on the ANA center

- Grid school (B. Lobodzinski)
 Bogdan reported on discussions about a GRID school. The organizers of the GRIDKA school and people from IT are contacted and involved.

For the details, please look at the slides of the talks at: https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1590

Thanks a lot for contributing

Cheers

Hannes