OPERA status report (SPSC 97)

This document updates the status of OPERA after the last SPSC report of June 2009. The report presents the progress of the various subsystems and informs about the recent start of the 2010 run. In particular, we focus on the analysis steps that go from the prediction of where the neutrino interaction occurred down to the decay search procedure and the following kinematical analysis. The analysis of the first OPERA tau candidate event is not discussed here, since details can be found in a paper accepted for publication on Physics Letters B and attached to this report.