Oct 10 – 16, 2021
Split, Croatia (or online)
Europe/Zagreb timezone

tCSC 2021-autumn Live!

School movie

Posted on Friday 22 October at 14:15

Please see the school movie at https://videos.cern.ch/record/2788450

Exam results

Posted on Friday 22 October at 13:45

We are very happy to announce that all students have passed the final school exam. Congratulations to everyone, and in particular to the following students who received the highest marks, and obtained a diploma with distinction:

21 correct answers out of 22:

  • Panos Lantavos-Stratigakis (CERN)
  • Laura Promberger (CERN)
  • Ferdinand Vanmaele (Heidelberg University, Germany)

20 correct answers:

  • Davide Giordano (University of Torino and INFN, Italy)
  • Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) 
  • Alexandre Hakimi (LLR and Ecole Polytechnique, France)
  • Marc Huwiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Robert Kralik (University of Sussex, UK)
  • Pablo Morales Guzman (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany)
  • Haakon Reme-Ness (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)

19 correct answers:

  • Leonid Burmistrov (IJClab/IN2P3/CNRS, France)
  • Thorben Quast (CERN)
  • Sergey Ryzhikov (IHEP, Russia)
  • Albert Zhou (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Announcements Friday Closing Dinner

Posted on Friday 15 October at 11:00

Tonight dinner at Split

We are having our Closing dinner at the nice trattoria Tinel at Split

The bus will leave Medils at 19:30. 

The dinner will start at Tinel restaurant at 20:00

http://www.trattoria-tinel.com/en/

Ul. Tomića stine 1, 21000, Split.

Map

Back to MedILS or Cvita

For the ones who would like to come back to Medils directly after the dinner, the bus is scheduled at 22:50. Otherwise, if as us (the organisers) you will stay at Split a little longer, you organise your return back to the hotel.

Table tennis tournament

 After a thrilling tournament, we're happy to announce the results  and congratulate the big winners:

 Champion: Haakon Reme-Ness    

 2nd place: Toni Sculac

 Congratulation to all participants!

 

 

School Photo

Posted on Thursday 14 October at 17:00

Thanks to the Photographer: Aleksandar Topalovic (from MedILS Institute)

Wednesday Rafting

Posted on Tuesday 12 October at 17:00

It's time for some hardcore outdoors adventure! We're going to raft down the bouncy rapids lurking in the amazing Cetina river canyon, followed by a delicious traditional "peka" dinner at the restaurant Kaštil Slanica  (location map here).

Transport

The bus leaves MEDILS at 13:30. Please be on time:)

Weather

Forecast sunny with some cloud, up to 18'C. Evening will be cooler, especially next to the river where we eat.

You will need to bring:

Clothes for the rafting (can get wet!)

swimming costume

shoes/sandals

(optional) rainjacket on top

Sun cream + sunglasses

Warmer clothes for the dinner

bring a complete change of clothes
and a towel (which will stay on the bus
while we are rafting)

Dinner

Dinner is at the Kaštil Slanica at 18:30. We eat next to the river and it can get cool, so bring a jacket to keep warm.

Photo Contest

Submit your best photos to the photo Contest! 

Register your photo by: Name-Surname-Photo title

e.g.: joelma-tolomeo-school spirity

Upload your photos here: https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/sw16oTe5ZGHHeuv

Photo contest jury:

Alexandre Hakimi

Athanasios Samantas

Ferdinand Vanmaele

Meeting with the Jury on Thursday 14th at 20h

Student lightning talks

Posted on Monday, October 11 at 17:00

We have just finished a very interesting student presentations session, with topics about GPU for particle simulation, improvement of software quality, performance of technology for storage, and ML in the cloud. Congratulations to all the speakers!

Welcome to Split, and the Thematic CSC autumn 2021

Sunday, October 10th, 7am

Dear all welcome to the Thematic CSC autumn 2021, focused on the topic of

"Scientific Software for Heterogeneous Architectures"

This year we have 26 participants of 15 different nationalities:

Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom

representing 18 different institutes:

Heidelberg University, IHEP, CNRS, INFN, University of Milano, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, Maastricht University, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Nikhef, University of Bologna, University of Geneva, University of Liverpool, University of Sussex, University of Torino, University of Zurich, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and CERN

Your registration

Starting from 11am we will be waiting for you at MedILS desk. 

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/XsnkCfkXiG2HSfrE6

Your registration

Lunch will start at 13h at MedILS place

Sunday Evening Activities

Transport & Guided tour

17:15   buses from MedILS to Split downtown, the visit will start from the Bronze Gate, here https://goo.gl/maps/wodeuArQDDHvEAGw5

17:30-19:00   guided walking tour of Split city 

Evening Meal

19:30   dinner at Bajamonti restaurant

Address: Prokurativa d.o.o., Trg Republike 1, Split

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/3d8zgm2XJWGCenDE7

Transport back to MEDILS

Transport back to Medils/Cvita is organised around 22:00 (depending on how many want to return), otherwise you're welcome to make your own way back to where you will be lodged.

Welcome to tCSC autumn 2021 Live!

Thursday 7 October 2021

"tCSC autumn 2021 Live!" (this page) is the live blog/information-sharing channel of the organisers (Sebastian, Joelma, Jarek, Toni and the lecturers) with students during the School.

This is the place where we will post official information (schedule updates, links to surveys, logistics details of various activities) but also the fun stuff (pictures from social activities, sport competition results etc.). So please visit this page often.

I hope that you are as excited as we are to come to Split in just a couple of days! :-)

Have a safe travel - Sebastian, Joelma and Jarek