CERN School of Computing 2024

from Sunday 8 September 2024 (15:00) to Saturday 21 September 2024 (11:00)
DESY (Building 1b SR4a/b)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Sept 2024
9 Sept 2024
10 Sept 2024
11 Sept 2024
12 Sept 2024
13 Sept 2024
14 Sept 2024
15 Sept 2024
16 Sept 2024
17 Sept 2024
18 Sept 2024
19 Sept 2024
20 Sept 2024
21 Sept 2024
AM
09:00 Opening Ceremony - Welcome - Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:05 The DESY laboratory and research - Beate Heinemann (DESY and University of Hamburg)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:25 Welcome address from the German Ministry of Science - Martin Thome (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:35 Research at CERN: LHC and beyond - Joachim Josef Mnich (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:55 70 years of Physics Research and Discoveries at CERN - Rolf Heuer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Building 5, Auditorium)
10:15 Computing Infrastructures for Research in Physics - Enrica Maria Porcari (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
10:30 The CERN School of Computing - Alberto Pace (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
10:45 --- Break ---
11:15 Announcements   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:30 Introduction to Physics Computing L1: Hadron Collider Physics - Arnulf Quadt (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))   (Building 5, Auditorium)
08:45 Introduction to Physics Computing L2: Digital Data, Simulation and Reconstruction in Modern Particle Physics Experiments - Arnulf Quadt (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))  
09:45 Software Security L1: Introduction - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Software Design L1: Parallelism in a Modern HEP Data Processing Framework - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)  
08:45 Data Science L1: Tools for interactive data exploration - Prof. Bob Jacobsen Giulio Eulisse (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:45 Software Design L2: Base Concepts of Parallel Programming: A Pragmatic Approach - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
10:45 Photo  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Software Design L3: Understanding, Debugging and Profiling a Complex Multithreaded Application - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
08:45 Software Design L4: Patterns for Parallel Software Development - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
09:45 Software Security L3: Web application security, exercise debriefing - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Data Management L1: Setting the scene: Storage technologies, Storage reliability - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
08:45 Developing Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud: the AI_INFN platform & InterLink - Rosa Petrini (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)  
08:52 Primer to Cloud Security - Ankur Kothiwal  
09:00 The Detector Safety System, a.k.a. the reason why the detectors in the biggest accelerator in the world don't set on fire. - Andrea Germinario  
09:07 Machine Learning Methods in high jet multiplicities - Denys Timoshyn (Charles University (CZ))  
09:15 HHFramework - A common framework for HH analyses in the ATLAS experiment - Spyridon Merianos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))  
09:23 Negative Weights in Monte Carlo Samples. - Nikita Dolganov (Simon Fraser University (CA))  
09:30 FLUKA simulation for a 10 TeV Muon Collider - Daniele Calzolari (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
09:45 Data Management L2: Cryptography, authentication, authorization and accounting 1 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exercises 1: Software Design - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
08:00 Airbus Visit or free time  
10:00 Announcements  
10:15 Data Analysis L1: Introduction - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
11:15 Data Analysis L2: Probability density functions and Monte Carlo methods - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
08:45 Data Analysis L3: Parameter estimation - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
09:45 Introduction to Machine Learning 1 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Data Analysis L4: Confidence intervals - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
08:45 Introduction to machine learning 2 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
09:45 Machine Learning exercise 1 - Peter Steinbach  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Sustainable computing 2 - Ana Lucia Varbanescu (University of Twente)  
08:45 Introduction to Machine Learning 3 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:45 Data Analysis L5 - Hypothesis testing and p-value - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 5, Auditorium)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exercises 3: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
08:45 Introduction to Machine Learning 4 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:45 Machine Learning exercise 4 - Peter Steinbach   (Building 5, Auditorium)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Machine Learning exercise 5 - Peter Steinbach   (Building 5, Auditorium)
09:30 Exam   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Traditional football match  
08:00 Breakfast and check out  
PM
15:00 --- Arrival and registration at DESY ---
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
20:30 Self presentations   (DESY Bistro)
12:30 Tools and Techniques L1: Introduction - Prof. Bob Jacobsen   (Building 5, Auditorium)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Tools and Techniques L2: Tools for Collaboration, Software Engineering Across the Project - Prof. Bob Jacobsen Giulio Eulisse (CERN)  
15:30 Exercise 1: Tools and Techniques - Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Prof. Bob Jacobsen  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Exercise 2: Tools and Techniques - Prof. Bob Jacobsen Giulio Eulisse (CERN)  
18:45 Transport to dinner venue (bus)  
19:30 --- Welcome dinner at Cap Polonio ---
22:00 Transport back to DESY  
12:30 Software Security L2: Security in different phases of software development - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Speeding up MadGraph5 with GPUs - Daniele Massaro (CERN)  
16:38 The search of magnetic monopoles in the CMS Experiment - Thales Menezes De Oliveira (CBPF - Brazilian Center for Physics Research (BR))  
16:45 Exercises 1: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
17:45 Exercises 2: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
19:30 --- Dinner at DESY ---
20:30 Pub quiz at DESY   (DESY Bistro)
12:30 Data Science L2: Interactive exploration of non-numeric data - Prof. Bob Jacobsen Giulio Eulisse (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Downstream and T-Track reconstruction at the first level of LHCb trigger - Volodymyr Svintozelskyi (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
16:38 Error underestimation in high-statistics counting experiments with finite Monte Carlo samples - Cristina-Andreea Alexe (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))  
16:45 Exercise 3: Tools and Techniques - Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Prof. Bob Jacobsen  
17:45 Exercise 3: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
12:30 Exercise 4: - Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Prof. Bob Jacobsen  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:45 Transport to Hamburg  
15:45 Hamburg hafenrundfart visit excursion  
19:00 Transport to restaurant by train  
19:30 --- Dinner at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele Hamburg ---
21:30 Return to DESY or evening out...  
12:30 Exercises 2: Software Design - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time [1,5h]  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Exercise 3: Software Design - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
17:30 Exercise 4: Software Design - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)  
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
12:15 --- Picknick lunch ---
13:30 Free time  
17:30 Free time  
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
12:15 Sunday Excursion - canoeing (incl. lunch)  
18:30 --- Hamburger party at Sierichs Biergarten ---
12:30 Sustainable computing - Ana Lucia Varbanescu (University of Twente)  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Data Management L3: Cryptography, authentication, authorization and accounting 2 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
17:30 Exercises 1: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
18:30 Exercises 2: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
12:30 Data Management L4: Distributed Hash Tables, Data Replication, Caching, Monitoring, Alarms and Quota 1 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Advanced Text Analysis for Knowledge Discovery - Mrs Aleksandra Kowalczuk (Accenture/University of Warsaw/WSB Merito)  
16:38 Deep learning metrics for protein-protein interfaces in macromolecular assemblies - Nicholas Whyatt (STFC UKRI)  
16:45 Exercice 1: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
17:45 Exercises 2: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
20:30 --- Karaoke evening ---
12:30 Exercises 4: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Machine Learning exercise 2 - Peter Steinbach  
17:30 Machine Learning exercise 3 - Peter Steinbach  
19:00 CERN, Computing and talent aquisition - Beate Heinemann (DESY and University of Freiburg (Germany)) Heather Gray (UC Berkeley/LBNL) Barbara Binder (CERN)   (Building 5, Auditorium)
20:30 --- Networking dinner at DESY ---
12:30 Exercise 3: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 5, Auditorium)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Exercise 4: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 5, Auditorium)
17:30 Spare / DESY visit  
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Graduation ceremony   (Building 5, Auditorium)
16:00 --- Free time ---
18:30 Transport to dinner venue  
19:30 --- Closing Dinner Party at Restaurant Blockbräu ---