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))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:45 Software Security L1: Introduction - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Software Design L1: Parallelism in a Modern HEP Data Processing Framework - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:45 Software Security L3: Web application security, exercise debriefing - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Data Management L1: Setting the scene: Storage technologies, Storage reliability - Alberto Pace (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
08:52 Primer to Cloud Security - Ankur Kothiwal   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:07 Machine Learning Methods in high jet multiplicities - Denys Timoshyn (Charles University (CZ))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:15 HHFramework - A common framework for HH analyses in the ATLAS experiment - Spyridon Merianos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:23 Negative Weights in Monte Carlo Samples. - Nikita Dolganov (Simon Fraser University (CA))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:30 FLUKA simulation for a 10 TeV Muon Collider - Daniele Calzolari (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:45 Data Management L2: Cryptography, authentication, authorization and accounting 1 - Alberto Pace (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exercises 1: Software Design - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
08:00 Airbus Visit or free time   ()
10:00 Announcements   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
10:15 Data Analysis L1: Introduction - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
11:15 Data Analysis L2: Probability density functions and Monte Carlo methods - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
08:45 Data Analysis L3: Parameter estimation - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:45 Introduction to Machine Learning 1 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Data Analysis L4: Confidence intervals - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
08:45 Introduction to machine learning 2 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
09:45 Machine Learning exercise 1 - Peter Steinbach   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
10:45 Announcements   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Sustainable computing 2 - Ana Lucia Varbanescu (University of Twente)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
15:30 Exercise 1: Tools and Techniques - Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Prof. Bob Jacobsen   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Exercise 2: Tools and Techniques - Prof. Bob Jacobsen Giulio Eulisse (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:38 The search of magnetic monopoles in the CMS Experiment - Thales Menezes De Oliveira (CBPF - Brazilian Center for Physics Research (BR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:45 Exercises 1: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
17:45 Exercises 2: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:38 Error underestimation in high-statistics counting experiments with finite Monte Carlo samples - Cristina-Andreea Alexe (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:45 Exercise 3: Tools and Techniques - Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Prof. Bob Jacobsen   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
17:45 Exercise 3: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
12:30 Exercise 4: - Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Prof. Bob Jacobsen   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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...   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
12:30 Exercises 2: Software Design - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
17:30 Exercise 4: Software Design - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
17:30 Exercises 1: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
18:30 Exercises 2: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
19:30 --- Dinner DESY ---
12:30 Data Management L4: Distributed Hash Tables, Data Replication, Caching, Monitoring, Alarms and Quota 1 - Alberto Pace (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Study or sports time   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Advanced Text Analysis for Knowledge Discovery - Mrs Aleksandra Kowalczuk (Accenture/University of Warsaw/WSB Merito)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:38 Deep learning metrics for protein-protein interfaces in macromolecular assemblies - Nicholas Whyatt (STFC UKRI)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
16:45 Exercice 1: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
17:45 Exercises 2: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
17:30 Machine Learning exercise 3 - Peter Steinbach   (Building 1b SR4a/b)
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 ---