Date and place
The 16th Thematic CERN School of Computing will be showcasing IT Services and how they can help you in your work at CERN or in your home institiute. This school is open only to persons with a CERN affiliation.
Applications and selection
We are committed to achieving an inclusive and stimulating environment at our schools, and we encourage all qualified persons to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of nationality, gender, age, ethnic origin, individual differences of belief, sexual orientation, or disability.
The school is aimed at any person with an active CERN affiliation, who wishes to require a better understanding of the tools that are available for everybody to use and facilitate their work with.
Anyone with a valid CERN affiliation, whether empoyed by CERN, affiliated as a User, COAS or any other status, is welcome to attend.
The school on IT Services aims to empower CERN members of personnel (including Students, Fellows, Origin, Quests, Staff, and Users) to get the most out of the computing services delivered by the CERN IT Department to the physics community.
The school is recommended for any person that is using the CERN IT services either to deliver information, analyze data, automate tasks or work in engineering projects. We expect participation from both active users who would like to be more proficient and newcomers at CERN that would like to discover and get an introduction to the ecosystem of computing services available to all CERN users.
To apply, please fill in the application and make sure you provide the requested information.
Applicants should ensure that they have:
- completed the applicatoni form online, and
- uploaded a signed formal letter of reference (on formal headed paper from the applicant's institute/organization) from their professor or supervisor.
- If your professor or supervisor does not wish to provide you with a letter directly, s/he can email us your letter of reference instead. This should be sent directly to Computing.School@cern.ch, with the subject: Reference Letter tCSC IT 2024: [name of applicant]
The letter of reference needs to be received by the school (whether uploaded or emailed) by the applicatoin deadline, at the latest.
If no letter is included, the application will be considered void and discarded from the selection process. It is your responsibility to ensure we receive it.
The number of participants is limited to 30.
Participant selection is done by members of the CSC Advisory + Programme Committee, and is based on the profile and the motivation of the applicants.
Selected applicants will receive an Acceptance Letter from the school. Payment of the registration fee (via TID) will confirm your place, at which point you will be considered a participant.
If you have received an invitation to attend the school, you will be required to pay the school's registration fee via TID. The deadline for payment of the fee is:
Wednesday 16 October
If you have been offered a place at the school and we have not received your fee by this date, you risk losing your place at the school and it being offered to another applicant.If you know that you are not able to participate, please tell us ASAP.
The total fee of the School is 420 CHF per participant
The fee covers:
- Tuition and handouts.
- Meals during the day, including lunches and coffee breaks
- All organized social activities (special dinner, excursion).
The fee does NOT cover:
- Travel expenses from the participants' home to the the Appart City hotel where the school will be hosted. The school is non-residential.
- Any extra cost incurred during the stay (including private expenses in the hotel)
There are four ways to pay:
- TID - for participants located at CERN and/or with CERN internal transfer capabilities (preferred)
Insurance
Participants must have health and accident cover that includes adequate protection (including emergency medical treatment, hospitalisation and repatriation in case of illness or accident), and against disability or death resulting from illnesses and accidents, for the country in which the School takes place.
Participants shall hold CERN free and harmless from any cost or expense resulting from the situation where adequate insurance cover is not in place.
Transport
The organisers will arrange for a transport from CERN to the venue for those who do not have a private transport.
Appart’City Collection
Genève Aéroport Ferney Voltaire
11, avenue des Sablonnières
01210 FERNEY-VOLTAIRE
France
Meals
All meals are included in the School fee. The first meal will be the lunch on Monday 4 November and the last one lunch on 8 November.
We will ask you in your acceptance form about any specific dietary requirements you may have, and do our best to accommodate accordingly, given the local catering options available. However we cannot make any guarantees.
Sustainability
Organizing the school in an environmentally responsible way is one of our goals.
During the school, we will:
- Serve meals and drinks with washable plates, glasses and utensils; or with recycled and/or biodegradable ones
- Have vegetarian and vegan dishes available
- Limit the amount of printed materials (and in particular, only provide the printed version of the school booklet to those who want to have one)
- Separate and recycle waste
