CERN School of Computing 2025

from Sunday 6 July 2025 (15:00) to Saturday 19 July 2025 (11:00)
Lund

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025
8 Jul 2025
9 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025
11 Jul 2025
12 Jul 2025
13 Jul 2025
14 Jul 2025
15 Jul 2025
16 Jul 2025
17 Jul 2025
18 Jul 2025
19 Jul 2025
AM
09:00 Welcome and opening session - Alberto Di Meglio (CERN) Joachim Josef Mnich (CERN) Oxana Smirnova (Lund University) Alberto Pace (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Announcements  
11:15 Spare  
11:30 Introduction to Physics Computing L1: Hadron Collider Physics - Arnulf Quadt (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))  
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 Design L1: Parallelism in a Modern HEP Data Processing Framework - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Tools and Techniques, Lecture 3 - Performance - Sten Astrand (Lund University)  
08:45 Data Science L1: Interactive exploration of non-numeric data - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:45 Software Design L3: Understanding, Debugging and Profiling a Complex Multithreaded Application - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
10:45 Announcement  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Data Analysis L1: Introduction - Toni Sculac  
08:45 Lightning talks - Nishant Gaurav (Vanderbilt University (US)) Meisam Farzalipour Tabriz (Max Planck Society (DE)) Kiran Jonathan Christina Karagianni Jessica Prendi (ETH Zurich (CH))  
09:45 Software Design L4: Patterns for Parallel Software Development - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 Photo  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Data Management L1: Setting the scene: Storage technologies, Storage reliability - Alberto Pace  
08:45 Data Analysis L3: Parameter estimation - Toni Sculac  
09:45 Data Analysis L4: Confidence intervals - Toni Sculac  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exercise 1: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac  
08:45 Data Analysis L5 - Hypothesis testing and p-value - Toni Sculac  
09:45 --- Change of rooms ---
10:00 Exercise 3: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
11:00 Announcements   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:15 --- Coffee break ---
11:45 Exercise 4: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))  
07:30 Sunday Excursion to the Island of Ven  
08:45 Data Management L2: Cryptography, authentication, authorization and accounting 1 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
09:45 Data Management L3: Cryptography, authentication, authorization and accounting 2 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Introduction to Machine Learning L1 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
08:45 Software Security L1: Introduction - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
09:45 Data Management L4: Distributed Hash Tables, Data Replication, Caching, Monitoring, Alarms and Quota 1 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Software Security L2: Security in different phases of software development - Sebastian Lopienski  
08:45 Introduction to Machine Learning L3 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
09:45 Introduction to Machine Learning L4 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
10:45 Announcements   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exercise 3: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
09:45 Data Management L5: Distributed Hash Tables, Data Replication, Caching, Monitoring, Alarms and Quota 2 - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
10:45 Announcements   (Building 5, Auditorium)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exercise 2: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
09:00 Daily announcements  
09:15 Exam  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Walk to stadium  
11:15 Traditional football match  
08:00 Breakfast and check out  
PM
15:00 --- Arrival and registration at Elite Hotel Ideon ---
17:30 Self presentations   (Elite Hotel Ideon)
19:30 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
12:30 Tools and Techniques L1: Introduction - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Tools and Techniques L2: Tools for Collaboration, Software Engineering Across the Project - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:30 --- Change of room ---
15:45 Exercise 1: Tools and Techniques - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
16:45 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Exercise 2: Tools and Techniques - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
19:30 --- Welcome dinner at Grand Hotel ---
12:30 Software Design L2: Base Concepts of Parallel Programming: A Pragmatic Approach - Andrei Gheata Stephan Hageboeck  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Exercise 3: Tools and Techniques - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:30 Exercise 4: - Prof. Bob Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 City tour of Lund with guide Group 1 / Sports / Study  
19:00 Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon  
20:30 Pub quiz  
12:30 Data Analysis L2: Probability density functions and Monte Carlo methods - Toni Sculac  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Exercise 1: Software Design - Stephan Hageboeck Andrei Gheata  
15:30 Exercise 2: Software Design - Stephan Hageboeck Andrei Gheata  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 City tour of Lund with guide Group 2 / Sports / Study  
19:15 Kubb Tournament: Announcement  
19:30 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
20:45 Sunset beach volleyball  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Transport by bus to Malmö from Elite Hotel Ideon  
14:30 Afternoon excursion to Malmö  
18:30 --- BBQ dinner at Kockums Fritid, restaurant Fredag49 ---
21:00 Sunset watching in Västra Hamnen  
22:00 Bus departure from Kockum Fritid back to Lund  
12:30 Exercise 2: Data Analysis - Toni Sculac  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Exercise 3: Software Design - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)  
15:30 Exercise 4: Software Design - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Kubb Tournament GAME DAY 0 (indoor)  
20:00 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
12:45 --- Picknick lunch ---
13:15 Free time  
20:00 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon (or continued free time for those who wants) ---
19:00 --- Dinner at Elite Hotel Ideon ---
12:30 --- Change of rooms ---
12:45 Exercise 1: Machine Learning - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT)) Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
13:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45 Exercise 1: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
15:45 Exercise 2: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
16:45 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Study or sports time. Kubb Tournament Game Day 2 "Semifinals"  
19:00 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
20:30 The Future of the Universe and Humanity - Ivica Puljak (Technical University of Split FESB)  
12:30 Introduction to Machine Learning L2 - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Exercise 1: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
15:30 Exercise 2: Machine Learning - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Study or sports time, Kubb tournament GAME DAY 3  
19:00 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
12:30 Exercise 4: Data Technologies - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Exercise 3: Machine Learning - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT)) Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
15:30 Exercise 4: Machine Learning - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT)) Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Study or sports time  
19:00 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
12:30 Exercise 3: Software Security - Sebastian Lopienski - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Introduction Machine Learning L5 - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))  
15:30 Software Security L3: Web application security, exercise debriefing - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Study or sports time  
19:00 --- Dinner Elite Hotel Ideon ---
12:30 --- Shower, walk back to Medicum ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Graduation ceremony  
16:00 --- Free time ---
19:00 --- Closing Gala Dinner at AF Borgen ---