CERN School of Computing 2025

from Sunday, July 6, 2025 (3:00 PM) to Saturday, July 19, 2025 (11:00 AM)
Lund

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