ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE Career Networking Event 2015

Wednesday 9 Dec 2015, 17:00 → 23:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Archana Sharma (CERN), Beate Heinemann (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Christoph Rembser (CERN), Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN), Jonas Rademacker (University of Bristol (GB)), Paolo Giacomelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

A networking event for alumni of the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE experiments as well as current ATLAS/CMS/LHCb/ALICE postdocs and graduate students. This event offers an insight into career opportunities outside of academia. Various former members of the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE collaborations will give presentations and be part of a panel discussion and elaborate on their experience in companies in a diverse range of fields (industry, finance, IT,...). There will be opportunities to ask questions in the panel discussion, in the break and after the event. Refreshment and light snacks will be served. The event is supported by the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE Collaborations and attendance is limited with priority given to ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE members. Registration obligatory and the fee of 10 CHF must be paid in cash at the event. NOTE: THE LIVE WEBCAST IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE VIA A VALID CERN ACCOUNT.

poster_cmsatlas_Final.pdf

17:00 → 17:05 Introduction

Speakers: Archana Sharma (CERN), TBA

17:10 → 18:25 Brief Presentations - part 1

17:10 Working at YouTube/Google

I worked on the ATLAS experiment between 2008 and 2014, first as a PhD student at the University of Göttingen with focus on top quark physics, and later as a postdoc at Yale University with focus on susy searches and still with strong interest in top quarks. In 2014 I left Geneva and moved to Dublin to join Google, first working as an analyst in the Product Quality Operations division to fight spam and abuse at scale, and since mid this year in YouTube's Policy & Enforcement team.

Speaker: Anna Henrichs (Google/Dublin , was ATLAS)

17:25 Working at ELCA Informatique

I have worked on the LHCb experiment for 7 years. I did my PhD at Imperial College London, followed by two postdocs; one at INFN and one at EPFL. The focus of my studies at LHCb have been rare B meson decays, specifically Bs-> mu mu, B-> e mu and Bs -> phi gamma. Currently I am a consultant in the Business Intelligence division of ELCA informatique, Lausanne. My work is focused on creating solutions for business intelligence, data ware housing and data migration needs of the clients.

Speaker: Fatima Soomro (ELCA was LHCb)

17:40 Working in the Six Swiss Exchange

Prior to joining SIX Swiss Exchange, I have spent 12 years at CERN working on L3 and CMS Experiment. Having worked in different teams over last 14 years, presently heading Innovation program at SIX Swiss Exchange, as Innovation Manager.

Speaker: Maneesh Wadhwa (was CMS, now Six Swiss Exchange)

Physicist Journey CERN to Financial Industry_Maneesh_2015_Final.pdf

Physicist Journey CERN to Financial Industry_Maneesh_2015_Final.pdf

Physicist Journey CERN to Financial Industry_Maneesh_2015_Final.pptx

17:55 Working at Continental

I was a PhD student at the Bonn university working on beauty and charm photoproduction at the ZEUS experiment at DESY. From 2010 to 2012 I was part of the ATLAS collaboration as a research fellow involved in the measurement of top quark properties and the search for long-lived multicharge particles and later a SW convenor of the TRT (Transition Radiation Tracker) group. Currently I am team leader for "raw data processing" in the algorithm development for short and midrange radar sensors in the ADAS (advanced driving assistant systems) business unit of Continental in Lindau Germany. These sensors are used to cover the front and rea region of the vehicles for different functionalities like EBA (Emergency Brake Assist), ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control), BSD (Blind Spot Detection) and RCTA (Rear Crossing Traffic Alert).

Speaker: Markus Juengst (Continental, was ATLAS)

18:10 Working at Goldman Sachs

I was a student in the LBL ATLAS group. I graduated in September of 2011 and was then a post doc with the Columbia ATLAS group until the fall of 2013. Since then I've been a Strat (a quant) at Goldman Sachs. I work in the firm's Corporate Treasury, focusing on funding optimization and liquidity risk

Speaker: Maxwell Scherzer (Goldman Sachs/ New York, was ATLAS)

18:25 → 18:55 Panel Discussion - 1

18:25 Panel Members

Speakers: Anna Henrichs (YouTube), Markus Juengst (Continental), Maxwell Scherzer (Goldman Sachs), Peter Klusener (Shell), Rashmish Mishra (INTEL), Stefan Ask (Winton Capital (Zuerich))

PeterKlusener.docx

PeterKlusener.pdf

RashmishMishra.docx

RashmishMishra.pdf

StefanAsk.docx

StefanAsk.pdf

18:55 → 19:40 Break (with drinks and snacks)

19:40 → 20:40 Brief Presentations - part 2

19:40 Working at Jaguar-Landrover

I was a PhD Student on CMS with Boston University working on W + Jet asymmetry and Hadron Calorimeter DAQ electronics. I left CERN/CMS in 2013 to join the Product Creation & Development division of Jaguar Land Rover. Specifically, I work in Powertrain Testing where I manage a team that looks after development, methodology and operations of our emissions testing laboratories, where we test vehicles according to legislation and engineering requirements.

Speaker: Philip Lawson (Jaguar/Landrover (was CMS))

19:55 Working at an intellectual property law firm (isarpatent/Munich)

Before I left science eager to take on new challenges, I studied jet events within ATLAS. I have been working for more than two years now in a mid-sized law firm for intellectual property law (patents!) to become a patent attorney. For this endeavour I moved to Munich, the patent capital of Europe.

Speaker: Marc Lehmacher (isarpatent/Munich (was ATLAS))

lehmacher_CERN_1292015.pdf

20:10 Working In the Financial Sector (UBS bank and Leonteq Securities)

I spent 13 years at CERN working on L3, Opal and CMS experiments. Moved to UBS and worked there in many roles within Risk Control. Since January 2015, working for Leonteq, a Finteq company, as Head of Operational Risk Control.

Speaker: Pratibha Vikas (UBS bank (was CMS))

20:25 Working at AHL

I did my PhD at CERN, working on supersymmetry at the CMS experiment, and graduated in July 2014. Since then I’ve been working as a quantitative analyst at AHL, a quantitative hedge fund based in the UK. I spend my days coding in python and spotting patterns in noisy datasets, most recently using Deep Learning techniques.

Speaker: Marco Andrea Buchmann (AHL, was CMS)

20:40 → 21:10 Panel Discussion - 2

20:40 Panel members

Speakers: Fatima Soomro (ELCA informatique), Kathy Copic (Insight Data Science), Maneesh Wadhwa (Six Swiss Exchange), Marc Lehmacher (patent office), Marco Buchmann (AHL), Philip Lawson (Jaguar/Landrover), Pratibha Vikas

KathyCopic.docx

KathyCopic.pdf

21:10 → 22:30 Informal interactions with drinks and snacks