WIT Talk: Amber Boehnlein

Wednesday 21 Jun 2017, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

Hannah Short (CERN), Maria Alandes Pradillo (CERN), Simaolhoda Baymani (CERN)

For this WIT Talk we meet Amber Boehnlein, Chief Information Officer at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and head of the Information Technology Division. Amber will be interviewed by Sima Baymani, member of the WIT Steering Committee. We will start at 12h00, have a 30-40 min interview and finish with 10-15 minutes of open mic for questions from the audience. Afterwards, for those that can, we will enjoy lunch together in Restaurant 2.

Amber Boehnlein is Jefferson Lab’s Chief Information Officer and head of the Information Technology Division. Previously, she headed the SLAC Scientific Computing Applications Division from 2011-2015, focusing on computational physics relevant to light sources and large
scale databases for astrophysics.

Prior to her time at SLAC, she served a three-year assignment as the Department of Energy’s Office of High Energy Physics program manager for the U.S. Large Hadron Collider Detector Operations program. During that time she also managed three Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing programs in the HEP office. Previously, Boehnlein worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a staff scientist in the Computing Division, ultimately being responsible for the computing and application support for all Fermilab-based experiments.

From 1991-2013, Boehnlein was a member of the DØ experimental collaboration at Fermilab, which included serving as the collaboration’s computing and software coordinator from 1999-2006. She has a particular interest in issues concerning the management and use of research data. She serves on national and international advisory boards in areas related to research computing and particle physics.

WIT_Talk_AmberB.pdf

WIT_Talk_AmberB.pptx