ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event 2017

Monday 13 Nov 2017, 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), Connie Potter (CERN), Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN), Laure Esteveny (CERN), Marco Marquard (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE)), Matthew John Charles (LPNHE Paris, CNRS/IN2P3 UPMC and UPD), Panja Luukka (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Paolo Giacomelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)), Rachel Bray (CERN), Sebastian Bott (CERN), Silvia Borghi (University of Manchester (GB))

You are invited to register for this year's networking event for current postdocs and graduate students of the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations to meet alumni of the LHC experiments. This event offers an insight into career opportunities outside of academia. Various former members of the LHC 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 during the panel discussion, the break and after the event. Refreshments and light snacks will be served. The event is supported by the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Collaborations as well as the CERN Alumni Programme. Attendance is limited with priority given to ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb members. Registration is obligatory and a fee of 10 CHF must be paid in advance. Information on payment methods can be found in the Payment box on the home page. Note: A live webcast which will not be recorded is available. This web cast is only accessible with a valid CERN account. PLACES ARE LIMITED AND A FEE OF 10 CHF PER PERSON WILL BE CHARGED,  payable IN ADVANCE

1 Introduction

2 Welcome from CERN

3 CERN Alumni Program

Speaker: Laure Esteveny (CERN)

CERN Alumni Programme

Collaborations Career Event 13 Nov 2017.pdf

Collaborations Career Event 13 Nov 2017.pptx

First Collisions: First CERN Alumni Event

Presentations

4 Medical Applications

Using cyclotrons for medical purposes

Nancy holds a PhD from AIX-Marseille University. She did a post-doc at "Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn". The whole time she worked on the ATLAS experiment. During her time at CERN (2009-2014), she focused on b-tagging measurements, precision measurements of the Standard Model with the top quark, as well as the search of the Higgs boson decaying into two b-quarks.
Since 2014, she is working for PMB-ALCEN, as a particle physicist and project manager, in south of France. She is in charge of particle-matter interaction simulations for the conception of the head of linear electron accelerators, for medical and imaging purposes, X-rays targets and PET targets, and shielding conception for Linacs and cyclotrons.

Speaker: Nancy Tannoury

NancyTannoury_CERNTalk.pdf

NancyTannoury_CERNTalk.ppt

5 Software Development at Google

Since 2013, Kevin worked on the LHCb experiment's software trigger as a summer, master, and PhD student. In 2016, he quit his PhD and left CERN to join Google as a software engineer.

Speaker: Kevin Dungs

6 Panel Discussion

moderated by Sebastian Bott

Panellists:

- Xavier Rouby, Entrepreneurship, Data Science and Innovation

Xavier holds a PhD of the Université catholique de Louvain, which he obtained in 2008. During his PhD he was a member of the CMS collaboration, where he investigated many aspects of the photon induced physics at the LHC, doing hardware R&D, software R&D development as well as big data analytics.
He is now working as an entrepreneur. In Pfease, Opal Solutions and Swan Insights, he has been building, recruiting and managing local & international teams of data scientists, IT experts and leveraging marketing & sales skills of partners. One big achievement has been the creation and development of Swan Insights, leading to its acquisition by the Bisnode Group.

- Lee de Mora, Marine Ecosystem Modeller

Before becoming a marine biologist in July 2011, Lee acquired a Ph.D from University of Lancaster in High Energy Experimental Particle physics, where he worked on flavour tagging and lifetime measurements of beauty hadrons in the ATLAS collaboration.
Lee is a marine ecosystem modeller at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK. He works on the development, evaluation and validation of global scale marine and climate models. He leads the marine model evaluation toolkit development for the UK Earth System Model (UKESM), the UK's contribution to the sixth Climate Model Intercomparison project (CMIP6), which will feed into the next round of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
He has also contributed to a range of shorter projects, including studies on the impact of leaks in carbon capture and storage sites in the North Sea, and a pilot study which pioneers the use of surfers as a platform for collecting data on the near shore environment.

- Sarah Livermore, Head of modelling at UK Committee on Climate Change / UK Government Operational Research Service

After finishing her doctorate on exotics searches with ATLAS in 2013, Sarah joined the UK Government Operational Research Service (GORS). She has worked in three different roles within GORS, on subjects as diverse as tax collection, to long-term forecasting of energy demand, to finding the best way for the UK to meet its ambitious climate change targets. All these roles have involved using data analysis and modelling to help with better decision-making at the heart of Government.

- Jacopo Nardulli, Private school teacher

After a few years at CERN, as PhD, postdoc, fellow and in the CERN spin off company, ADAM, active in the field of medical physics, where he worked both as a physicist and as a technical director, he is now employed as a Physics & Chemistry teacher in the Institut Florimont, where he mostly teaches in the International Baccalaureate section.

18:55 Break with snacks and drinks

Presentations: Part II

7 Senior Data Scientist at Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Leonardo holds a PhD in nuclear physics. He worked for two of the world's leading research organizations: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and LBL, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Leonardo is part of THE Port association which runs humanitarian and technology related hackathons in Geneva.
Passionate about how innovation can help solve humanitarian challenges, he joined the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) in 2016 to carry out cutting-edge research on displacement related to conflicts and natural disasters worldwide.

Speaker: Leonardo Milano

LM_CERN_career.pdf

8 Tractebel Engineering (Oil & Energy Industry)

Otilia holds a PhD in Experimental Physics on the “Development of the SM Tracker of the CMS experiment at CERN" which she obtained in 2000
Between 1996 and 2012 she joined CERN as an external member (first for INFN Pisa and Perugia, then for the Catholic University of Louvain) to participate in the development of the Silicon Tracker of CMS, based on silicon microstrips sensors.
In 2012, she left research and joined the ENGIE GROUP (former GDFSUEZ) in Brussels which is one of the leading industrial groups in Belgium and a reference in the energy sector.

Speaker: Otilia Militaru

Tractebel MILITARU _ CERN.pdf

9 Radar algorithm development at Axis Communications

Aras did his PhD at NIKHEF in Amsterdam, working on the silicon vertex detector of LHCb. In 2009 he switched to ATLAS and joined Stockholm University to work on the first LHC top quark cross section measurement in the dilepton channel.
In 2012, he left academia and joined Ericsson, developing software for a new generation of 4G wireless modems. He stayed there for 3 years before switching to Axis Communications, a Swedish company developing network surveillance cameras. He was hired to work with image algorithm tuning but switched to developing algorithms for tracking and classification for a new radar product.

Speaker: Aras Papadelis

CERN_career_day_ArasPapadelis.pdf

CERN_career_day_ArasPapadelis.pptx

10 Q&A Panel with speakers

Speakers: Nancy Tannoury, Otilia Militaru, Kevin Dungs, Leonardo Milano, Aras Papadelis, Sebastian Bott

21:30 Networking with snacks and drinks