CSC 2019 Movie
Enjoy!: https://videos.cern.ch/record/2713636
Exam Results
The following students have passed the CSC exam with distinction!
34 points out of 34:
- Chloe Ransom - University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Kilian Lieret - Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich, Germany
- Sebastian Templ - HEPHY, Vienna, Austria
- Willem Verbeke - Ghent University, Belgium
32 points out of 34:
- Asier Aguado Corman - CERN
- Cornelis Ligtenberg - Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sitong An - CERN
31 points out of 34:
- Artem Golovatiuk - University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Daniel Nielsen - Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Oliver Matonoha - Lund University, Sweden
- Stefano Petrucci - University of Edinburgh, UK
- Triet Doan - GWDG, Göttingen, Germany
- Yunsheng Dong - INFN and University of Milan, Italy
All students passing the exam received the diploma from the CERN School of Computing, and the 5 ECTS points from the Babeș-Bolyai University.
My warmest congratulations to all,
Sebastian Lopienski, School director.
Photo contest results
Saturday, September 27th
Thanks to the jury: Enrico Bocchi, Caio Costa and Fabian Klimpel for their participation in the photo contest organisation.
To see the photos proposed, see the QRcode in the presentation.
The winners are:
School spirit: Sam Kaveh
Sports: Stefano Petrucci
Social: De Hua Zhu
Artistic: Eamonn Maguire
Surprising: Sitong An
Funny-Humour: Petr Andriushchenko
Cluj-Napoca: Cornelis Ligtenberg
Closing ceremony and dinner - Friday 27th
Friday, September 27th, 11:00
Today's slides announcements here
Congratulations to all of you for your excellent participation bringing the school to a succesful 42nd edition!
We are now arriving at the end of these two amazing weeks, and for the last hours, we will have the Graduation ceremony at Napoca hotel - in the nice Forum room, starting at 17:30.
Dinner
After the ceremony, we will walk (20 minutes walking distance) to Amagusto restaurant for a fancy dinner.
Party
Party starting around 22:00 in the Euphoria Music Hall.
Looking forward to share and enjoy this nice evening with you all!
Today's announcements
Thursday, September 26th, 11:30
Today's slides announcements here
School evaluation questionnaire
Wednesday, September 25th, 9:00
Today's slides announcements are available here
Please submit your evaluation by Wednesday 2nd October, 23:59: https://indico.cern.ch/event/769356/manage/surveys/1143/
The responses are anonymous and you can save partial answers.
Football match
Tuesday, September 24th, 18:00
Congratulation to the winers - red team! (score : red 5 - green 3).
School Photo
Monday, September 23rd, 15:45
Thanks Nikos Kasioumis for the nice photos!
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th new schedule!
Monday, September 23rd, 11:00
Today's slides announcements: morning and afternoon.
As announced, the schedule for tomorrow and Wednesday have changed, please see the updated timetable.
CSC Football match
Monday, September 23rd
Tomorrow traditional CSC football match, starting at 17:00.
School photo Tomorrow
Monday, September 23rd
Will be taken at 15:45 in the UBB sports faculty building terrace. Please bring your school polo (If you forgot to take it, I (Joelma) may have one to lend to you).
Tomorrow (Sunday-September 22nd): full day excursion to Salina Turda salt mine and to the town of Sighișoara
Saturday, September 21st
Today's slides announcements are available here
Excursion schedule:
8:30am Bus is leaving the hotel, please be on time!
We are going to have a nice and interesting guided visit at Salina Turda
12:00 Lunch will be served at Hunter Castle: http://www.huntercastle.ro/en
13:00 Bus to Sighișoara, where we will have a guided visit of the well-preserved walled old town, which is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
18:30 Dinner at Casa Wagner : https://goo.gl/maps/zt8AFMbviZ3MHru66
20:00 Bus back to Cluj
If you do not want to participate, please WhatsApp me (Joelma) or email (before 6pm today 21/09) computing.school@cern.ch
Photos and videos
Friday, September 20th
The slides from today's announcement session are available here.
Share with us your photos and videos:
- Videos Upload: https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/cECJT7EvKJKiyti
- Photos Upload: https://csc-media.web.cern.ch/CSC2019
Thursday activity choices
Wednesday, September 18th 18:30
The slides from today's announcement session are available here.
We're happy to announce that everyone will be able to take their preferred activities during our afternoon outing on Thursday (tomorrow).
If you've forgotten what was your first choice, you can check it here. For a reminder of what to bring, please check the announcements slides.
Students Presentation
Wednesday, September 18th 16:15
Congratulation to the students for the very interesting talks!
Diego Rodriguez (CERN) - "A System for Reusable Research Data Analyses."
Ruchi Mishra (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland) - "Numerical Simulation of Backflow in Accretion Disk."
Triet Doan (GWDG, Göttingen, Germany) - "Building a scientific workflow management system with HPC supported."
Andrzej Novak (RWTH Aachen, Germany) - "What's missing in matplotlib - quality plotting without having to go back to ROOT."
Willem Verbeke (Ghent University, Belgium) - "Observation of single top quark production in association with a Z boson."
Maciej Majewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland) - "Reinforcement learning for high energy physics."
Petr Andriushchenko (Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia) - "The problems of modeling frustrated systems."
Miguel Astrain Etxezarreta (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) - "FPGA, heterogeneous computing, parallelization, and why physicists should care."
Caio Costa (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - "Binary units and why they matter."
Tomorrow special sports afternoon
Wednesday, September 18th
Tomorrow, Thursday September 19th, for special sports afternoon, we have the chance to go for a wonderful experience among the three proposed sports: Via Ferrata (Via Ferrata - Casa Zmeului), Rafting (at Crișului Repede River) and Trekking (with a visit at Vadu Crişului cave).
Please make your choice by filling in the survey (by 17:30).
Each activity will take about 4 hours.
Bus leave UBB at 13:00.
As we are leaving directly from UBB sports faculty, please do not forget to bring with you (already in the morning), your: sports clothes, shoes, shower kit, tower and warm clothes for the night as we will have dinner outside.
Dinner will be served at 19:30, in a luxurious nature area!
And we will enjoy the Romanian traditional Ceaun food (vegan food will also be served).
Bus back to Napoca Hotel, at 20:30
Today
Wednesday, September 18th
From yesterday, all lectures and exercises will take place at UBB sports faculty, and as you could see in the school timetable, we will start at 8:45am.
So enjoy your walk and see you there!
Exercises and Lectures at UBB
Tuesday, September 17th
Slides announcements here
Today, we will leave the hotel at 8:15 and walk until UBB sports faculty.
Exercises are starting at 8:45.
From 13:30 to 15:00 we will have the opportunity to do sports, you will be given the choice among: Swimming, beach volley, basket, football, tennis.
Bring your sports clothes and shoes! If you would like to refresh after the sport, showers are available, bring your shower kit and towel.
Pub Quiz
After a day with several interesting lectures/exercises and a short free/sports time.
Tonight we will have our traditional pub quiz and a relaxed dinner, starting at 20:00, at Euforia / Ursus brewery!
You have the choice to go directly from the sports faculty, or to pass by the hotel first.
20 minutes walking distance from Napoca hotel (https://goo.gl/maps/omjQBbXYtARdvNxH7).
11 minutes walking distance from sports faculty (https://goo.gl/maps/XMFSB5b6bG4UqFk16)
If you decide to not join, please email (before 6pm): computing.school@cern.ch
Announcements
Monday, September 16th
The slides from today's announcement session are available here. Main points:
- When leaving the hotel tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, take your sport clothes and shoes with you
- Submit your student presentation proposal here
Official School Opening day - Monday 16th
Sunday, September 16th, at 11pm
Schedule:
08:35 Bus departure to Babeș-Bolyai University
09:15 Opening Ceremony - Programme: https://indico.cern.ch/event/769356/contributions/3197071/attachments/1743611/3145116/CSC_2019_Opening_Ceremony_programme.pdf
11:15 Lecture: Introduction to Physics Computing L1
12:30 Lunch at Restaurant Piramida
14:00 Lecture: Software Security L1
15:00 Lecture: Tools and Techniques L1
16:30 Lecture: Software Security L2
17:30 Lecture: Introduction to Physics Computing L2
20:00 Welcome Cocktail and Dinner at Chios Restaurant
Arrival Day information
Sunday, September 15th
Registration starting at 2pm today. You will find me (Joelma) at Napoca hotel lobby for your registration.
For those arriving later than 7pm, no worry, you can contact me via WhatsApp.
Food Today
Dinner will be served at 7:45pm in Napoca hotel restaurant, entrance is by the hotel lobby.
VM installation
VM - any problems with installation, or any question, please get in touch with our technical managers Nikos or Jarek, email: csc-technical-manager@cern.ch, BEFORE tomorrow.
Welcome to Romania, to Cluj-Napoca, and to CSC 2019
Friday, September 13
Dear all - welcome to the CERN School of Computing 2019!
This year we have 70 participants with 31 different nationalities:
Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam
... representing 44 institutes based in 24 countries:
A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, AGH University of Science and Technology, Academia Sinica, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bogazici University, CERN, CIEMAT, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, Columbia University, DESY, ETHZ, Far Eastern Federal University, GWDG, Ghent University, HEPHY, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, INFN and University of Milan, INFN and University of Padova, Ibero-American University, Imperial College London, Join Institute For Nuclear Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Lund University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Nikhef, RWTH Aachen, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), University Politehnica of Bucharest, University Politehnica of Bucharest and IFIN-HH, University of California Davis, University of Coimbra, University of Edinburgh, University of Lisbon, University of Naples Federico II, University of Sheffield, University of Sofia, University of St. Andrews, University of Wisconsin Madison, and University of Zurich
I am sure you will appreciate this diversity, and the opportunities it brings.
Enjoy the School!
Sebastian Lopienski, CSC director
Welcome to CSC 2019 Live!
Thursday, September 12
"CSC 2019 Live!" (this page) is the live blog/information-sharing channel of the organisers (Sebastian, Joelma, Nikos, Jarek) and the lecturers with students during the School.
This is the place where we will post official information (schedule updates, links to surveys, logistics details of various activities) but also the fun stuff (pictures from social activities, sport competition results etc.). So please visit this page often.
I hope that you are as excited as we are to come to the warm and mostly sunny Cluj Napoca in just a couple of days! :-)
Have a safe travel - Sebastian, Joelma, Nikos and Jarek
