Events in 2019 • 2020 • 2021

Organiser: Miguel Angel Marquina / IT
January 10 Abuse, Blunder and fun
Stefan Lueders, CERN Computer Security Officer
IT Technical Forum

January 20 CERN Computer Security: Abuse, Blunder and Fun
Stefan Lueders, CERN Computer Security Officer
IT Technical Forum

January 22 CERN openlab Technical Workshop 2020 (22-23 January)

February 3 4th EOS Workshop (3-5 February)

February 14 Analog Computing - past, present, future?
Prof. Dr. Bernd Ulmann, FOM - Hosted by CERN openlab
CERN Computing Colloquium

February 17 ODF Advocacy Project and experiences migrating organisations to LibreOffice
Italo Vignoli, Open Source Initiative
February 24 DevOpsDays Geneva (24-25 February)
@Campus La Batelle, Geneva
February 26 Highest-Quality Random Number Generators
Fred James
CERN-EP/IT Data science seminar

February 27 TensorFlow 2.0 Tutorial (27-28 February)
Andreas Steiner, Megan Ruthven and Ruslan Habalov, Google LLC
Hosted by the Machine Learning for Particle Physics group

May 27 Computer Security overview
Stefan Lueders, CERN
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

June 5 Graphcore Technical Overview: Designing Hardware and Software for Next Gen Machine Intelligence Models
Alex Titterton, Graphcore
June 10 Introduction to Hacking
Vincenzo Ciaschini, CNAF
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

June 19 ARCHIVER status update
Joćo Fernandes, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

June 24 Why Control System Cyber-Security Sucks
Stefan Lueders, CERN
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

July 1 Real-time heterogeneous event reconstruction at CMS and LHCb during LHC Run-3
Dorothea Vom Bruch (LPNHE Paris, CNRS) and Felice Pantaleo (CERN)
EP Software Seminar

July 3 Open Hardware against COVID: producing 3D-printed masks
3DMask Project Team/CERN against COVID-19
IT Technical Forum

July 8 Designing a large-scale Security Operations Centre
Liviu Valsan, CERN-IT
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

July 10 Recall Operations at CERN Tape storage: How we analyzed 2 TB of logs to identify bottlenecks and usage patterns
Georgios Kaklamanos, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

July 15 An Overview of Approximate Bayesian Computation
Prof. Chad Shafer, Carnegie Mellon University
EP-IT Data science seminar

July 22 How to do forensics
Vincenzo Ciaschini, CNAF
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

July 24 Proof of Concept and an online demo of SNYK
Brice Copy and Riku-Pekka Silvola, CERN-BE
IT Technical Forum

July 30 Quantum Computational Supremacy and Its Applications
Prof. Scott Aaronson, UT Austin/US
CERN Colloquium

September 9 Citizen Scientists create an Exascale Computer to combat COVID-19
Prof. Gregory Bowman, Washington University in St. Louis
CERN-EP/IT Data science seminar

September 30 OpenBSD: the proactive Security operating system
Riccardo Veraldi, CNAF/INFN
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

October 8 Online Demo of a central software packages and libraries proxy solution (Nexus/Snyk)
Brice Copy, CERN-BE-ICS
October 16 Report on the HTCondor Workshop Autumn 2020
Helge Meinhard, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

October 20 Structured models of objects, relations, and physics
Peter Battaglia, Deepmind
CERN-EP/IT Data science seminar

October 21 How to (try to) maintain your privacy online
Liviu Valsan, CERN-IT
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

October 23 Report on the HEPiX Autumn 2020 Workshop
Andrei Dumitru et al, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

November 5 Microsoft HoloLens: when custom silicon powers holographic systems
Janet Schneider, Microsoft Corp.
Hosted by CERN openlab

November 6 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (1/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab

November 11 Email-based threats - addressing the human factor with simulated phishing campaigns
Sebastian Lopienski, CERN-IT
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

November 13 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (2/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab

November 16 'Alexa, please try to understand my accent': reflections on the assumptions behind and expectations about Artificial Intelligence systems
Andrea Glorioso, European Comission
KT Seminars

November 20 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (3/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab

November 24 Fast and efficient applications with GraalVM and Helidon
Peter Nagy and Thomas Langer, Oracle
November 27 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (4/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab

December 1 Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers
Bruce Schneier
Academic Training

December 2 Security-conscious programming
Vincenzo Ciaschini, CNAF
CERN-CNAF Computer Security series

December 4 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (5/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab

December 9 Compute Accelerator Forum - NVIDIA Nsight
Holly Wilper and Felix Schmitt, NVIDIA
Hosted by CERN openlab

December 11 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (6/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab

December 16 Abuse, Blunder and fun
Stefan Lueders, CERN Computer Security Officer
IT Technical Forum

December 18 A practical introduction to quantum computing: from qubits to quantum machine learning and beyond (7/7)
Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, Universidad de Oviedo
Hosted by CERN openlab