Past events

CERN openlab summer students visit to Open Systems and ETHZ

Thursday, 14 July, 2016 (All day) to Friday, 15 July, 2016 (All day)

Location:

The programme consists of visits to Opensystems and ETHZ in Zurich. A tour of Zurich will also be organised, visiting amo

Lecture 5: Computing Security

Wednesday, 13 July, 2016 - 16:00 to 17:30

Location:

31-3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

Brief description: In this lecture, Sebastian will present the computer security risk landscape of an international research laboratory, overview various motivations behind attacks, and expl

Lecture 4: Finding the Higgs Boson : the story from the software and computing perspective

Tuesday, 12 July, 2016 - 15:00 to 16:30

Location:

31-3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

Brief description: The LHC experiments are modern wonders of custom precision instrumentation.

Lecture 3: Finding the Higgs Boson : the story from the statistical methods perspective

Monday, 11 July, 2016 - 15:00 to 16:30

Location:

31-3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

Speaker's short bio: I am head of the ATLAS group at Nikhef, the Dutch institute for particle physics and have been member of ATLAS since 2004.

Lecture 2: DAQ - Filtering Data from 1 PB/s to 600 MB/s

Thursday, 7 July, 2016 - 15:00 to 16:30

Location:

31-3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

Brief description:

• This is the story of the physics signal from the detector to tape

Lecture 1: Computing in High Energy Physics

Wednesday, 6 July, 2016 - 15:00 to 16:30

Location:

31-3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

Brief description: After a very short introduction to CERN, the LHC machine and the four LHC detectors, the computing challenges are described in terms of nature and scale, leading to the Wo