Application

Cost
How to apply
Financial Support
Selection
Cancellation
Replacement
Enquiries and Correspondence
Example of summary
WWW application form

Cost

The cost of the School will be 1,750 Swiss francs per student. This sum should be paid into the following account upon receipt of the letter of acceptance.

CERN School of Computing

a/c no. 279-C7 758.112.0

UBS

CERN

CH-1211 Geneva 23

Switzerland.

This sum covers tuition, lunch and two coffee breaks at the University of Cantabria, accommodation and dinner at the Hotel Palacio del Mar, from dinner on Sunday, 16 September to breakfast on Saturday, 29 September 2001 and the use of the shuttle. Some social activities, of which details will be given at a later time, are also included in the price. It does not include travel expenses from the participants' home institutes to the hotel in Santander and back.

How to apply

Application can be made via the Web using the WWW application form. If you choose not to use the Web then you need to fill out a printed copy of the plain text version of the application form.

When applying to attend the School, each student is requested to provide a summary in English of about 100 words in length, describing his/her current work. The School booklet, which will be distributed to all participants before the beginning of the School, will include the summaries of the selected students. Applicants are requested to forward their summary to Jacqueline Franco-Turner by e-mail (Computing.School@cern.ch). You will find an example of the presentation of the e-mail on the last page of this bulletin.

Candidates should ensure that:

- the completed application form

- a formal letter of reference from their professor or supervisor, and

- a summary of their present work

reach the School Secretary (Mrs Jacqueline Franco-Turner) by 30 May 2001 at the latest. Applications received after this date will not be considered.

Candidates should forward the completed application form and formal letter of reference to Miss J. Turner as specified in the section "Enquiries and Correspondence".

The deadline for receipt of applications is 30 May 2001.

Financial Support

It is normally expected that funding to cover travel and the cost of the School will be provided by the student's institute. This expectation is explicitly the case for students coming from institutes in CERN Member States[1], or in other industrial nations.

Citizens of Developing Countries may apply for a limited number of SCHOLARSHIPS awarded by UNESCO or by other International Agencies to young physicists or engineers who have not been to previous CERN Schools of Computing. The scholarships cover the cost of the course fee, including board and lodging and in certain cases travel. It is primarily intended for applicants from countries that are not members of CERN. Priority will be given to applicants from developing countries and those not requiring travel assistance.

Applications for support must be submitted on a special application form by 30 May 2001, together with the formal application to the School, the formal letter of reference and work summary, as mentioned under the section "Application". An application form is enclosed with this Bulletin. Additional forms for Scholarships may be obtained from Mrs. J. Franco-Turner, CERN School of Computing, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, or via Computing.School@cern.ch. Please note that the application for Scholarship must be submitted together with the School application form. Requests submitted at a later date will not be considered.

[1]CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and Unesco have observer status.

Selection

The selection of the students will be made by the Advisory Committee and students will be informed of the outcome of their application during June 2001.

Cancellation

The Advisory Committee reserves the right to refuse reimbursement of part or all of the fee in the case of late cancellation. However, each case of cancellation would be considered individually.

Replacement

In all cases of withdrawal or cancellation, whether last-minute or otherwise, the choice of a replacement, if any, will lie entirely with the Advisory Committee and not with the laboratory concerned.

Enquiries and Correspondence

All enquiries and correspondence related to the School should be addressed to:

Mrs Jacqueline Franco-Turner

CERN School of Computing

CERN

CH-1211 Geneva 23

Switzerland

Tel. no. : +41 22 767.50.49

Telefax : +41 22 767.71.55

E-mail : Computing.School@cern.ch

Example of summary

My current work involves the development of an online queuing system, for event monitoring by multiple client process in a collider experiment. The queuing system will run parallel to the event logging processes and allows monitor programs to request events from the online data pipeline. The queuing system employs a client-server software package that is being developed within our group, and I am involved in the testing and debugging of this code. I am also a primary contact for handling support issues raised by fixed target experiments using the DART data acquisition system. Recent work includes porting the DART data acquisition system from IRIX to OSF1. I have been involved in several efforts to port both offline (C and FORTRAN) and online (C, C++ and Fortran) software written between several operating systems (Unix to VMS, VMS to IRIX, IRIX to OSF1). I have written code in C, C++, Python/Tkinter, Tcl/Tk and Fortran. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (IRIX, OSF1, Linux) and VMS.

Text: Jackie Franco-Turner
Web: Pietro Paolo Martucci
Last update: 1 February 2001