Application
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, accommodation, full board and two daily coffee breaks at the Hotel Oriente, from dinner on Sunday, 15 September to breakfast on Saturday, 28 September 2002 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 Vico Equense 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 2002 at the latest. Applications received after this date will not be considered.
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 under 'Example of summary".
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 2002..
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 2002.
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.
Web: Pietro Paolo Martucci
Last update:
21 February 2002