Manuel BÄHR

University of Karlsruhe - Germany 

The CSC07 would deepen my knowledge of the tools I have already used, but also expand it to Grid Technologies, Network and Computer Security, Data Acquisition etc. Current Work: In my diploma thesis I developed a Monte Carlo Simulation written in Fortran for single top production in association with a W-Boson as a background to Higgs production in vector boson fusion and decay into WW. For my Ph.D. thesis I turned to C++ being part of the Herwig++ development team. The goal is to implement a realistic model for the Underlying Event in Herwig++. Beside that, I am involved in the development of a parton level Monte Carlo program which is able to simulate various processes at NLO QCD.

Marcelo BAQUERO RUIZ

Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota  - Colombia

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I am currently working as a Data-Production Operator and as a Software Distribution Provider at CERN (as part of the CMS collaboration). My role focuses on producing Monte Carlo data, making sure that it is saved where it is supposed to be, and running validations for the different CMS Software releases. I am also working with the "JobRobot", a program that sends large amounts of jobs over the GRID for checking the availability of the different sites for processing data. So, I am an "extensive" GRID user: that's the reason why I am so very interested in learning more about it. I have experience with both Windows and Linux operating systems. All my work at CERN involves Linux, so I am probably more familiar with it.

Maria Del Carmen BARANDELA PAZOS

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am working on the interface between LHCb's Experiment Control System and the Conditions Database which will be used on-line and off-line for retrieving time-varying parameters for Physics reconstruction, trigger and analyses. I had to interface tools coming from very different areas: the commercial SCADA tool - PVSSII, used by the Control System and the COOL API provided by the LCG group. A first version of the tool which allows users to select among all the data read from the experimental environment which data should be stored in the Conditions Database, and how often, and then automatically packages and transfers the data whenever required.

Teresa Manuela BATISTA NETO

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

My work objective is to investigate, specify, develop and implement new improved tools and methods for equipment management within the CERN accelerator complex and its technical infrastructure. This includes exploring the possibilities of extending the use of existing applications at CERN such as EDMS/MTF and Datastream 7i application provided by INFOR. Currently I am studying how new modules of D7i can be introduced at CERN (e.g. Inspection Management, MS Project interface, etc). I also participate in the development of some EDMS functionalities. To collect the user opinion on the above-mentioned tools I am also developing an online survey tool application.

Andreas BATTAGLIA

University of Bern - Switzerland  

Together with the Bern group, I am involved in the trigger and data acquisition of ATLAS working at CERN on the Event Building developing, in particular the SFO applications and software. With the first data we will take by end of 2007, I will deal with lots of test studies, calibrations and efficiency measurements. Then from the next spring I'll be involved in the physics exploration in Bern, i.e. data analysis for SuperSymmetry searches.

Carlo BATTILANA

Università degli studi di Bologna - Italy

I am involved in the development of the Drift Tubes Trigger Primitives Emulator under the CMS software framework (CMSSW) and of the DT Local Trigger Data Quality Monitor (under the same framework) as part of the whole DT Trigger Primitives Infrastructure. Both the mentioned tasks foresee the knowledge of C++, XML, Linux and of the Root framework.

Thomas BERGAUER

Austrian Academy of Sciences,  Vienna - Austria

I am working for the construction and commissioning of the CMS Tracker since I have started my master thesis. In the beginning, I was programming data acquisition software to test the CMS silicon sensors using LabVIEW. Later I designed and set up a monitoring program for the production of the CMS Tracker silicon modules using PHP, Perl and SQL (using both, an Oracle and a mySQL database) running under Linux. The last 4 months I helped with the commissioning of the Tracker at CERN and got familiar with the CMS software framework CMSSW, which I am using now to do analysis of cluster parameters, track reconstruction and alignment algorithms of the first cosmic taken with the CMS Tracker. This software is based on ROOT and C++. I am using Microsoft Windows at my office desk computer, but enjoy my Apple notebook much more. Apart from that, I am responsible for running two Linux servers at my institute.

Riccardo BEVILACQUA

Uppsala University - Sweden   

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My current work, as PhD student, consists in the experimental and theoretical study of neutron-induced light-ion production from lead, iron and uranium at 175 MeV. The experiment is carried out at the proton facility of The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) in Uppsala; a quasi-mono energetic neutron beam in the range of 20-180 MeV is produced via the nuclear reaction 7Li(p,n)7Be. The experimental setup uses deltaE-deltaE-E technique that allows good particle identification for protons, deuterons, tritions, 3He and alpha particles. Data analysis is performed either on-line, using a dedicated software, or off-line using the ROOT toolkit. Simulations of the experiment are performed using Geant4 and MCNP.

Nele BOELAERT

Lund University - Sweden

In autumn 2006 I started working as a PhD student at the division of Experimental High Energy Physics at Lund University. I am following a program at the Lund-HEP EST graduate school. This is 4 year program and the first year is mainly devoted to specialised courses, such as quantum field theory, numerical methods, phenomenology, and extensions of the Standard Model, experimental techniques and error and data analysis. Supervised research is only of minor importance in the first year, but it will become my major activity starting from this summer. ATLAS will be the keyword in my actual research. Soon I will start focusing on the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT). At the moment I am working around possible signatures of extra dimensions and black holes at LHC. I am doing simulations with PYTHIA and the black hole generator CHARYBDIS.

Michael BUDZOWSKI

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland 

I work as developer and maintainer of part of the software framework used to govern network at CERN. The framework consists of web application written in Perl for the whole user community, internal J2EE application used by CS group to administer network resources and perl engine performing automatic configuration of network devices. I currently work with Java and Java-based web technologies performing also some administration tasks for our network database. I use both Windows/Linux and also Solaris for administration.

Jerome CAFFARO

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland 

I am working on CDS Invenio (aka cdsweb and CDSware), the integrated digital library developed and used at CERN. I have developed several modules of the software, including the formatting tool in charge of displaying bibliographic information, as well as the support for the Open Access Initiative protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). Skills in the software engineering domain, from the foundation of software (compilers construction, concurrency, distributed systems, performance evaluation and optimization) to usability issues (human-computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work).

Vasco CHIBANTE BARROSO

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am currently working in the development of the Alice DAQ electronic logbook system, based on MySQL and Web languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript). I am responsible for: - Identify the relevant information to be stored in the logbook system for archiving. - Design, implement, and deploy the relevant database architecture and Web services to store and browse logbook data. - In a second phase, analyse logbook data and optimize performances. The DAQ farm, counting about 400 nodes, could be used during shutdown periods to stress the system and carry on scalability measurements and fine tuning. - Define a statistical quality index based on the overall running conditions, in order to spot good and bad run candidates. This requires analysing real logbook data recorded during the runs. - Complete and evolve the tools with the new incoming equipments added in Alice.

Iris CHRISTADLER

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre - Germany

I am a member of the grid and the user support teams at LRZ. We operate a 9728 core SGI Altix 4700 and a heterogeneous Linux-Cluster with 800 cores. Together with the MPG a cluster with 800 cores and 350 TB disc space is part of LCG as a Tier-2 Center. In addition to LCG, LRZ is also a member of the DEISA/eDEISA grid infrastructure. My work involves porting of applications to different platforms, optimization, debugging and grid enablement, which is currently limited to DEISA but should be expanded to LCG as well.

Costin Catalin CIOBIRCA

University of Craiova - Romania 

I am member of a research group in theoretical high energy physics and, because I graduated a computer faculty, I am the responsible with the computing facilities (a Linux network). Also, I was involved in some teaching software projects related to computational physics. In the last year, due to the collaborations with particle physicist, our group became interested in grid technologies (maybe for a future collaboration in LHC experiments).

Jose Miguel DANA PEREZ

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland  

My current work is related with Tycoon. Tycoon is a market-based system for managing (trade) compute resources in distributed clusters. Tycoon is being developed (in part) by HP using Python and a GPL license. The current idea is to integrate Tycoon with our Grid (EGEE platform) as a new service. Some topics related with Tycoon are Grid deployment and virtualization. I am also interested in compilers, computer architecture, performance, image and video coding, networking, etc.

Guillaume DARGAUD

CNRS, Grenoble - France

I am a new software engineer at the Laboratoire des Particules Subatomiques et Cosmologie.  As such I am starting to get involved in experiments dealing with particle physics and nuclear reactors. 15 years experience writing data acquisition systems, mainly under Microsoft Windows using National Instrument LabWindows/CVI (ANSI C programming). Mid-level Linux system administrator and as such I often use shell scripting. Familiar with OpenMosix cluster architecture.  Several years of experience in developing web applications: HTML, cgi-scripts, PHP, some perl and Python.

Antonio DELGADO PERIS

CIEMAT, Madrid - Spain

My duties include the administration of the institution's Grid resource Center for WLCG and EGEE (CIEMAT-LCG2). As such, I participate in the operation of the site's Grid services, and the planning and deployment of new services or upgrade of the existing ones. I also collaborate with colleagues at PIC Grid site, and give support to the Grid users at CIEMAT. In addition to this, I participate in the development of Grid software for CMS. In particular, I have developed the API of one of the CMS' file catalogs; namely, the CMS' Data Location Service. Of course, I also give support to the users of this catalog.

Bilge DEMIRKOZ

CERN, Geneva - Switzerland

I have been working on the ATLAS SCT(Semi-Conductor Tracker) for the last three years on first the macro-assembly, and then the commissioning of the barrels. I have contributed significantly to the online code to calibrate and operate the SCT and have good knowledge of C, C++, scripting languages (awk, sed) and XML while I have some familiarity with Java, Python, IDL and perl. I used to know Fortran, Pascal and Scheme back in the day. I am the proud owner of a Powerbook, while I use the SLC4 environment regularly as well. I used to be the system administrator for 5-6 RedHat boxes in my previous lab. I have done very little offline analysis work and I hope this school will give me a more rounded background needed to have a fresh start in physics computing.

Lorenzo DINI

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am working in ETICS (www.eu-etics.org) that is a project founded by the European Community. ETICS provides a system for the configuration, building, testing and integration of software. We serve several projects (Glite, Diligent, OMII-Europe, etc...). They use ETICS for remote building and testing on several platforms. I am the responsible of the ETICS repository, that is the location where all the binary and source packages are stored, archived and maintained. Now I am maintaining the old file-system-based repository on top of which I have built several applications and at the same time I am designing and developing the new repository infrastructure. The technologies that I am working with are: Java web services (mainly AXIS, Tomcat), JCR 170 and its implementation (Apache JackRabbit), X509 certificates for the system authentication, JSP and Servlets for the server-side part of our web applications and Javascript and AJAX (Google Web Toolkit) for the client-side part.

Felix EHM

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland  

I am currently involved in performance tests in the IT/GD. The aim is to find the limits for the Grid Information System - namely the BDII in terms of request handling performance. The BDII updates frequently the resource information of the Grid sites and is responsible to provide this information to other services (e.g. ResourceBorker / web status Pages, etc.). Finding the limits of processing the data has come to an issue since the latest behaviour of this essential part of the GRID has shown problems with handling requests. The results of this research are the base for a possible redesign in the close future.