Federica FANZAGO

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am a nuclear physicist, involved since 2002 on Grid project and CMS computing. I worked 4 years at INFN and now I am at CERN with a fellow. I am one of developers of CRAB, a python tool to create, submit and manage CMS analysis jobs on the distributed environment. I am doing also support to CMS users using Grid infrastructure. I am programming in python but I have also some experience with shell script and C language, using Linux OSes.

Armando FELLA

INFN CNAF Bologna - Italy

Research fellowship at INFN CNAF at Bologna, with goal project: "Experiments support in using Tier1 and INFN GRID", the afferent experiment is BaBar. Within the BaBar Grid project I cover the role of responsible of the CNAF site -lcgadmin- in the VO managed via VOMS server. I cooperate in the role of manager for BaBar Grid Italy developing control's operations, validation and software management at the eight Grid sites afferent to the experiment. A software interface for the management/wrapping of the mechanisms of transfer, storage and catalog of LCG/gLite infrastructure have been developed to permit the experiment Mon

Vipin GAUR

High Energy Physics Laboratory, Aligarh - India

I have joined recently Experimental High Energy Physics group at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and working under the supervision of Prof. M. Zafar for M.Phil. Degree in Physics. My theory papers as well as dissertation will be based mainly on problems related to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. Our group working along with SINP, Kolkata is responsible for designing, fabricating and installing the 2nd tracking chamber of the forward Di-Muon Spectrometer in ALICE and testing the performance of MANAS chips that our SINP collaborators have designed. In this project I am working as a Project Fellow under the supervision of Prof. M. Irfan. Our lab has been designated as Tire 3 station of the LHC data grid. For this we have to develop an on line computational facility to handle huge amount of data from the LHC. For this I have started learning basics of ROOT, GEANT, HIJING and GRID computing. I recently attended VI SERC School on Experimental High Energy Physics organized by DST, New Delhi so as to have a hang up of these techniques.

Ricardo GODINHO

Agencia de Inovação, Santa Maria da Feira - Portugal 

I am currently working on several projects related to database backups and recoveries. I have already developed a reporting tool for the RMAN (Recovery Manager). I am also developing web interface tools for displaying and modifying the tab.xml central repository for all the IT-DES group databases and applications servers. I will also be working on the implementation of a web interface for recoveries purposes using export/import utilities or flashback technology.

Marina GRIGORYAN

Yerevan Physics Institute - Armenia

Since 2003, I am working in the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) Grid group of EGEE/WLCG and ALICE Grid (AliEn) collaborations, as well as in the Grid team of the Armenian e-Science Foundation (ArmeSFo). My responsibilities concern the work on the application aspects of Grid including development of the graphical user interface to the EGEE/WLCG for the YerPhI physicists and of the web portal for the certification process management by the ArmeSFo Certification Authority, member of EuGridPMA. Besides, I am responsible for the maintenance and administration of the Apache web server of the YerPhI group as well as for the design and development of the group’s web pages.

Pablo GUTIERREZ LLAMAS

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I started working at CERN in October of 2006 in the PH-CMC (CMS computing group). I am helping develop the new framework for the tier0 data facility. This framework is programmed with perl and python. Our role is to take (root) files, which contain the results of collisions and which have been pre-processed by the DAQ group, and apply algorithms to them in order to filter and classify them. This allows the physicists to recover the appropriate files in the future for their analyses. Our framework runs on a Linux operating system. I also worked with c, c++, java and sql.

Hui-Tzu HUANG

Academia Sinica, Taipei - Taiwan 

I am working for the operations team of ASGC in Taiwan. The ASGC has been actively participating in the WLCG/EGEE project through various activities ranging from strategic planning to infrastructure deployment and services, and more information about ASGC can be found on http://twgrid.org/. Moreover, the mission of our team is to provide deployment support facilitating Grid expansion and maximize the availability of Grid services. In terms of my job, I am a programmer and experienced with both Java and Python, and familiar with Windows and Linux. I have developed the asset management system to assist our operations team to manage the great quantity of computing and storage elements, furthermore, I am working on developing the monitoring tools to help our Grid service administration to monitor the availability of network, hosts, and Grid services.

Emir IMAMAGIC

University Computing Center, Zagreb - Croatia 

I am currently working as a researcher and system architect on the CRO-GRID and the EGEE-II grid projects and production cluster Isabella at University Computing Center. His research interests are high performance and distributed computing, computer clusters and grid systems. I have  experience with distributed programming frameworks RPC, Java RMI, .Net Remoting and web services. Three years of practical experience with cluster and grid middleware (e.g. Globus Toolkit, Condor, gLite, Nagios, Ganglia, cluster batching systems SGE and Torque).

Weina JI

Lund University - Sweden

I am a first-year PhD student in Experimental High-Energy Physics from Lund University, Sweden. My current work is about the phenomenology study of the physics of B-mesons and in particular signatures of physics beyond the standmodel in their decays. Now I am doing some simulations, reconstructions and analysis on the Bc decay at ATLAS experiment.

Arshad KAMAL

High Energy Physics Laboratory, Aligarh - India

I am a PhD student pursuing my research in the field of Experimental High-Energy Physics from AMU., Aligarh. The main objective of my research work is to study the occurrence of Dynamical fluctuations on event-by-event basis in relativistic nuclear collisions. Besides, I have about four years experience of working in an International Collaboration ALICE. I have actively participated many times in the fabrication of Station Second of Forward Dimuon Spectrometer of the ALICE detector at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata. I have enough experience to handle modern event generators like FRITIOF, HIJING etc.

Tomasz KOKOSZKA

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland  

I am working at CERN in two projects related to grid computing: ETICS and OMII-Europe. Both of them are founded by European Commission. ETICS is an integrated build and test system designated to work in grid environment. I am working in integrating existing Java web application into a single portal. OMII-Europe is a system to source software components for grid applications. I am involved in a repository activity (Java programming using web-service technology). Before joining CERN, I was working at Hewlett-Packard in data-warehouse and business intelligence areas. It was programming in Java, SQL and Informatics. I have a lot of experience in Java programming creating standalone, enterprise and web applications. I have obtained Sun certification for Java programmers. I know very well data-warehouse technology.

Jiri KRAL

Czech Technical University, Praha – Czech Republic

I am a student (5th year) of experimental physics (heavy ion/high energy), recently employed (80%) by the department as an IT support for physical computing. My task is to build a cluster computer to be used mainly for ALICE data processing (in cooperation with CAS FZU Tier-2 Center in Prague). My CERN activity is to supervise and develop a part of Detector Control System for SDD detectors of ALICE. The work ranges from simple custom hardware design for front-end, FPGA programming, writing kernel modules, to developing own DIM servers and working with PVSS.

Anton LECHNER

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

My current work as a PhD-student at CERN consists of investigations concerning the usage of modern software tools for determining the spatial dose distribution in patients subject to radiotherapy with ion beams. In this context I employ Monte Carlo Methods and distributed computing techniques (particularly Grid) to achieve a high precision and fast computations suitable to clinical applications. My work involves the quantitative assessment of relevant physics models for low-energetic ions (as occuring in radiothereupical applications), currently available in the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit. Both electromagnetic and hadronic interactions are taken into account. Possible extensions of the existing Geant4 physics are considered to design and implement new or improved models. An important part of my thesis is to evaluate the possibility to exploit a distributed computing environment for achieving a precise dose calculation within a time frame compatible with clinical applications at a hadrontherapy facility. For this purpose I perform large-scale Geant4-based dose calculations on the LCG.

Shu Ting LIAO

Academia Sinica, Taipei - Taiwan 

I am working for the operations team of Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center ASGC in Taiwan. My primary responsibility is to manage the EGEE AsiaPacific Regional Operation Center. This involves the direct technical and administrative support for 20 Grid resources Center in this region. I provide services such as deployment, configuration, troubleshooting and monitoring of the sites that we support. As a part of our responsibilities, we also collaborate with other EGEE ROCs to provide global Grid monitoring, operations and front line user support. For local operations I am also responsible for managing our Xen virtual computing services.

Thomas LODDENKOETTER

Bonn University - Germany

I am working on the alignment of the forward tracking components of the ZEUS detector at HERA. By the time the CSC takes place I will have joined the ATLAS tracking group for my PHD studies. Furthermore I administer the computer cluster of the ZEUS Bonn group, which is a Linux cluster consisting of 18 workstations, one server and one webserver. In the near future I am also going to participate in the computer administration of the Bonn ATLAS group.

Anita MAHAJAN

University of Jammu - India 

At present I am pursuing PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics from University of Jammu, under the supervision of Prof. Virender Gupta. I have to work with ALICE experiment. I have a fairly good knowledge of Linux operating system. I am also having good knowledge of C++. I am also familiar with ROOT and aliroot framework. I have also done some preliminary analysis by using root and aliroot.

Gerhild MAIER

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland  

Currently I am working on the Experiment Dashboard, which is in production by the ARDA group of IT/PSS at CERN. I am implementing web interfaces to visualize information about tasks/jobs on the Grid. Thereby, I am programming with Python and I am using Linux (SLC4) and sometimes Windows. I am familiar with C, C++, Java, common web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, ... ), and XML.

Diego MARCOS

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Spain

I am actually collaborating with CERN, as a technical student status, in the development of the ROOT Data Analysis Framework. I am involved in the first steps of BOOT project that it is expected to reduce the Root’s installation to a little kernel. All other ROOT libraries will be automatically imported via the web from central repositories. I am working with C++ in a Linux environment and I am using the GNU tools: Emacs, GCC and GDB. I have worked before, during an internship in SAGEM-DS, with Java, Eclipse and OpenGL. During my studies, I have got familiar with Ada, Haskell, Prolog and environments Windows. In my every day life I use MacOS as main operative system.

Helen MCGLONE

University of Glasgow – United Kingdom

I am a PhD student with the University of Glasgow and am based at CERN, Geneva. I work with the ATLAS experiment in development of the Event Level Metadata TAG database. The TAG database is a relational and files database system that allows physicists to perform fast selection of events for analysis. Our main challenges are scalability, as the TAG database is a multi terabyte system, and integration with the software and analysis components of the ATLAS experiment.

Parag MHASHILKAR

Fermilab, Batavia – United States of America

Responsibilities: - Design and develop applications for Grid-based facilities. - Support production for data processing and data distribution for High Energy Physics Experiments (RunII). - Develop, integrate, and support software to provide a production grid computing environment for high energy physics. - Do performance analysis of grid middleware and physics software. - Design and develop solutions to inter-operate Sam-Grid with European Grids and Open Science Grids. - Design, develop, integrate and support computing using Sam-Grid infrastructure to do Monte Carlo over the grid. - Design and develop Virtual Organization (VO) based solutions for DZero experiment using standard VO tools like, VOMS and VOMRS.