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Practical Information |
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Application period is now closed |
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Date and Place
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The 31st CERN School of
Computing will be held in
Gjøvik
University College,
Gjøvik
, Norway, from
Monday 25 August to Friday, 5 September 2008(1)
(1) Students will have to arrive on the
Sunday
24 August
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Participation |
The School is open to
postgraduate students and research workers with a few years'
experience in elementary particle physics, in computing or in
related fields. The number of participants will be limited to
80. Applicants may come from CERN Member States as well as from countries that are not Member
States of CERN.
Personal contacts and
informal discussions among the participants during leisure time are
an important aspect of the School. For this reason,
participants are
asked to note that they should not be accompanied by family members
or friends.
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Accommodation
Hotel Address
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Participants will be accommodated in the
Thon Hotel situated in the town of
Gjøvik and will be lodged in comfortable double
rooms with private bathrooms (that is, they will share the double
room with a schoolmate)
Thon Hotel
Strandgt.
15
NO-2815 Gjøvik
Norway
Tel: +47 61 13 20 00
Fax: +47 61 18 05 64
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Campus Map |
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Area Map |
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Language |
The working language
of the School will be English. There will be no simultaneous
translation. Participants should therefore have sufficient
understanding of English to enable them to benefit from the School.
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Registration |
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Participants should reach for on-site registration during the
afternoon or early evening of Sunday,
24 August 2008.
Registration will take place at the reception of the Thon Hotel
from 13:00 to 19:00.
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Participants should note
that lunch on the day of arrival (Sunday 24 August 2008) is not provided,
but the dinner is.
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The School will
end on the morning of Saturday 06 September 2008, after breakfast.
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Travel |
The Oslo
Lufthavn airport is located at 100 km from
Gjøvik and the Thon Hotel.
The train
station as well the bus station are situated at 200m from the Hotel.
The easiest way of getting to Gjøvik from
the airport is the Airport Coach. The bus departs every two hours
from the airport and arrives just outside the train station in
Gjøvik. The trip takes 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Time table:
Airport Coaches
from Oslo Lufthavn to
Gjøvik - Linje 15
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An alternative is to take the Airport Train
to Oslo
http://www.flytoget.no/eng/
(about 20 minutes - a
high-speed train) and then jump on a train to Gjøvik. The train from
Oslo to Gjøvik departs every two hours and spends about two hours on
this trip. This alternative is 1.5 to 2 times more expensive than
the direct transport of the airport coach
Train schedule:
http://www.nsb.no/?lang=en_US
or
http://www.nsb.no/timetables/
or http://www.rutebok.no
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Travel arrangements |
Participants are on their own to organize their travel
to and from the school location. The school does not organize travel
tickets for participants.
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Cost |
The fee of the School is 1700
Euros per
participant working in or affiliated to a public not-for profit
organization (laboratory, institute, university, ... ). In the
following we call such participants "academic participants". For
participants working in for-profit companies, the cost is 2000
Euros.
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Beware: The financial support
from the EU ended in 2007. Therefore, in 2008, the CSC
organizers can no longer offer EU grants to
participants |
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Fee: What it covers |
The total fee of the school (that is
1700 Euros for
"academic participants"), should be paid to the account
below prior to the school. This
amount covers
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Tuition
and handouts
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Lunch,
two daily coffee breaks, dinner and accommodation in double
rooms at the Thon Hotel, from dinner on Sunday,
24 August to breakfast on Saturday,
06 September 2008.
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Some
social activities, of which details will be given at a later
time..
Note
on meals
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Participants are warned that all meals except the closing dinner will have a common,
buffet-style,
menu. There will be no a-la-carte facility. It will not be
possible to accommodate special dietary restrictions.
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Fee: What it does NOT cover |
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The
fee does not include travel expenses from the
participants' working place to the Thon Hotel and back.
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Participants arriving before Sunday evening 24th of August or
leaving after Saturday 05th of September will be entirely on
their own: the school will neither arrange for their
accommodation nor will cover any cost associated to their
extended stay.
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Any extra cost incurred during the stay
(including private excursions, private expenses at hotel,
private transport costs, private meals, ...) will not be born by
the school organization.
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Any cost incurred by a participant not
following the official excursion or social programme (e.g.
meal cost of a participant not attending an excursion which
includes a meal) will not
be born by the school organization.
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Method of
payment |
The sum
total fee (1700 Euros for academic participants. 2000 Euros for the
other participants) should be paid prior to the school into the following
account upon receipt of the letter of acceptance.
CERN Computing and Data
a/c no. 240-FP102816.3
UBS SA. Genève
CERN
CH-1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland.
Summary
of Bank
references
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Bank Name |
UBS SA.,
Geneva |
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Account number / name |
240-FP102816.3
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CERN Computing and Data |
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IBAN |
CH2000240240FP1028163 |
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BIC |
UBSWCHZH80A |
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Subsidy and
assiduity |
The actual expenses per student exceed the
total fee of 1700
requested to "academic
participants". The difference between
the actual cost and the total fee
is born by the school organization. Academic
participants are therefore subsidized, and
complete assiduity to the entire scientific programme is mandatory.
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Application |
Application period is now
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See
How to apply
for details.
Candidates should ensure that
not only have they
completed the
web application form, but that
a
signed formal letter of reference (on formal headed paper from
the applicant's institute/organization) from their professor or
supervisor, reaches the School Administrator (Mrs Fabienne
Baud-Lavigne) by 10th of May 2008 at the latest.
To help
you, we have prepared a
model of Reference Letter (
Word
version 
) that can be edited.
In
addition, a
certification form
(PDF
version
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Word
version
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must be
filled in and signed by the applicant's professor or supervisor (and not by
the applicant) and
returned to Mrs. Fabienne Baud-Lavigne by
10th of May 2008.
The
selection of the participants will be made by the Advisory Committee and
participants will be informed of the outcome of their application by
the middle of June 2008.
Note: applications
are for the entire programme. It is not possible to register for one
theme only.
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Selection of
participants |
The number of
participants is limited to 80.
The
selection of the participants will be made by the Advisory Committee and
participants will be informed of the outcome of their application by
the middle of June 2008.
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Cancellation |
The CERN School of Computing 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.
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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 or institute where the withdrawing
participant works.
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Liability
and Insurance |
Participation
in the CERN School of Computing and in all activities
organized in the framework thereof (whether by CERN or by
third parties) is at the participant's own risk and neither
CERN nor the third parties concerned accept any liability
with regard thereto. Equipment and materials made available
to participants during the CERN School of Computing are
made available on an "as-is-basis" without any warranties
express or implied. Their use shall be under the sole
responsibility and at the sole risk of the participants.
Participants
shall be solely responsible and liable regarding their
property and CERN shall have no liability in case of
loss, theft or damage thereof.
Participants shall ensure that, there shall at all times
during the latter's participation in the CERN School of
Computing be insurance cover against illnesses and
accidents valid in the place of venue, and against
disability and death resulting from illnesses and accidents
of the participants. The participant shall hold CERN free
and harmless from, and indemnify it for any cost or expense
resulting from the situation where any part of the insurance
cover detailed above is not in place.
By his or her registration in the CERN School of Computing the
participant acknowledges that he or she takes note and accepts the above.
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Enquiries
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All enquiries
and correspondence related to the School should be addressed to:
Mrs
Fabienne Baud-Lavigne
CERN School of Computing
CERN IT Department
CH-1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 767
9136
Telefax: +41 22 766 9125
E-mail:
Computing (dot) school (at) cern (dot) ch
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