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Lecturer Biographies
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Bertrand Bellenot |
CERN |
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Primary
working in Aluminum industry as process engineer, developing
software for data acquisition, data analysis, statistical process
control (SPC) and for X-Ray spectrometry. Involved in ROOT
development since 2001 by porting ROOT to Windows. Member of
the ROOT development team at CERN since 2005, actually working on
GUI (Graphical User Interface), Windows support, integration of ROOT
in other toolkits (i.e. MFC, Qt, Fox, PVSS)
and Proof (Parallel Root Facility).
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| Predrag Buncic |
CERN |
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Following the studies at Zagreb and Belgrade Universities,
Predrag Buncic stated his carrier as a physicist in NA35 experiment at CERN
where he worked on a streamer chamber event reconstruction and where he
quickly discovered his passion for scientific computing. In 1994 he joined
the NA49 experiment to work on challenging problems of data management as
well as reconstruction, visualization and data processing. In 2001 he moved to ALICE experiment at LHC
where he initiated AliEn project, a lightweight grid framework that
later served as an inspiration for the first gLite prototype. For this
reason he joined EGEE project in 2004 and worked for two years in CERN/IT on
gLite middleware architecture . Since 2006 he is working in CERN/PH
Department and currently leading Virtualization R&D project in PH/SFT group.
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François Flückiger |
CERN |
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François
Flückiger, Director of the CERN School of Computing, is Technology Liaison
Officer for Information Technologies at CERN and Manager of the CERN
openlab for DataGrid applications. Before joining CERN in 1978,
he was employed for five years by SESA in Paris. At CERN, he has been in charge
of external networking for more than 12 years and held positions in
infrastructure and application networking, including the management of
CERN's World-Wide Web team after the departure of the Web inventor Tim
Berners-Lee. He is an adviser to the European
Commission, a member of the Internet Society Advisory Council and the author
of the reference textbook "Understanding Networked Multimedia" as well as
more than 80 articles. He has 36 years of experience in networking and
information technologies. François Flückiger graduated from the Ecole
Supérieure d'Electricité in 1973 and holds an MBA from the Enterprise
Administration Institute in Paris in 1977. |
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Rudi Frühwirth |
HEPHY Vienna |
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Rudi Frühwirth studied mathematics in Vienna. In 1977
he joined the Institute of High Energy Physics in Vienna, where has been
working ever since. He has developed online software, simulation software,
pattern recognition software, and track and vertex reconstruction software
for various experiments. He has taught mathematics and statistics at the
University of Economics and regularly gives courses on data analysis at the
University of Technology in Vienna. |
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Aatos Heikkinen |
HIP Helsinki |
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Aatos Heikkinen is an experimental
high-energy physicist at the Helsinki Institute of Physics.
He has graduated in Computational Physics from the University of
Helsinki. He is a member of the
Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration, where he has developed software for
detector simulation, and multivariate data analysis using neural networks.
Aatos is a member of the Geant4 collaboration, where he has
specialized to modeling of intra-nuclear cascades, and acted as a Geant4
Hadronic Physics Group coordinator.
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Bob
Jacobsen |
University of California at Berkeley
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Bob
Jacobsen is an experimental high-energy physicist and a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley.
He's a member of the BaBar collaboration, where he lead the effort to create the
reconstruction software and the offline system.
He has previously been a member of the ALEPH (LEP) and MarkII (SLC)
collaborations. His original academic training was in computer engineering,
and he worked in the computing industry before becoming a physicist. |
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Sverre Jarp
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CERN |
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Sverre
Jarp is active in the CERN openlab, a joint collaboration with leading
industrial partners in order to assess cutting-edge information technology
for the Large Hadron Colliders Computing Grid.
He has been working in computing at
CERN for well over 30 years and has held various managerial and technical
positions promoting advanced but cost-effective computing solutions for the
Laboratory. In 2001-02 he spent a
sabbatical year in HP Labs (Palo
Alto, USA).
Inside openlab, his main focus is currently compilers and platform
optimization as well as virtualization and Grid middleware. S.
Jarp holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the
Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
in Trondheim.
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| Sebastian
Lopienski |
CERN |
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Sebastian Lopienski is member of the CERN Computer
Security Team, working on security strategy, policies and consultancy;
developing and maintaining security tools (intrusion detection,
vulnerability assessment etc.); training and awareness raising; as well as
incident analysis and response. During his work at CERN since 2001,
Sebastian has had various assignments, including designing and developing
software to manage and support services hosted in the CERN Computer Centre,
providing Central CVS Service for software projects at CERN, and development
of applications for accelerator controls in Java. He graduated from the
Computer Science Faculty of Warsaw University (Master's thesis on
Distributed Computing in Java). His professional interests include software
and network security, cryptography, and distributed systems.
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Pere
Mato Vila |
CERN |
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Pere Mato studied physics at University of Barcelona, Spain, where
he obtained the Ph.D. in 1990. Since 1986 has been working at CERN
in a number of projects. Started with the 3081/E emulator project at
the DD division, and later moved to the Aleph experiment in the area
of DAQ and slow controls. In 1994 he took the overall responsibility
of the Aleph TPC detector until the end of LEP. Since 1998 he has
been leading the development of the core software and framework for
the LHCb experiment (Gaudi) and later the LCG Core Libraries and
Services project (SEAL). In 2005 has been appointed Applications
Area manager of the LCG project.
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Axel Naumann |
CERN |
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Starting off as a physicist, Axel studied physics and math at
Muenster, Germany. In 2000, he got a PhD position for high energy
physics at Nijmegen, The Netherlands. They sent him to Fermilab at
Chicago, where he worked with the D0 experiment - which also meant
writing software from PCI drivers to data analysis code. During that
time he got involved with ROOT, slowly converting from a user to a
developer. He contributed to whatever he needed, e.g. the statistics
part, the documentation engine, and porting it to cygwin. After a
position with the Fermilab Computing Division in 2005 he ended up at
CERN in the ROOT development team. He is now responsible for the
reflection system, the interpreter CINT, and the documentation
system.
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Andrzej Nowak |
CERN |
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Andrzej Nowak has been working at CERN openlab, a
partnership between CERN and the industry (Intel, HP, Oracle), since 2007.
His early research concerned operating systems security, mobile systems
security, and wireless technologies. During his studies in 2005 and 2006,
Andrzej worked at Intel, where he researched custom performance
optimizations of the Linux kernel and took part in developing one of the
first 802.16e (WiMax Mobile) wireless MAN networking standard
implementations. Soon after obtaining his diploma, he joined openlab in
January 2007. Andrzej deals mostly with multi- and many-core architectures
and parallel processing. Another significant area of his work is platform
optimization and performance assessment.
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Alberto Pace |
CERN |
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Alberto Pace is a member if the IT department at CERN where he
leads the Data Management group ensuring a coherent development process for
Physics Data management activities, strongly driven by operational and user
needs. He has more than 20 years experience in computing services,
infrastructure, software engineering, accelerator control and accelerator
operation. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano
(Italy) in 1987.
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Bernd
Panzer-Steindel |
CERN |
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Dr. Bernd Panzer-Steindel studied physics at the University of Mainz
(Germany), where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1989. Since 1990 he is an
employee of the European high energy physics research centre CERN in
Geneva. After research activities in various physics experiments he
changed in the nineties into the area of informatics, where he was
decisively involved in the introduction of PC clusters, Linux, new
storage strategies and the management of large storage scaling
tests. Since 2006 he is the CTO and resource manager in the CERN
computer centre.
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Ivica Puljak |
University of Split (FESB) |
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Ivica Puljak is Assistant Professor of physics at
University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical
Enginnering and Naval Arhitecture (FESB) and also a Vice Dean for
research and informatics. He completed his BsC studies in electrical
engineering at FESB and MsC studies in particle physics at
University of Zagreb. He has been working for his PhD
thesis at Laboratory Leprince Ringuet (LLR) at Ecole Polytechnique,
Palaiseau, and got his PhD in particle physics from University Paris
VI in 2000. He is a member of CMS collaboration since 1994. His
research interests are construction of the electromagnetic
calorimeter of the CMS detector and search for the Higgs boson.
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Assistant to Lecturer
Biographies
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Andreas J. Peters |
CERN |
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Andreas Peters is member of the CERN data management
group. Since 1997 he worked as a student for the NA48
Collaboration at CERN in the development of the data acquisition system and
a zero suppression system for the electro-magnetic calorimeter. He finished
his PHD in physics at the University of Mainz in 2002 studying direct
CP-violation in the neutral kaon system. 2002 he joined as a research fellow
the ALICE experiment doing mainly development of GRID software and data
management tools. From 2004 on he stayed at CERN working for the
European grid project EGEE focused on development of end-user tools for
distributed analysis and distributed data management. In 2008 he joined the
CERN data management group doing research and development for future data
management at CERN.
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09-Jan-10
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