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Students at CSC2009
The following people have attended the 2009 CERN School of
Computing
Carlos AGUADO SANCHEZ |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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Carlos Aguado Sanchez works for the CERNVM Project within the Applied Fellow
Programme at CERN. Such project aims to develop and deploy a new portable
analysis facility for the HEP community based on alternative solutions for
software distribution (i.e. p4p file system over HTTP) and computing power
usage (i.e. hardware virtualization). Specifically, his role within such
project is to contribute to design and maintain the service infrastructure
focused on two main aspects: horizontal scalability, efficient distribution
model and perceived QoS. He is Telecommunications Engineer from Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid.
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Arshad AHMAD |
Aligarh Muslim University - India |

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I am currently working on the dimuon part of the high level trigger of
ALICE. I have also done performance studies of the second station of the
Forward dimuon spectrometer of ALICE. Currently I am also engaged in some
physics studies @ ALICE, LHC. I have one year experience of working with
AliRoot.
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Khawar AHMAD |
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol – United Kingdom |

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After the completion of graduate studies, I have been selected as Research
Associate at NUST Institute of Information. Based on good academic record
and good work experience, I have been invited by CERN Geneva, Switzerland to
work on CMS Experiment for the duration of one year in 2007. My ability to
learn new things and my past experience helped me a lot in understanding my
work in CERN. I worked on iCMS; a modern web information system that handles
the notes, news,
agendas and
data analysis produced
in a collaboration of about
6000 physicists, engineers
and technicians at CERN.
I worked on notes approval workflow and developed CMS people/institute
search tools. I am happy I was
able to complete my job to their satisfaction level. During my stay at CERN,
I met with Prof. Richard McClatchey of University of the West of England. My
CERN experience helped me to get MPhil opportunity in the distributed
computing group at UWE. I started my MPhil in October 2008 and now I am
doing my thesis on optimizing workflow execution performance. As a case
study, I am using AlcaRecoWorkflow used at Tier0 for reconstructing data
coming from the detector at CMS experiment.
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Anton ALKIN |
Bogolubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev - Ukraine |
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Domains of scientific activity include:
Unitarization of phenomenological high-energy particle collision models,
heavy-ion collision models, Monte-Carlo high-energy particle collisions
simulation, Data analysis, Linux computing cluster support and maintenance.
Expertise in Operating Systems and Programming Languages: Linux (system administration), programming languages: C/C++, python,
shell-scripts.
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Juan de Dios ALVAREZ |
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hildago, Morelia - Mexico |

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I have obtained an MSc in the area of Computer Science, I started from March
2009 the PhD. in physical sciences in computational physics. The operating
system with which I am familiar with linux (scientific linux, debian) and
Mac OS. The programming languages C, C ++, java, python. I am currently
working on two experiments, the Observatory of the Pierre Auger
collaboration and the HAWC High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment.
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Jamila BASHIR BUTT |
National Centre for Physics, Islamabad - Pakistan |
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I completed my PhD in 2006 from Syracuse University, NY USA. During my PhD I
had to use C++ extensively as all our data analysis programs were based on
C++. I also had to do some exercises in Fortran. There were few other non
technical languages which I used e.g. labView, LaTEX. For two years I
worked as a post-doc at National Centre for Physics Pakistan. Now I am
working as a research scientist at the same institute.
My responsibility includes physics analysis in charm quark and top
quark group of CMS experiment. CMS software has been developing and
changing at a fast pace. The CERN School of Computing will be helpful for me
to understand the changing environment of CMS/LHC software. My experience at
CSC will be useful for me to guide the student at NCP as well.
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Barbara BECCATI |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I am an Electronic and Telecommunications engineer (University
of Ferrara, Italy).
I have been started my experience at
CERN as Technical Student in 2007. Since
2008, I am working as fellow on the CMS Data Acquisition (DAQ) and Detector
Control System (DCS). I am involved in the development and management of the
CMS online database using the Oracle Portal Technology. I have good
knowledge of Java and Struts and I am quite familiar with C, C++, Swing, JSF
and SQL.
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Walter BENDER |
RWTH Aachen University - Germany |
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I am currently involved in the search for supersymmetry at CMS in the
context of my PhD thesis. I am active in developing and using extended
search strategies and multivariate analysis techniques. In addition to that
I am familiar with the administration of our local grid facility as part of
the LCG Grid and I work as a data manager for transferring datasets between
the Grid sites. This involves the use of databases like MySQL and Oracle for
the purpose of accounting and documentation. I'm used to Linux, Mac OS X and
Windows. My favorite programming languages are Python, Java and C/C++. I
have a /basic knowledge/ of Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Bash and Haskell.
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Matthias BERGHOLZ |
DESY, Zeuthen - Germany |
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Recently I wrote a Labview based software for the measurement of C/V and I/V
dependencies of solid state particle detectors (silicon, GaAs, diamonds
etc). Currently I've been starting programming a data base for the Central
European Consortium (part of the silicon upgrade for the CMS tracker). This
data base should have a web based user interface. Furthermore I work on
simulations of the electrical field and the detector behaviour of the
mentioned sensors for the CMS tracker upgrade. For data analysis of our
current measurements we use the ROOT software package. Mostly I work with
Windows and Linux as operating systems but I also have also some basic
knowledge of MacOS X. I am used to C/C++ or Labview and years ago I have
worked with Turbo Pascal.
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Nicola BESSONE |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I am a computer engineer graduate at the Universita degli Studi di Torino -
Italy in Methodology and Informatics Systems in March 2007, after have done
my Master thesis as a Technical Student in the Telecommunication section of
CERN. In June 2007 I join the Young Graduate Trainee program in the
Simulation and Modeling group at the ESA - European Space Research and
Technology Center in the Netherlands for one year. In summer 2008 I been two
months in Barcelona for the Space Studies Program of the International Space
University of Strasbourg. Since September 2008 I am working at CERN in the
IT - Data Management group on the development and maintenance of the CERN
Advanced STORage manager (CASTOR). I am responsible for defining and
implementing of a serialization library for the new CASTOR tape format, and
the integration of it in the CASTOR storage management system.
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Stefan BIRKHOLZ |
Georg-August University Göttingen - Germany |
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I am developing and deploying a local and grid-level monitoring system that
was developed cooperatively at the Universities of Goettingen and Karlsruhe.
I am an experienced Linux User (using Ubuntu privately and Scientific Linux
in the Institute) with some Windows skills. I am familiar with programming
in C++, C, Java and Python.
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Maksym BORODIN |
DESY, Hamburg - Germany |
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Currently I am working in offline group of ZEUS experiment, doing
development of ntuple production system (both ROOT and PAW) and data
analysis software (ROOT-based), LSF cluster administration and also some
physics analysis. My main task at this time is to write additional backend
for production system to enable production on GRID using gLite middleware. I
have experience working with Windows and Linux and such programming
languages: C/C++, python, java, perl, php, VB, C# and x86 assembler (little
bit).
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Carsten BRACHEM |
Georg-August University
Göttingen - Germany |
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I am a Bachelor student at the University of Göttingen. I am currently
working on statistical methods for data analysis for my Bachelor's thesis.
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Sebastian BUKOWIEC |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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In March 2009 I obtained my master degree in Computer Science participating
to the CERN Technical Studentship programme, working in the IT/IS group at
CERN on virtual server provisioning. From May 2009 I am Marie Curie Fellow
in PH/CMD group at CERN working in DAQ field. Currently I'm involved in
developing and maintaining the ElogBook system for the CMS experiment.
ElogBook is a web based application for reporting the various events
occurring in the CMS by the operators. I have programming experience on
Windows and Linux environments, mainly in Java, PHP and C#.
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21-Sep-09 |
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