1st  Thematic CERN School of Computing 2013
3-7 June 2013, Split, Croatia

 
Participants
 

ABAD RODRIGUEZ Andres

CERN  

Spanish Computer Scientist working at CERN since 2007. Currently acting as Service Manager and Technical Lead of the team which is charge for providing the build, test and quality assurance tools for the EMI (European Middleware Initiative) project. This project is the responsible to generate and maintain the middleware to create the Grid where all the data coming from the LHC accelerator is analyzed. Responsible for the creation of a pilot for a new continuous integration system for the EMI product teams based at CERN. His expertise cover many different fields such as project and team management, build and testing tools, web services and dynamic web applications developments in Java and desktop application in Python.

ABREU  Ricardo

CERN  

I am a software engineer, currently working on the Atlas High Level Trigger (HLT) experiment, in cooperation with the Data Acquisition (DAQ) community. I had already worked in the HLT/DAQ already for two years, between 2008 and 2010, within the scope of a national Portuguese scholarship. Before that, I obtained my MSc(Eng) from the University of Lisbon, with a research project on the areas of computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and artificial humans and environments. In the period of 2010-2012 I worked at Nagravision, a company in Lausanne, at the digital TV business. I now have a CERN fellowship which started at 2012 and I am currently involved in the evolution of the original two-stage HLT into a dynamic single-stage HLT. I also work on the design and implementation of new HLT code to harness the computing power of current and upcoming multi- and many-core CPUs.

 

ALVAREZ AYLLON Alejandro

CERN  

I studied Computer Engineering at the Universifty of Cadiz (Spain), and now, after being Technical Student and Fellow at CERN, I am a staff member of the IT department.
As a Fellow, I worked on a storage software used in the Grid, where I took a main role in the design and development of the new core libraries, and its HTTP/WebDAV front-end.

When I changed contract, I moved to the "File Transfer Service", which orchestrates the copying of files between different storage elements in the Grid. During my participation in both projects, I have mainly worked with C, C++ and Python on Linux platforms.

 

BANDIERAMONTE_Marilena

University of Catania. Italy

I obtained my MSc in Computer Science Engineering in January 2007. After working in the Distributed Systems research group at DIEEI of Catania University, last year I started a PhD at Dept. of Physics and Astronomy in Catania. My research activity has been mainly focused on meta-heuristics and scheduling algorithms in Grid Computing. I am currently involved in a project, founded by the Italian Ministry of Research that aims to develop a detection system able to detect radioactive materials inside containers, to counteract the illegal transfer, by means of muon tomography. It uses the secondary particles of cosmic rays revealing the deflection of these particles when crossing high Z materials. I deal specifically with track reconstruction issues and with the visualization of 3D tomographic images. OS I use in my daily work are Linux and OSX, sometimes Windows. C/C++, Java programming, and I have also worked with R, ROOT and GEANT4.

 

BARROSO Vasco

CERN  

Since the end of 2006, I've been a software engineer in the ALICE data acquisition team. I've been working mostly on web-based applications such as the ALICE Electronic Logbook (ALICE's bookkeeping facility) and the ALICE Configuration Tool (ALICE's top-level configuration facility). I've also been contributing to the Experiment Control System, serving as database administrator and acting as liaison with ALICE's inner tracking detectors. In view of ALICE's planned upgrade for Long Shutdown 2, I'm currently involved in two working groups contributing to the design of ALICE's new software framework.

 
CHRZASZCZ Marcin

Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

I am a PhD student from IFJ Cracow. I work in the LHCb and BaBar experiments on searches for Lepton Flavour/Number Violating Tau decays. I also study T Violation in B decays in the LHCb. I take part in the software development and testbeams data analysis for the SuperB experiment. I am also involved in the development of TAUOLA MC generator, namely the implementation of new LFV decays modes and new currents for 3 pion tau decays.

Used operating systems: Linux(Debian and RedHat flavor), Windows. Programming languages: C, C++, FORTRAN 90/95, PYTHON, CUDA, JAVA.

 
DARGAUD  Guillaume

CNRS, France

I've been working at LPSC/CNRS doing data acquisition software on Linux for the past 7 years in cosmology and nuclear physics: participation to the Planck satellite, the Genepi accelerator-driven reactor, nEDM neutron dipole moment, NOY cosmic ray detector...
Previously spent 15 years developing data acquisition systems in atmospheric physics, in particular Antarctic missions to deploy and run equipment.
I use and administer Linux, DSP, embedded systems with BuildRoot; program mainly in C, bash and php; develop user interfaces with LabWindows/CVI and some web apps.
Worked 7 years in Rome, 3 years in Colorado, 1 year in Alaska, 3 years in Antarctica and 7 years in Grenoble. More or less.
Avid climber, photographer and mountain-biker.

 
DKALINOWSKI Artur

University of Warsaw, Poland

I am an assistant professor at University of Warsaw, Warsaw Poland. I have received my Ph.D. in 2006.
Since then I have been working in ATLAS (past) and CMS (now) Collaborations on preparation for data taking and lately on analysis of LHC data. Currently my main physics interest in Higgs boson searches in tau tau decay channel.
In my work I use mainly C++ with a little of Python.

 
KHAW Kim Siang

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

I am a PhD student at ETH working on the precision physics using muon beam and muonic atom. My works include the production of a brilliant muon beam, optimization of muonium source such as porous silica and development of a compact muon/positron tracker. Most of my works are done on linux platform, with C/C++ programming heavily involved. All the data analyses and simulations are done using ROOT and GEANT4, respectively.

 
KORTELAINEN Matti

Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland

I work at the Helsinki Institute of Physics for the CMS experiment. I obtained my PhD on a search for a light charged Higgs boson from University of Helsinki in 2013. In addition to the analysis I have contributed to development of tau triggers, and CMS software performance analysis and improvements. Prior to my career in HEP I had gained work experience from plasma physics and software industry. I use actively Linux, and have experience from other Unix-like systems and Windows. In the past years I have programmed mostly with C++, Python, and shell scripts. I am also familiar with assembly, C, Java, Perl, and Scheme, among others.

 
 
 
MAKATUN Dzmitry

Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR, Czech Republic

Starting from 2011 I am a PhD student at Czech Technical University. My specialization is programming and subject of thesis is “Distributed data processing”. I carry out my research in
Nuclear Physics Institute (CZ) in collaboration with BNL (US). The research faces the problem of resource usage optimization by coupling the computational, storage and network resources. The goal is to develop a scalable, automatic, self-adjustable and flexible software environment for data-processing.

For this work I use my skills of: Linux, MySQL, C++, OpenMPI, Java and Python. In my free time I do sport and photography.

 
MEUSEL René

CERN  

 

After being a Summer Student at CERN in 2011, I re-�joined the PH-�SFT group as a Technical Student in November 2012. There, I am currently working on the CernVM-� Filesystem that allows for fast and scalable distribution of LHC experiment software in the Grid. My work is focused on development, testing and performance optimization of CernVM-�Filesystem�s backend storage. My work involves the utilization of current multi-�core hardware as well as distributed approaches to speed up the staging of new LHC experiment software releases.

Furthermore, I recently finished my master studies in IT Systems Engineering at the Hasso-�Plattner-�Institute in Potsdam, Germany. I have been focusing on computer graphics and Human-�Computer-�Interaction during the course of my master studies. In particular my thesis was dealing with human tracking on interactive multi-touch floors.
 
NOWAK Friederike

DESY, Germany  

I studied physics at the university of Hamburg, receiving my Phd in 2012. Besides performing a search for Supersymmetry within the CMS collaboration, I also was involved in developing modules for the HappyFace Project, a meta monitoring tool for computing sites. In October 2012, I moved to the IT department of DESY, becoming the contact person for ATLAS within the IT group. My main tasks include grid cluster and dCache operations, and I am also involved in the german National Analysis Facility. My preferred progamming languages are Python and C++, but I have also used Bash, Perl, and Php before.

 
SIZUN Patrick

CEA Saclay, France

After a master degree in science and engineering and a PhD in Astrophysics, I have been working at CEA/IRFU in Saclay (France) as a software engineer for six years.
Working mostly under Linux, Mac OS X and VxWorks, I contribute to the software developped for the experiments (in Astrophysics, Particle or Nuclear Physics) IRFU is involved in,
from an event display for the ATLAS spectrometer (C++, Qt, Fortran), or software utilities for the calibration of CTA mirrors (Python, ROOT) to a data center infrastructure for the SVOM mission (Java, EJB, C++) or a monte-carlo model of the ECLAIRs telescope (Geant4).
I am currently working on a generic run control and data acquisition system for time projection chambers (C++, ICE).

 
STELLA_Sabrina

University of Trieste, Italy

Presently, I am a post-doc at the Physics Department of the University of Trieste.
I completed my PhD in Physics in 2012, at the University of Pavia, working on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. There, I mainly dealt with the measurement of 10B in biological samples and with the design of a prompt gamma neutron activation analysis facility, using a Monte Carlo N-Particle code.
Now I am working on the computational aspects of a biophysical model of tumour growth. My work is aimed at bringing about an important improvement in code modularity and flexibility, and increasing the program execution speed.
The operating system mainly used is Mac OSX, the IDE is XCode, the language is C++, with the addition of OpenMP, CUDA, and ancillary software in Mathematica. I am also familiar with Windows and Linux OS and I have some experience with the ROOT framework, SQL language, HTML and css.

 
TELESCA Adriana

CERN  

I come from Lecce, in the south of Italy, and I am a telecommunication and electronics engineer working mainly in software development. I have been working at CERN as a computing engineer in the Data Acquisition team (DAQ) of the ALICE experiment for the last 4 years. I first joined CERN as a Marie Curie fellow in the ACEOLE project and I am currently a CERN staff member. I am in charge of the system monitoring of the DAQ machines and I collaborate with a colleague in the development of the Data Quality Monitoring framework. I am also participating in several R&D projects for the ALICE experiment upgrade during the long shutdown 2.

WYSZYńSKI Grzegorz

Jagiellonian University, Poland

I graduated from Jagiellonian University with Master Degree in 2010. My thesis' topic was the construction and operation of Multiwire Drift Chamber.
The same year I started International PhD Studies in Nuclear Physics at the same University. My current work is related with nEDM experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute. I am responsible of the design of the active magnetic shielding for next stage of experiment.
Currently I am staying at ETH Zurich, working on both construction and simulation of this system.

 
WYILDIZ Cenk

Bogazici University, Tutkey

I have studied Physics and received my Master of Science in mathematical physics from Bogazici University in 2008. Since 2009, I've been doing PhD in CAST Experiment at CERN on axion search using x-ray micromegas detectors. During this time I worked on various experimental areas and used programming for detector analysis, simulation, web programming, plotting and data analysis. I almost only use GNU/Linux for private and work purposes. I program mostly in python(and I love it!), and I program in C++ for CPU intensive jobs like detector/physics analysis. I have experience in web programming using php/HTML and web2py framework. I'm also familiar with bash programming and labview.



 
 

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