CERN School of Computing 2013
19-30 August, Nicosia, Cyprus
 

All news - CSC2013

 

 
After-school News
68 1 Sep
New
Examination Results
Best Marks

In addition to its warmest congratulations to all the candidates who received the CSC diploma for their success in the examination and full attendance to the entire programme , the jury of the CSC final examination is pleased to announce the following distinctions

 

Fran?ois Fluckiger, CSC Director

Awards for Best Marks
The following 5 students are ranking first and received the 2013 CSC Award.

1

Daniel Cervenkov

 

Charles University, Prague - Czech Republic

32

Ladislav Chytka

   Palack? University, Olomouc - Czech Republic 32 
 Ivan Kadochnikov    JINR, Dubna - Russia 32 
 Hanno Perrey    DESY, Hamburg ? Germany 32 
 Laura Rueda    CERN 32 

2013 Best Mark award: all 5 students with pictures and bio

67 1 Sep
New
Examination Results

Special Distinctions

In addition to the 5 students who obtained the Best Mark of 32, the jury of the CSC examination is pleased to award a special distinction to the 6 students below who obtained a mark of 31 and ranked 6th.

6 Ioannis Agtzidis CERN 31
Lene Bryngemark University of Lund - Sweden 31
Charles Delort CERN 31
Jonas Kunze Johannes Gutenberg Universit?t Mainz - Germany 31
Martin Ljunggren University of Lund - Sweden 31
Aleksandra Wardzinska CERN 31 
2013 Special distinctions: all 6 students with pictures and bio
Individual marks can be provided to students upon request, by email, to the Examination Coordinator, Ivica Puljak (Ivica [dot] Puljak [AT] cern [dot] ch)
66 1
Sep

Photo Gallery
Keep posting to the  CSC 2013 Gallery after the end of the school.
In particular, pictures taken the last day, at the closing session and the final party.
CSC2013 Photo Gallery
    Open
65 1
Sep

Evaluation Questionnaire

We value YOUR comments

URGENT: If not yet done, please fill out now the questionnaire and do not forget to click the final submit when you are happy with your appraisal and comments.

We count on you :-)

School Evaluation Questionnaire before:10 Sept. 2013 Everyone Closed
 
 
Friday  30 August
64 30
Aug
New
Photo Contest

The jury (Andrea, Jakob and Juan assisted by Fabienne and Yasemin) have now concluded their deliberations.

Here is their final selection:

Category Author Wining Picture
Portrait Josef Hammer
Sports Thomas Beermann
CSC life Giuseppe Lo Presti
Funniest Jonas Kunze
Overall best Josef Hammer
Overall best
(Special Prize of the Jury)
Josef Hammer
63 30
Aug
New
Football Match
soccer

Breaking News: Last night football match
Yellow team defeats Grey Team  7 to 3 in the 2012 Official Football match.
Congrats to all.


 

 

The winning team

The grey team which deserves warm congrats

62 30
Aug
Photo Contest

The jury (Andrea, Jakob and Juan assisted by Fabienne and Yasemin) have now concluded their deliberations.

The results of the Photo Contest will be announced tonight at the closing party.

Be patient and wait ...
Francois

 

61 30
Aug
New
Football Match
soccer

A record number of you registered to play or support and report on the football match. No fewer than 44 people participated in a way or another.

  • 39 players
  • 5 supporters or reporters

Plus our local organizers Panos and Fotis.
The team draw ended up with the following break down:

Yellow Team

Light Grey Team

Akishina Valentina
Antosik Marta
Attikis Alexandros
Caberletti Marco
Calvet Ivan
Delort Charles
Heikkila Seppo
Gouveia Vitor
Lazaridis Christos
Lettenbichler Jakob
Ljunggren Martin
Lo Presti Giuseppe
Lobato Lorena
Malta Rodrigues Alan
Montuenga Pedro
Moreno Pascual Fernando
Morgenstern Marcus
Pace Alberto
Pelak Stanislav
Richert Tuva

Agtzidis Ioannis
Beermann Thomas
Bryngemark Lene
Bukhari Syed Ali Zahir
Cervenkov Daniel
Dorland Tyler
Fluckiger Francois
Hahne Daniel
Hammer Josef
Lopez Gonzalez Juan
MacCrea Alison
Mancinelli Valentina
Manzali Matteo
Manzi Andrea
Morvaj Ljiljana
Nguyen Khoi Nguyen
Perrey Hanno
Puljak Ivica
Radburn-Smith Benjamin
Raziz Panos

   
And our fan club, supporters and war reporters
Chytka, Ladislav
Ernis, Gunar
Rueda, Laura
Viazlo, Oleksandr
Wardzinska, Aleksandra
60 30
Aug
Tennis Tournament

The full results of the tennis tournament will be published just after the school, in the "After School News".

For the time being, partial results:

  • Ivica Puljak defeats Fran?ois Fluckiger in the final of the tennis tournament.
  • Alan Malta Rodrigues and Alexandros Attikis finish 3rd after reaching he semifinals.
 
 
[https://csc.web.cern.ch/csc/2013/This_year_school/10-CSC-Live/01-News/04-Thursday_29/04-Thursday_29-print.htm]
 
Wednesday 28 August
55 28
Aug
Tennis Tournament

All the players (and those who would like to help like Laura) are invited to meet, dressed fro tennis, at 17:30 in the Hotel Lobby.

We will give explanations as well as:

  • Which label you have (A1, B2, D3, ....)

  • When and where do you play

Note:

  • We will play in Court 1 and Court   4 for the group phase from 18:00 to 20:00

  • We will have court Court 4 from 20:0 to 21:0 for the  semi-finals and the final

54 28
Aug
Examination

All CERN IT participants have been allocated to Group 1.

Reminder:
All information will be provided today at the update session.
All you need to know is on the web.

53 28
Aug
Presentations by Students

First meeting with your mentor Today, Wednesday, 14:30, just after the last lecture of the day

52 28
Aug
Presentations by Students

We are pleased to announce that all 13 proposals have been accepted (there was one duplicate proposal).  A CSC mentor (a school lecturer) has been assigned to each presenter and will discuss the content with them. See details of proposals.

 

Beware: as all proposals are selected, the number of presentations will be unusually high. They will be strictly limited to 8 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions.

Almost all proposals have a content which is most likely to exceed 10 minutes. You are therefore invited to reflect on the essential points you would like to make, and to discuss it with your mentor).

 

# Presenter Mentor
1 Akishina, Valentina Benjamin
2 Ameri Parinaz Giuseppe
3 Attikis, Alexandros Ivica
4 Alexandre Beche Andreas
5 Chinzer,  Lisa Azzurra Andreas
6 Dorland, Tyler Ivica
7 Ernis, Gunar Alberto
8 Hahne, Daniel Ivica
9 Heikkila, Seppo Alberto
10 Kunze, Jonas Fran?ois
11 Lettenbichler, Jakob Benjamin
12 Messi, Francesco Ivica
13 Richert, Tuva Benjamin
51 28
Aug
Photo Contest
Jury

We need help to form the Jury for the Photo Contest.

If willing to join the Jury, please send an email to Fabienne (fabienne dot baud-lavigne at cern dot ch)

50 28
Aug
Photo Contest
Special Folder
The    Photo Gallery   contains a special folder for you to  place pictures you would like to propose for the CSC Photo Contest.
CSC2013 Photo Gallery
    Open
49 28
Aug
CSC on Twitter

Remember: You may follow CSC on Twitter at @CERN_CSC.

Tweets include reference to some official news posted on this site, that you may easily retrieve with the Htag  #CSCNews13

48 28
Aug

Evaluation Questionnaire

We value YOUR comments

Remember:

School Evaluation Questionnaire before:10 Sept. 2013 Everyone Closed

We advise students to fill it out as they go along (e.g. after each series of lectures or exercises).
In particular, questionnaire contains appraisal questions of early classes, the memory of which may have blurred by the end of the school.  

 
 
Tuesday 27 August
47 27
Aug

Beware
Tennis Tournament

Registration is to the Tennis Tournament, is closing today Tuesday 27, at 11:30.

Tournament: Wednesday 18:00-20:00 at the hotel.

Register to Tennis Afternoon
Registrations so far
before Tue 27  11:30 Only if interested Closed
46 27
Aug
Examination
Registration to the examination is opening today at 10:45. Deadline is tonight. Tuesday 27th  of August, 23:00
Register to the examination
(no late registration possible)
before Tue 27  23:00  Only if interested Closed
All information will be provided today at the update session. No point to ask more to the organizers, they will not answer.
All you need to know is on the web.
 
 
Monday 26 August
45 26
Aug
New
Ivica's exercises

Notes on Data Analysis Exercises are available.

 

Data Analysis Exercise Notes - PDF

 

44 26
Aug
Presentations by Students

Beware: Deadline is tomorrow, Tuesday 27, 11:30
The session of selected presentations from students will take place Friday 30 August, in the morning. See schedule of week 2.
Explanations on the objectives of this session.

You may see examples of topics selected in past years: 2011; 2010; 2009;2008;2007;2006
Propose Presentations
View proposals posted so far
before Tue 27  11:30 Only if interested Closed
43 26
Aug
Photo Contest
If you wish to participate in the Photo Contest, you must upload a selection of your pictures (up to 12) in the special album called "Photo Contest".
To do so:
   1. Select the "Photo Contest" album
   2. Select add-item
   3. Select the pictures you want to upload
   4. Make sure you give your name in the caption box of every picture you upload
CSC2013 Photo Gallery
    Open
42 26
Aug
Tennis Tournament

Registration is opening today for the Tennis Tournament, Wednesday 24, 18:00-20:00.

Register to Tennis Afternoon
Registrations so far
before Tue 27  11:30 Only if interested Closed
41 26
Aug
Football Match
soccer

Registration is opening today for the match Thursday 29, 19:00-20:45 on the campus.
 All are welcome, beginners and confirmed, including ladies who would like to try football.

if you are a supporter (or reporter) and wish to attend only register also for the bus planning and indicate in the comments that you are supporting, not playing.

Register to Football Match
Registrations so far
before Wed 28  11:30 Only if interested Closed
40 26
Aug
Hi Andreas

Andreas J. Peters arrived today. Andreas will assist Alberto in the running of the exercises on Data Technologies.

39 26
Aug
Exercises

The solutions of the exercises of the Computer Architecture & Performance. Tuning series run by Sverre Jarp and Andrzej Nowak are available on the school exercise server. A full 15-page document is available with explanations.

You may find these corrections in the same directory as the exercise themselves..

 
 
Sunday 25 August
38 25
Aug
Hi Benjamin
 Welcome to Benjamin Radburn-Smith who arrived Saturday.

Benjamin is assisting  Ivica in the exercises and will give a class later this week as part of the Data Analysis series.
37 25
Aug

Sunday Excursion

Key Time:

08:00  Buses Depart from Hotel
16:30  Buses Depart from Polis-Latsi after lunch an boat excursion to Akamai
24:00 Buses return to Hotel

 
 
Saturday 24  August
36 24
Aug
New
Presentations by Students

The session of selected presentations from students will take place Friday 30 August, in the morning. See schedule of week 2.
Explanations on the objectives of this session (will take place if enough selected presentations)

You may wish to see examples of topics selected in past years: 2011; 2010; 2009;2008;2007;2006
Propose Presentations
View proposals posted so far
before Tue 27  11:30 Only if interested Closed
35 24
Aug

Sunday Excursion

Remember:

For  Sunday Excursion the buses will depart at 08:00 (and not 08:25) from the hotel.

As usual, be on time. 

.

34 24
Aug
New
Welcome to  Ivica
Welcome to Ivica Puljak, Lecturer at CSC1013, Chair person of the CSC Advisory Committee, and also Chair-person of the Local Organizing Committee for CSC2007 in Dubrovnik,  who is joining us from today.

Ivica is also the coordinator for the CSC examination and for the student presentations session ... and a very good  Basketball player.

 
 
Friday 23 August
33 23
Aug
CSC on Twitter

Remember: You may follow CSC on Twitter at @CERN_CSC.

Tweets include reference to some official news posted on this site, that you may easily retrieve with the htag  #CSCNews13

32 23
Aug

Sunday Excursion

Remember:

Do not forget to fill out the  Sunday Excursion form before 11:30 today

Many thanks also to fill it out, even to tell us that do not wish to participate.

.

Register to Sunday Excursion before Fri  23  11:30  Everyone Closed
 
 
Thursday 22 August
31 22
Aug
Sunday Excursion

Registration to Sunday Excursion is opening today.

Register to Sunday Excursion before Fri  23  11:30  Everyone Closed
30 22
Aug
Sports Day

For those who are doing diving and /or Kayaking, you may now see in which timeslot you have been allocated.

 

Timeslots for Diving and Kayak       Who will do what ....... Overall Schedule of the day

 

 
 
Wednesday 21 August
29 21
Aug
New
Dinner tonight on the terrace

Beware:

The dinner tonight will not take place in the Kantara room but on the Hiltonia Terrace, next to the pool.

Usual time, 21:00

28 21
Aug
New
Sports Day

Allocation of participants to activities is available.
The list or participants is also published on the CSC web site in page format and PDF Format.


You may now know whether you do beach only (8 people), Beach and Kayaking only (11 people), Beach + Diving only (23 people) or Beach Plus the two sports.

 

27 21
Aug

Evaluation Questionnaire

We value YOUR comments
Reminder
School Evaluation Questionnaire before:10 Sept. 2013 Everyone Closed
We advise students to fill it out as they go along (e.g. after each series of lectures or exercises).
In particular, questionnaire contains appraisal questions of early classes, the memory of which may have blurred by the end of the school.  
26 21
Aug
New

Hi  Alberto

Welcome to  Alberto Pace , Lecturer at CSC1013 and member of the CSC Advisory Committee. He just arrived today, and is joining us for the excursion.

He will give lectures and exercises on Data Technologies.

Alberto is also ... ... an expert Scuba Diver and an excellent Volleyball player ...

25 21
Aug

On-site practical information

Reminder:

On-site Practical and Logistics information is available.

It provides:

 
 
Tuesday 20 August
24 20
Aug
Study room

A study room is available to all participants. It is i the secretariat corridor, adjacent to the Buffer room.

 

It will be open daily  from our morning arrival to our evening departure.

23 20
Aug
Bags during afternoons

If you do not need your bags during afternoons (because of sports or any other activities) they may be safely left in the CSC Buffer Room adjacent to the CSC Secretariat  as follows:

Deposit

From  13:15 to 13:45

After lunch

Collection

From  16:15 to 16:30

Before exercise session resume

Buffer Room will be locked from 13:45 to 16:15.
Note that if you do sports, you may also use the lockers in the Sports Centre.

22
20
Aug
Photo Gallery
The CSC 2013 gallery is now open, but before using it please have a brief look at  the instructions.
Viewing a well as uploading is available.
CSC2013 Photo Gallery
    Open
21 20
Aug
CSC on Twitter

Remember: You may follow CSC on Twitter at @CERN_CSC.

Tweets include reference to some official news posted on this site, that you may easily retrieve with the htag  #CSCNews13

20 20
Aug

Evaluation Questionnaire

We value YOUR comments

Remember:

School Evaluation Questionnaire before:10 Sept. 2013 Everyone Closed

We advise students to fill it out as they go along (e.g. after each series of lectures or exercises).
In particular, questionnaire contains appraisal questions of early classes, the memory of which may have blurred by the end of the school.  

 
 
Monday 19 August
19 19
Aug
Hi Sverre, Sebastian  and Andrzej

Welcome to Sverre Jarp and  Andrzej Nowak lecturer arriving today - they will teach Computer Architecture & Perf. Tuning- as well as to Sebastian Lopienski who will teach Secure Software.
Sebastian

Andrzej
18 19
Aug
Sports Day
You may wish to check again the details of the options before choosing:
Sport activities
S1 S2 S3
Hiking Diving Kayaking
Level 1 Level 2 Level 2
 
 Free activity Nothing
Rest at Makronissos Beach None
Level 0 Level -1
17 19
Aug
Sports Day
Registration to Thursday 22nd  Sports Day in now open.
Outdoor Sports-Day - Select your option before Mon 19  23:00 Everyone Closed

Problems with the form? Mail to  Stanislav (dot) pelak (dot) (at) cern (dot) ch
16 19
Aug

Lectures: all in Leventis Bulding

Beware:

All lectures will take place in the Leventis Building, Room B108  (where the Opening ceremony took place).

15 19
Aug
Welcome reception and dinner

You are  all invited  to the Welcome Cocktail,  which will take place

  • Monday 19th of August at 20:00,
  • On the Hiltonia Terrace of the Hilton Hotel (near the swimming pool) .

It will be followed by the dinner at 21:00 in Kantara room.

 
14 19
Aug

Evaluation Questionnaire

We value YOUR comments
School Evaluation Questionnaire before:10 Sept. 2013 Everyone Closed
We advise students to fill it out as they go along (e.g. after each series of lectures or exercises).
In particular, questionnaire contains appraisal questions of early classes, the memory of which may have blurred by the end of the school.  
13 19
Aug
On-site practical information

On-site Practical and Logistics information is available.

It provides:

12 19
Aug
Hello Benedikt, Bob, Danilo and Are

Bob

In addition to Fran?ois, 4 of our lecturers arrived yesterday and wil be with us for the opening ceremony.

Welcome to Benedikt Hegner, Bob Jacobsen, Danilo Piparo,and Are Strandlie


Benedikt

Danilo

Are
11 19
Aug
Reminder: Breakfasts in the Hotel Restaurant

Reminder:

Breakfasts are served in the Hotel Restaurant (adjacent to he pool) and NOT in the Kantara room where diners take place.

 
 
Before school start 
10 17
Aug

Beware: Plug Adapter

Packing to come to Nicosia? Do not forget to bring (or buy at he airport) a plug adaptor.

See Practical Information as well as the  Last Information sent by email (PDF version ).)

Francois

 

9 14
Aug
Opening session

The opening session will take place in the Leventis Building, Amphitheatre B108 (beware, this is not the place where where the other lectures will be).

It will start at 08:45.

8 14
Aug
CSC on Twitter

You may follow CSC on Twitter at @CERN_CSC.

Tweets will include reference to some official news posted on this site, that you may easily retrieve with the htag #CSCNews13

12 Aug Last email Info

Bring it with you

Last Friday, 9th of August, the Last Information before school starts has been sent by email to all participants (pdf version ).

It provides details on airport arrival, registration location and time as well as on-site accommodation and Sports at CSC.

6 9
Aug
Registration to activities

Registrations to the various activities and special on-site applications (such as the Photo Gallery or the Evaluation Questionnaire) are not yet open. They will open progressively, starting Monday 19 August.
(No panic, some of you thought it was too late for some sports ...)

In the meantime, you may visit the corresponding sites (Social Programme, Outings, Sports,  ...) to try figuring out what they are and prepare your decisions.

5 9
Aug
WIFI and personal laptops

We remind you that all the computing facilities needed for the tuition programme will be provided, in particular for the practical sessions (Exercises) where only the school desktops can be used.

You are nevertheless welcome to bring your own laptop, or other portable devices. WIFI will be available at the hotel and on the campus.

4 9
Aug
Expenses at hotel and elsewehre

We remind you that CERN will not bear any of your personal hotel, campus (or otherwise) costs.

This includes any bar, laundry or extra service expenses, telephone calls, ...

 

3 9
Aug
Registration

Registration to the school will take place in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel, Sunday 18th of August  from 14:00 to 19:00.
At the CSC registration desk, where you will meet Fabienne Baud-Lavigne, you will receive individual school material and instructions.

(in case of late arrival please inform in advance Fabienne Baud-Lavigne preferably by email to  Computing (dot) school (at) cern (dot) ch) or +41  76 487 3981)

2 9
Aug
Sports at CSCs

As part of the Social Programme, CSC2013 will as every year propose a Sport Programme to those interested.

Do not forget to bring clothes, shoes and personal gear (special gears will be provided, but you may prefer to use  your own, such as your tennis racket) suitable for the CSC2013 Sport Programme if interested.

The programme features a range of Daily Sports Options, a special Outdoor Sports Day, as well as the traditional matches and tournaments (FootballTennis, ...).

1

13
Mar

General

Welcome to CSC2013.
The application period to CSC2013 is now closed since the the 1st of May 2013.

If you applied and have been selected, I congratulate you and I look forward to see you in Nicosia
If you did not applied or were not selected, you are welcome to apply to CSC2014, which will take place in Braga, Portugal. Registration will open in Q1 2014.


Fran?ois Fluckiger, School Director

 
 

 
 

 
 

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