CERN School of Computing 2003

Application



Cost

The cost of the School will be 1,800 Swiss francs per student.  This sum should be paid into the following account upon receipt of the letter of acceptance.

 

CERN School of Computing

a/c no. 279-C7 758.112.0

UBS SA. Genève

CERN

CH-1211 Geneva 23

Switzerland.  

 

Swift: UBSWCHZH12A

IBAN: CH82 0027 9279 C7758112 0

This sum covers tuition, accommodation, full board and two daily coffee breaks, from dinner on Sunday, 24 August to breakfast on Saturday, 06 September 2003 and the use of the shuttle, if provided.  Some social activities, of which details will be given at a later time, are also included in the price.  It does NOT include travel expenses from the participants' home institutes to the hotel in Krems an der Donau and back.


How to apply

Application can be made via the Web using the WWW application form. If you choose not to use the Web then you need to fill out a printed copy of the plain text version of the application form.

 

Candidates should ensure that:

- the completed application form

- a formal letter of reference from their professor or supervisor, and

- a summary of their present work

reach the School Secretary (Mrs Jacqueline Franco-Turner) by 15 June 2003 at the latest.  Applications received after this date will not be considered.

 

When applying to attend the School, each student is requested to provide a summary in English of about 100 words in length, describing his/her current work. The School booklet, which will be distributed to all participants before the beginning of the School, will include the summaries of the selected students. Applicants are requested to forward their summary to Mrs J.  Franco-Turner by e-mail (Computing.School@cern.ch). You will find an example of the presentation of the e-mail under 'Example of summary".

 

Candidates should forward the completed application form and formal letter of reference to Mrs J. Franco-Turner as specified in the section "Enquiries and Correspondence".

 

The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 June 2003.

 


Selection

The selection of the students will be made by the Advisory Committee and students will be informed of the outcome of their application at the end of June 2003.


Cancellation

The 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.


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 concerned.


Enquiries and Correspondence

All enquiries and correspondence related to the School should be addressed to:

Mrs Jacqueline Franco-Turner

CERN School of Computing

CERN

CH-1211 Geneva 23

Switzerland

Tel. no.             :             +41 22 767.50.49

Telefax             :             +41 22 767.71.55

E-mail             :             Computing.School@cern.ch


Example of summary

My current work involves the development of an online queuing system, for event monitoring by multiple client process in a collider experiment. The queuing system will run parallel to the event logging  processes and allows monitor programs to request events from the online data pipeline. The queuing system employs a client-server software package that is being developed within our group, and I am involved in the testing and debugging of this code. I am also a primary contact for handling support issues raised by fixed target experiments using the  DART data acquisition system. Recent work includes porting the DART data acquisition system from IRIX to OSF1.  I have been involved in several efforts to port both offline (C and FORTRAN) and online (C, C++ and Fortran) software written between several operating systems (Unix to VMS, VMS to IRIX, IRIX to OSF1). I  have written code in C, C++, Python/Tkinter, Tcl/Tk and Fortran. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (IRIX, OSF1, Linux) and VMS.


Text: Jackie Franco-Turner
Web: Pietro Paolo Martucci
Last update: 6 March 2003