Opening Ceremony

17th of August, 08:45
Paulinerkirche, Göttingen

Beware, the location of the opening ceremony is different from that of the rest of the lectures

 

Agenda

08:45

Session opening

François Flückiger, Director, CERN School of Computing

08:50

Welcome Addresses

Local Authorities

Prof. Arnulf Quadt, Chairman, CSC2009 Local Organizing Committee
Prof.Dr. Kurt von Figura, President of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen (also lead manager of the BMBF project D-GRID WissGrid)
Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Head of Fundamental Research from the Federal Ministry of Science and Education
Mr. Wolfgang Meyer, Mayor of the city of Göttingen

09:20

Scientific presentation

Prof. Dr. Rolf Heuer, Director General, CERN

“The LHC and beyond”

10:00

Presentation of  the School

Foreword: CERN Computing Centre

Frédéric Hemmer, Head, IT Department, CERN

CERN School of computing

François Flückiger, Director, CERN School of Computing

11:00

End of the opening ceremony


Overall schedule of the 1st half-day, 17th of August.