Events in 2021 • 2022 • 2023

Organiser: Miguel Angel Marquina / IT
January 21
  10:00 CET
Server Life-Cycle and Bare Metal Fleet Management in the CERN IT Data Centre
Arne Wiebalck and Nikos Papakyprianou, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

January 26
  11:00 CET
AI in the SKA Era: Challenges for recovering well-calibrated uncertainties from Bayesian Deep-learning
Prof. Anna Scaife, University of Manchester
CERN-EP/IT Data Science Seminar

January 28
  12:00 CET
Data Protection Day 2022

February 4
  10:00 CET
CERN's Multi-distro Apocalypse: a brief survival guide
Daniel Juarez, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

February 7
  21:00 CET
Accelerating Simulation-based Inference
Prof. Kyle Cranmer, New York University
A3D3 Seminar

February 8
  9:00 CET
Electronic Systems for Beyond von Neumann Computing Architectures
Dr Carsten Degenhardt, Dr Michael Schiek - ZEA-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
EP-ESE Electronics Seminar

February 16
  11:00 CET
ATLAS Fast Simulation - from classical to deep learning
Hasib Ahmed,University of Edinburgh
EP-IT Data Science Seminar

March 2
  14:00 CET
Intel Software Tools Training, March 2-3
Joint CERN openlab/Intel Workshop
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Day 1
@ 14:00- 17:00 CET
March 3
  14:00 CET
Intel Software Tools Training, March 2-3
Joint CERN openlab/Intel Workshop
Day 2
@ 14:00- 17:00 CET
March 4
  10:00 CET
Running the new Weblecture service with Open Source solutions
Ruben Gaspar et al, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

March 7
  9:00 CET
6th EOS Workshop 2022, March 7-10

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March 21
  13:30 CET
CERN openlab Technical Workshop, March 21-23

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Session 1 - Exascale Technologies
@ 13:30- 17:30 CET
March 22
  13:30 CET
CERN openlab Technical Workshop, March 21-23

Session 2 - AI for Science
@ 13:30- 16:00 CET
Session 3 - Multi-Science Collaborations
@ 16:00- 17:30 CET
March 23
  13:30 CET
CERN openlab Technical Workshop, March 21-23

Session 4 - Quantum Technology Initiative - Computing and Communications
@ 13:30- 17:00 CET
March 25
  16:00 CET
Introduction to Open Source Investigations
Aiganysh Aidarbekova, Bellingcat
March 28
  11:00 CET


  15:00 CET
Research and Education Networking from pioneering to path finding
Eric Huizer
Academic Training Lecture

Discovery learning with (online) escape rooms
Luca Botturi and Masiar Babazadeh, SUPSI Lugano
Terra Incognita Meetings

March 29
  11:00 CET
How to break the Internet: a talk about outages that never happened
Job Snijders
Academic Training Lecture

March 30
  11:00 CET
Defining Network Protocol standards
Colin Perkins
Academic Training Lecture

April 1
  11:00 CEST
Technology 2: Optical fibre transmission: how to cram bits into fibres
Kent Lindström
Academic Training Lecture

April 6
  11:00 CEST
Quantum sensors for the AION experiment
Oliver Buchmuller, Imperial College/UK
CERN QTI Colloquium

April 7
  10:30 CEST
Sonar: Exploring static analysis with Open Source solutions
Michael Gumowski and Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Sonar
April 14
  16:30 CEST
World Quantum Day @ CERN

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April 22
  11:00 CEST
New Ideas for LHC Theory using Machine Learning
Tilman Plehn, Heidelberg University
CERN-EP/IT Data Science Seminar

April 25
  15:00 CEST
iBuddy: raising privacy awareness with a wow-effect
Anna Picco-Schwendener/USI Lugano, Luca Botturi and Silvia Giordano/SUPSI Lugano
Terra Incognita Meetings

April 26
  11:00 CEST
Your privacy - where has it gone, and will it be back?
3-part series, April 26-28

Andrzej Nowak
Academic Training

April 29
  10:00 CEST
Using Backstage for Service Catalog and Discoverability at Spotify
Himanshu Mishra and Joon Park, Spotify
IT Technical Forum

May 2
  11:00 CEST
Machine Learning at CERN accelerators, May 2-6
1. A General Introduction to Machine Learning (1/2)

Andreas Adelmann, Paul Scherrer Institut
Academic Training

May 3
  11:00 CEST
Machine Learning at CERN accelerators, May 2-6
2. A General Introduction to Machine Learning (2/2)

Andreas Adelmann, Paul Scherrer Institut
Academic Training

May 4
  11:00 CEST
Machine Learning at CERN accelerators, May 2-6
3. Accelerator control with advanced algorithms and Machine Learning

Verena Kain, CERN-BE
Academic Training

May 5
  11:00 CEST
Machine Learning at CERN accelerators, May 2-6
4. Applications of computer vision and forecasting to the CERN accelerators

Francesco Maria Velotti, CERN-SY
Academic Training

May 6
  11:00 CEST
Machine Learning at CERN accelerators, May 2-6
5. Machine Learning for the LHC and future machines: applications for simulations and operation

Gianluca Valentino, University of Malta
Academic Training

May 9
  9:00 CET
5th Inter-experiment Machine Learning Workshop, May 9-13

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May 11
  11:00 CEST

  16:00 CEST
Beyond Pick and Place - Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes
Coline Devin, DeepMind

Distributed computing: a historical perspective, May 11-13
1. The Network(s)

Ben Segal
Academic Training

May 12
  16:00 CEST
Distributed computing: a historical perspective, May 11-13
2. Email and the Web

Maria Dimou and Nathaniel Borenstein
Academic Training

May 13
  16:00 CEST
Distributed computing: a historical perspective, May 11-13
3. The SHIFT and Grid projects

Frederic Hemmer and Les Robertson
Academic Training

May 18
  11:00 CEST
Graph Neural Networks for High Luminosity Track Reconstruction
Daniel Thomas Murnane, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. US
CERN-EP/IT Data Science Seminar

May 20
  15:00 CEST
The Center for Intelligent Systems: An insider look at EPFL's multidisciplinary AI research
Jan Kerschgens, EPFL CIS
KT Seminar

June 3
  9:00 EST
Mini-workshop on Graph Neural Networks for Tracking

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June 8
  16:00 CEST
Quantum Sensors for Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter
Noah Kurinsky, SLAC/Stanford
CERN QTI Colloquium

June 15
  11:00 CEST
The role of the domain expert in the era of big data
Emille Eugenia De Oliveira Ishida,CNRS
CERN-EP/IT Data Science Seminar

June 29
  14:30 CEST
Exascale Computing at ORNL Past, Current, and Future: Opportunities for High Energy Physics
Thomas Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
September 14
  15:00 CEST

  16:30 CEST
CERN openlab Summer Student Lightning Talks
Session 1

SpiNNaker2 - Neuromorphic computing
Dr Christian Mayr, TU Dresden
Compute Accelerator Forum

September 15
  15:30 CEST
CERN openlab Summer Student Lightning Talks
Session 2
September 16
  10:00 CEST   
Cloud Native Networking & Security with Cilium & friends
Raphaël Pinson, Isovalent
IT Technical Forum

October 5
  10:00 CEST
Upcoming asynchrony in C++: from basics to linear algebra
Mikael Simberg and Raffaele Solcà, CSCS Switzerland
October 10
  11:00 CEST
Challenges of distributed systems: ensuring data traceability and ownership
Lou Locci and Thomas Lochmatter, Condensation.io
October 20
  9:00 CEST
IoT Workshop

October 21
  10:00 CET
WLCG Network R&D projects
E.Martelli, M.Misa Moreira and M.Babik, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

November 1
  9:00 CET
International Conference on Quantum Technologies for High-Energy Physics

DAY 1 - Welcome address | Simulation and Theory | Sensing Metrology Materials

November 2
  9:00 CET
International Conference on Quantum Technologies for High-Energy Physics

DAY 2 - Computing & Algorithms | Quantum Communication & Networks

November 3
  9:00 CET
International Conference on Quantum Technologies for High-Energy Physics

DAY 3 - Industry & Entrepreneurship | Education

November 4
  8:30 CET
International Conference on Quantum Technologies for High-Energy Physics

DAY 4 - Hands-on sessions

November 16
  11:00 CET
On relating Uncertainties in Machine Learning and HEP
Michael Kagan, SLAC
CERN-EP/IT Data Science Seminar

November 18
  10:00 CET    
Report on the HEPiX Autumn 2022 Workshop
Jarek Polok et al, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

November 21
  14:00 CET
Foundation Models for detector simulation
Workshop by IT Innovation and IBM

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November 28
  11:00 CET
Series on Data Protection, Nov 28-Dec 1
1. Technology Is Not Neutral: a short guide to technology ethics (1/2)

Dr Stephanie Hare
Academic Training

November 29
  11:00 CET
Series on Data Protection, Nov 28-Dec 1
2. Technology Is Not Neutral: a short guide to technology ethics (2/2)

Dr Stephanie Hare
Academic Training

November 30
  11:00 CET
Series on Data Protection, Nov 28-Dec 1
3. Battling robots for our data, privacy and humanity (1/2)

Dr Andrzej Nowak
Academic Training

December 1
  11:00 CET
Series on Data Protection, Nov 28-Dec 1
4. Battling robots for our data, privacy and humanity (2/2)

Dr Andrzej Nowak
Academic Training

December 2
  10:00 CET
Hardware Inventory: Gathering Acceptance Data with an API in the CERN Data Centers
Michal Piszczek, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum

Accelerator Java Community Meeting Q4 2022
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December 7
  10:30 CET
Real-time Machine Learning in particle physics
Thea Aarrestad, ETH Zurich
CERN-EP/IT Data Science Seminar

December 14
  10:30 CET    
DNA data storage at Twist Bioscience: reinventing archive data storage
Steffen Hellmold, Roger Rudoff and Mark Watson, Twist Technologies
December 16
  10:00 CET
Abuse, Blunder and fun
Stefan Lueders, CERN-IT
IT Technical Forum