CERN IT Department

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HEPiX spring 2008 -Organisation

Helge Meinhard / CERN-IT

05 May 2008

Welcome

A warm welcome

to all of you…

by CERN

and by the local organisersVlado Bahyl, Fabienne Baud-Lavigne,

Kristina Günne, Yasemin Hauser,Helge Meinhard, Alan Silverman

Any help you need… ask us!

General

• Thanks to all registrants – more than 90• Thanks to session conveners• Thanks to all speakers – more than 60

contributions• Total allocated time: 28 hours, 20 minutes• Heavily loaded agenda… hence

– All: be on time in the morning and after the breaks– Speakers: Stay within your allocated time, allowing ~5

minutes of discussion– All: Defer more questions than fit into discussion slot to

offline (e.g. coffee breaks)

Speakers’ hygiene

• Use presentation PC whenever possible– Avoid laptops, connecting and switching back and forth

takes time

• Make slides available at least half a day before your session– Direct upload to Indico– Mail to hepix2008-org@cern.ch and/or session convener

with attachment(s)– (Last resort:) Hand USB stick to one of local organisers

Registrants’ packs

• Name tag– please wear it visibly, using the neck strip if you feel like

• Notepad• Pen• CERN map• Geneva map• Restaurant list• If paid: receipt of conference fee, tickets for

conference dinner on Wednesday night• Not included: brochures about CERN-IT, LCG, the

Grid… help yourself at the holder next to the registration desk

Logistics (1)

• All sessions in Council Chamber• Lunch breaks (not included in conference fee)

– About 12:30 h…12:45 h each day, until 14:00 h– Restaurant 1 (self-service): Traverse the hall, turn left,

down the stairs, then 180 left• On your way, on the right: kiosk, stairs down to toilets

– Don’t rush all at the same time after the morning sessions

– Alternative: Restaurant 2, opposite the computer centre– Council chamber will be locked during lunch breaks;

however CERN does not take formal responsability

Logistics (2)

• Coffee breaks (included in conference fee)– About 10:30 h…10.45 h each day, 15:30 h each day

except Friday; duration: 30 minutes– Served just outside Council Chamber

• CERN is a non-smoking place!• Toilets (aka restrooms aka bathrooms)

– On the way to restaurant 1– Smaller ones at the end of the corridor, to the right:

gentlemen before the corner, ladies behind

Logistics (3)

• Wireless network– ESSID: “CERN”– 1 shared network

• Very large downloads not appreciated…

– Prior registration and approval required• Ask for first name ‘hepix2008’, family name ‘org’ as CERN

guarantor

• Power outlets: 230 V 50 Hz, Swiss connectors– 2 per table– Some power splitters– At the back, 2 large strips

Dinners

• Conference dinner: Wednesday 19:00 h– Restaurant Vieux Bois– Shuttle buses leave CERN at 18:30 h sharp– Bring your voucher – it will be collected

• Other evenings– CERN: Restaurant 1– Restaurant list in pack

Transport in Geneva

• Rather well developed bus and tram system– Even getting better – tram being built between downtown Geneva

and CERN– 4 years of roadwork, we have just 1.5 years behind us

• Usual distances (CERN to downtown Geneva, CERN to airport etc. – not CERN to local France!) require a ‘Tout Genève’ ticket at 3.00 CHF

• Get ticket before you get on the bus/tram– Ticket machines at every bus stop– No change given; if you overpay, keep tickets – at three or four

places in Geneva you can be re-imbursed

• Alternative to coins: multi-trip cards available at 20 CHF, 30 CHF and 50 CHF– Value is higher, e.g. 55 CHF for a card that costs 50 CHF– On sale at kiosk downstairs

Visit programme Fri pm

• Sorry, no experiments – tunnel closed as of May 1st…• Both visits go to France…• LHC control centre: passport required

– Prevessin site– Control of all accelerators and facility infrastructure– Shuttle bus for 30 people has been organised– Guide: Django Manglunki

• Computer centre: passport not compulsory– Meyrin site,– 10 minutes’ walk (perhaps nice view to Montblanc!)– Maximum 36 people– Guides: Tony Cass, Bernd Panzer

• Lists at registration desk: Please confirm or correct your reservations

• Other things to visit: Microcosm (own initiative, over lunch?)

CERN IT Department

CH-1211 Genève 23

Switzerlandwww.cern.ch/

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