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HEPiX spring 2008 - Organisation g

Helge Meinhard / CERN-IT 05 May 2008

CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland

www.cern.ch/ it

Welcome

A warm welcome to all of you…

by CERN and by the local organisers and by the local organisers

Vlado 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 session conveners

• Thanks to all speakers – more than 60

contributions

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

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

• ffline (e g coffee breaks)
• ffline (e.g. coffee breaks)

Speakers’ hygiene

• Use presentation PC whenever possible

– Avoid laptops, connecting and switching back and forth p p g g takes time

• Make slides available at least half a day before

your session

– Direct upload to Indico M il t h i 2008 @ h d/ i – Mail to hepix2008-org@cern.ch and/or session convener with attachment(s) – (Last resort:) Hand USB stick to one of local organisers ( ast eso t ) a d US st c to o e o oca o ga se s

Registrants’ packs

• Name tag

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

• Notepad
• Pen
• CERN map
• Geneva map

R t t li t

• Restaurant list
• If paid: receipt of conference fee, tickets for

conference dinner on Wednesday night conference dinner on Wednesday night

• Not included: brochures about CERN-IT, LCG, the

Grid… help yourself at the holder next to the G d e p you se a e

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registration desk

Logistics (1)

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

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 – 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 y y 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 gentlemen before the corner, ladies behind

Logistics (3)

• Wireless network

– ESSID: “CERN” – 1 shared network

• Very large downloads not appreciated…

P i i i d l i d – 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 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 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
• LHC control centre: passport required

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

• Computer centre: passport not compulsory

– Meyrin site Meyrin site, – 10 minutes’ walk (perhaps nice view to Montblanc!) – Maximum 36 people – Guides: Tony Cass, Bernd Panzer y ,

• Lists at registration desk: Please confirm or correct your

reservations

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

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

CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland

www.cern.ch/ it