HEPiX spring 2008 - Organisation g Helge Meinhard / CERN-IT 05 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

HEPiX spring 2008 - Organisation g Helge Meinhard / CERN-IT 05 May 2008 CERN IT Department CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland www.cern.ch/ i t

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 offline (e g coffee breaks) offline (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 – Mail to hepix2008-org@cern.ch and/or session convener M il t h i 2008 @ h d/ i 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 • Restaurant list R t t li t • 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 o de e o e 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… – Prior registration and approval required P i i i d l i d • 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 1 st … • 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?)

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