CHEP'97 Conference Announcement
The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) announces the
International Conference on
COMPUTING IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
April 7-11, 1997, Rathaus Schoeneberg, Berlin, Germany
Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP) is a major series of international
conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the High Energy
Physics community, Computer Science, and IT industry. The CHEP
conference provides an international forum to exchange the experience and
needs for the community, and to review recent, ongoing, and future
activities (cf http://www.desy.de/chep97).
The CHEP conference includes plenary and parallel sessions, a panel
discussion, poster presentations and an industrial exhibition.
Key topics include
- *Commodity Hardware & Software
- *Control Systems
- *Data Analysis & Presentation
- *Data Management
- *HEP Specific Architectures
- *Local & Wide Area Networking
- *Mass Storage
- *Software Tools & Methods
- *Triggering & Data Acquisition
- *Worldwide Collaboration
Special emphasis is put on the deployment of novel computing technologies in
current and future HEP experiments, e.g.
- * computing and software technologies for the next generation of HEP
- experiments
- * impact of commodity software and hardware
- * impact of the World Wide Web on HEP computing
- * organization, communication, and collaboration of large,
- international, wide-spread development teams
- * special architectures for high performance computing
The CHEP'97 conference is organized by DESY at the Rathaus Schoeneberg in
Berlin from April 7th to April 11th, 1997. This bulletin informs you about
the CHEP conference's background, organizers, topics, program and
provides preliminary registration information.
International Scientific Advisory Committee
Christian Arnault IN2P3,Lyon David Leith SLAC, Stanford
Paul Avery UFL, Gainesville Erich Lohrmann DESY, Hamburg
Sergei Berezhnev MSU, Moscow Martin Luescher DESY, Hamburg
Christoph Berger RWTH Aachen Stu Loken LBL, Berkeley
Joel Butler FNAL, Chicago Juergen May CERN, Geneva
He Sheng Chen IHEP, Beijing Thomas Nash FNAL, Chicago
Mary Censa Ferrer INFN, Frascati Michael Ogg BNL, Brookhaven
Rudi Fruehwirth HEPHY, Vienna Martti Pimia CERN, Geneva
Karel Gaemers NIKHEF, Amsterdam Larry Price ANL, Argonne
Thomas Glanzman SLAC, Stanford Wolfgang v. Rueden GSI, Darmstadt
Ryszard Gokieli IPJ, Warsaw Frederico Ruggieri INFN, Bari
Dines Hansen NBI, Kopenhagen Alberto Santoro LAFEX, Rio de Janeiro
Richard Hemingway Carlton U, Ottawa Enzo Valente INFN, Rome
George Kalmus RAL, Oxford Yoshiyuki Watase KEK, Tsukuba
Matthias Kasemann DESY, Hamburg Vicky White FNAL, Chicago
Gottfried Kellner CERN, Geneva David Williams CERN, Geneva
Juergen Knobloch CERN, Geneva Wojciech Wojcik IN2P3, Lyon
Program Committee
Lothar A.T. Bauerdick DESY, Hamburg
Hans Frese DESY, Hamburg
Wolfgang Friebel DESY, Zeuthen
Ulrich Gensch DESY, Hamburg (chair)
Lars Hagge DESY, Hamburg
Thomas Naumann DESY, Zeuthen
Jan Hendrik Peters DESY, Hamburg (secretary)
Peter Wegner DESY, Zeuthen (secretary)
History
CHEP conferences are held in roughly 12-18 month intervals, alternating
between Europe, North America and other parts of the world.
Recent CHEP conferences have been held in
- o Europe - Oxford, England (1989)
- o N America - Santa Fe, New Mexico (1990)
- o Asia - Tsukuba, Japan (1991)
- o Europe - Annecy, France (1992)
- o N America - San Francisco, California (1994)
- o S America - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1995).
Conference Program
The program is organized with invited plenary talks in the mornings and
parallel sessions in the afternoons. Plenary talks cover recent, ongoing
and future activities of the HEP community, interesting technological
developments of the IT industry and novel aspects of system development.
The parallel sessions are organized into seven tracks. Their topics include,
but are not limited to
- A: DATA ANALYSIS & PRESENTATION
- Analysis and Simulation Algorithms and Packages, Visualization,
Virtual Reality Projects, Parallelization.
- B: DATA ACQUISITION & CONTROL SYSTEMS
- Real-Time Monitoring and Control Systems for Experiments and Accelerators,
Data Acquisition Systems, Event Building, Trigger Systems and Algorithms.
- C: MASS STORAGE & DATA MANAGEMENT
- Data Storage Technologies, Data Management Systems, Databases.
- D: NETWORKING & COMMUNICATION
- LAN/WAN Technology, Management and Security, WWW Applications and Tools,
Worldwide Collaboration, International WANs, Global File Systems, Remote Services.
- E: TOOLS & METHODS
- Software Tools, Languages, and Environments, Object-Oriented Technologies,
Configuration Management and Collaborative Tools, Tools for Distributed Collaborations, Quality Assurance,
Dynamic Programming, Symbolic Programming, Component Software.
- F: LARGE SYSTEMS & SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS
- Special Architectures, Massive Parallel Systems, LQCD Computing, Neural Networks.
- G: COMMODITY HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
- Applications involving Off-The-Shelf Products, System Migration and Portability,
Desktop Infrastructure, Mobile Computing, Free Software, PCs as Workstations.
Preliminary Conference Schedule
The CHEP'97 conference runs from Monday, April 7th, to Friday, April 11th
1997. The Conference Secretariat will be available for registration and a
welcome party will be held on the Sunday evening preceding the conference.
The intended schedule for the week of the conference is as follows:
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
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9:00 | | Welcome | Plenary Sessions (2x45') | Summary (3x30')
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10:30 | | C O F F E E B R E A K
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11:15 | | Plenary Sessions (2x45') | Summary (4x30')
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12:45 | | L U N C H B R E A K
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14:30 | | Parallel Sessions (4x30') | Conf. Summary
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16:30 | Registr | C O F F E E B R E A K |
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17:00 | | Parallel| Poster | Vendor | Parallel |
- 18:30| & | (3x30') | Session | Present. | (3x30') |
-------| |---------| | & Exhibit |----------|
Evening| Welcome | | | | Banquet |
| Party | | | | |
In a separate mailing we are now inviting submissions of papers and posters
to CHEP'97. All papers and posters accepted for the conference will be
published in the printed conference proceedings. Please note the submission
deadlines:
- o Deadline for abstracts ------ 15-NOV-96
- o Author notification ------ 15-DEC-96
- o Deadline for papers ------ 01-FEB-97
Poster Session
More emphasis than in previous CHEP conferences is placed on the poster
session. Late Tuesday afternoon is allocated to poster presentations. It
will start with a short plenary session to introduce the posters and their
authors. In the following poster presentation, posters will be grouped by
their topics, and the event will be accompanied by cheese & wine. In
addition to poster space, some stand-alone multi-media PC's will be provided
to allow participants to enhance their posters with online demonstrations of
their projects.
Participants are invited to submit detailed technical presentations directly
to the poster session. We emphasize the possibility of supplementing
parallel talks with (animated) poster demonstrations.
HEPiX and other Activities
After the conference a HEPiX workshop is scheduled in Zeuthen from April 14
to April 17 (which is easily reachable, 30 minutes by public transport, from the center
of Berlin within). For further information on HEPIX see
http://wwwcn.cern.ch/hepix/www/Overview.html or contact alan.silverman@cern.ch.
During the conference we will provide rooms in the evening for anyone who
wishes to organize BOF's or any other meeting.
Conference Facilities, Material and Proceedings
When registering at the conference, participants will receive a conference
briefcase including printed conference proceedings, program, note-pad and pen,
and Berlin city information. During the conference access to terminals will
be provided for the participants to receive and send e-mail.
A few weeks after the conference, participants will receive a multi-media
CD-ROM with a conference summary and the complete proceedings. A limited
number of the proceedings will be available in printed form.
Conference Location
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany. It has a population of
about 3.5 million. Located in a charming lake and woodland area, Berlin has
several world famous sights, three major universities and several other
colleges and research facilities, opera houses, theaters, museums, and
libraries. Berlin has a high density of all types of lodging facilities and
the city offers a large variety of cultural events and entertainment.
Schoeneberg, now a district of Berlin, was a city of its own until
1920. Constructed for the city council in 1914, the Rathaus Schoeneberg
(Schoeneberg Town Hall) was on the stage of international politics while
it was used by Berlin's House of Representatives from 1949-1993. One event
of historical significance during this period was the state visit of
President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, when in front of Rathaus Schoeneberg
he spoke the famous sentence "Ich bin ein Berliner!".
Preliminary Registration Information
Conference registration and hotel reservation forms will be made available
on the CHEP'97 Web-Server by mid-August (URL http://www.desy.de/chep97) and
will be distributed by email together with an updated version of this
information bulletin.
The registration fee will be 540 DM for registration before February 1st,
1997, and 620 DM afterwards. Conference registration includes the 5 days of
the conference, welcome reception, conference dinner, and the conference
briefcase.
Conference Secretariat
For general inquiries about the conference, registration and travel
information, please contact the conference secretariat at
CHEP'97 Conference Secretariat
DESY-Zeuthen Fax: +49 33762 77501
Platanenallee 6 Phone: +49 33762 77500
D-15738 Zeuthen Email: chep97@desy.de
Germany URL: http://www.desy.de/chep97