CHEP’04 Opening

Welcome by

Wolfgang von

Rüden

Conference Chair

Aim of the Conference

• Learn from running experiments• Get ready for LHC by making the Grid a

powerful and reliable computing resource• Stay in touch with other sciences• Have a peek into the future• Talk to each other, learn from each other and

help each other !!• Celebrate CERN’s 50th birthday• Enjoy Interlaken and its nice environment

Delegates & Talks

• CHEP is YOUR conference• Over 530 delegates from all over the

world• 473 abstracts submitted, 428 accepted• 35 plenary talks, 218 talks in parallel

sessions, 173 posters• Thank you for coming and for your

contributions• Please: stick to the schedule!!

Acknowledgments

• International Advisory Committee see list on Web

• Programme Committee John Harvey & team

• Local Organising Committee Alan Silverman & team

• Industrial Programme Chris Parkman & team

• Congress Centre André Burri & team

• Interlaken Tourism Daniel Zihlmann & team

Thanks to our Sponsors

Special thanks to Enterasys Networks

for providing the wireless network and

the generous donation of the wireless

cards

Support for Delegates from:

• INTAS (International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States -NIS- of the former Soviet Union)(Special INTAS meeting on Thursday@16h30 in Brünig 3)

• UNESCO-ROSTE

• ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste)

Conference Screensaver• CHEP launches LHC@home public computing challenge for CERN 50th

• Based on BOINC public computing platform (SETI@home successor)

• Runs SixTrack program to calculate particle trajectories for LHC beam studies

• Join the 2500+ beta-testers already producing useful results for LHC engineers

• See http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/ to download (Windows and Linux only!)

• For more info see poster 488 by McIntosh and Wagner (29/9 10:00)

• Goal for CERN 50th anniversary challenge is 50’000 users in 50 days.

Screensaver with ”proton pattern” Map of contributing PCs (~20% of total)

I hereby declare

CHEP’04 open

Conference Logistics

Alan Silverman

CongressCentre

GroundFloor

Jungfrau

Congress Centre Upper Floor

Congress Centre Lower Floor

Conference Programme

• Daily updates will be available from CERN Desk in the Registration area

• The updated programme be will on the web and on the Programme Board in the Registration area

• The updated programme for each day will be shown on the doors of the corresponding meeting room

• Please contact the CERN Desk in the Registration area at least 24 hours in advance to make any further changes

• Speakers are reminded to upload their overheads into InDiCo at least 24 hours in advance. No presentation from personal laptops. And don’t forget to submit your paper for the Proceedings before the end of the conference

Posters and the Industrial Programme

• We have laid special emphasis this year on posters – hence the long coffee breaks on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings; and there is a different set of posters for each of those days

• You are strongly encouraged to use these opportunities to look at the posters and to talk to the poster presenters

• Posters will also remain mounted over the lunch periods

• At some posters there will be on-line demos

• Poster authors are reminded to submit a paper for the Proceedings in the usual way, before the end of the conference

• Please also take time to visit the Industrial Programme and don’t forget the parallel programme of technical seminars offered by some of the firms represented; these will take place in the Rugen room downstairs. The exhibition will remain open until the coffee/tea break on Thursday afternoon. Full details of the Industrial Programme can be found in the Guide in your Registration Pack.

Computers & Networking

• There are 40 PC desktops in the terminal room (Club Casino). Login/password is chep/Interlaken2004. Please do not try to change this or alter any settings, think of the next user

• There are also 15 RJ45 plugs and power points for personal laptops, but no firewall so you must protect yourself

• All laptops must be MAC-registered, see www.chep2004.org/networking for the form

• For PC laptops, you are invited to test-drive a high speed wireless card courtesy of Enterasys. See the page www.chep2004.org/networking for details

• For those using their own wireless card, don’t forget to set the wireless network (SSID) to CHEP04 to access our free service

• For all networking problems, contact the network desk in the Registration area or one of the helpers in the terminal room

Catering

• All lunches, coffee and tea breaks will be served in the Konzerthalle. They are all self-service.

• The food and drink service will be situated in the same hall as the posters and the stands of the Industrial Programme. The scarcity of seating is a deliberate attempt to encourage delegates to visit the posters and the exhibition.

• The aperitif for the mid-week conference banquet will start at 19:15 (in the park outside if the weather is good) with dinner starting around 20:00. After dinner the orchestra will play until 01:00 and there will be a pay-as-you-go bar. You will need your banquet voucher for this event. Dinner will be seated and served. You can still buy extra vouchers for this event until 14:00 today (Monday)

Excursions

• Those who have signed up for excursions on Tuesday afternoon should have received a voucher in their registration envelope with where and when to meet. Tickets for these excursions are still available until 16:00 this afternoon (Monday). Be advised to dress for the weather and for the altitude to be expected for your excursion

• Due to lack of numbers, the partner excursions to Ballenberg and Bern are cancelled. We will try to run those to Jungfraujoch and Lucerne on Thursday if we get sufficient numbers (a minimum of 20 each). Last reservations must be made at the main Registration Desk by 18:00 on Tuesday evening

Additional Information

• All questions on tourism, hotels and train and boat times should be addressed to the main Registration Desk in the main entrance

• All questions on the conference programme should be addressed to the CERN desk in the same area

• All questions on the Industrial Programme or the technical seminars offered by the firms should be addressed to Chris Parkman or Evelyne Dho

Now, all you need to do is

to enjoy the conference

and

hope for good weather for

tomorrow