4th CHEP Conference Bulletin
About CHEP
Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP) provides an international forum to exchange information on computing experience and needs for physicists and computing professionals from the High Energy and Nuclear Physics community, Computer Science, and Information Technology, and to review recent, ongoing and future activities. CHEP 2013 is organised by Nikhef, the Dutch national institute for sub-atomic physics, in collaboration with partners.
In this bulletin: Registration – Programme – Proceedings – Travel and logistics –
Key dates and links
| Early bird registration ends | 28 June 2013 |
| On-line registration ends | 4 October 2013 |
| Conference | 14 - 18 October 2013 |
| Full paper submission dead line | 21 October 2013 |
| Academic booth rental | mail to info@chep2013.org |
| Sponsorship opportunities | www.chep2013.org/sponsoring |
Registration is open
You can register for the conference and arrange your preferred lodgings on-line. The conference registration gives access to all plenary and parallel sessions, lunches from Monday to Thursday, coffee and tea breaks, and the Thursday dinner cruise. Register early and save 145 Euro over the on-site rate! Booking early also gives you the best choice in lodging at the special conference rates.
| Register now & book your hotel | pay by credit card |
| pay by bank transfer* |
| Early-bird (until 28 June 2013) | € 550 |
| Regular rate (until 4 October 2013) | € 650 |
| On-site (14-18 October 2013) | € 695 |
We would like to invite you to the congress dinner on 17 October. The dinner will take place on board of the Ocean Diva, a large and impressive boat that will take you for a trip over the Amsterdam waters while enjoying your dinner. Please join us for this exceptional dinner! One ticket is included in the registration fee. A limited number of tickets for accompanying persons to the social event is available through the registration web site for € 130.
Registration terms and conditions for the conference:
- You can pay your registration fee by credit card or by bank transfer, where a 10 Euro surcharge applies to bank transfers to cover the handling fees
- If you cancel your registration before June 28th, a 50 Euro cancellation fee will be charged
- If you cancel your registration before October 4th, a 150 Euro cancellation fee will be charged
- Cancellations after October 4 will not be accepted.
- You can have your registration transferred to another person in your own organisation until October 4th at no cost
- Any refunds will be processed only after the end of the conference
For hotel bookings made through the registration web site, additional terms and conditions apply.
Plenary and Parallel Programme
We are pleased to offer an exciting plenary programme as well as six parallel tracks packed with excellent talks and complemented by an exhaustive poster village filled with great new ideas and in-depth results.
The time table for the conference including the scheduling of plenary key note talks is now available through Indico. Our key note speakers are Brian Bockelmann, Philippe Canal, Pirjo-Leena Forsström, Kostas Glinos, Jim Kowalkowski, Robert Lupton, Inder Monga, Axel Naumann, Harvey Newman, Stefano Spataro, Edwin Valentijn, and Torre Wenaus. In addition, Oxana Smirnova will chair the panel "The end of HEP-specific computing as we know it?" on Thursday afternoon.
The parallel programme has six tracks, with the session on Distributed Processing and Data Handling having coordinated focus sessions on both Infrastructure, Sites, and Virtualization as well as on Experiment Data Processing, Data Handling and Computing Models.
- List of accepted contributions
- Conference time table
- Book of Abstracts
- All-electronic: Conference4me Google Play or ITunes
For those participants active in the IFCA DPHEP study group, a separate workshop is organised by the DPHEP community on the Wednesday afternoon.
Proceedings
Authors of accepted and presented contributions to CHEP2013 are invited to submit full papers to the Proceedings of the CHEP2013 conference. The Proceedings will appear as a special on-line volume of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series by IOP Publishing. All submitted papers are peer-reviewed before publication, and the subsequent publication will be Open Access (authors retain their own copyright).
The paper submission will open in July. The deadline for submitting full papers is Monday, 21 October 2013, i.e. the Monday immediately following the conference. We encourage authors of accepted contributions to review the proceedings page for submission rules, templates and license information.
Travel and Lodging
The conference will be held in the centre of Amsterdam in the historic heart of this UNESCO World Heritage city, surrounded by the famous canals. We have selected a range of hotels for you with special rates for the conference (from 13-18 October), which you can book during the registration process. The cheapest rooms start at 88 Euros per night. To get a preview of the hotels, and see the booking terms and conditions, download the hotel PDF leaflet.
Contact
CHEP 2013 is organised by Nikhef, the Dutch national institute for sub-atomic physics, in collaboration with partners. Details can be found at the conference website www.chep2013.org, or you can follow us on twitter.
For more information please contact CHEP2013, Nikhef, P.O. Box 41882, NL 1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Or by e-mail at info at chep2013.org.
Register at http://www.chep2013.org/registration to receive future bulletins and invitations.
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