Opportunity to work and attend workshops and lectures at the CERN facility.

Located just outside Geneva, straddling the border between Switzerland and France, CERN is the world’s leading particle physics research institute. CERN explores what matter is made of and what holds it together by accelerating protons to a fraction under the speed of light and then smashing them together. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now operational and generates more than 25 petabytes of data per year. More than ever, CERN will be a particularly thrilling place this summer!

Through close collaboration with leading industrial partners, CERN acquires early access to technology well before it reaches the general computing market. CERN openlab is the framework for evaluating and integrating cutting-edge IT technologies and services. Together with our partners and contributor, HP, Intel, Oracle, Siemens, and Huawei, we have R&D activities on:

• Next Generation Computer Server Platforms and Related Software
• Large Scale Databases and Business Analytics
• Automation and Controls Software
• Cloud Computing
• Wireless Networks Research
• Security for Network Devices

By joining the CERN openlab Student Programme, you will work with some of the latest hardware and software technologies and see how advanced IT solutions are used in high energy physics. You will have the opportunity to attend a series of lectures developed for you given by CERN IT experts on advanced CERN-related topics, to visit the laboratory facilities and experiments, and tour external sites.

The CERN openlab Student Programme is much more than just a summer at CERN. It can lead to follow-on projects in your home institute at B.Sc., M.Sc. or Ph.D level. It may even inspire you to become an entrepreneur in cutting-edge computing technologies!

For more information and to apply visit http://openlab.web.cern.ch/education/summer-student-programme.

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