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30 June, 2010:
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Next Presentations

  • Presentation covering the topic of distributed parametric optimization with the Geneva library; CHEP 2010, Taipei/Taiwan, October 2010

Next Articles

  • Article covering the topic of application development for Grid- and Cloud-Computing for iX; Expected to be published in October 2010
  • Conference proceedings of ISGC 2010, covering design and experiences made with the Geneva library

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Past Presentations

This page contains a list of my talks and lectures in reverse chronological order. All of these were either held or organized by me or contain at least a considerable contribution from me. Where others were involved, they are mentioned in the description.

Topic Number of talks
Grids & Clouds 65
Open Source 16
Parametric Optimization 14
ROOT & PROOF 6
Virtualization 4
Miscellaneous 3
Sum 108

  • Uppsala / Sweden: "Distributed parametric optimization using the Geneva library"; Presentation about the challenges in developing Grid- and Cloud applications, on the example of the Geneva library; held at the 5th EGEE User Forum; April 14, 2010
  • Taipei / Taiwan: Presentation covering parametric optimization with the Geneva library; International Symposium on Grid Computing, March 5-12, 2010
  • Hannover / Germany: Presentation at the iX CeBIT Forum, covering distributed parametric optimization with the Geneva library; March 6, 2010
  • Hannover / Germany: Presentation at the Open Source theatre of Linux New Media, covering Grid- and Cloud-Computing; March 5, 2010
  • Hannover / Germany: Presentation at the LPI booth at CeBIT 2010, covering the topic of Grid- and Cloud-Computing; March 5, 2010
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : Presentation at the Karlsruhe Linux User Group, covering the topic of Grid- and Cloud Computing; November 30, 2009
  • Göttingen / Germany : Presentation about the Geneva optimization library at the D-Grid workshop "Numerische Simulation im D-Grid" (German); November 26, 2009;
  • Darmstadt / Germany: Seminar lecture at GSI about the topic of distributed parametric optimization with the Geneva library; November 17, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : Presentation "Open Source and Business: A Contradiction in Terms?" at the OpenSrcExpo; November 16, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : Presentation "Grid- und Cloud-Computing: Von der Forschung zur Anwendung" (German) at the OpenSrcExpo; November 15, 2009
  • Portland / USA : Poster covering the "Mona Lisa" demo, created with the Geneva optimization library; November 14--20, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : Presentation "Grid-Computing: Von der Forschung zur Anwendung" (German) at the OpenSrcExpo; November 15, 2009
  • Bochum / Germany (Ruhr-University of Bochum): Seminar lecture and tutorial on the usage of the Geneva optimization library; October 30, 2009
  • Düsseldorf / Germany (Vodafone Germany): Presentation covering the topic of Grid- and Cloud-Computing; October 29, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : Presentation about Grid- and Cloud Computing in front of a gremium of heads of IT; October 2, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : Presentation about Open Source business models in front of a gremium of heads of IT; October 2, 2009
  • San Francisco / USA: Presentation about the experiences made during the preparation for the KIT spin-off Gemfony Scientific; Entrepreneurship meeting at the GAIN yearly summit; September 20, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Parametric optimization on the Grid; Talk given at GridKa School; September 1, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Presentation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, covering the topic of parametric optimization with the Geneva library; July 29, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Presentation at the Karlsruhe Business Club, covering the topic of Grid- and Cloud-Computing; July 17, 2009
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Lecture at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, covering the topic of Grid- and Cloud Computing; June 8, 2009
  • Geneva / Switzerland: Presentation at the Geneva Linux Days, covering the topics of Open Source, Grid Computing and related business activities. June 5, 2009.
  • Biberach / Germany (Chambers of Commerce of Bodensee/Oberschwaben and Ulm): Presentation about the topic of Open Source in a business contex; April 28, 2009.
  • Villingen-Schwenningen / Germany: Presentation covering the topic of Grid Computing and business ("Grid- und Cloud-Computing aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht") at the Villingen-Schwenningen Chamber of commerce; April 22, 2009
  • Frankfurt / Germany: Lecture for students of a German polytechnical, covering the topic of "Grid und Cloud Computing"
  • Hannover / Germany: Presentation at the CeBIT iX Forum, covering the topic of "Grid- and Cloud-Computing in the LHC era"; March 6, 2009
  • Villingen-Schwenningen / Germany: Presentation covering the topic of Open Source and business ("Open Source und Business: Synergie oder Widerspruch in sich ?") at the Villingen-Schwenningen Chamber of commerce; March 4, 2009
  • Hannover / Germany: Presentation at the CeBIT Open Source Forum, covering the topic of "Grid- and Cloud-Computing"; March 3, 2009
  • Manchester / UK: Presentation at the UKUUG fall conference. November 8, 2008. Topic: "Grids and Clouds"
  • Manchester / UK: Presentation at the UKUUG fall conference. November 8, 2008. Topic: "Distributed Optimization with the Geneva library"
  • Hannover/Germany: Presentation about optimization in distributed environments at CeBIT iX Forum; March 5, 2008
  • Karlsruhe/Germany: Presentation at the Young Talents workshop of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, November 15, 2007, covering the general topic of optimization.
  • Shanghai/China: Presentations about Grid Computing (see also the note about participation in CeBIT Asia)
    • Microsoft HPC Division; October 13, 2007: "Grid Computing and Grid Applications" (approx. 45 min)
    • Shanghai Linux Users Group; October 14, 2007: "Grid Computing: From Research to Deployment" (approx. 45 min.)
  • Berlin/Germany: Talk at Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin: "Open Source and Business - A Contradiction in Terms?", September 19, 2007
  • Karlsruhe/Germany: Plenary Presentation at GridKa School 2007, September 10, 2007 on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the school.
  • Hannover / Germany: Presentation about Grid Computing at the iX Forum at CeBIT 2007 - "Grid Computing and Grid Applications"; March 2007
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Presentation "Grid Computing: Von der Forschung zur Anwendung" at Hochschule Karlsruhe (Technik und Umwelt) - a polytechnical; 17.01.2007
  • London / UK: "Open Source Data Analysis with ROOT + PROOF". Linux World Expo; 26.10.06
  • Landau / Germany: Presentation during the Landau Linux Info Tag: "Grid Computing: 30000 CPUs unter Linux; October 14, 2006.
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Presentations in Karlsruhe city hall, October 16, 2006. "Grid Computing: Von der Forschung zur Anwendung"
  • Stuttgart / Germany: Talk at CISCO Behördenstammtisch about Grid Computing and EGEE; July 20, 2006; "Grid Computing: Von der Forschung zur Anwendung"
  • Brighton / UK: Talk about the usage of the ROOT analysis framework in a Grid environment; UKUUG Linux developers conference; "Open Source Data Analysis with ROOT and PROOF"
  • Furtwangen / Germany: Talk at Fachhochschule Furtwangen about Grid Computing and EGEE; June 22, 2006; "Grid Computing: Schritte über Grenzen"
  • Würzburg / Germany: Talk about Grid Computing and EGEE for members of the Würzburger Informatik Professionals; "Grid Computing: Schritte über Grenzen"; June 12, 2006; July 2, 2006. Video available here. (You need to watch for a couple of minutes before you get to the presentation)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany: Talk for students of Berufsakademie Mannheim about Grid Computing and EGEE: "Grid Computing: Schritte über Grenzen";June 7, 2006
  • Wiesbaden / Germany:Talk at Linux Tag 2006; "Open Source Data Analysis with ROOT and PROOF"; May 6, 2006
  • Hannover / Germany: Two presentations at CeBIT 2006
    • Linux Park CeBIT; "Grid Computing and the EGEE Initiative: 15000 CPUs running Linux"; March 15, 2006
    • Heise CeBIT Forum; "EGEE: Crafting a Production Quality Grid Environment"; March 10, 2006
  • Singapore: February 6-7, 2006; Two talks at the Singapore National Grid Organisation.
    • Using virtualisation techniques in a Grid environment. This talk was transmitted via AccessGrid to Japan, Thailand, Australia and Malaysia.
    • Grid Computing: Scope and Applications. This was the inaugural lecture for the national Grid seminar series of Singapore.
  • Mumbai / India: "Introduction to Grid Computing". 3 hour seminar, as part of a Computing School, held in conjunction with CHEP'06 (Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics). February 11-12, 2006.
  • Sydney / Australia: Sydney LUG, January 27, 2006. Two talks:
    • Grid Computing and the EGEE Initiative
    • Data Analysis under Linux with ROOT
  • Sydney / Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), January 25, 2006. Title "Grid Computing and the EGEE Project".
  • Hobart / Australia: Tasman LUG, Jan. 20, 2006. Two talks:
    • Grid Computing and the EGEE Initiative
    • Data Analysis under Linux with ROOT
  • Hobart / Australia: 4th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2006) in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW). Jan. 16 - Jan. 19, 2006. Talk related to the paper "EGEE: Building a Pan-European Grid Training Organisation", which was accepted for ACSW'06.
  • Pisa / Italy: Global and Persistent e-Infrastructure for Scientific Knowledge in the 21st Century; Fourth and final conference of the EGEE ("Enabling Grids for E-SciencE") project; Status reports on dissemination-, outreach- and training-activities in the German/Swiss EGEE federation; October 24-28, 2005.
  • Landau / Germany: Two talks about Grid Computing and the ROOT Toolkit at Linux Infotag Landau; October 15, 2005:
    • "Linux, Particle Physics and the World Wide Grid"
    • "Data analysis with Open Source in particle physics"
  • London / UK: "Grid Computing: New Frontiers"; Invited talk about Grid Computing at Linux World Conference and Expo in the London Olympia Conference and Exhibition Centre; October 5-6, 2005.
  • Varna / Bulgaria: September 16, 2005; Talk about Grid Computing and the EGEE project: "EGEE: Crafting a production quality Grid environment".
  • Varna / Bulgaria: September 16, 2005; Talk about the virtualisation environment Xen in the context of Grid Computing: "Xen - using virtualisation techniques in a Grid environment"
  • Swansea / Wales / UK: August 6th, 2005; Talk about Grid Computing, the EGEE project and the new Grid middleware "gLite": "Grid Computing: EGEE and the gLite Middleware".
  • Swansea / Wales / UK: August 6th, 2005; Talk about the usage of Xen in a Grid environment (together with Marcus Hardt / Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) and about the new Grid middleware "gLite"
  • Sofia / Bulgaria; June 29th, 2005; Talk at the Bulgaria Academy of Sciences: "Grid Computing and its application in High Energy Physics" (ca. 80 minutes)
  • Lyon/France, June 17th, 2005; Talk at the EGEE Industry Day held by the EGEE Industry Forum; "EGEE - A Tutorial" (ca. 80 minutes)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany; June 22rd-25th, 2005; talks about Grid Computing and EGEE at booth during trade show; repeated multiple times; (ca. 20 minutes each)
  • Karlsruhe/Germany, May 30th, 2005; Institute for Scientific Computing / FZK; joint talk with Marcus Hardt; "Xen: Performance Measurements and LCG-2.4 installation" (ca. 60 minutes, approx. 40 minutes by Marcus Hardt)
  • Athens/Greece, April 21st, 2005; as part of the 3rd EGEE project conference: presentation of achievements of Swiss/German NA2 "dissemination and outreach" group: "EGEE Dissemination, Outreach \& Training Report - Swiss/German Federation"
  • Athens/Greece, April 19th, 2005: "Grid in a box - virtualisation techniques in Grid training", as part of the 3rd EGEE conference. Co-author: Marcus Hardt
  • Edinburgh / UK, April 17th, 2005: Talk at EGEE external review; presentation of achievements of Swiss/German NA3 training group: "EGEE Training Report - Swiss/German Federation"
  • Sheffield / UK; March 2nd, 2005; "Sheffield Open Source Seminar", organised by Digital South Yorkshire (DSY), Sheffield Linux User Group (ShefLUG) and the Institute for Electrical Engineering (IEE); Grid Computing and Grid Business (45 minutes)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany; Universität Karlsruhe; February 23rd, 2005; "Fifth RTN Workshop"; Grid Computing and the GridKa Cluster (40 minutes)
  • Newcastle / Australia; February 3rd, 2005; Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Research 2005 / Australasian Computer Science Week 2005; "Grid Computing in Europe: From Research to Deployment" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Talk on Grid Computing at CSIRO, Sydney, February 2, 2005 "Grid Computing" (ca. 60 minutes)
  • Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG), Sydney / Australia, January 28, 2005 "Grid Computing: From Research to Deployment" (ca. 60 minutes)
  • Christchurch Linux User Group (CLUG), Christchurch / New Zealand, January 24, 2005; "Grid Computing: From Research to Deployment" (ca. 60 minutes)
  • London / UK; October 6, 2004; Linux World Conference and Expo / IDG World Expo; "The EGEE Project - From Grid Research to Grid Deployment"; talk about Grid computing in the context of particle physics and the EU project EGEE - "Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe"; (30 minutes)
  • Mainz / Germany; September 8, 2004; The IBM Grid Day; "The EGEE Project - From Grid Research to Grid Deployment"; talk about Grid computing in the context of particle physics and the EU project EGEE - "Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe"; (45 minutes)
  • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe / Germany; August 19, 2004; Seminar talk, as part of series of talks about Particle Physics, together with Dr. Ulrich Schwickerath and Dr. Andreas Heiss "Vom Urknall zu GridKa" (German, ca. 30 minutes)
  • Leeds / UK; August 7, 2004; UKUUG Linux Technical Conference 2004; "The EGEE Project - From Grid Research to Grid Deployment"; talk about Grid history and the EU project EGEE - "Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe"; (45 minutes)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany; June 23rd-26th, 2004; Linux Tag; Two types of talks: "Grid Computing - an introduction"; talk about Grid Computing at booth during trade show; repeated multiple times; (ca. 20 minutes each) "EGEE - Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe"; (talk about the EGEE project at booth; repeated multipe times; (ca 20 minutes each)
  • NEC, Sankt Augustin (near Bonn / Germany), April 16th, 2004; "Grid Computing and Elementary Particle Physics" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Sheffield / UK; March 24th, 2004; Lecture organised by the Institution of Electrical Engineers in cooperation with Sheffield University: "Grid Computing" (ca. 2 hours)
  • Sheffield / UK; March 23rd, 2004; Business Linux Seminar organised by Digital South Yorkshire together with the Sheffield Linux Users Group: Aspects of Linux deployment in business (ca. 50 minutes)
  • Tsukuba / Japan; December 1st, 2003; Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2003) : Parametric Optimization with Evolutionary Strategies in Particle Physics (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Meissen / Germany; September 9th, 2003; Arbeitsteffen "Hadronen und Kerne" : Grid Computing and the GridKa Cluster (ca. 20 minutes)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany; July 11th, 2003; Linux Tag : "Grid Computing" (conference contribution, ca. 45 minutes)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany; July 10th-13th, 2003; Linux Tag : "Grid Computing" (talk about Grid Computing at booth during trade show, repeated multiple times, ca. 15 minutes each)
  • Tübingen / Germany; March 20th, 2003; Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (Hadronen und Kerne) : "Improving Significance using Evolutionary Algorithms" (ca. 20 minutes)
  • Karlsruhe / Germany; October 29th, 2002; Inaugural GridKa Seminar : "Globus - Getting Started at FZK" (ca. 15 minutes)
  • Bristol / UK; July 6th, 2002; UKUUG Linux Developers Conference : "Grid Computing - An Overview" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Moscow / Russia; June 26th, 2002; ACAT2002 conference : "Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms - Implementation and Performance" (ca. 20 minutes)
  • Münster / Germany; March 13th, 2002; Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (Hadronen und Kerne) : "Grid Computing - An Introduction" (ca. 20 minutes)
  • Bochum / Germany; March 6th 2002; Seminar Prof. Grauer ("Graduiertenkolleg"): "Grid Computing - An Introduction" (ca. 20 minutes)
  • Manchester / UK; Manchester Linux User Group (ManLug); June 16, 2001; "S.u.S.E Linux 7.2" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Sheffield / UK; Sheffield Linux User Group (ShefLug); February 2, 2001; "What is new in SuSE Linux 7.1 ?" (ca. 30 minutes, including installation demonstration)
  • Manchester / UK; Manchester Linux User Group (ManLug); December 16, 2000; "Who's going to use Linux and what for?" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Sheffield / UK; Sheffield Linux User Group (ShefLug); October 7, 2000; "Who is going to use Linux and what for ? - Trends and Misperceptions -" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Edinburgh / UK; Edinburgh Linux User Group (EdLug); October 5, 2000; "The 5 Linux Myths" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • IBM, near London / UK; July 19, 2000; "The future of Linux" (ca. 45 minutes)
  • Sheffield / UK; Sheffield Linux User Group (ShefLug); April 8, 2000; "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Linux" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Sydney / Australia; March 9th, 2000; Linux Expo and Conference : "Linux / Open Source Support Models" (ca. 30 minutes)
  • There were various presentations during my time at Max Planck Institute in Munich, mostly at CERN/Geneva and at the annual meetings of the German Physics Society DPG. As I do not have clear records of titles and dates, this information is omitted here.
  • Pisa / Italy; April 3-8, 1995; AIHENP'95 (Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics); Talk about the results of my diploma thesis at the University of Bochum / Germany; "Training Feedforward Neural Networks using Evolutionary Strategies"