[8023-10GEPON] FW: CERN/ATLAS Tour Announcement & Lottery
All,
Please, see the announcement below.
Regards,
Glen
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Thompson [mailto:gthompso@nortel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: CERN/ATLAS Tour Announcement & Lottery
Group Chairs
Please forward this announcement to your groups meeting in Geneva
Thanks
Geoff
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802.1 & 802.3 Colleagues-
During our meeting week in Geneva, our group will have the (quite
special)
opportunity to see a presentation on the CERN, the world's largest
particle
physics laboratory (and also the place where the world wide web was
born!).
CERN continues as a leading edge implementer of very high speed
networking,
on both a local and wide area basis. By special arrangement, this
presentation will be given at ITU and will start during the Wednesday
lunch
hour. The room location will be announced later: This presentation will
be
open to all meeting attendees.
- 12.30 - 13.30 hrs, at the ITU:
The talk will cover:
"What CERN is"
"What CERN does"
"Networking at CERN"
and will be given by David Foster
Communication Systems Group Leader at CERN
After the talk, there will be a tour CERN's underground ATLAS detector
- 13.30 - 14.00 hrs: transfer from the ITU to the ATLAS experiment
- 14.00 - appr. 15.15 hrs: Visit of ATLAS experiment (http://atlas.ch/)
- appr. 15.15 hrs - 15.45 hrs: transfer back to ITU
Unfortunately, the tour portion is limited to 50 people (maximum of
a
groups size for safety reasons).
Because of this (and the expected high level of interest) there will be
a
lottery/drawing to determine who gets to go on the Atlas tour.
Most Session chairs have arranged their busy sessions to make the
best
accommodation in their agenda for this in spite of the tour's overlap
with
Wednesday afternoon session
The lottery sign-up will be via the web. Go on-line at:
http://standards.nortel.com/Ethernet/CERN.htm
to enter. One entry per registrant. Entries will be checked for
duplicates.
In the unlikely event that all space are not taken by the 802.1 and
802.3
membership we will fill the remaining spaces with family members. There
is
provision for you to enter their names when you sign up. The web site
will
close sometime Sunday afternoon, so enter now. You will need your
meeting
registration number to sign-up and also to claim your seat on the bus.
I will conduct the drawing this coming Sunday evening. Winners of the
lottery will be notified by e-mail early Monday morning.
For any questions in advance or at the meeting, please get in touch with
me.
My special thanks to the many people who spent a lot of extra time and
effort to put this event together.
Best regards,
Geoff Thompson
<gthompso@nortel.com>