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[802.3EEESG] [Fwd: CERN/ATLAS Tour Announcement & Lottery]

FYI.

Mike


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>