Preface
CHEP 2018, the 23rd International Conference on Computing in High- Energy and Nuclear Physics, has
taken place at the National Palace of Culture (NDK), Sofia, Bulgaria on July 9-13, 2018. Up-to-date
information about CHEP 2018 and historical information about the CHEP conferences can be found on the
CHEP 2018 website .
The CHEP conferences are held at 18‐month intervals, rotating between the US, Europe and "rest of the world" locations. Recent conferences took place in Okinawa, Amsterdam and New York.
The CHEP conferences address the computing, networking and software issues for the world’s leading data‐intensive science experiments that currently analyze hundreds of petabytes of data using worldwide computing resources. The Conference is a major event in the area (~500 participants), featuring plenary sessions, parallel sections and poster presentations; it publishes peer-reviewed Proceedings.
The Conference location rotates between Americas, Asia and Europe.
Name
Date
Location
CHEP'85
25–28 June 1985
Amsterdam, Netherlands
CHEP'87
2–6 February 1987
Asilomar, California, United States
CHEP'89
10–14 April 1989
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
CHEP'90
9–13 April 1990
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
CHEP'91
11–15 March 1991
Tsukuba, Japan
CHEP'92
21–25 September 1992
Annecy, France
CHEP'94
21–27 April 1994
San Francisco, California, United States
CHEP'95
18–22 September 1995
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CHEP'97
7–11 April 1997
Berlin, Germany
CHEP'98
31 August - 4 September 1998
Chicago, Illinois, United States
CHEP2000
7–11 February 2000
Padova, Italy
CHEP'01
3–7 September 2001
Beijing, China
CHEP'03
24–28 March 2003
San Diego, California, United States
CHEP'04
27 September - 1 October 2004
Interlaken, Switzerland
CHEP'06
13–17 February 2006
Mumbai, India
CHEP'07
2–7 September 2007
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
CHEP'09
21–27 March 2009
Prague, Czech Republic
CHEP'10
18–22 October 2010
Taipei, Taiwan
CHEP'12
21–25 May 2012
New York, New York, United States
CHEP'13
14-18 October 2013
Amsterdam, Netherlands
CHEP'15
13-17 April 2015
Okinawa, Japan
CHEP'16
10-14 October 2016
San Francisco, California, United States
Committees
International Advisory Committee
Name
Affiliation Experiment Alessandra Forti (PC Deputy Chair)
University of Manchester
ATLAS
Amber Boehnlein
JLAB
Borut Kersevan
U Ljubljana
ATLAS
Daniele Bonacorsi
U Bologna/INFN
CMS
David Groep
NIKHEF
LHCB
David Malon
ANL
ATLAS
Elizabeth S Sexton-Kennedy
FNAL
CMS
Federico Carminati
CERN
SFT
Gang Chen
IHEP
RE1
Ghita Rahal
CNRS/IN2P3
ATLAS
Graeme Stewart
CERN
SFT
Ian Bird
CERN
LCG
Jeff Templon
NIKHEF
Jerome Lauret
BNL
STAR
Latchezar Betev (PC Chair)
CERN
ALICE
Maarten Litmaath (PC Deputy Chair)
CERN
LCG
Marco Cattaneo
CERN
LHCB
Maria Girone
CERN
OpenLab CTO, CMS
Mohammad Al-Turany
GSI
FAIR-IT
Niko Neufeld
CERN
LHCb
Oxana Smirnova (PC Deputy Chair)
Lund
ATLAS
Patrick Fuhrmann
DESY
Paul Jackson
CHEP 2019 Organizer
Pere Mato Vila
CERN
SFT
Peter Clarke
U Edinburgh
LHCb
Peter Elmer
Princeton
CMS
Peter Hristov
CERN
ALICE
Petya Vasileva
CERN
ATLAS
Predrag Buncic
CERN
ALICE
Reda Tafirout
TRIUMF
ATLAS
Richard Mount
SLAC
Emeritus
Simon Lin
Academia Sinica
Simone Campana
CERN
LCG
Stefan Roiser
CERN
LHCB
Takanori Hara
KEK
Belle II
Thomas Kuhr
LMU Munich
Belle II
Thorsten Kollegger
GSI
ALICE
Tobias Stockmanns
Juelich
PANDA
Tommaso Boccali
INFN Pisa
CMS
Tomoaki Nakamura
KEK
Vassil Vassilev
Princeton
CMS
Vladimir Korenkov
JINR
Waseem Kamleh
CHEP 2019 Organizer
Program Committee
Name
Affiliation
Experiment
Clara Gaspar
CERN
LHCb
Ryosuke Itoh
Belle II
Adriana Telesca
CERN
ALICE
Catrin Bernius
SLAC
ATLAS
Daniel Elvira
FNAL
CMS
Heather Gray
Berkeley Lab
ATLAS
Gene Van Buren
BNL
STAR
Lucia Grillo
INFN Milano-Bicocca
LHCb
Ikuo Ueda
Belle II
Hannah Short
CERN-IT
Julia Andreeva
CERN-IT
David Cameron
University of Oslo
ATLAS
Maria Arsuaga Rios
CERN-IT
Costin Grigoras
CERN
ALICE
Elizabeth Gallas
Oxford
ATLAS
Tigran Mkrtchyan
DESY
Philippe Canal
FNAL
CMS
Maiken Pedersen
University of Oslo
ATLAS
Barthélémy von Haller
CERN
ALICE
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
CERN-SFT
Michela Paganini
YALE
Sofia Vallecorsa
CERN/SFT
Andrea Rizzi
INFN
CMS
Sergei Gleyzer
University of Florida
CMS
Andrew McNab
University of Manchester
LHCb
Fabio Hernandez
CNRS
CC-IN2P3
Martin Sevior
Belle II
Dave Dykstra
FNAL
CMS
Wei Yang
SLAC
ATLAS
Sang-Un Ahn
KISTI
Pepe Flix
PIC
CMS
Oksana Shadura
University of Nebraska
CMS
Latchezar Betev (PC Deputy Chair)
CERN
ALICE
Alessandra Forti (PC Deputy Chair)
University of Manchester
ATLAS
Oxana Smirnova (PC Deputy Chair)
Lund
ATLAS
Maarten Litmaath (PC Deputy Chair)
CERN
LCG
Chairs
Name
Affiliation
Experiment
Peter Hristov
CERN
ALICE
Petya Vasileva
CERN
ATLAS
Vasil Vasilev
Princeton
CMS
Active organizers
Name
Affiliation
Experiment
Adriana Telesca
CERN
ALICE
Alexander Penev
PU
Anna Yaneva
CERN
CMS
Desislava Nikolova
NDK
Gancho Dimitrov
CERN
ATLAS
Evelina Ananieva
MFA
Ivelina Todorova
5PT
Latchezar Betev
CERN
ALICE
Martin Vasilev
PU
Milena Veneva
Steven Goldfarb
CERN
ATLAS
Special thanks to
Name
Affiliation
Daniela Orozova
BFU
Galya Hristozova
BFU
Georgi Tekev
NBU
Ivelina Todorova
5PT
Leandar Litov
SU
Milena Veneva
Miroslav Borshosh
NDK
Nevena Ilieva
IICT - BAS
Plamen Iaydjiev
INRNE - BAS
Stoyan Mishev
IAPS
Todor Tchobanov
SM
Tzveta Apostolova
IAPS & BAS
Venelin Kozhuharov
SU
Zhechka Toteva
CERN-IT
Platinium Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Supporting Institutions