AmLight-SPRACE Joint Testbed at ESnet

Proposal

The proposal can be found at AmLight-SPRACE Joint Testbed for Data Intensive e-Science: LHC and LSST

Team

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Sérgio F. Novaes (SPRACE PI)

He is Full Professor of Physics at the São Paulo State University (Unesp). He obtained the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP) and he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA). He was visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA), University of Valencia (Spain), and at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago, USA). He started his scientific career as a theoretical physicist working on particle phenomenology and field theory. By the end of 90's, he became an experimental high energy physicist at the DZero Collaboration from Fermilab, and currently he is part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern). He is the leader of the CMS group in São Paulo and the Principal Investigator of Thematic Project from São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp) that supports the activities of the São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE) since 2003. He and his team deployed the GridUnesp, the first Campus Grid in Latin America which arose as a spin-off of the participation in the LHC experiment. He is now the Scientific Director of the Center for Scientific Computing from Unesp and has been the PI of several R&D projects associated to the private sector (Padtec, Intel, Huawei, etc.) which include an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) and a Center of Excellence in Machine Learning, and Huawei is supporting the development of Kytos, a new SDN Controller. He and his team have a partnership for more than a decade with Caltech which set the record of data transmission between the North and South Hemispheres three times during the bandwidth challenges at the SuperComputing conferences. He was member of the International Committee for Future Accelerators - ICFA (2005-2007), the Brazilian representative to the Particles and Fields Commission (C11) from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics - IUPAP (2011-2017) and member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the National Network for High Energy Physics - Renafae (since 2008). He led several outreach programs such as “Elementary Structure of Matter: A Chart in Every School", which distributed a chart to 25,000 Middle Schools in Brazil and the SPRACE Game translated to English and German. He coordinated several international agreements with USA (Madison, MIT, and TexasTech), United Kingdom (Edinburgh, Southampton, and Imperial College), and Portugal (IST, Lisbon). He was member of the Advisory Committee of São Paulo Research Foundation - Fapesp (1997-2000) and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq (2009-2012), and the Scientific Coordinator (1990-1996) and Deputy Director (1996-1999) of the Institute of Theoretical Physics from Unesp.

Beraldo C. Leal (Kytos PI)

-- novaes - 2017-11-29

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