Presented at
33C3 (2016),
Dec. 28, 2016, 12:15 p.m.
(30 minutes).
Physicists are not computer scientists. But at CERN and worldwide, they need to analyze petabytes of data, efficiently. Since more than 20 years now, ROOT helps them with interactive development of analysis algorithms (in the context of the experiments' multi-gigabyte software libraries), serialization of virtually any C++ object, fast statistical and general math tools, and high quality graphics for publications. I.e. ROOT helps physicists transform data into knowledge.
The presentation will introduce the life of data, the role of computing for physicists and how physicists analyze data with ROOT. It will sketch out how some of us foresee the development of data analysis given that the rest of the world all of a sudden also has big data tools: where they fit, where they don't, and what's missing.
Presenters:
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Axel
N. Axel Naumann is an Applied Physicist at CERN, Switzerland. He is currently a lead developer of the ROOT project and responsible for cling, a C++ interpreter. Axel is CERN's representative at the C++ committee (JTC1/SC22/WG21) of the International Standardization Organization (ISO).
Born in Kassel, Germany, on 9 May 1974, he studied Physics and Mathematics at the Westfaelische Wilhelmsuniversitaet in Muenster, Germany, and received a PhD at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Before coming to CERN, Axel worked at private companies and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago, USA).
Axel has given several keynote presentations, for instance at ACCU 2015, CHEP 2013 and a Google Tech Talk. Axel has published work in physics and computing.
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