SCL's Dusan Vudragovic participated in the high-energy physics exhibition and
popularization event held at the
"Kirilo i Metodije" high school in
Dimitrovgrad, Serbia on 28 November 2009. The event was co-organized by the
CMS group of the
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE) of
the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as a part of activities celebrating the
10th anniversary of Bulgarian research collaboration and membership at CERN.
Numerous high-school students and teachers from Dimitrovgrad and Pirot, as
well as several professors from the
University of Nis
participated in the
exhibition and public lectures, which presented current
CERN activities, and in
particular Bulgarian and Serbian contributions to the high-energy research.
Colleagues from INRNE (Prof. Dr Vladimir Gencev, Prof. Dr Angel Angelov, and
Prof. Dr Bojko Vacev) presented Bulgarian activities related to the
CMS experiment, while the talks on Serbian high-energy physics research presented
both CMS and ATLAS experiment activities. Dr. Dimitrije Maletic from
Vinca Institute for Nuclear Sciences has given an overview of the CMS experiment and
Serbian contribution to its construction, operation, as well as ongoing and
planned research. The activities of Serbian ATLAS group and country's
contribution to the
ATLAS experiment were presented by
SCL's Dusan Vudragovic.
In another lecture, he presented third pillar of Serbian contribution to CERN
activities, related to Grid computing, developed to provide distributed
computing and data storage resources for processing of
LHC data. This lecture
also presented development, structure and status of Serbian National Grid
Infrastructure
AEGIS, which is actively used for numerical simulations of
particle collisions at CERN detectors, and participates in the pan-European
EGEE infrastructure, as well as in the regional
SEE-GRID-SCI infrastructure.
As a national infrastructure, AEGIS is open to all Serbian researcher,
providing computing and data storage resources to research projects involving
large-scale numerical simulations.
