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Keynote Session

Time Synchronization and Financial Trading

In this keynote presentation, the speaker will provide insights into the history and nature of automated trading, with particular focus on one of its most talked-about variants: high-frequency trading (HFT). He will review some typical trading architectures at a high level and will explain STAC's role in the industry. After providing this background, he will discuss the evolving role of time synchronization in trading firms: how requirements have changed over time and where they may be heading.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Lankford, Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC)

Peter Lankford is founder and director of STAC, the Securities Technology Analysis Center, which provides hands-on technology research and testing tools to the trading industry. STAC facilitates the STAC Benchmark Council, a group of leading trading organizations and vendors that engages in technical dialogs and specifies standard ways to measure the performance of trading solutions. Members can use standardized STAC Test Harnesses in the privacy of their own labs to compare the performance of their trading systems to published STAC Benchmarks.

Prior to STAC, Peter was Senior Vice President of Information Management Solutions at Reuters, where he led the $240M market data systems business. Peter's team led Reuters into the business of low-latency direct exchange feeds and catalyzed the widespread adoption of Linux on Wall Street by making the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) the first major product for the securities industry on that platform. Prior to Reuters, Peter held management positions at Citibank, First Chicago Corp., and operating-system maker IGC. Peter has an MBA, Masters in International Relations, and Bachelors in Chemistry from the University of Chicago.

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Synchronization systems in Particle Accelerators

Particle Accelerators are complex systems designed to cope with a variety of needs, ranging from basic research to the study of materials and various types of therapies. For the successful operation of an accelerator, many of its parts must act in a time-coordinated way. The talk will outline the basics of particle accelerator technology along with examples of applications. It will then detail the synchronization needs of some subsystems and the technologies used or under development to cope with these requirements, ranging in precision from milliseconds to femtoseconds.

Keynote Speaker: Javier Serrano

Javier Serrano is an electronics engineer and physicist leading the Hardware and Timing section in CERN's Beams Department. His main interests are timing systems, digital signal processing and applying Free and Open Source Software ideas to hardware development. He is the founder of the Open Hardware Repository and the leader of the White Rabbit project.