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NOBUGS 1997 workshop -- advance notice
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- Subject: NOBUGS 1997 workshop -- advance notice
- From: mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:30:36 -0500
NOBUGS 1997 Advance Notice The Advanced Photon Source and the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source propose jointly to host the second international NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) workshop at Argonne National Laboratory. Topics to be addressed include software, hardware, standards, and techniques involved in instrument control, data acquisition, management, and analysis at synchrotron beamlines, neutron-scattering facilities, and perhaps other similar kinds of facilities such as telescopes. NOBUGS originated as a workshop sponsored jointly by ESRF and ILL. For more background information, see the following URL's http://193.49.43.2/computing/nobugs/nobugs_top.html (ESRF/ILL) http://www.dl.ac.uk/SRS/FCIS/nobugs.html (Daresbury) We plan to hold the workshop on Dec. 10-12, 1997, at Argonne's conference facilities on the Advanced Photon Source site. Local accommodations include the Argonne Guest House (http://www.aps.anl.gov/travel/anlghhome.html), located about a block away from the auditorium, and several off-site hotels within a few miles of Argonne. We propose the formation of an international advisory committee for this NOBUGS workshop. This committee should be representative of the communities involved, and it should undertake to discover the best work in the field and bring it to the attention of the local organizers. The advisory committee should also advocate for the workshop, and disseminate information about it. If you know of someone who should be on this committee, please send us a message. A tentative (straw-person) agenda follows. (The real agenda will be determined by the abstracts submitted, and from your comments.) Day 1: The state of the field ----- Facility reports I hope we can focus on the big ideas that distinguish various development efforts from each other, and save the details for the poster sessions. It might be good for speakers in this session informally to comment on each other's abstracts (or merely notes) before the workshop, so that comparisons can be made. Also, I think it would be particularly useful to have input from telescope developers; we probably have much more common ground with them than existing collaborations are taking advantage of. One or two talks describing the novel features of existing, proven control or data-acquisition systems. One hour poster session. Possible evening session of vendor presentations. Day 2: Technical details ----- Half-hour talks on subjects small enough to permit in-depth discussion. Talks should describe existing systems or systems under active development, but not systems merely in the planning stages. One hour poster session (same posters?). Possible evening session of tutorials. Day 3: The future ----- Half-hour talks on unproven systems under active development, ideas for new developments, new directions, etc. We should try to attract one or two talks on genuinely hare-brained ideas with credible potential to influence future developments. We should also try to set aside time for discussion, and it may be best to hold parallel sessions simply to get small enough audiences that discussion will actually take place. Well, there's a first approximation. Comments are welcome. The deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentation is Oct. 1, 1997. For poster presentations, the abstract deadline is Nov. 1, 1997. It would be helpful if people who are just thinking about presenting would send a title right away, so we can get some statistical information on topics to direct our planning. Workshop registration fees will be determined later. Please send any comments to Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) or Ray Osborn (ROsborn@anl.gov) If you plan to attend, please send a message to Julie Wulf (jmwulf@aps.anl.gov) We plan to set up a Web page for this workshop. It will be reachable via http://www.aps.anl.gov/conferences.html There is an email listserver for NOBUGS, maintained by Bill Pulford (ESRF). To subscribe, send a message to listproc@esrf.fr with the message body of the form SUBSCRIBE NOBUGS <your email address> To post a message to everyone on the mailing list, send email to nobugs@esrf.fr Please feel free to forward this announcement appropriately. If you know of other email lists to which this announcement should be sent, please let us know too. ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Experimental Facilities Division Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Dr Ray Osborn Tel: +1 (630) 252-9011 Materials Science Division Fax: +1 (630) 252-7777 Argonne National Laboratory E-mail: ROsborn@anl.gov
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