Fall Tree picture 1

NOBUGS 2010

New Opportunities for Better User Group Software

 picture 2
October 10-13, 2010 • Park Vista • Gatlinburg TN, USA
 
filler

Preliminary Agenda and Important Deadlines

  • Sept. 20 (Monday) - Deadline for abstract submission
  • Sept. 20 (Monday) - The hotel group rate ends at midnight, EST.
  • Oct 7 - 8 (Thu-Fri) SNS C150/C152 - NeXus international Advisory Committee
  • Oct 10 (Sun) Park Vista

Sunday - October 10
Time Speaker Topic
08:00 -18:00 LeConte Hike
1600 - 18:00 Mark Koennecke
and Freddie Akeroyd		 NeXus tutorial
1600 - 18:00 Nick Hauser Data Management BOF
18:00 - 20:00 Reception and Registration

Monday - October 11
Time Speaker Topic
9:00 Ken Herwig Role of software at scientific user facilities
9:30 Kerstin Kleese van Dam Moving towards supporting real time analysis and manipulation on a molecular level
10:30 Coffee Break
Data Acquisition
10:45 Mark Hilgart JBluIce-EPICS: a new gui for MX at APS
11:05 Piotr Zolnierczuk How to automate neutron scattering experiment with python?
11:25 Tobias Richter How GDA helps to turn raw data into results
11:45 Freddie Akeroyd ICAT: capturing and cataloguing facility metadata
12:05 Janik Zikovsky CrystalPlan, an experiment planning tool for crystallography
12:25 lunch SNS Facilities overview
13:45 Nick Draper The Mantid Project: Notes from an international software collaboration
Data Analysis
14:30 Peter Chang ScisoftPy - a NumPy-like analysis package within GDA
14:50 Ji-Yong So Event mode data reduction and analysis for time-of-flight neutron spectrometer
15:10 James Kohl Combining Magnet and Neutron Pulses at SNS
15:30 tea
Data Visualization and Planning
15:45 Dennis Mikkelson ISAW: Recent progress on event data handling and lessons learned
16:05 Owen Arnold VATES: Visualization and Analysis Toolkit Extensions to Mantid
16:25 Xinyu Ao EPICS archive database at SSRL
16:45 Larry Kneller TAS Scan Mapper: A Tool for Experiment Planning and Analysis
17:05 Emmanuel Farhi Development of a Matlab based framework for data analysis
17:25 announcements
17:30 break
18:00-
19:30		 Poster session

Tuesday - October 12
Time Speaker Topic
09:00 TueTravis Oliphant Building scientific and technical software: Lessons from industry
Best Practices I
09:45 Paul Lewis Data Acquisition and Instrument Control at the Lujan Center: An Update
10:05 Takeshi Nakatani Present status of the computing environment for the experimental instruments in J-PARC/MLF
10:25 Mark Vigder Developing scientific software with scientists
10:45 coffee
Best Practices II
11:00 Sergey Stepanov Lessons and solutions learned from marrying BluIce and EPICS
11:20 Richard Woolliscroft Project Management in the GDA
11:40 Rick Riedel UDP, TCP, Circular Buffers, Multi-Threaded Programming and the Transmission of Event Data
12:00 Peter Willendrup McStas 13 years after - lessons learned?
12:20 lunch - Diamond facility overview
Data Formats
13:40 Peter Peterson The State of NeXus
14:00 Nick Hauser The common data model (CDM)
14:20 Stephen Cottrell The Application of the NeXus Format to muon Data
14:40 Nicholas Maliszewskyj The NCNR raw data archive system
15:00 Shelly Ren PRESH: Publications reporting neutron experiments at SNS and HFIR
15:20 tea
Web and Grid Driven Software
15:40 Mathieu Doucet Developing web applications for data analysis
16:00 Matt Cowan CBASS developments at NSLS
16:20 Mark Green Experiences in the Development of a Service-Based Scientific Application Framework
16:40 J. Brandon Keith Virtual neutron facility
17:00 John Cobb SNS and TeraGrid's NSTG: A best practice for integration of national cyberinfrastructure with an experimental user facility
17:20 announcements
17:25 break
18:30 banquet Mark Koennecke - Putting the BUGS back into NOBUGS
23:00 aquarium closes
Wednesday - October 13
  Group 1 – Coach Group 2 – ORNL bus
08:15 Depart from Park Vista, Gatlinburg
10:30 Arrive at SNS Board ORNL bus to main campus
10:45 SNS Everest/Jaguar
11:30 To Main Campus To HFIR
11:45 Everest/Jaguar HFIR
12:30 lunch To Main Campus
12:45   lunch
13:30 To HFIR  
13:45 HFIR To Graphite Reactor
14:00   Graphite Reactor
14:30 To Graphite Reactor  
14:45 Graphite Reactor To SNS
15:00   SNS
15:30 To SNS  
15:45 Depart to Knoxville Airport (TYS)
16:45 Arrive at Knoxville Airport (TYS)
17:30 Arrive at Park Vista, Gatlinburg
filler
 
 
Webmaster  •  Privacy & Security Disclaimers 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is a national multiprogram research and development facility
managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.