DANEF'97 Fist Announcement and Call for Papers

[Lena Litvinenko]

Dear colleaques,
I am sending you the First Announcement of the Workshop DANEF'97
to be held in Dubna from June 2 to 4, 1997. I hope that you and
your colleaques from your institute will take interest in this Workshop 
and participate in the meeting. I would very appreciate if you could
inform your colleaques about the Workshop.
  Sincerely yours,
          Valentin Prikhodko,
          DANEF'97 Chairman
---------------------------------------------------------------

International Workshop on DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS for NEUTRON 
              EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES (DANEF'97). 
 
      The  Frank  Laboratory of Neutron Physics of  the  Joint 
Institute  for Nuclear Research is organizing an International 
Workshop  on Data Acquisition Systems for Neutron Experimental 
Facilities (DANEF'97) to be held in Dubna, Russia from June  2 
to  4, 1997. The aim of the Workshop is to provide a forum for 
the  discussion of different aspects of the problems connected 
with  the  development  of  the data acquisition  systems,  to 
search  for the unified solutions for a wide range of  neutron 
experiments  and  to  establish  closer  contacts   with   the 
specialists working in this field. 
 
Topics: 
* Front End Electronics 
     Preamplifiers, shapers, multiplexers, discriminators, 
etc., for different 
     types of neutron detectors 
     ADC 
     Digital signal processing 
* Instrument and Sample Environment Control Systems 
     Motor controllers 
     Temperature controllers 
     Position control 
     Fast neutron choppers 
* Data Acquisition Electronics 
     Strategies and overall system design 
     Time-of-flight analysis 
     Correlation analysis 
     Multiparameter data registration and accumulation 
* Distributed Control Systems 
     General problems, requirements and solutions 
* Software for Data Acquisition and Control Systems 
     Standard experiment control software for neutron 
scattering experiments 
     General and flexible format for neutron data sets 
     General man-machine interface, problems and solutions for 
     graphic user interface implementation 
 
The  following  types of presentations are  proposed:  invited 
talks (40 min.), oral contributions (20 min.) and posters. The 
language of the Workshop is English. 
 
Organizing Committee:                      Secretariat: 
V.I. Prikhodko  chairman                    N.M. Dokalenko 
G.A. Sukhomlinov  vice-chairman             N.A. Malysheva 
E.I. Litvinenko   scientific secretary      T.V. Prikhodko 
A.V. Belushkin  member 
A.A. Bogdzel    member 
A.I. Ostrovnoy  member 
S.F. Yarovikov  member 
 
International Program Advisory Committee: 
A. Barthelemy       (ILL, France) 
K.Crawford          (IPNS ANL, USA) 
M.Furusaka          (KENS,Japan) 
M.W.Johnson         (RAL, Great Britain) 
V.V.Korenkov        (JINR, Russia) 
F.V.Levchanovsky    (JINR, Russia) 
P. Mertens          (HMI, Germany) 
B. Michaelis        (University Magdeburg, Germany) 
K.D.Mueller          (CLE, Res. Center Julich, Germany) 
R.Nelson            (LANL, USA) 
W.C.A. Pulford      (ESRF, France) 
Yu.A. Volkov        (MEPhI, Russia) 
 
Call for Abstracts and Application Form 
The deadline for submitting abstracts and Application Forms is 
December  31,1996.  They  should be  sent  to  the  Scientific 
Secretary of the Workshop E.I.Litvinenko by E-mail (in a plain 
ASCII  form)  or  by post (in a camera-ready form).  Abstracts 
must  be one page, including title, author's name, affiliation 
and  address,  text and references. The Application  form  for 
DANEF'97 is available on WWW at: 
          http://nfdfn.jinr.ru/flnph/DANEF-97/application.html 
and via anonymous ftp at: 
          ftp://nfdfn.jinr.ru/DANEF-97/application.txt 
The booklet of abstracts will be published by the beginning of 
the Workshop. 
 
Registration Fee 
     The Registration Fee of $300 US for participants and $180 
for  accompanying  persons includes  car  transportation  from 
Moscow  airport  or railway station to Dubna and  back,  hotel 
accommodation,  a  copy of the Workshop  Proceedings,  welcome 
party, banquet and light refreshments during the Workshop. The 
Registration Fee is due to payment in cash at registration. 
      The Registration Fee for participants from former Soviet 
Union  countries is $50 US. The discount in Registration  Feee 
can be granted for young participants from JINR member states. 
 
Contact Address 
Enquiries should be made by e-mail or by post to: 
                       
                         E.I. Litvinenko
               Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics 
               Joint Institute for Nuclear Research 
               141980 Dubna, Moscow region 
                             RUSSIA 
   Tel.: (+7) 09621 65122 
   Fax: (+7) 09621 65362, 
                  E-mail: litvin at nf.jinr.ru 

Further information will be posted on WWW as it becomes 
available at: 
          http://nfdfn.jinr.ru/flnph/DANEF-97/overview.html 

and via our anonymous ftp:
                         ftp nfdfn.jinr.ru 
                         login:  anonymous 
                         password: your_full_email_address 
                         cd DANEF-97 
                         dir 
                         ascii 
                         get application.txt 
                         quit