[Neutron] Session Chair Needed: NOBUGS 2006 Neutron user software

[Carl Lionberger]

We need a neutron user software session chair.

The NOBUGS 2006 session for talks concerning user software (tentatively 
titled "Neutron data acquistion, analysis and control") still does not 
have a session chair.  This person would organize the talks already 
submitted in this area and encourage other significant contributors to 
neutron user software to add their voices to the NOBUGS 2006 conference. 
  Abstracts submitted are not yet on the NOBUGS website (see below) but 
will be soon.

Time is short.  I have appended the request for abstracts sent to this 
list earlier; note though that the last date for submission of abstracts 
has been pushed to 11 Septempter and the last date for "early" 
registration to 17 September.

If you are interested in being the session chair or know a good 
candidate, please reply to me offline.  Thank you.

Carl Lionberger
Member, NOBUGS LBNL local organizing committee.
calionberger at lbl.gov


NOBUGS Conference Update (text version)

We invite IT professionals to come to the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area
to join us in a conference on Experimental Scientific Facility Software
known as the NOBUGS conference. The conference is to take place October 2
through 4, 2006.

It is time to get your registrations, reservations and abstracts in. Time
is getting short.

Early Registration Open till September 1 ($295) [Now extended to 
September 11 !! ]
(http://nobugs2006.lbl.gov/index.php?content=Registration)
Late Registration September 2-23 ($345)
Talk/Poster Abstract Submission Deadline September 1 [Now extended to 
9/17 !!]
(http://nobugs2006.lbl.gov/upload.php)
Hotel reservation deadline: September 10

Conference Dates - Oct 2-4 2006  (http://nobugs2006.lbl.gov/)

The conference seeks to improve the user's scientific productivity by
focusing on the interaction between the experimenter and the facilities'
infrastructures, apparatus, and data.

NOBUGS 2006 features oral and poster presentations of the latest
developments in data acquisition, data analysis, user interface design and
general computer science as is relevant to users and programmers working at
scientific facilities.

Please submit your abstracts by SEPTEMBER 1 at
http://nobugs2006.lbl.gov/upload.php.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

      New technologies useful to Beamline Systems
      Data Acquisition
      Automatic Beamline Alignment
      Data Management
      Data Formats
      Data Analysis
      Data Visualization
      Instrument Simulation
      Automatisation of Experiments
      Biocomputing at Facilities
      Graphical User Interfaces
      WWW Application Development
      Remote Control of Data Aquisition and Data Analysis Tasks
      Distributed Computing
      Programming Techniques
      User Facility Management
      Facility Security
      Scientific Databases
      Collaborative Initiatives

Previous Conferences:

      NOBUGS 1 (http://193.49.23.2/computing/nobugs/nobugs_top.html) at 
ILL,
France
      NOBUGS 2 at Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA
      NOBUGS 3 (http://srs.dl.ac.uk/nobugs/nobugs3/) at Daresbury
Laboratory, United Kingdom
      NOBUGS 4 (http://webster.ncnr.nist.gov/events/nobugs2002" 
"general) at
NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
      NOBUGS 5 (http://lns00.psi.ch/nobugs2004/) at PSI 
(http://www.psi.ch),
Switzerland


-- Alan Biocca
     Conference Chairperson
      ALS Controls Group Leader
      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory