[Neutron] NOBUGS 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[NELSON, Ronald]

NOBUGS 2008

The seventh NOBUGS conference will be held November 3-5, 2008 in Sydney,
Australia at the Rydges Cronulla Beach Hotel near the Australian Nuclear
Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) facilities.

The aim of the NOBUGS series of conferences is to foster collaboration
for developers of computer techniques in scientific instrumentation,
especially as employed at large scale user facilities. 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 2008 will feature four themes: collaborative software
development, data management, data acquisition, and grid portals for
users.  There is considerable overlap in these themes due to their
mixture of process, product, frontend, and backend components. To
increase the intensity of interactions for attendees, four chairs will
be appointed to champion one of the themes and to select and publish via
the NOBUGS website topical information and comments intended to initiate
discussion that will precede the conference.  Subsequently the
presentations and workshop sessions at the conference will advance the
process, hopefully leading to some substantive collaboration or product.

Below are the general conference topics organized by themes.  They
include, but are not limited to: 

Collaborative software development, Chair, Brent Fultz, Cal Tech

*	Collaborative Initiatives 
*	Programming Techniques
*	Data acquisition, Analysis, Visualization 
*	Instrument Simulation and Virtual Instruments

Data management, Chair, Robert McGreevy, ISIS

*	Data Formats 
*	Data Analysis 
*	Distributed Computing 
*	Scientific Databases 
*	User Facility Management 

Data acquisition, Chair, Mark Koennecke, PSI

*	Data Acquisition and Instrument Control
*	Automated Instrument Calibration 
*	Automated Experiments and Data Collection 
*	Remote Control of Data Acquisition and Data Analysis Tasks 

Grid portals, Chair, Steve Miller, SNS

*	Graphical User Interfaces 
*	WWW Application Development 
*	Data Analysis 
*	Remote Control of Data Acquisition and Data Analysis Tasks 
*	Distributed Computing 
*	Facility Security 

Significant dates

*        Early registration 25 Aug-5 Oct

*        Late registration 6 Oct-27 Oct

*        Abstract submission 25 Aug- 29 Sept

Significant links

*        Conference website http://www.nbi.ansto.gov.au/ 

*        Conference hotel
http://www.rydges.com/hotel/0/RNCRON/Rydges-Cronulla-Sydney.htm.  Book
into the block of rooms reserved for the NOBUGS 2008 conference.

 

 

 

Ron Nelson

ronald.nelson at ansto.gov.au

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

+61 2 9717 3601

 

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