New Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

The 12th NOBUGS Conference will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on October 22–26, 2018. The goal of the NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) Conference Series is to foster collaboration and exchange between scientists and IT professionals working on software for X-ray, neutron and muon sources from around the world.

Program Themes:

Data catalogs/Electronic Notebooks

Data Streaming

Use of (commercial) Cloud Systems

Web Tools

Workflow Engines & Tools

Other Relevant Topics

Confirmed Speakers:

Steve Dower (Microsoft)

Peter Wang (Anaconda)

James Powell (Python)

BNL

Copenhagen, Denmark

The eleventh NOBUGS Conference was held at Thorvaldsensvej 40 in Copenhagen, Denmark on the 17th to 19th October 2016. The NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) Conference Series has the aim to foster collaboration and exchange between scientists and IT professionals working on software for X-ray, neutron and muon sources around the world. NOBUGS 2016 was organised by the European Spallation Source, University of Copenhagen and MAX IV Laboratory.

ESS, University of Copenhagen, Max IV

Tsukuba, Japan

The 10th NOBUGS conference (NOBUGS2014) will be hosted by J-PARC and take place at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK; Tsukuba, Japan), 24th - 26th September 2014.

*The key themes of the conference*

The NOBUGS conferences aim to foster and activate collaboration between scientists and software professionals working for X-ray, neutron and muon sources around the world.

* Best practice in software engineering

* Web/mobile technology

* High speed/real time data analysis/visualisation/3D graphics

* Data avalanche/managing data

* Database integration

* Automatic calibration and data reduction

We will issue a second announcement when the registration and abstract submission opens.

*Contact address*

If you have any queries, please contact at "nobugs2014@ml.j-parc.jp":mailto:nobugs2014@ml.j-parc.jp

NOBUGS2014 will be held as a satellite meeting of ICANS (International Workshop of Pulsed Neutron Source). If interested, please visit "the web page":http://j-parc.jp/researcher/MatLife/en/meetings/ICANS_XXI/index.html.

J-PARC

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The aim of the NOBUGS conference series is to foster collaboration between IT professionals working at X-ray and neutron sources around the world. This collaboration should yield better data acquisition and data analysis software for the users of such facilities. This in turn will increase user productivity and thus maximize the scientific result to be obtained from the large investment required to build and maintain X-ray or Neutron facilities.

ISI, Diamond

Park Vista • Gatlinburg TN, USA

The main activity of the NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) group is the organization of a series of conferences. The aim of these conferences is to foster collaboration and exchange between scientists and IT professionals working on software for X-ray, neutron and muon sources around the world. Better software for data acquisition and data analysis will increase productivity of facility users and thus maximize the scientific output.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Sydney, Australia

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.

ANSTO

San Francisco Bay Area

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.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The aim of the NOBUGS series of conferences is to foster collaboration between IT professionals working at X-ray, musr, and neutron sources around the world. This collaboration should yield better data aquisition and data analysis software for the users of such facilities.

NOBUGS 2004 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.

Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)

National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, USA

NOBUGS 2002 takes place on 4-6 November and provide a unique opportunity for users of large-scale facilities, notably neutron and x-ray beam lines, to sit down with the people who provide software support. Dialog in this area could help improve life for everyone.

NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)

Daresbury Laboratory

The 3rd NOBUGS workshop was held at Daresbury Laboratory in June 2000. Talks given at NOBUGS 2000 are grouped according to subject in the following categories:

* Remote Data Acquisition and Control

* Macros and Modular Data Acquisition

* Data Acquisition Updates

* Facility Business and Data Visualisation

* Automatic Beamline Alignment and Instrument Simulation

* Data Analysis

* Data Management

* Data Acquisition

* Data Format

Daresbury Laboratory