canSAS-VIII-schedule

Living schedule for the 2015 canSAS-VIII meeting at J-PARC

The aim for this workshop is to provide a forum for sas users and providers to come together to discuss common needs and issues, to learn from each others experiences, discuss current best practices, hear about emerging techniques, and when possible to identify areas where the field/state of the art could be improved by bringing together the people that are interested and able to work cooperatively to solve the problem. Taking a queue from agile programming and unconferences, the schedule is meant to be a live document that evolves with input from the participants up to, and even during, the meeting.

Tuesday 2015 April 14

time	activity	title
9:30 - 9:40	plenary	Welcome Presentation - Jun-ichi Suzuki (CROSS), Mitsuhiro Shibayama (Tokyo Uni.)
9:40 - 9:55	plenary	canSAS Workshop: Background, Outline and Goals - Paul Butler (NIST)
9:55 - 10:20	plenary	Learning about Reproducibility, Reliability and Limits of Data Interpretation from Round-Robin Studies - Adrian Rennie (Uppsala Uni.)
10:20 - 10:45	plenary	Improving the accuracy of SAXS measurements and calculations - Rob Rambo (Diamond Light Source)
10:45 - 11:25	break	tea, coffee and Posters
11:25 - 11:50	plenary	A modular approach to data Reduction - Brian Pauw (NIMS)
11:50 - 12:15	plenary	Current status of common software developments at J-PARC/MLF - Toshiya Otomo (KEK)
12:15 - 12:25	plenary	discussion - What adjustments should be made to the program? - Moderator Paul Butler (NIST)
12:25 - 12:40	Group Photo	Outside if possible
12:45 - 13:30	lunch	...
13:30 - 15:30	Discussion Working Groups	group A1: High data rates and large data sets: real time analysis and data mining - Leader: Alex Hexemer (Berkeley Light Source)
		group B1: Nomadic utopia: towards a better understanding of all instrumental artifacts - Leaders: Brian Pauw (NIMS) & Charles Dewhurst (ILL)
		group C1: TBD by participants
		group D1: TBD by participants
15:30 - 16:10	break	tea, coffee, poster session
16:10 - 16:35	Plenary	Data reduction issues for tof SANS - Richard Heenan (ISIS)
16:35 - 17:00	Plenary	Round Robin Sample for Neutron Reflectometry - Andrew Nelson (ANSTO)
17:00 - 17:20	Plenary	Developing a Global SAS Portal to improve dissemination: Working group report and plenary Discussion - Duncan McGillivray (University of Auckland)
17:20 - 17:40	Discussion Group Reports	Summary Reports from each Discussion Group
17:40 - 18:20	plenary	Open discussion on breakout topics, reports, and recommendations - moderator: TBA
18:20 - 18:30	plenary	General discussion on remainder of program - moderator: Andrew Jackson (ESS)
19:30 - 22:00	dinner	by individual arrangements

Wednesday 2015 April 15

time	activity	title
9:15 - 9:50	plenary	Current Status and Trends in Establishing SAS Standards (Ref materials, Metadata, availablity, Publication etc)- Andrew Allen (National Institute of Standards and Technology) VIDEOLINK
9:50 - 10:00	plenary	canSAS working group report: a common data format - Andrew Jackson (ESS)
10:00 - 10:30	break	tea, coffee and Posters
10:30 - 12:30	Discussion Working Groups	group A2: The Future of Data Analysis: Error Propagation and Simultaneous Fitting across Techniques - Leader: Rex Hjelm - Los Alamos Nat. Lab
		group B2: Colaborative development of reference and calibration standards and the next round robins - Leader: Adrian Rennie (Uppsala Uni.)
		group C2: Addressing emerging publication and data deposition requirements - Leader:
		group D2:
12:30 - 13:30	lunch	...
13:30 - 15:30	Tour and <br\> Discussion Working Groups	J-PARC tour
		group A3: TBA by participants
		group B3: TBA by participants
15:30 - 16:10	break	tea, coffee, poster session
16:10 - 17:00	Discussion Group Reports	Summary Reports from each Discussion Group
17:10 - 18:00	plenary	Open discussion on breakout topics, reports, and recommendations (+ individual discussions till bus departs for dinner)
18:30 - 21:00	dinner	conference banquet - shuttle bus organized for workshop participants.

Thursday 2015 April 16

time	activity	title
9:30 - 9:55	plenary	Next Generation SAXS at SPring8 - future challenges and opportunites? - Yuya Shinohara (U. of Tokyo)
9:55 - 10:20	plenary	Non-standard configuration of SANS instruments: Multiple beam techniques for VSANS, scanning and magnified neutron imaging methods - Charles Dewhurst (ILL)
10:20 - 10:45	plenary	Development of BioSAXS Beamlines at NSRRC - U-Ser Jeng (NSRRC)
10:45 - 11:15	break	tea, coffee and Posters
11:15 - 11:40	plenary	Current Status of the Small and Wide Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument (TAIKAN) at J-PARC - Sun-ichi Takata (J-PARC)
11:40 - 12:05	plenary	Grazing Incidence Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy - Heinrich Frielinghaus (Julich)
12:05 - 12:30	plenary	The Future of GISAS: Challenges and opportunites in GISANS - Max Wolf (Uppsala Uni.)
12:30 - 13:30	lunch	...
13:30 - 15:30	Discussion Working Groups	group A4: TBA by participants (maybe: Challenges and Opportunities in Modeling Anisotropic and Multiscale Data - Leader: Ken Littrel (Oak Ridge National Lab)
		group B4: GISAS: challenges and opportunities and collaborative possibilities in harnessing the potential - Leader: Max Wolf (Uppsala University)
		group C4: Towards a common (multidimensional) data format and implementation - discussion leader: Andrew Jackson (ESS)
		group D4: TBA by participants
15:30 - 16:10	break	tea, coffee, poster session
16:10 - 16:40	Discussion Group Reports	Summary Reports from each Discussion Group
16:40 - 17:20	plenary	discussion: Immediate actions, the way forward, and the future of canSAS - discussion leader:
17:20 - 17:30	plenary	closing remarks