NIAC Meeting - September 2007¶

The next meeting of the NeXus International Advisory Committee will be held at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany. The meeting is planned for September 24-26, 2007.

Location¶

In the map of the area you find the gate called “Pforte”. On the backsite is the cantina. The guest house is in building U. The room LS 206 is in the building LS on the first flour and sign with “BENSC Seminarraum”.

The office of Jens-Uwe Hoffmann is in A 241 (1st flour).

Accommodation¶

Accommodation will be at the HMI guest-house on the HMI campus Wannsee. The rate for a single room is for the first overnight stay 34€ and 24€ for every following one (double room 52€/34€). It is not possible to pay with credit card, sorry. [ Jens-Uwe Hoffmann] (Jens-Uwe_Hoffmann.html “wikilink”) 1 is you local contact for reservation and access authorization, please send your name, address and your passport number. It is not possible to pay by credit card, sorry.

Arriving information to Berlin Wannsee.

Sunday Special

On Sunday you must take the bus from the station in Wannsee to Wilhelmplatz with line 118.

To plan your trip from the airport Tegel to the HMI use this link

http://www.fahrinfo-berlin.de/Fahrinfo/bin/query.bin/en?from=Flughafen Tegel %26%23x0028;Berlin%26%23x0029;&to=Wilhelmplatz%20%26%23x0028;Berlin%26%23x0029;&REQ0JourneyStopsSA1=1&REQ0JourneyStopsZA1=1&&)

you have only set your departure time/date and click the button “search connection”.

Please note, you must walk form the bus stop Wilhelmplatz, straightforward on the Schäferstraße and Glienicker Staße to the end.

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=d&hl=de&geocode=&saddr=52.412969,13.141859&daddr=Glienicker+Stra%C3%9Fe+100,+Wannsee+14109+Berlin,+Berlin,+Berlin,+Deutschland&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=16&mra=dme&sll=52.411988,13.139091&sspn=0.008874,0.016437&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1

Check-in for the guest house is at the HMI gate. There you get you badge.

The cantina is open for breakfast at 8:30 on Monday.

Conference Fee¶

We impose a conference fee of about 100€ per person for coffee, lunch, etc. For bank information follow this link: http://www.hmi.de/bensc/misc/flat-cone/nexus/NIACinfo.html

List of Attendees¶

If you are interested in attending (and not already on the list of attendees), contact [ Jens-Uwe Hoffmann] (Jens-Uwe_Hoffmann.html “wikilink”).

Proposed Agenda¶

Timetable¶

All topics that are discussed within the whole group will meet in LS 206.

Monday 24th September 2007
Time
9:00 - 9:15
9:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 18:00


Tuesday 25th September 2007
Time
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:00
20:00

Wednesday 26th September 2007
Time
9:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 15:00
15:00

M1: General Business¶

Welcome and Introduction
Review of NIAC’2006LBL minutes
- NIAC Action Items
- Open tickets
Renew members
Elect chair, executive secretary, and technical committee chair
Path forward for NeXus - overview
- Future of NAPI
- Future of definitions
  - v2.1 - additions to current definitions
  - v3.0 - what is this

M2: Policy discussion¶

Documenting policy
General policy questions
- netCDF
- imgCIF
- strainet
- ASI^2
Definition policy questions
- metaDTD vs Schema (XSD)
- Definition URL declaration
- Object oriented definitions, Marks suggestion
- NeXusBeans

Unscheduled¶

Geometry¶

Ratify [Coordinate Systems] (Coordinate_Systems.html “wikilink”)
Explicit geometry definition in base class definition
New shapes
- Cylinder
- Conic section

Tech Group Meeting¶

Led by [Akeroyd] (Freddie_Akeroyd.html “wikilink”)

Definition URL discussion
NXtranslate
NAPI for object oriented languages
Utility API ported to C - who and when
New API routines
IDL NeXus API
Review open tickets
Python binding
Object oriented changes

NeXus Supervised Applications¶

NXtranslate - anything to NeXus converter
TVneXus - viz package
NXextract - NeXus to anything converter
Metadata extract
HMI DataCollector

Ratify Definitions¶

Archive
ScanRaw ([Götz] (Andy_Gotz.html “wikilink”))
Muon instruments ([Cottrell] (Steve_Cottrell.html “wikilink”))
[Event Data] (NXevent_data.html “wikilink”) - lessons learned ([Peterson] (Peter_Peterson.html “wikilink”))

Break-out Groups¶

ScanRaw Goetz
NXsas instrument definition Koennecke
Documenting definitions Peterson
Flat-cone diffractometer Hoffmann
Synchrotron Poirier
CCD Jemian
Tech group Akeroyd

Subsequent Talks¶

We plan some additional talks (especially for HMI colleagues, guest are welcome) on Thursday 27th September LS 206:

10:00 L. Lerusse: “STFC e-Infrastructure: Data management for large facilities”
11:30 S. Flemming: INSPIRE
15:00 M. Könnecke: SICS
16:00 O. Sauer: CARESS

Detail Information¶

Public Talk¶

Conference Dinner¶

The conference dinner will take place at Habel Weinkultur in Mitte, not far from the “Brandenburger Tor” ([http://www.berlin.de/stadtplan/map.asp?ADR_ZIP=10117&ADR_STREET=Luisenstr.&ADR_HOUSE=19&show=108 plan]). I reserve the table at 20:00 (25. September 2007).

I order the “Berlin Menu No. 1”:

Berlin ceps-potato-soup with fresh marjoram
Smoked saddle of young pork with cumin gravy on Riesling sauerkraut with herbs potatoes
Marinated berries with honey- poppy seed- vanilla sauce

If somebody don’t like pork, please inform me 10 days before! I will order the meals at the 17th September.

So you can eat the “Berlin Menu No. 2”

Berlin cray-fish soup with crayfish tails
Pike perch fillets roasted on the skin on black salsify with leek and peas and to herbs- rice edge
Apple fritters in hot pepper-cinnamon-sugar on wild berry cream

or a “Vegetarian” Menu.

Feel free to add this information in the list of attendees.

There is time for a “small” sight seeing tour before or/and after the dinner.

Jens

Visit the BER II¶

We can visit the experimental hall with thermal instruments and the new and old neutron guide hall for cold neutrons. Please inform me if you are interested or if the date is untimely for you.

Minutes¶

These are available online or in pdf format.

NIAC2007 photos¶

Various people took photos at the meeting. Take a look.