ICALEPCS'95

International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

Schedule and Sessions

This agenda indicates the detailed program of the conference The oral presentations are noted under Type as being Invited [I] or Contributed [C], the invited ones in general being longer in duration. Corresponding sessions with A and B in their numbers will be held in parallel.

Sunday 1400-1830 - Early registration in the conference area on Lower-Level-3
Sunday 1830 - Opening reception in the Edelweiss Room on the 43rd floor
Monday 0730-1400 - Registration
- 0900 - Session M1: Opening
- Chair: P. Lucas, Fermilab
  - Lucas (FNAL) Welcome
  - Knott (ANL) Details
  - Bailey (CERN) [I] "How can Operations get the Application Software that they Want?"
  - McCrory (FNAL) [I] "Who Gets to Specify a Control System?"
- 1050 - Session M2: Mondo ICALEPCS
- Chair: M. Knott, ANL
  - Krause (GSI) [I] "Adaptation of a Synchrotron Control System for Heavy Ion Tumor Therapy"
  - Le Goff (CERN) [I] "CICERO: Control Information system Concepts based on Encapsulated real-time Objects"
  - Stevens (ANL) [I] "Virtual Environments: A New Approach to Doing Science"
- 1400 - Session M3A: Networking: Local and Wide Area
- Chair: R. Pose, JINR
  - Ribeiro (CERN) [I] "Using SNMP for Creating Generic and Distributed Diagnostic Tools"
  - Worm (CES) [I] "Real-time Networking Made Possible with the Fast Data Link"
  - Momal (CERN) [C] "Using World-Wide Web for Control Systems"
  - Sidorowicz (ANL) [C] "The APS Control System Network"
- 1400 - Session M3B: Panel Discussion of EPICS
- Chair: W. McDowell, ANL
- 1615 - Session M4A: Controls Hardware I
- Chair: M. Shea, Fermilab
  - Charrue (CERN) [I] "The New Generation of Power PC VMEbus Front End Computers for the CERN SPS and LEP Accelerators Control System"
  - Shea (BNL) [I] "Interfacing to Accelerator Instrumentation"
  - Patz (Softing Gmbh.) [C] "The Status of Fieldbus Communication in Standardization and the Market"
  - Patel (Xilinx) [C] "The XC6200 FastMAP Processor Interface"
- 1615 - Session M4B: Object Oriented Technology
- Chair: F. Perriollat, CERN
  - Chen (CEBAF) [I] "An Object Oriented Class Library for Developing Device Control Applications"
  - di Maio (CERN) [C] "Toward a Common Object Model and API for Accelerator Controls"
  - Kowalkowski (ANL) [C] "An Object Oriented Approach to Low Level Instrumentation Control and Support"
  - Chiozzi (ESO) [C] "An Object-Oriented Event-Driven Architecture for VLT Telescope Control Software"
  - McCrory (FNAL) [C] "Gathering Data from the Fermilab LINAC Using Object Oriented Methodology"
  - Perriollat (CERN) - Discussion
Tuesday 0800 - 1730 Tours of ANL and FNAL
Wednesday
- 0830 - Session W1A: Distributed Computing
- Chair: M. Thuot, LANL
  - Whitney (CEBAF) [I] "Distributed Computing Environment in the ESNet Community"
  - Hill (LANL) [I] "A Server Level API for EPICS"
  - Sathe (BNL) [C] "Client/Server Design and Implementation Issues in the Accelerator Control System Environment"
  - Lewis (CERN) [C] "Automatic Generation of Configuration Files for a Distributed Control System"
  - Ninin (CERN) [C] "The Technical Data Server for the 100,000 Points of the Technical Infrastructure of CERN"
- 0830 - Session W1B: Telescope Controls
- Chair: F. Bartlett, Fermilab
  - Raffi (ESO) [I] "Status of ESO/VLT Control Software"
  - McGonegal (Gemini) [I] "The Gemini Control System"
  - Chiozzi (ESO) [C] "An Object-Oriented Event-Driven Architecture for VLT Telescope Control Software"
- 1045 - Session W2A: Physics Experiment Controls
- Chair: T. Mooney, ANL
  - Fuess (FNAL) [C] "The DO Experiment Significant Event System"
  - Lockyer (University of Pennsylvania) [C] "Extensions of ACNET for Controlling the CDF Detector"
  - Rivers (University of Chicago) [I] "Beamline Control and Data Acquisition at the Advanced Photon Source"
  - Epaud (ESRF) [C] "Beamline Control at ESRF"
- 1045 - Session W2B: Accelerator Status Reports
- Chair: T. Katoh, KEK
  - Rabany (CERN) [I] "A Proposal to Move from the LEP Topological to an LHC Functional Control System Architecture"
  - Adhikari (CAT Indore) [C] "Control System for 20 MeV Microtron"
  - Tanaka (SPring-8) [C] "Control System of the SPring-8 Storage Ring"
  - Chepurnov (INP-MSU) [C] "Family of Smart Devices on the Base of DSP for Front-End Level of Accelerator Computer Control System"
  - Oothoudt (LANL) [C] "Proton Storage Ring Control System Upgrade Interim Ststus"
- 1400 - Session W3: Commercial Software
- Chair: W. Busse, HMI
  - Westervelt (Vista) [I] "The Case for Commercial Software"
  - Blokland (FNAL) [I] "Integrating the Commercial Software Package LabView with Fermilab's Accelerator Control NETwork"
  - Trasatti (Frascati) [C] "First Installation of DANTE, a Macintosh Based Control System Using the LabView Environment"
  - Geib (Vista) [C] "The Architecture of Vaccess, Version 3.0"
  - Denis (CERN) [C] "Outsourcing the Development of Specific Application Software using the ESA Software Engineering Standards: The SPS Software Interlock System"
- 1600 - Session W4: Industrial Exhibit and Posters I - Posters on topics Control of Subsystems; Software
Thursday
- 0800 - Session Th1A: Control Theory and Advanced Techniques
- Chair: F. Potepan, ELETTRA
  - Fox (SLAC) [I] "Control Theory with Applications to Accelerators"
  - Brown (LANL) [I] "Adaptive, Predictive Controller for Optimal Process Control"
  - Kuznetsov (KI-Moscow) [C] "Digital Feedback System for Orbit Stabilization on SR Source SIBERIA-2"
  - Chung (ANL) [C] "Digital Closed Orbit Feedback System for the Advanced Photon Source Storage Ring"
  - Pugliesi (ELETTRA) [C] "On Line Optimization of the Synchrotron Beam Alignment Using a Linguistic Self-organized Optimizing Control Scheme"
- 0800 - Session Th1B: Software Engineering
- Chair: G. Raffi, ESO
  - Le Goff (CERN) [I] "Software Engineering Techniques in the CERN RD-38 (CICERO) Project"
  - McGonegal (Gemini) [I] "Managing an Internationally Distributed Software Project"
  - Waller (FNAL) [C] "The MECCA Source Code Capture Utility"
  - Geib (Vista) [C] "Writing Easily Portable Code"
  - Sicard (CERN) [C] "Using Software Quality Analysis Tools in the Development of an Equipment Access Library"
- 1025 - Session Th2: Operational Aspects
- Chair: B. Hendricks, Fermilab
  - Stanek (SLAC) [I] "Development of Operator and User Requested Control System Applications: Experience with the SLC Control System at SLAC"
  - Lamont (CERN) [I] "What Constitutes a Good Control System for Operations?"
  - Ciarlette (ANL) [I] "Operational Experience from a Large EPICS-Based Accelerator Facility"
  - Annala (FNAL) [I] "The Fermilab Sequencer Used in Collider Operation"
- 1200 - Session Th-Lunch: Lunchtime discussion - Interface Between Operations and Controls.
- Chair: R. Bailey, CERN
- All speakers of previous session
- 1310 - Session Th3A: Controls Hardware II
- Chair: D. Dohan, PSI
  - Downing (University of Illinois) [I] "A New and Better VME for Research"
  - Worm (CES) [I] "Distributed Real-Time Data Acquisition and Control Systems Using Power-PC and High Speed Interconnections"
  - Lenkszus (ANL) [C] "The Advanced Photon Source Event System"
  - Brazier (Brazier Systems) [C] "Evolution in Controls Methods for the SPS Power Converters"
- 1310 - Session Th3B: Software Sharing
- Chair: B. Kuiper, CERN
  - Dalesio (LANL) [I] "Distributed Software Development in the EPICS Collaboration"
  - Perriollat (CERN) [I] "Summary of EPCS SOSH Workshop"
  - Knott (ANL) [C] "Communication in Support of Software Sharing and Collaborative Development"
  - Plesko (IJS) [C] "An Approach to Portable Machine Physics Applications"
  - Borland (ANL) [C] "Doing Accelerator Physics Using SDDS, UNIX, and EPICS"
- 1515 - Session Th4A: Utilization and Integration of Industrial Control Systems
- Chair: R. Rausch, CERN
  - Rabany (CERN) [I] "Industrial Control Solutions in Research Laboratories"
  - Clausen (DESY) [C] "Experience with Industrial Controls at DESY and Perspectives"
  - Saban (CERN) [C] "The Control and Data Acquisition of the LHC Test String"
  - Dolatshahi (FNAL) [C] "FIRUS (Fire and Other Utilities Monitoring System)"
  - Vadon (CERN) [C] "Use of LabVIEW as Local Supervision for the LEP Cooling and Ventilation Control System"
- 1515 - Session Th4B: Models Integrated with Controls
- Chair: C. Watson, CEBAF
  - Holt (FNAL) [I] "Embedded On-Line Accelerator Models"
  - Tang (CEBAF) [C] "A Comparative Study of Fuzzy Logic and Classical Control with EPICS"
  - Cahill (FNAL) [C] "Open Access Front Ends, Models, and Data Acquisition Redirection"
  - Akiyama (KEK) [C] "Integration of the Modeling Program with Accelerator Control Systems at TRISTAN"
  - Chowdhary (CEBAF) [C] "A Fast Feedback System for CEBAF"
- 1730 - Banquet at the Chicago Art Institute
Friday
- 0830 - Session F1: Databases
- Chair: J. Poole, CERN
  - Bickley (CEBAF) [I] "Management of Control System Data in an Object-Oriented Database"
  - Billen (CERN) [I] "Mission Critical Database for SPS Accelerator Measurements"
  - Strubin (CERN) [C] "A Survey of the Use of Database Management Systems in Accelerator Projects"
  - Taurel (ESRF) [C] "A Historical Database for the ESRF Machine Control System"
- 1015 - Session F2: Industrial Exhibit and Posters II - Posters on topics Overviews of Control Systems; Hardware; Operations
- 1400 - Session F3: Wide World of Controls
- Chair: G. Baribaud, CERN
  - Rausch (CERN) [I] "SPS and LEP Controls, Status and Evolution Towards the LHC Era"
  - Wyatt-Meyer (Kaiser) [I] Tentative: Controls for a Major Industrial Installation
  - Alferov (IHEP Protvino) [I] "Commercial Applications of Large Accelerator Control System Products"
- 1605 - Session F4: Closing
- Chair: TBA, Host of ICALEPCS 97
  - von Rueden (GSI/CERN) [I] "Conference Summary"
  - Lucas (FNAL) Adjournment

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