ICALEPCS'95

International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

Schedule and Sessions

This agenda indicates the program of the conference as presently constituted; the details are subject to change. 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
  - 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
  - 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
  - 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
- 1615 - Session M4A: Controls Hardware I
  - 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.) [I] "The Status of Fieldbus Communication in Standardization and the Market"
- 1615 - Session M4B: Object Oriented Technology
  - 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
  - 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
  - Raffi (ESO) [I] "Status of ESO/VLT Control Software"
  - McGonegal (GEMINI) [I] "The GEMINI Control System"
  - Lupton (Keck) [I] "Use of EPICS for Control of the Keck II Telescope"
- 1045 - Session W2A: Physics Experiment Controls
  - Fuess (FNAL) [C] "The D0 Experiment Significant Event System"
  - Lockyer (University of Pennsylvania) [C] "Extensions of ACNET for Controlling the CDF Detector, CDF ALARMS - Alarms Limits and Remote Monitoring System"
  - Baribaud (CERN) [C] "Defining Controls Requirements for LHC Experiments"
  - 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
  - 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 in Accelerator Controls"
  - Schaller (LANL) [C] "Generalized Control and Data Access at the LANSCE Accelerator Complex - Gateways, Migrators, and Other Servers"
- 1400 - Session W3: Commercial Software
  - 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
  - Fox (SLAC) [I] "Introduction to 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"
  - Poboni (ELETTRA) [C] "On-line Optimization of the Synchrotron Beam Alignment Using a Linguistic Self-organized Optimizing Control Scheme"
- 0800 - Session Th1B: Software Engineering
  - 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 Assurance in the Development of an Equipment Access Library"
- 1025 - Session Th2: Operational Aspects
  - 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. All speakers and moderator of previous session.
- 1310 - Session TH3A: Controls Hardware II
  - 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"
  - Patel (Xilinx) [C] "The XC6200 FastMAP Processor Interface"
  - Brazier (Brazier Systems) [C] "Evolution in Controls Methods for the SPS Power Converters"
- 1310 - Session TH3B: Software Sharing
  - 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 with SDDS, UNIX, and EPICS"
- 1515 - Session Th4A: Utilization and Integration of Industrial Control Systems
  - 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
  - Holt (FNAL) [I] "Integration of a Tevatron Model with the ACNET Control System"
  - 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 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
  - Bickley (CEBAF) [I] "Management of Control System Data in an Object-Oriented Database"
  - Billen (CERN) [I] "Mission Critical Database for SPS Accelerator Measurements"
  - Spencer (SLAC) [C] "A Survey of the Use of Database Management Systems in Accelerator Projects"
  - Taurel (ESRF) [C] "ESRF Archiving Database"
- 1015 - Session F2: Industrial Exhibit and Posters II - Posters on topics Overviews of Control Systems; Hardware; Operations
- 1400 - Session F3: Wide World of Controls
  - 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
  - von Rueden (GSI/CERN) [I] "Conference Summary"
  - Lucas (FNAL) Adjournment

updates 10/2/95 @1708