5th Annual Big Physics Symposium Agenda

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REGISTRATION       7:30 – 8:30

KEYNOTE: Adaptation of the Accelerator Control System - How Do We Meet the Demands?

Dr. Ryotaro Tanaka, Director of Controls and Computing Division, JASRI/SPring-8, Japan

Putting NI Platforms to Test: Quality Systems and Services

Andy Krupp, VP of Quality, National Instruments, USA   

High Reliability and Availability Systems for Control Needs

Dr. Alessandro Masi, CERN, Switzerland

BREAK           10:00 – 10:30

Control and Data Acquisition Systems at NDCX-II

Dr. Matt Stettler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Application of FPGA-based System as a Low-Noise Beam Current Monitor with Fast Machine Protection

Dr. Willem Blokland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Orbit Correction System for the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS)

Daniel de Oliveira Tavares, LNLS, Brazil

LUNCH           12:00 – 13:00

ITER IVVS (In Vessel Viewing System): Reconstructing an Accurate 3D Mapping of the Inner Tokamak Wall With an On-line System

Ignazio Piacentini, CEO, ImagingLab, Italy

COTS Instrumentation for Advanced Steady-State Data Acquisition and Storing System in LHD

Dr. Hideya Nakanishi, NIFS, Japan

ITER Fast Plant Controller Prototype System based on PXIe Platform

Dr. Jesus Vega, Head of Data Acquisition Unit, CIEMAT, Spain

Mitigation of Optic Flaws for NIF Laser

Glenn Larkin and Mike Flegel, NIF – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

POSTER SESSION               15:00

Controlling a USB Haptic Controller for a Real Time Application With NI CompactRIO System

Dr. Matt Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Tailoring the Hardware to Your Control System

Dr. Scott Baily, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

sbRIO-Based Magnet Power Supply Annunciator and Control Interface

Dr. Stan Cohen, BiRa, USA

Reducing Stepper-Motor Noise

Dr. James Sedillo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Network Architectures for Large Scale System Integration While Maintaining Performance

Dave Scheibenhoffer, RTI, USA

Computer Controls for the WITCH (Weak Interaction Trap for Charged particles) Experiment at ISOLDE/CERN

Ashish Naik, National Instruments, UK

Diagnostics and Pulsed Power Systems Using General Purpose Hardware

Tim Ziemba, Eagle Harbor Technologies, USA

Adjustable Real-Time Feedback and Control for Laser Cavity Locking Using FPGA-based Instrumentation at Fermilab Holometer Experiment

Lee McCuller, Fermilab, USA

ORAL SESSION        16:00

FlexRIO at EUDET for MIMOSA Particle Detector

Gilles Claus, EUDET, France

Drift Tube Linac Cooling System Simulator and Tester

Dr. Jack Gioia, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Massively Parallel, High Speed Control of Perturbed Equilibria using GPU Processing in the HBT-EP Tokamak

Nikolaus Rath, Columbia University, USA

ADJOURN/RECEPTION     17:30

Beverages and finger food at the expo floor