Oral and Poster Session Programme

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
MA1 TA1 WA1 FA1
MB1 TA2 WA2 FB1
MC1P TC1P WC1P  
MC1   WC1  
MD1 TD1 WD1  

 

Monday

MA1, MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999, 8:45 - 10:20
Status Reports (Abstracts)

  • S. Hunt (PSI, Switzerland) (invited)
    Control and Data Acquisition System of the Swiss Light Source

  • D. Gurd (LANL, USA) (invited)
    Status Report on the SNS Control System

  • G. Mornacchi (CERN, Switzerland)
    The Dataflow System of the ATLAS DAQ and Event Filter Prototype "-1" Project

  • D. Bonnet (Institut de Recherche Subatomique de Strasbourg, France)
    Control System of the Silicon Microstrip Layer for the STAR Experiment

MA1, MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999, 10:50 - 11:25
Status Reports (Abstracts) (continued)

  • U. Uwer (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
    The Hera-B Slow and Run Control System

  • D.R. Myers (CERN, Switzerland)
    The LHC Experiments Joint Controls Project

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MB1, MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999, 11:25 - 12:40
Project Engineering and Management (Abstracts)

  • K. White (TJNAF, USA)
    Software Engineering Management for Productivity and Quality

  • G. Filippi (ESO, Germany)
    Software Practices Used in the ESO Very Large Telescope Control Software

  • R. Ursic (Instrumentation Technologies, Slovenia)
    Developing New Products in Half the Time

  • R. Muller (BESSY, Germany)
    Control System Reliability Requires Careful Software Installation Procedures

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MC1P, MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999, 14:00 - 17:30
Poster Session
Hardware Technologies (Abstracts)
Project Engineering and Management (Abstracts)
Software: Object Oriented Technologies (Abstracts)
Software: Distributed Computing Software (Abstracts)

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MC1, MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999, 14:00 - 15:30
Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Physics Controls (Abstracts)

  • A. Daneels (CERN, Switzerland) (invited)
    What is SCADA?

  • V. Klinger (DESY, Germany)
    A New HERA Cryogenic Control System - Requirements and Objectives

  • H. Burckhart (CERN, Switzerland)
    Front-end I/O of the ATLAS Detector Control System

  • A. Di Bartolomeo (Creative Electronic Systems, Switzerland)
    Modular Function Units for Efficient Combination of WFIP Equipment with ATM Networking

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MD1, MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999, 16:00 - 17:40
Software: Configuration and Databases (Abstracts)

  • H. Shoaee (SLAC, USA) (invited)
    The Role of a Central Database for Configuration Management

  • G. Neu (Max-Planck-Inst., Germany)
    Configuration Environment for the ASDEX Upgrade Control System

  • N. Kanaya (KEK, Japan)
    Diagnostic System Using JAVA Applet and Database for High Energy Accelerators

  • T. Birke (BESSY, Germany)
    Logging of Supervisory Data at BESSY

  • A. Yamashita (SPRING-8, Japan)
    Data Archiving and Retrieval for SPring-8 Accelerator Complex

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Tuesday

TA1, TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1999, 8:30 - 10:10
Process Tuning and Feedback Systems (Abstracts)

  • J. Lister (CRPP-EPFEL, Switzerland) (invited)
    The Control of Modern Tokamaks

  • J. Safranek (SLAC, USA) (invited)
    Orbit Control at Synchrotron Light Sources

  • R. Dickson (TJNAF, USA)
    Fast Feedback System for Energy and Beam Stabilization

  • K. Furukawa (KEK, Japan)
    Energy Feedback Systems at KEKB Injector Linac

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TA2, TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1999, 8:30 - 10:00
Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Physics Controls (Abstracts)

  • W. Salter (CERN, Switzerland)
    Selecting and Evaluating SCADA Systems for the Slow Controls of the CERN LHC Detectors

  • S. Poulsen (CERN, Switzerland)
    An Industrial Control System for the Supervision of the CERN Electrical Distribution Network

  • H. Kleines (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
    The Slow Control System of the Atomic Beam Source at ANKE/COSY - An Industrial Approach Based on WinCC and S7 PLCs

  • H. Milcent (CERN, Switzerland)
    Applying Industrial Solutions to the Controls of Experiments

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TC1P, TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1999, 14:00 - 17:30
Poster Session
Process Tuning and Feedback Systems (Abstracts)
Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Physics Controls (Abstracts)
Status Reports (Abstracts)

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TD1, TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1999, 15:30 - 17:00
Evolution of a Control System: Maintenance, Upgrading, Re-Engineering (Abstracts)

  • P. Charpentier (CERN, Switzerland) (invited)
    The Evolution of the DELPHI Experiment Control System, or How to Survive Ten Years of Running

  • H. Rarback (SLAC, USA)
    Old Wine in New Bottles - The SPEAR Control System Upgrade

  • R. Juras (ORNL, USA)
    Migration of 1970s Minicomputer Controls to Modern Toolkit Software

  • J. Lewis (CERN, Switzerland)
    Central Beam and Cycle Management of the CERN LHC Injector Chain

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Wednesday

WA1, WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1999, 8:30 - 10:00
Evolution of a Control System: Maintenance, Upgrading, Re-Engineering (Abstracts)

  • K. White (TJNAF, USA) (invited)
    The Evolution of Jefferson Lab’s Control System

  • A. Rovelli (INFN/LNS, Italy)
    Experiencing Windows NT for Accelerator Control Systems

  • A. Rizzo (DEES Catania Univ., Italy)
    An Innovative Intelligent System for Fault Detection in Tokamak Machines

  • I. Valova (Institute of Control and Systems Research, Bulgaria)
    Multi - Agent System for Control, Diagnostic and Monitoring

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WA2, WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1999, 8:30 - 10:00
Software: Distributed Computing Software (Abstracts)

  • A. Goetz (ESRF, France) (invited)
    TANGO - An Object Oriented Control System Based on CORBA

  • J. van Zeijts (BNL, USA)
    CDEV Generic Servers for RHIC Commissioning and Operations

  • N. Kanaya (KEK, Japan)
    Accessing Remote Equipment as Distributed Remote Objects through the Computer Network Using Java Remote Method Invocation

  • J.A. Rodríguez-Vázquez (TCPSI, Spain)
    Web-based Distributed Systems for Collaborative Remote Experiments

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WC1P, WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1999, 14:00 - 17:30
Poster Session
Evolution of a Control System: Maintenance, Upgrading, Re-Engineering (Abstracts)
Software: Configuration and Databases (Abstracts)

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WC1, WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1999, 14:00 - 15:30
Process Tuning and Feedback Systems (Abstracts)

  • T. Shea (BNL, USA) (invited)
    Bunch-by-bunch Instability Feedback Systems

  • D. Teytelman (SLAC, USA)
    Architecture and Technology of 500 Msample/s Feedback Systems for Control of Coupled-bunch Instabilities

  • M. Lonza (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
    Digital Processing Electronics for the ELETTRA Transverse Multi-bunch Feedback System

  • I. Ursu (Elie Carafoli National Institute of Aerospace Research, Romania)
    Positioning Algorithms in the NOTTE Experiment

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WD1, WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1999, 16:00 - 18:00
Software: Object Oriented Technologies (Abstracts)

  • C. Scafuri (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy) (invited)
    The ELETTRA Object-Oriented Framework for High Level Software Development

  • M. Parlione (IASI, Italy)
    Inheritance in Distributed Environment

  • F. DiMaio (CERN, Switzerland)
    The CERN PS/SL Java Application Programming Interface

  • J. Cuperus (CERN, Switzerland)
    A Directory Service for the CERN PS/SL Java Programming Interface

  • S. Hunt (PSI, Switzerland)
    Controls through Pictures - Graphical Tools for Building Control System Software

  • N. Baker (University of the West of England, UK)
    Using a Meta Modelling Approach to Manage Data in LHC Experiments

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Friday

FA1, FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 1999, 8:30 - 10:00
Software: Distributed Computing Software (Abstracts)

  • J. Farthing (JET, UK) (invited)
    Technical Preparations for Remote Participation at JET

  • M. Peryt (CERN, Switzerland)
    Generic Repository and Search Engine for LHC Equipment Tests Data

  • L. Dalesio (LANL, USA)
    EPICS Directions to Accomodate Large Projects and Incorporate New Technology

  • C. Gaspar (CERN, Switzerland)
    An Architecture and a Framework for the Design and Implementation of Large Control Systems

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FB1, FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 1999, 10:30 - 12:10
Hardware Technologies (Abstracts)

  • T. Korhonen (PSI, Switzerland) (invited)
    Timing Systems

  • J. Carwardine and F. Lenkszus (ANL, USA) (invited)
    Trends in the Use of Digital Technology for Control and Regulation of Power Supplies

  • T. Wijnands (CERN, Switzerland)
    A Prototype ATM Network for LHC Beam Control

  • W. McDowell (ANL, USA)
    The APS Control System Network Upgrade

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