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Computer Applications
in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) is one of the eight major
technical areas represented by NPSS. It main purpose is to organize
every two years the Real Time Conference (RTC). The most recent
conferences are listed below:
- 1993: Vancouver, BC, Canada (Chair: R. Poutissou,
TRIUMF)
- 1995: East Lansing, MI, USA (Chair: R. Fox, U.
Michigan)
- 1997: Beaune, France (Chair: P. Le Dû, CEA
Saclay)
- 1999: Santa Fe, NM, USA (Chair: T. Kozlowski, Los
Alamos)
- 2001: Valencia, Spain (Chair: A. Ferrer Univ of
Valencia)
- 2003: Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Chair: J.P. Martin,
Univ. Montreal)
- 2005: Stockholm, Sweden (Chair: R. Jacobsson, CERN)
These conferences were organized under the guidance
of CANPS chairpersons R. Poutissou, Triumf (1992-1996), T. Kozlowski,
LANL (1996-2000), Ch. Boulin, EMBL (2000-2004) and now the newly
appointed chair J.P Martin, Univ. of Montreal. The average attendance
is 175 participants. Among the various NPSS conferences, its particularity
is to attract a majority of non-US physicists, engineers and students.
This is why the various conference venues have also been widely
distributed in North America and Europe. This conference can be
considered as a laboratory in which IEEE NPSS members have learned
and explored the international role of IEEE NPSS in promoting overseas
scientific and technical events. This was the origin of the European
involvement in larger conferences such as the NSS/MIC held in Lyon
in 2000 and Rome in 2004.
In order to organize these fully international conferences, and
to take into account the local particularities of each non-US site
(financial, logistics …), we are experimenting in RT2005 Stockholm
with a new way to manage and help the General Chair in his task
by setting in place a strong team of well-trained experts embedded
in an executive committee. Later, this model could be applied to
larger overseas conferences, if successful.
Concerning the program targeted for Stockholm, the Computer Applications
and Real Time Data Acquisition and Analysis field has been evolving
rapidly over the few past years. Starting mainly from the Nuclear
and High Energy Physics Trigger and Data acquisition systems for
embedded small and large accelerator experiments, we saw at the
last conference in Montreal the evolution toward new exciting fields
such as medical and astrophysics applications. In the same manner,
both the so-called slow control, as well as on-line monitoring activities,
are now fully integrated into the Real Time technologies. This evolution
in the scope of the conference needs increased attention in the
focus of this small, collegial and convivial event that is very
well attended and supported by an international community at the
edge of the state of the art of the technology. The widening of
the scope can be made by approaching, for example, the medical imaging
community (engineers working on front-end and digital signal processing
….). Other communities to reach will include the synchrotron
radiation instrumentation people and probably the instrumentation
developers in general, including the industrial sector (advanced
PCI, board-based modular electronics and computing equipment…).
A new CANPS committee, now under selection, will work to bring new
ideas and suggestions to the community in order to remain at the
leading edge of these techniques.
Jean-Pierre Martin, the CANPS Chair, can be reached at the University
of Montreal, Cp 6128 Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec,
CANADA; Phone +1 514 343-7340; Fax: +1 514 343-6215; E-mail: jpmartin@lps.umontreal.ca
Patrick Le Dû, the CANPS elected member to AdCom, can be reached
at CEA Saclay,
DAPNIA-SPP, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette-Cedex, FRANCE; Phone: +33 1 6908
4073; Fax: +33 1 6908 6428; E-mail: ledu@hep.saclay.cea.fr.
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