CONFERENCES

8^th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

San Jose, California, USA
November 27-30, 2001

We invite you, on behalf of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS), and the European Physical Society Interdivisional Group on Experimental Physics Control Systems (EPCS), to the eighth biennial International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, ICALEPCS 2001. ICALEPCS is held with the technical cosponsorship of the IEEE NPSS. Other cooperating organizations are: EPS, the European Physical Society; APS, the American Physical Society; IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing; and IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control.

Rusty Humphrey Conference Chair

The Conference will be held at the elegant Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. All those involved worldwide in the field of controls and having an interest in the challenging aspects of large experimental and research facilities should participate and contribute to the conference. The scientific program will cover the fields of control and operation of particle accelerators, detectors, telescopes, fusion devices, nuclear reactors and other large experimental facilities.  Both hardware and software aspects of control systems will be addressed.

The conference program consists of invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, seminars, round-table discussions, industrial presentations and post-conference workshops. Other conference activities will include tours of SLAC and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as well as an Industrial Exhibition reflecting relevant technologies from Silicon Valley and around the world.

ICALEPCS 2001 will emphasize the important role of control systems in the success of large experimental and research projects. The participants in ICALEPCS 2001 will report on novel and innovative approaches to control system design, implementation and operation as well as the management of such projects to peers from research centers and universities from around the world. Attendees will learn of related solutions and ideas from experts in the field and, from scientific collaborations studying existing problems or planning future advances in large scale controls systems and related fields (e.g., high speed networking, widely distributed system design, software and hardware engineering).

Highlights of the Conference are given below; complete details are provided at: http://icalepcs2001.slac.stanford.edu.

Program

Hamid Shoaee Program Chair

ICALEPCS 2001 will emphasize the following topics:

• Status Reports
• Project Engineering and Management
• Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Controls
• Evolution of a Control System [Maintenance, Upgrading Re-Engineering]
• Configuration and Databases
• Distributed Computing Software
• Enabling and Emerging SW Technologies [Object Oriented Technologies, Java, XML, Real Time Operating Systems, Development Methods and Tools, Image Processing]
• New Hardware Technologies and Methodologies
• Networking, Fieldbusses, PLC
• Timing Systems
• Operation, Commissioning & Process Tuning, Remote Operation and Participation
• Innovative Special Solutions

Invited Talks

A selection of invited talks is as follows:

• National Ignition Facility (NIF) – Edward Moses
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) – Rolf Bork
• Overview of Accelerator Timing Systems – Marc Ross
• Global Accelerator Network – Ferdinand Willeke
• Java Beans for Accelerator Application Development – Mark Plesko

Post-Conference Workshops

Post-conference workshops will be also be held at the Fairmont Hotel in the days following the Conference:

• International Accelerator Database Group (IADBG), 01 December 2001
• Automated Beam Steering and Shaping (ABS), 03-04 December 2001
• EPICS Collaboration, 03-04, December 2001

Industrial Program

In keeping with the ICALEPCS tradition, we will hold a concurrent industrial exhibition that will reflect Silicon Valley’s relevant technologies.

Social Program

A welcome reception at the Fairmont Hotel as well as a Banquet at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose have been planned to give Conference attendees a chance to get better acquainted.  In addition, local tours of San Francisco, Monterey and Carmel, and the Livermore Wine Country have been arranged for the companions of attendees.

Additional Information

For the most current information (registration, program and industrial exhibition, conference and social program, hotel and travel information, etc.), please see the ICALEPCS 2001 website at: http://icalepcs2001.slac.stanford.edu.

You may also contact the ICALEPCS 2001 Secretariat, Centennial Conferences, 4800 Baseline Road, Ste. A-112, Boulder, CO 80303, USA; Phone: +1 303 499-2299; Fax: +1 303 499-2599; E-mail: icalepcs@centennialconferences.com.

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