New Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS)
Motivation
The 14th NOBUGS Conference is co-organised with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) & the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble - France from 23rd to 26th September 2024.
After 28 years the NOBUGS conference is finally coming back to where it started - the European Photon and Neutron Campus, home to the ESRF and ILL in Grenoble! The goal of the NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) Conference Series is to foster collaboration and exchange between scientists and IT professionals working on software for X-ray, neutron and muon sources from around the world. Better software for data acquisition and data analysis will increase productivity of facility users and thus maximize the scientific output.
A number of satellite meetings will be organised before and after the conference on specialised topics. Refer to the page on Satellite Meetings for the list of proposed meetings.
Timeline
- Abstract submissions opens: 19th February 2024
- Abstract submission deadline: 30th of April 2024
- Registration opens: 1 May 2024
- Finalised Programme: 15th July 2024
- On site registration closes: 15th August 2024
- Online registration closes: 15 September 2024
Registration
Registration opens on the 1 May 2024. The conference registration fee for on site attendance (300 euros) includes coffee breaks, lunch and the gala dinner. Satellite meetings include coffee breaks and lunch (for full day meetings).
Conference Topics
The conference will cover the following topics for beamlines and scientific experiments:
- Beamline control systems
- Experiments automation
- Remote user interfaces
- AI/ML applications
- Advanced data acquisition
- Metadata + Data Formats
- Data Visualisation
- Data Reduction
- Data Analysis
- Model Fitting
- Workflow engines
- FAIR data management
- Open source collaborations
- Research Software Engineering
- Other relevant topics
Conference Organization
NOBUGS 2024 will be held as a hybrid conference with participants in-person (on site) at the ESRF and possibility to follow the presentations remotely on Zoom.
Organizing Committee
NOBUGS 2024 is advised by the NOBUGS International Advisory Committee. This conference is part of the NOBUGS series of conferences. For more information about NOBUGS and past conferences of the same kind see the NOBUGS site
Local organizers
- Andy Götz (ESRF) - Conference Chair
- Paolo Mutti (ILL) - Conference Chair
- Jens Meyer (ESRF) - Program Chair
- Kimberley Robert (ESRF) - Chief Organiser
- Sarah Kelleher (ILL) - Chief Organiser
