Experiment Control System Workshop, April 2023

Invitation

Dear Colleagues,

we, the experiment control system group @ GSI, would like to invite you to our annual workshop on control systems for nuclear physics experiments. Please feel free to forward this information to other colleagues.

In the past our workshop was focused mainly on the LabVIEW based CS-framework and its successor CS++ which were both developed at GSI. Since National Instruments as the developer of LabVIEW has modified its price policy in the last years we have decided that we will also start working on alternatives for the future. For this reason we want to widen the scope of this years workshop to alternative development tools and techniques (examples are Python, EPICS).

Whereas at the first two days there will be presentations about various control system related topics, the remaining time will be used for tutorials and hands-on courses depending on the requested needs.

This workshop is planned to take place at GSI in the IT training class room (SB3 1.239a), from April 25, 2023, Tuesday, 13:00 to April 28, 2023, Friday, 12:00.

For the first part of the workshop we will also run a zoom meeting:

• Join the Online-Meeting

It would be nice if you could provide us with some suggestions about the topics you would like to be informed about and and/or the topics you would like to discuss. Please let us know, if you intend to come to the workshop.

There is also an indico webpage for the workshop: https://indico.gsi.de/event/17490/

Registration

How to Register

There is no registration fee and there are two possibilities to register. Either

1. edit this web page and add your name to the list of registered participants below, or
2. send an e-mail to HolgerBrand or DennisNeidherr.

If you would like to participate, please register as soon as possible!

Participants

HolgerBrand, DennisNeidherr, SzilardNagy, StanislavChenmarev, AlexanderKessler, StefanGoette, BirgitPlotzeneder, Chien-LiLee, PeterZumbruch, WolfgangGeithner, OldrichNovotny, RyanRingle, FriederKoch, DominikHollatz, DinkoAtanasov, LaurentDaudin, TomKieck, DanielLange, EnriqueMinaya, AmeliaLeite, FrancescaGiacoppo, ManuelGutierrezTorres, ClaraKlink, MoritzSchlaich, SergiyTrotsenko, Main. PetrMazurek, DanHart, TomasMazanec, KarelMajer

Agenda

Maybe it is a good idea to contribute to the list of feature requests or bug reports to enable us to derive an agenda.

Authors are responsible for the contents of their own contributions.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Start	Topic	Speaker	Time	Link
13:00	Welcome	HolgerBrand	15 min
13:15	CS++ Overview	DennisNeidherr	30+15 min
14:00	Farewell LabVIEW	HolgerBrand	20+10 min
14:30	EPICS @ GSI	PeterZumbruch	15+5 min
14:50	EPICS @ CBM	MarcelBajdel	15+5 min
15:10	Coffee	All	15 min
15:25	News from HIJ	AlexanderKessler	30+10 min	AlexK_CS_WS2023.pptx
16:05	Custom Hardware for Control & Measurement	HenningHeggen	20+10 min
16:35	Discussion	All	open end

Dinner 19:00 @ Ristorante Wilhelminenhof

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Start	Topic	Speaker	Time	Link
09:00	PIPERADE double penning trap CS	LaurentDaudin	15+5 min
09:20	PIPERADE EPICS Client Side	DinkoAtanasov	15+5 min
09:40	News from LEBIT	RyanRingle	20+10 min
10:10	Coffee	All	15 min
10:25	Event-based Programming with Python 'asyncio'	DennisKlein	30+10 min
11:05	The PHELIX Control System	StefanGoette	20+10 min
11:35	HITRAP CS	WolfgangGeithner	20+10 min
12:05	Lunch	All	60 min
13:05	MQTT as alternative to Shared Variable	HolgerBrand	20+10 min
13:35	InfluxDB Time Series DB / Grafana as alternative to DSC	HolgerBrand	20+10 min
14:05	Discussions + GSI Tour	All	open end
17:00	End

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Start	Topic	Speaker	Time	Link
09:00	Discussions	All	60 min
10:00	ELI LCS Overview	PetrMazurek	30+10 min
10:40	LabIOC	KarelMajer	30+10 min
11:20	EPICS Tips and Tricks @ ELI	TomasMazanec	30+10 min
12:00	Lunch	All	60 min
13:00	Demonstration GSI InHouse FPGAs	All	30 min
13:00	EPICS Introduction (Hands-On)	PeterZumbruch, etc.	open end
17:00	End

Friday, April 28, 2023

Start	Topic	Speaker	Time	Link
09:00	Event-based Programming with Python 'asyncio' Part 2 (Hands-On)	DennisKlein	open end
12:00	End

-- DennisNeidherr - 2022-12-16