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<p><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>NOBUGS 2008</span></font></b></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal'>The seventh NOBUGS conference will be held </span></font></b></strong><strong><b> <font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>November 3-5,
2008</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-weight:normal'> in </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Sydney</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>, </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Australia</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'> at the Rydges Cronulla
Beach Hotel near the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
(ANSTO) facilities.</span></font></b></strong><br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>The
aim of the NOBUGS series of conferences is to foster collaboration for
developers of computer techniques in scientific instrumentation, especially as
employed at large scale user facilities. The conference seeks to improve the
user's scientific productivity by focusing on the interaction between the
experimenter and the facilities' infrastructures, apparatus, and data. </span></font></b></strong><br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>NOBUGS
2008 will feature four themes: collaborative software development, data
management, data acquisition, and grid portals for users. There is
considerable overlap in these themes due to their mixture of process, product, frontend,
and backend components. To increase the intensity of interactions for
attendees, four chairs will be appointed to champion one of the themes and to
select and publish via the NOBUGS website topical information and comments
intended to initiate discussion that will precede the conference. Subsequently
the presentations and workshop sessions at the conference will advance the
process, hopefully leading to some substantive collaboration or product.</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Below are
the general conference topics organized by themes. They include, but are not
limited to: </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Collaborative
software development, Chair, Brent Fultz, Cal Tech</span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Collaborative Initiatives </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Programming Techniques</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data acquisition, Analysis, Visualization </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Instrument Simulation and Virtual Instruments</span></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data
management, Chair, Robert McGreevy, ISIS</span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data Formats </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data Analysis </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Distributed Computing </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Scientific Databases </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>User Facility Management </span></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data
acquisition, Chair, Mark Koennecke, PSI</span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data Acquisition and Instrument Control</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Automated Instrument Calibration </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Automated Experiments and Data Collection </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Remote Control of Data Acquisition and Data
Analysis Tasks </span></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Grid
portals, Chair, Steve Miller, SNS</span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Graphical User Interfaces </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>WWW Application Development </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Data Analysis </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Remote Control of Data Acquisition and Data
Analysis Tasks </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Distributed Computing </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Facility Security </span></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Significant
dates</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><font size=3 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>Early registration 25 Aug-5 Oct</p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>Late registration 6 Oct-27 Oct</p>
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>Abstract submission 25 Aug- 29 Sept</p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Significant
links</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>Conference website <a
href="http://www.nbi.ansto.gov.au/">http://www.nbi.ansto.gov.au/</a> </p>
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>Conference hotel <a
href="http://www.rydges.com/hotel/0/RNCRON/Rydges-Cronulla-Sydney.htm">http://www.rydges.com/hotel/0/RNCRON/Rydges-Cronulla-Sydney.htm</a>.
Book into the block of rooms reserved for the NOBUGS 2008 conference.</p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ron Nelson</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>ronald.nelson@ansto.gov.au</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>+61 2 9717 3601</span></font></p>
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