canSAS-X

canSAS-X Workshop

• date: Sunday, October 7, 2018
• place: Peninsula Room C, Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, Traverse City, Michigan, USA
• (just before SAS2018)

Summary

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Goals

The goals for this one-day workshop are to get a status report on activities kicked off at canSAS-IX and since, prepare for the next free standing canSAS meeting to be held in Freising Germany, and provide a discussion forum for current active topics. Some of those include:

• disseminate information about canSAS and to recruit active participants to canSAS activities ... see canSAS-IX#Goals;
• plan new round-robin measurements to cover wider classes of instruments;
• discuss NXcanSAS data formats and propose improvements

Agenda

• 9:30 AM Welcome and Introduction to canSAS
• 10:00 AM Update/discussion on canSAS-IX activities
• 10:45-11.15 Coffee Break
• 11:15 AM July 2019 canSAS XI meeting update - Henrich Frielinghaus
• 11:30 AM Discussion on topics and organization of canSAS-XI
• 12:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
• 1:00 PM Discussion Topics
  • NXcanSAS 2.0 discussion
  • Round Robin and Standard Practices projects
    • USAS/Geosciences round robin
    • Particle Sizing - standards and good practice?
    • Other
  • Analysis Software Collaboration Opportunities
    • COST action
    • other
• 2:40 Group Photo
• 2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
• 4:00 PM Reconvene - summary of discussion and plans/wrap-up
• 5:00 PM adjourn to attend SAS2018 Welcome Reception

Venue and Registration

• date: Sunday, October 7, 2018
• place: Peninsula Room C, Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, Traverse City, Michigan, USA
• (just before SAS2018)

Note that as a "grass roots" community effort there are generally no specific funds to support the local organizing expenses of such meetings. Instead these expenses will be covered through mostly small registration fees asked of each participant. (Expect $30 to cover the two coffee breaks). Lunch is not included.

Meeting Schedule and Topics

The topics being addressed at the canSAS X workshop are:

• NXcanSAS standard, improve the description of how Q should be provided in the HDF5 file
• Round-robin samples
• the SAS portal

Local Organizing Committee

• SAS2018 organizers

Program Committee

• Paul Butler (NIST, US)
• Adrian Rennie (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Pete Jemian (APS, US)
• Henrich Frielinghaus (JCNS, Germany)