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)

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.

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 data formats and proposed improvements.
  • improve the description of how Q should be provided in the HDF5 file
  • Other needs?
• Planning new round-robin samples/measurements/data treatment
  • Geosciences USAS: rocks/shales
  • particle sizing standards?
• disseminate information about canSAS and to recruit active participants to canSAS activities ... see canSAS-IX#Goals;
• Other as might be of interest to those present.

Local Organizing Committee

• SAS2018 organizers

Program Committee

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