BIG PHYSICS Symposium
Control, Diagnostic and Measurement for Physics Systems and Experiments
Monday February 7, 2011, Meeting Room - Rome (5th Floor)
Hilton La Defense, 2 place de la Defense CNIT - BP 210, Paris, France 92053
REGISTRATION 8:00 – 9:00
Welcome Address
Dr. Stefano Concezzi, Director, Big Physics Segment, National Instruments
Keynote: ITER and its Central Control System
Dr. Dhiraj Bora, Deputy Director General, ITER
Keynote: COTS Technology for Physics Applications
Dr. James Truchard, President, CEO and Cofounder, National Instruments
High Reliability and Availability Systems for Control Needs
Dr. Alessandro Masi, CERN
Remote Maintenance Concepts of ITER – Virtual to Reality
Dr. Ali Muhammad, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
Break 10:40 – 11:00
High Performance Computing for Plasma Control
Dr. Louis Giannone, IPP Max Planck
General-Purpose Hardware and Software Architecture for Real-Time Control in Nuclear Fusion Experiments
Dr. Gabriele Manduchi and Dr. Adriano Lucheta, Consorzio RFX
The MedAustron Accelerator Control System - Architecture and Design Choices
Dr. Johannes Gutleber, CERN
Lunch 12:00 – 13:00
An Overview of ITER and US Efforts
Dr. James Van Dam, Director- Institute of Fusion Studies and ITER US Chief Scientist
Fusion Enabled Fission Nuclear Energy – Green, Plentiful, Sustainable
Dr. Swadesh Mahajan, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Fusion Studies
CODAC Evolution - Moving Towards Pulse Control
Dr. Jo Lister, Senior Scientist, EPFL
Experience in Interfacing EFDA-JET Enhancements to CODAS
Dr. Jonathan Farthing, Director of CODAS & IT, JET
ITER Fast Plant System Controller Prototype Based on PXI Platform
Dr. Jesus Vega and Dr. Mariano Ruiz, CIEMAT
EISCAT_3D: Europe’s Next-Generation Radar for Studies of the Upper Atmosphere and Geospace
Dr. Ian McCrea, Rutherford Appleton Lab
Break 15:00 – 15:20
Timing and Synchronization With White Rabbit
Dr. Javier Serrano, CERN
COTS Platform and Linux
National Instruments
TANGO Current Status and Usage With Commercial Platforms
Dr. Nicolas Leclercq, SOLEIL and Dr. Jean-Michel Chaize, ESRF
Thomson Scattering Diagnostics on COMPASS Tokamak
Dr. Daniel Kaminsky, ELCOM
Quench Detector System for Super-Conducting Magnets
Dr. Piyush Joshi, Brookhaven National Labs
Beam Position and Phase Monitoring System at ISIS
Dr. Sarah Fisher, ISIS
Energy benches for PETAL Experiment
Loic CARRE, Eurilogic
Integrating NI Hardware Systems with EPICS
Thierry Debelle, National Instruments
Adjourn 18:00
