DANSE Project Kickoff Meeting, Pasadena, August 15-16, 2006

DANSE Project Kickoff Meeting
Pasadena, August 15-16, 2006
Room 101 Guggenhiem Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall, Caltech Campus

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The purpose of the DANSE kickoff meeting is to describe the goals and deliverables of the DANSE project to the team members and stakeholders of the DANSE project. The project plan will be presented in detail; however, there will be ample opportunity to answer questions and provide feedback in targeted breakout sessions. Followup community interactions and collaborative communications will also be planned.

Tuesday August 15
Unless otherwise noted, location is 101 Guggenheim, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall.

8-8:30 Check-in and Breakfast [Red Door Cafe, Caltech]
8:30 Welcome by Brent Fultz, G.X. Tessema
8:35 Introductions
8:45 "Center for Advanced Computing Research" Mark Stalzer
9:00 "Overview of DANSE Goals and Plan" Brent Fultz
9:45 "The DANSE Project Plan" Mike McKerns
10:15 BREAK
10:35 "An Overview of the DANSE Software Architecture" Michael Aivazis
11:20 "DANSE Diffraction Software for the SNS: DiffDANSE" Simon Billinge
11:40 "DANSE: Engineering Diffraction" Ersan Ustundag

12N Lunch [Keck Lobby, Caltech]

1:00 "Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS)" Paul Butler
1:20 "Reflectometry in DANSE" John Ankner
1:40 "Inelastic Neutron Scattering" Brent Fultz
2:00 "DANSE Software Quality Assurance" Tom Swain
2:20 "SNS/HFIR Software Developments" Steve Miller
2:40 BREAK
3:00 "The Integrated Spectral Analysis Workbench (ISAW)" Dennis Mikkelson
3:25 "NeXus and Collaboration" Nick Hauser
3:50 "Vision: Visual Programming" Michel Sanner
4:15 "Introduction to NumPy" Travis Oliphant
4:40 Open Session: Posters and Demos [Avery Center, Caltech]

7 PM Dinner [Avery Center, Caltech]

Wednesday August 16
Breakout Track I will meet in 101 Guggenheim, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall.
Breakout Track II will meet in 74 Jorgensen Lecture Hall.
Unless otherwise noted, location is 101 Guggenheim, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall.

8:30-9 Breakfast [Red Door Cafe, Caltech]
9:00 "The Computational Infrastructure for First Principles Prediction and Characterization of Materials" William Goddard
9:25 "The Nanoscience End-station and Petascale Computing" Thomas Schulthess
9:50 "PHENIX and the CCTBX" Paul Adams
10:15 "Matplotlib" John Hunter
10:40 BREAK
11:05 "Enthought Tool Suite" Eric Jones
11:30 "OOF2" Andrew Reid
11:55 "Introduction to Python Grid Tools" Keith Jackson

12:30 Lunch [Avery Center, Caltech]

1:30 Breakout Track I: Scientific Opportunities (Fultz)
1:30 Breakout Track II: Software Technology and Methods (Aivazis)
2:30 Breakout Track I: Instrument and Materials Simulation (Ustundag)
2:30 Breakout Track II: Plotting and Visualization (Mikkelson)
3:30 Breakout Track I: Data reduction and analysis (Billinge)
3:30 Breakout Track II: Common Data Structures (McKerns)
4:30 Breakout Track I: Optimization and Numerical Methods (McKerns)
4:30 Breakout Track II: User Interfaces (Butler)
5:30 Breakout Track I: Community Outreach and SNS Integration (Swain)
5:30 Breakout Track II: Distributed Computing (Aivazis)
6:30 Closing Remarks Brent Fultz

7 PM Dinner [TBA]

Attendees:
Paul Adams (LBL); John Ankner (ORNL); Michael Avaizis (Caltech); Simon Billinge (Michigan St. U.); Paul Butler (ORNL); Brent Fultz (Caltech); William Goddard (Caltech); Nick Hauser (ANSTO); John Hunter (U. Chicago); Keith Jackson (LBL); Eric Jones (Enthought); Mike McKerns (Caltech); Dennis Mikkelson (U. Wisconsin Stout); Stephen Miller (ORNL); Travis Oliphant (Brigham Young U.); Andrew Reid (NIST); Michel Sanner (Scripps); Thomas Schultess (ORNL); Mark Stalzer (Caltech); Tom Swain (U. Tennessee); Guebre Tessema (NSF); Ersan Ustundag (Iowa St. U.); Doug Abernathy (ORNL); Vladimir Antropov (Ames Lab); Charles Bouldin (NSF); Branton Campbell (Brigham Young U.); Wenwu Chen (Iowa St. U.); Julian Cummings (Caltech); Olivier Delaire (Caltech); Nicolas deSouza (ANL); Mamadou Diallo (Caltech); Sue Gregurick (UMBC); Brian Granger (Tech-X Corp.); Johathan Guyer (NIST); Jason Hodges (ORNL); Andrew Jackson (NIST); Andres Jaramillo-Botero (Caltech); Pete Jemian (ANL); Tibor Koritsanszky (MTSU); Max Kresch (Caltech); Seung-Yub Lee (Iowa St. U.); Li Li (Iowa St. U.); Jiao Lin (Caltech); Jiwu Liu (Michigan St. U.); Chun Loong (ANL); John McCorquodale (Caltech); Dan Meiron (Caltech); Maziar Motahari (Iowa St. U.); Toshiya Otomo (J-PARC); Fernando Perez (U. Colorado); Thomas Proffen (LANL); Steve Quenette (VPAC); Prabhu Ramachandran (IIT Bombay); Rick Reidel (ORNL); Stephan Rosenkranz (ANL); Taura Scott (Caltech); Gregory Smith (ORNL); Jiro Suzuki (J-PARC); Jullian Tao (ANL); John Tranquada (BNL); Travis Vaught (Enthought); Daniel Wheeler (NIST); Tom Worlton (ANL); Masao Yonemura (J-PARC); Jing Zhou (NIST); Piotr Zolnierczuk (IUCF);