I - Software (HTML Format)
May 5, 2009
* Invited paper
SESSION I1: Poster Session
Tuesday Evening, May 5, 2009
8:00 PM
Ballroom ABCI1.1Optimizing Neutron Scattering Automation: Techniques for Profiling Complex Neutron Measurement Processes. Michael Martin and Stephen Pheiffer; NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I1.2McStas 2.0 - A New Release of the Flexible Monte Carlo Ray-tracing Package. Peter Willendrup1, Erik Knudsen
1, Emmanuel Farhi
2 and Kim Lefmann
3;
1Materials Research Division, RISØ DTU, Roskilde, Denmark;
2Scientific Computing, Institut Laue-Langevein (ILL), Grenoble, France;
3Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
I1.3Abstract Withdrawn
I1.4Molecular Simulation of Structural Changes of Ammonia Borane. Gregory Schenter1, Christopher Mundy
1, Shawn Kathmann
1, Nancy Hess
1, Hyunjeong Kim
2, Thomas Proffen
2 and Thomas Autrey
1;
1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington;
2Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
I1.5Neutron Science TeraGrid Gateway. Vickie E Lynch1, Meili Chen
1, John Cobb
1, Jim Kohl
1, Steve Miller
1, David Speirs
2 and Sudharshan Vazhkudai
1;
1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
2Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia.
I1.6Development of a Graphical Interface for Spin Wave Calculations. Thomas Sarvey2 and William Davis Ratcliff
1;
1NCNR, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland;
2Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
I1.7Abstract Withdrawn
I1.8RESTRAX - Monte Carlo Simulation Software for Neutron Spectrometers Upgraded. Jan Saroun1,2 and Jiri Kulda
3;
1Nuclear Physics Institute v.v.i., ASCR, Rez, Czech Republic;
2Research Center Rez, Ltd., Rez, Czech Republic;
3Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France.
I1.9Characterization of the FOCUS Monochromator by Beam-profile Measurements and Monte Carlo Simulations. Uwe Filges1, Geza Zsigmond
2 and Thierry Straessle
3;
1Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland;
2Research Department Particles and Matter, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland;
3Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
I1.10Data Reduction and Visualization Software for Single Crystal Diffraction. Dennis Mikkelson and Ruth Mikkelson; Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin.
I1.11Reflectometry from Cradle to Grave - Integrated Measurement, Reduction and Analysis using Motofit. Andrew Nelson, Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Menai, New South Wales, Australia.
I1.12Validation of the HYSPEC Supermirror Analyzer Prototype with Monte Carlo Simulations. Uwe Filges1, Ralf Ackermann
1,4, Peter Allenspach
3, Michael Schneider
1, Jochen Stahn
2, Alex Bollhalder
1, Lothar Holitzner
1, Peter Keller
1 and Michael Horisberger
1;
1Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland;
2Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland;
3Logistic Departement, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland;
4Physical Chemistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
I1.13DAVE: Software for Inelastic Neutron Scattering. Richard Tumanjong Azuah1,3, Philip Tregenna-Piggott
2, John Copley
1, Craig Brown
1, Robert Dimeo
1, Yiming Qiu
1 and Larry Kneller
1,3;
1NIST Center for Neutron Research, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland;
2Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland;
3Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
I1.14Virtual Neutron Facility. Jiao Y Y Lin, James Brandon Keith, Michael Mckerns, Michael Aivazis and Brent Fultz; Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, Pasadena, California.
I1.15SrRietveld: Toward a Next-generation Rietveld Refinement Program. Wenduo Zhou1, Peng Tian
2, Chris L. Farrow
1, Pavol Juhas
1 and Simon J.L. Billinge
1;
1Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York;
2Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
I1.16Abstract Withdrawn
SESSION I2: Software I
Chair: Pete Peterson
Wednesday Morning, May 6, 2009
Room 300 AB9:00 AM *I2.1Mantid: Instrument Independent Data Reduction and Analysis. Nicholas Draper2,1, Russell J Taylor
2, Roman Tolchenov
2, Martyn A Gigg
2, Matt J Clarke
1, Anders J Markvardsen
1, Srikanth Nagella
1, Ronald Fowler
1, Freddie A Akeroyd
1 and Chapon C Laurent
1;
1ISIS, STFC, Didcot, United Kingdom;
2Tessella plc, Abingdon, United Kingdom.
9:30 AM I2.2DANSE: Extending the Scientific Toolkit for the Neutron Community. Michael McKerns1, Michael A.G. Aivazis
2, Kenneth W. Herwig
3 and Brent Fultz
1;
1Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California;
2Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California;
3Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
9:45 AM I2.3Measuring the Scattering Function S(Q,ω) in all Four Dimensions using time-of-flight Spectrometers: Techniques, Software and Examples. Toby Perring1,2, Russell Ewings
1 and Joost van Duijn
3;
1ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom;
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom;
3Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Albacete, Spain.
10:00 AM BREAK
SESSION I3: Software II
Chair: Uwe Filges
Wednesday Morning, May 6, 2009
Room 300 AB10:30 AM *I3.1The SNS/HFIR Web Portal System - How Can it Help Me? Stephen D. Miller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
11:00 AM I3.2Real Time Forward and Inverse Analyses of Engineering Neutron Diffraction Data via Artificial Neural Networks. Seung Yub Lee
1, Halil Ceylan
2 and
Ersan Ustundag1;
1Mater. Sci. and Eng., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa;
2Civil and Environmental Eng., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
11:15 AM I3.3Monte Carlo Simulations for Defining a Future Standard for Neutron Instrumentation. Peter Willendrup1, Linda Udby
1, Asger Abrahamsen
1, Erik Knudsen
1, Emmanuel Farhi
2 and Kim Lefmann
3;
1Materials Research Division, RISØ DTU, Roskilde, Denmark;
2Scientific Computing, Institut Laue-Langevein (ILL), Grenoble, France;
3Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
11:30 AM I3.4Understanding INS Spectra of Hydrogen Storage Materials from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. Shawn M. Kathmann, Greg K. Schenter, Nancy J. Hess and Tom S. Autrey; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
11:45 AM I3.5Error Analysis of Neutron and X-Ray Reflection Data by Monte Carlo Resampling. Frank Heinrich1,2, Prabhanshu Shekhar
1, Paul Kienzle
2 and Mathias Loesche
1,2;
1Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
2Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
SESSION I4: Poster Session
Wednesday Evening, May 6, 2009
8:00 PM
Ballroom ABCI4.1Current Status of the Data-processing Software for iBIX, a TOF Single Crystal Neutron Diffractometer at J-PARC. Takashi Ohhara1, Katsuhiro Kusaka
2, Takaaki Hosoya
2, Kazuo Kurihara
1, Nobuo Niimura
2, Ichiro Tanaka
2, Jiro Suzuki
3, Takeshi Nakatani
1, Toshiya Otomo
3, Akiyuki Seki
4 and Takamitsu Miura
5;
1J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
2Frontier Research Center for Applied Atomic Sciences, Ibaraki University, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
3J-PARC Center, High Energy Accelarator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;
4Center for System Computational Science, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
5RIST, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan.
I4.2New Features in McStas for Polarised Neutron Beams. Erik Knudsen1, Peter Kjær Willendrup
1, Kim Lefmann
2 and Astrid Romer
2;
1Materials Research Division, Risoe-DTU, Roskilde, Denmark;
2Nanoscience Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
I4.3Development of the Software Framework for Neutron Experimental Instruments at MLF, J-PARC. Takeshi Nakatani1, Yasuhiro Inamura
1, Takayoshi Ito
1, Ryoichi Kajimoto
1, Tetsuo Aoyagi
4, Takashi Ohhara
1, Toshiya Otomo
2, Yoshiji Yasu
5, Jiro Suzuki
2, Takahiro Morishima
2, Takaaki Hosoya
3, Masao Yonemura
3, Masatoshi Arai
1, Harjo Stefanus
1, Suguru Muto
2, Ryosuke Kadono
2, Shuki Torii
2, Hiroshi Nakagawa
4, Kazuo Nakayoshi
5 and Hiroshi Sendai
5;
1J-PARC, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
2J-PARC, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;
3Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan;
4JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
5KEK, Tsukuba, Japan.
I4.4PyGSAS: Python Binding Program on GSAS. Peng Tian1,2, Wenduo Zhou
2, Pavol Juhas
2, Christopher L. Farrow
2 and Simon J.L. Billinge
2;
1Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan;
2Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University, New York, New York.
I4.5Abstract Withdrawn
I4.6Crystal Structure Determination from Pair Distribution Function. Pavol Juhas1, Phillip M. Duxbury
2 and Simon J. L. Billinge
1,3;
1Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York;
2Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan;
3Condensed Matter and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.
I4.7Doing Your Science While You're in Orbit. Mark L Green1, Stephen D Miller
2, Sudharshan S Vazhkudai
3 and James R Trater
4;
1Distributed Technologies, Tech-X Corporation, Williamsville, New York;
2Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
3Computer Science and Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
4Information Technology Services, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
I4.8VDRIVE- Data Reduction and Interactive Visualization Software for SNS Engineering Diffractometer VULCAN. Ke An, Xun-Li Wang and Alexandru Stoica; Neutron Scattering Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
I4.9Recent Development in NeXus. Peter F. Peterson, Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
I4.10Portal Based Data Reduction. Jean-Christophe Bilheux1, Michael A. Reuter
1 and James R. Trater
2;
1Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
I4.11The canSAS Standard for Storing Reduced One-dimensional Small-angle Scattering Data in XML Files. Ken Littrell1, Pete Jemian
2, Jan Ilavsky
2, Andrew Jackson
3, Stephen King
4, Andrew Nelson
5 and Ron Ghosh
6;
1HFIR/NSSD, Oak Ridge National lab, Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
2Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois;
3National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland;
4ISIS Facility, Science & Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom;
5Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;
6Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
I4.12Reflectometer Off Specular Data Reduction Application. Jean-Christophe Bilheux, Michael A. Reuter and Valeria Lauter; Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
I4.13SansView: A New Platform for SANS Data Analysis. Jae-Hie Cho2, Gervaise Alina
2, Mathieu Doucet
2 and Paul Butler
1,2;
1NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland;
2Chemistry, The Universtiy of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
I4.14Simulation of TOF Neutron Diffraction Using New Sample Kernels. Li Li2, Seung Yub Lee
1, Ersan Ustundag
1 and Cevdet Noyan
2;
1Mater. Sci. and Eng., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa;
2Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York.
I4.15Current Status of Software Development on Chopper Spectrometers for MLF, J-PARC. Yasuhiro Inamura1, Ji-Yong So
2, Kenji Nakajima
1, Je-Geun Park
3, Ryoichi Kajimoto
1, Takeshi Nakatani
1, Toshiya Otomo
4, Jiro Suzuki
4 and Masatoshi Arai
1;
1J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Naka-gun, Ibaraki pref., Japan;
2Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, South;
3Sung Kyun Kwan Univ., Seoul, Korea, South;
4High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki pref., Japan.
I4.16Software for the Engineering Materials Diffractometer (TAKUMI) at MLF, J-PARC. Takayoshi Ito1, Stefanus Harjo
1, Hiroshi Arima
1, Jun Abe
2, Atsushi Moriai
2,1, Kazuya Aizawa
1, Masatoshi Arai
1, Takeshi Nakatani
1, Yasuhiro Inamura
1, Takaaki Hosoya
3, Masao Yonemura
3, Jiro Suzuki
4, Toshiya Otomo
4, Kazuo Nakayoshi
4, Hiroshi Sendai
4 and Yoshiji Yasu
4;
1J-PARC Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
2Quantum Beam Science Directorate, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan;
3Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan;
4KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.