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[László Bottyán <bottyan.laszlo AT wigner.hu>]

Dear Colleagues,

Let me remind you of the BNC seminar on instrument control which will be 
held on-line this afternoon. The public domain control software 
environment to be presented is already being used in a number of large 
facilities worldwide (research reactors, spallation source, synchrotron 
beamlines) but it may also be beneficial to use it on individual 
equipments of high complexity.

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We are very glad to announce the first BNC weminar of 2025. Everyone is 
welcome to attend.

Date and time: 30 January, 2025,  14:00
Location:      On-line, see link below
Speaker:       Jens Krüger (Mayer-Leibniz Zentrum, Garching) Title:
        "Principles and practice of instrument control in neutron
                   facilities - the NICOS software system"
Join:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3aQtQ_LQhBREzKCg8zOfxRqRQRweT9idkWr9lHVfQoyA81%40thread.tacv2/1737127278496?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22f44a99b6-b8f5-4e2e-983e-b01357a9fd32%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227f04d546-a75d-4cae-afd3-b67bdcc5dc68%22%7d

The meeting will be recorded and will be made available at www.bnc.hu/seminar

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Abstract:
This presentation will give an overview of NICOS as a software environment to 
control neutron scattering instruments. The control of instruments using 
neutrons as probes is challenging, so that a system to fulfill this task must 
meet a number of requirements. For example, it must work for a variety of 
unique instruments and it must reconcile different, sometimes contradictory 
requirements. These include a high level of user acceptance and 
user-friendliness, interactive operation and the ability to perform 
measurements of long runtime (typically overnight) smoothly using scripts.

The aim here is to make effective use of the limited neutron intensity and 
available beam time at the neutron scattering centers. The NICOS system, which 
was developed by scientists for scientists, meets the requirements due to its 
high modularity. It has been successfully used at the MLZ (Garching, D) and PSI 
(Villigen, CH) and will be used as well at the ESS (Lund, S). It may also be of 
interest to the BNC colleagues, beyond upon replacement of existing control 
systems or for use on new or relocated instruments.