Sunday, August 5, 2012
| Time | Event | Talk | Chair/Speaker | Duration | Talk |
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| 17:00 | Welcome / Registration | Reception/Registration - Kavli Auditorium patio | Mike Stanek |
Monday, August 6, 2012
| Time | Event | Talk | Chair/Speaker | Duration | Talk |
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| 8:00 | Workshop Registration | Register for WAO2012, pickup WAO information package | |||
| 8:30 | WAO Introduction | Welcome, Present Agenda, Introductions, WAO Statistics | Stanek/Morel | 40 mins |
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| 9:10 | WAO Historical Talk | How WAO got started | Ron Lauze | 20 mins |
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| 9:30 | How We Do Business | Jim Morel | 30 mins | ||
| Operations of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory | Andreas Stolz | |
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| Introduction to TRIUMF | Eric Chapman |
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| Operations at the Spallation Neutron Source | Glen Johns |
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| The Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre | Rainer Cee |
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| Operations Tandem ALPI PIAVE of LNL Accelerators | Davide Carlucci |
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| 10:00 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 10:30 | Operator Development | Violeta Toma | 120 mins | ||
| From US Navy Mate to Division Leader for Accelerator Operations – Requirements, Development and Care | Thomas Spickermann |
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| Operator Development - Nature & Nurture | Isadora Carlino |
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| The Operations Group at BEPCII | Jun Xing |
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| The Skill Management for an accelerator facility by adapting experience of aircraft maintenance. | Hiromi Inokuchi |
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| Training Advanced Photon Source Operators: From the Street to the MCR | Joseph Sutton |
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| Operator Training at the Advanced Light Source | Rick Bloemhard |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | 60 mins | |||
| 13:30 | Safety and Regulation | Peter Igrassia | 90 mins | ||
| IEC61508 at ISIS | Bob Mannix |
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| Guaranteeing the Safe Injection of Electrons into the Storage Ring with the Master Shutters Enabled | Don McGilvery |
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| Electronic Form for Management of Work on Radiation Safety Configuration Controlled Items at SLAC | Zoe Van Hoover |
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| Regulatory Experience and Developments Related to Accelerator Isotope Production | Abdul Alwani |
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| 15:00 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 15:30 | When Disaster Strikes | Noel Okay | 120 mins | ||
| How J-PARC recovered from the big earth quake | Fujio Naito |
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| RIKEN Nishina Center’s Response to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster | Tadashi Fujinawa |
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| Tested by Fire – How recent Wildfires affected Accelerator Operations at LANL | Thomas Spickermann |
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| How we managed Cern's most important power cut. | Jesper Nielsen |
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| Hurricane Isabel's Impact on Jefferson Lab | Yan Wang |
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| 18:00 | IPC Working Meeting | WAO International Program Committee (IPC) working meeting | IPC | 60 mins |
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
| Time | Event | Talk | Chair/Speaker | Duration | Talk |
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| 8:00 | Workshop Open | ||||
| 8:15 | Tuesday Opening Remarks | Stanek/Morel | 15 mins | ||
| 8:30 | Adapting to Change | Peter Ingrassia | 90 mins | ||
| DESY: From High Energy Physics to Synchrotron Radiation | Michael Bieler |
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| Reorganizations, Program Changes and Reduced Funding | Dan Johnson |
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| Adapting to Changes at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Roger Erickson |
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| Operational Demands of REA3 at NSCL | Jon Bonofiglio |
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| 10:00 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 10:30 | Diagnostics | Kazuro Furukawa | 90 mins | ||
| Promethean Exchange: Bringing Expert Tools & Diagnostic Experience to Operations | Michael McCaughan |
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| The role of CERN PS complex operation teams in the development of diagnostics applications | Marc Delrieux |
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| Diagnostic tool development by Operations group | Yi Chih Liu |
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| Tuning Techniques and Operator Diagnostics for FACET at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Christopher Melton |
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| 12:00 | Lunch | 60 mins | |||
| 13:00 | Automation | Dan Johnson | 90 mins | ||
| Automation at the CERN SPS and LHC accelerators. Good or bad for operator skills? | Guy Crockford |
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| Automation of Operations at Fermilab | Duane Newhart |
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| Operator vs Automation, can a balance be achieved? | Navid Radnia |
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| BNL Collider-Accelerator Automation Impact on Operations | Christopher Zimmer |
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| 14:30 | Break | Coffee and snacks | |||
| 15:00 | Tour SLAC | 120 mins | |||
| 18:30 | Banquet at Quadrus | 360 mins | |||
| 20:00 | Global Warming: the human component deciphered | Dr. Richard Muller | 45 mins |
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
| Time | Event | Talk | Chair/Speaker | Duration | Talk |
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| 8:00 | Workshop Open | ||||
| 8:15 | Wednsday Opening Remarks | Stanek/Morel | 15 mins | ||
| 8:30 | How We Do Business | Jim Morel | 30 mins | ||
| Operation statistics and stability of SSRF | Wenzhi Zhang |
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| ISIS - Continued Operations 1984 – 2012 and beyond | Alan Stevens |
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| Commissioning Results & First Operation at ALBA Synchrotron Light Source | Montserrat Pont |
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| 9:00 | High Power Beams | Petra Schuett | 75 mins | ||
| Machine Protection: A dominant issue in the LHC operation | Rossano Giachino |
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| Tuning an Accelerator for 1 MW | Charles Peters |
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| Benefits of Beam Development Shifts | Eric Chapman |
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| 10:15 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 10:45 | Superconductivity | Rossano Giachino | 90 mins | ||
| Superconductivity in the BEPCII | Qing Qin |
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| Experience with Cryogenic Operations During the FermiLab Collider Program | Stanley Johnson |
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| Operation of the LHC cryogenic system and interface with beam and machine operation. | Serge Claudet |
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| 12:15 | Lunch | 60 mins | |||
| 13:15 | X-Ray FEL Operation | Mike Stanek | 45 mins | ||
| FLASH Operation at DESY | Michael Bieler |
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| Optimizing X-ray FEL performance for LCLS at SLAC | Sean Kalsi |
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| 14:00 | Rules vs Creativity | Open Discussion Session | Michael Bieler | 45 mins | |
| 14:45 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 15:15 | Poster Session | Eiichi Takada | 60 mins | ||
| Standards-Based Operation of a Nuclear Physics User Facility | Andreas Stolz |
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| Web service data interface to accelerator control signal data | Wan Tianmin |
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| Overview of the Magnet Activities at HIT | Rainer Cee |
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| Development achieved by SOLEIL operation group and main results of the operation of the installation | Xavier Deletoille |
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| LCLS Availability at SLAC | William Colocho |
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| Operation management of S3HC (superconducting RF cavity)@Elettra | Pietro Zupancich |
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| Installation of compact injector at HIMAC | Toshinobu Sasano |
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| On reducing water-related troubles at HIMAC | Shunsuke Saito |
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| How TSL has scaled down and streamlined | Mikael Pettersson |
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| Are you customer focused? – User specified Control System Modifications for the Argonne Tandem LINAC Accelerator System (ATLAS) | Maria Power |
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| Recovering CYRIC from the Great East Japan Earthquake | Takashi Wakui |
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| Paths to an All Digital Control Room | Michael Costanzo |
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| DARHT Accelerator Operations at LANL |
Edward Jacquez |
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| Operational Disasters at ISIS | Alan Stevens |
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| 16:15 | Ideal Control Room | Comparision of Control Room Upgrades with Ideas For Your Next Upgrade | Jim Morel | 60 mins |
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
| Time | Event | Talk | Chair/Speaker | Duration | Talk |
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| 8:00 | Workshop Open | ||||
| 8:10 | Thursday Opening Remarks | Stanek/Morel | 10 mins | ||
| 8:20 | Recommission/ Decommission | Violeta Toma | 100 mins | ||
| Decommissioning the Proton Hall | Angela Hoiem |
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| Demolition of the Bevatron | Jim Morel |
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| Recommissioning SLAC's West Linac Complex for FACET | Peter Schuh |
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| Moving Cyclotron room from old to new location with no lost time | Jozef Orzechowski |
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| Recovery of the Fire Accident at PEFP | Bum-Sik Park |
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| 10:00 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 10:30 | Invited Speaker | Sleep, Sleep Loss, and Sleep Problems | Dr. Clete Kushida | 60 mins |
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| 11:30 | Reliability and Availability | Rossano Giachino | 60 mins | ||
| Modeling SNS Availability Using BlockSim 7 | Geoffrey Milanovich |
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| Spare Parts Inventory at NSCL | Jon Bonofiglio |
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| Systems Reliability from Design to Implementation to Long Term Service | Violeta Toma |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | 60 mins | |||
| 13:30 | Reliability and Availability | Rossano Giachino | 60 mins | ||
| Coping with the Power Company | Paul Sampson |
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| The Impact of a Large Scale Power Conditioning on Accelerator Operations | Don McGilvery |
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| Five years of operation at HIT – a review emphasizing reliability issues | Michael Galonska |
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| 14:30 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 15:00 | Communication | Glen Johns | 120 mins | ||
| Information And Communication In Operation At GSI | Uwe Scheeler |
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| Communication flow at Elettra | Stefano Krecic | ||||
| Electronic Logbooking at SLAC | Matthew Gibbs |
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| TRIUMF Electronic Log Book System: Broadcasting Activities Beyond the Control Room | Eric Lee |
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| The New Alarm Display for the RHIC Control Room | Peter Ingrassia |
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| 17:00 | Open Discussion Session WAO Feedback | Stanek/Morel | 30 mins | ||
| 18:00 | IPC Working Meeting | IPC Working Meeting | IPC |
Friday, August 10, 2012
| Time | Event | Talk | Chair/Speaker | Duration | Talk |
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| 8:00 | Workshop Open | ||||
| 8:15 | Friday Opening Remarks | Stanek/Morel | 15 mins | ||
| 8:30 | Clever Solutions to Small Problems | Mike Stanek | 90 mins | ||
| A simple system to trigger Post Mortem Data Capture on our Beam Position Monitors | Don Mcgilvery |
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| Effective use of Accelerator | Kazuro Furukawa |
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| Recommissioning Fermilab | Martin Murphy |
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| C70 Arronax Hnads-on Phase and Operation | Freddy Poirier |
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| Open Discussion and Talks | |||||
| 10:00 | Break | Coffee, snacks | 30 mins | ||
| 10:30 | WAO Summary | Stanek/Morel | 60 mins |
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| 11:30 | WAO Future | Next WAO 2014 and ARW 2013 Australia | Stanek/Morel | 30 mins | |
| 12:00 | WAO 2012 Conclusion | Stanek/Morel | 30 mins | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | No Lunch Provided by WAO | |||
| 13:00 | LBNL Tour Optional | Tour of LBNL Advanced Light Source and 88-inch Cyclotron. Sign up at WAO by Tuesday 09:00. Transportation to be arranged (carpools & SLAC vans). | Jim Morel | 360 mins |
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