Ultrafast imaging and particle tracking instrumentation and methods are needed to match the continuous advances in accelerator-driven photon and particle sources.
ULITIMA 2018 is an international forum to discuss the status of current and new ultrafast imaging and particle tracking instrumentation, novel data collection schemes through sparse sensing, hardware performance enhanced by computational and other novel methods, megahertz and gigahertz electronics, and their applications. The topics will be grouped into four tracks:
• Imaging
• Tracking
• Methods
• Applications
The conference will accept applications for invited and contributed oral sessions. Invited talks will review the current status and near future opportunities in different topical areas. The oral sessions are plenary.
Registration fee includes participation in all conference sessions, administrative support, coffee/tea breaks, and working lunches. The conference dinner will be on Thursday evening. A separate registration charge of $65 is requested to attend. The dinner program includes the announcement of the Best Image Award winner(s).
Travel grants will be available, students and postdocs are particularly encouraged to apply. Accepted papers will be peer-reviewed and published in Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods or Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.
Design of High-Performance User Interfaces for LCLS Instruments30m
Speaker:
Paul Fuoss
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Slides
10:30
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10:45
Coffee Break
15m
10:45
→
12:45
Methods - 4
Convener:
Ren-yuan Zhu
(Caltech)
10:45
Machine Learning and High Speed Circuitry in Thin Film Transistors for Interfacing in Hybrid Large-Area Electronic Sensor Systems30m
Speaker:
James Sturm
(Princeton University)
11:15
Spectral/temporal control of an x-ray radiation via its resonant interaction with a medium driven by a strong far-off-resonant low-frequency field30m
Speaker:
Olga Kocharovskaya
(Texas A&M University)
Slides
11:45
Big Variates - Visualizing and identifying key variables in a multivariate world30m
Speaker:
Stephen Watts
(University of Manchester)
Slides
12:15
Ultrafast Inorganic Scintillators for GHz Hard X-Ray Imaging30m
Speaker:
Liyuan Zhang
(California Institute of Technology)
Slides
12:45
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13:45
Lunch
1h
13:45
→
16:15
Applications / Methods - 1
Convener:
Arianna Gleason
(SLAC-Stanford)
13:45
Keynote 5: Time-resolved macromolecular structure determination at pulsed X-ray sources1h
Speaker:
Marcus Schmidt
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
14:45
Challenges in High-Repetition and High-Throughput Data Analysis at Advanced User Light Sources30m
Speaker:
Christine Sweeney
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Slides
15:15
Data visualization and organization tools for dynamic compression science at XFELs30m
Speaker:
Richard Sandberg
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Slides
15:45
Real-Time Visualization of Dynamic Fiber/Matrix Interfacial Debonding30m
Speaker:
Jou-Mei Chu
(Purdue University)
Slides
16:15
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16:30
Coffee Break
15m
16:30
→
18:00
Applications / Methods
Convener:
Cris Barnes
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:30
10Mfps burst-type, up to five-order of magnitude of dynamic range integrated pixel detector readout integrated circuit – FASPAX developed for the APS upgrade30m
Speaker:
Tom Zimmerman
(Fermi Natioinal Laboratory)
Slides
17:00
Research progress on Pr:LuAG scintillation ceramics30m
Speaker:
Yun Shi
(Shanghai Institute of Ceramics CAS)
17:30
Fast imagers with time stamping of optical photons30m
Speaker:
Andrei Nomerotski
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Keynote 6: CMOS imaging sensors and prospects for high-speed applications1h
Speaker:
Eric Fossum
(Dartmouth University)
Slides
09:30
Dynamic X-ray imaging at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility30m
Speaker:
Tiqiao Xiao
(SINAP/CAS)
Slides
10:00
The Tynode and the High QE photocathode for ultra fast pixelised particle detectors30m
Speaker:
Harry Van der Graaf
(Nikhef and TU Delft)
Slides
10:30
→
10:45
Coffee Break
15m
10:45
→
12:45
Imaging - 4
Convener:
Robert Wagner
(Argonne National Laboratory)
10:45
Compressed Ultrafast Photography: Imaging Light-speed Events in a Snapshot30m
Speaker:
Jinyang Liang
(INRS)
11:15
3-bit amplitude resolution, 40MHz-rate compatible and zero-suppressed readout integrated circuit for pixel detectors – FCP130 developed for the HL-LHC CMS Upgrade30m
Speaker:
Farah Fahim
(FERMILAB)
Slides
11:45
Ultrafast Inorganic Scintillator Based Front Imager for GHz Hard X-ray Imaging30m