ROCK-IT Team at NOBUGS 14. Back row, left to right: Nicole Wagner (HZB), Devin Burke (DESY), William Smith (HZB), Rolf Krahl (HZB), Peter Wegmann (HZB), Sonal Patel (HZB), Linus Pithan (DESY), Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun (DESY). Front row, sitting: Luca Porzio (HZB).
The ROCK-IT project continues to draw strong interest from the scientific community, with its achievements and ongoing developments highlighted at major international events including two conferences and a workshop.
SRI 2024 - 15th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation
At the SRI2024 Conference held August 26-30 in Hamburg, Germany, ROCK-IT was showcased with five posters and one talk, among numerous mentions across various presentations. The conference organized by DESY created a platform to represent the project to an audience of around 2,000 participants, highlighting the project’s progress and growing impact within the field.
- Talks:
- A Highly Automated Beamline for Analytical XAFS at the Future PETRA IV Storage Ring (Edmund Welter, DESY)
- Posters:
- The ROCK-IT Project: Towards a Holistic Workflow for Complex Operando Experiments (Mehdi Kazemi, DESY; et.al., o.b.o.t. ROCK-IT team)
- A Highly Automated Beamline for Analytical XAFS at the Future PETRA IV Storage Ring (Edmund Welter, DESY)
- ROCK-IT: Catalyzing Innovation with EPICS, Bluesky at BESSY II MySpot Beamline (Marcel Bajdel, HZB; et.al.)
- Near Real-Time Analysis Pipeline for X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (Diana Rueda, DESY; et.al.)
- ROCK-IT GUI Design for Automated and Remote-Accessed Operando Catalysis Experiments – (Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun, DESY; o.b.o.t. ROCK-IT team)
NOBUGS 14 - New Opportunities for Better User Group Software
Another major conference was the NOBUGS 14 held between 23-27 October in Grenoble, France, gathered experts from different continents. The conference organized by ILL & ESRF provided a great platform to network, get updates, and exchange ideas on user group software from different parts of the world. ROCK-IT was strongly presented with 5 posters, 1 talk, and mentions in various presentations.
- Talks:
- Closed-loop Experiments Using ML-based Online Analysis at Synchrotron Beamlines: A Case Study in X-ray Reflectometry and Perspectives (Linus Pithan, DESY)
- Workshop presentations:
- Bluesky Community Meeting (Data Acquisition) Workshop
- Bluesky at DESY: Development of Tango Support for Ophyd-Async and Structured Metadata for Operando Catalysis (Devin Burke, DESY; on behalf of DESY and the ROCK-IT project)
- Controls and Acquisition GUI Strategies Satellite Workshop
- Unified Beamline Control: Leveraging BlissData To Connect Sardana, Bluesky, With Daiquiri and BLISS (Udai Singh, DESY)
- ROCK-IT GUIs: Insights from DESY, HZB, HZDR, KIT (Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun, DESY)
- Fundamentals of Screen Design: Creating a User-Centered GUI Design for Beamlines (Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun, DESY)
- Posters:
- The ROCK-IT Project: Towards a Holistic Workflow for Complex Operando Experiments (Devin Burke, DESY; o.b.o.t. ROCK-IT team)
- ROCK-IT Beamline and Experiment Control (William Smith, HZB; et.al.)
- Enhancing User Experience on Screen: ROCK-IT GUI Design for Automated and Remote-Accessed Operando Catalysis Experiments (Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun, DESY)
- Automatic Export of Data from Catalysis Experiments to NeXus in ROCK-IT (Sonal Patel, HZB)
- Control of Sample Environment via Secop With Bluesky, While Performing Measurement Procedures on the Beamline (Peter Wegmann, HZB)
- ICAT Metadata Ingest Using Python-Icat (Rolf Krahl, HZB)
ISSE - 12th International Workshop on Sample Environment at Scattering Facilities
A further international event that hosted ROCK-IT was ISSE, held between 16-20 September in Båstad, Sweden. Hosted by MAX-IV and ESS, ROCK-IT members contributed to this event with 3 talks and 2 posters:
- Talks:
- The Path to Fully Automised and Standardised Complex Operando Experiments: The ROCK-IT Project (Dirk Wallacher, HZB)
- Automated Sample Handling for Enhanced Remote Access in Operando Catalysis Experiments at Synchrotron Beamlines (Shrouk Ehab, DESY)
- Sample Environment at HZB (Klaus Kiefer, HZB)
- Posters:
- Development of an Automatic Sample Changer for the ROCK-IT Project (Sebastian GERISCHER, HZB)
- Automated Gas Supply and Analysis Setup for Operando X-ray Investigations of Catalytic Processes (Gina Ruland, HZB)
The ROCK-IT team sincerely acknowledges the organizers of these events and looks forward to sharing further project developments at future scientific gatherings.