CIL User Meeting 2024

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CIL User Meeting 2024

Following the success of the First CIL User Meeting in November 2023, we are pleased to announce that the event will be back again this year. The Second CIL User Meeting will take place on the 4th-7th November 2024 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK.

Planned events include:

  • An exciting technical talk programme from CIL users
  • Introductory and advanced CIL user training sessions
  • User support sessions and hackathons
  • Town Hall user community discussions
  • CCPi Working Group meeting

Registration is now closed but if you’re still interested in attending send us a message on tomography@stfc.ac.uk 

 

Financial support

Registration for the user meeting is free of charge including a workshop dinner on Tuesday 7th November.

CCPi is also able to support a limited number of attendees with accommodation and transport costs. All participants who requested support should now have been contacted, please email tomography@stfc.ac.uk if you applied for support but haven’t heard from us.

Transport

The User Meeting will take place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Harwell, Oxfordshire in the UK. Please check the UKRI website for up to date information on how to get here.

Accommodation

A limited amount of reserved accommodation is available at the Ridgeway House, which is located on site at RAL, at a cost of £85 per night.

Various alternative accommodation is available close to RAL.

Posters and presentations

The deadline for registering your interest in giving a talk has now passed. However, we may still be able to accommodate new requests to bring a poster and advertise it with a short lightning talk. Posters can be displayed throughout the workshop and there will be opportunities for networking over posters at lunch and coffee breaks. A prize will be awarded for the best poster.

Code of conduct

Please refer to the meeting code of conduct here.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Contact

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch tomography@stfc.ac.uk

 

Below is a tentative programme for the meeting. All sessions will be in RAL Visitor Centre R112, unless otherwise stated.

Monday 4th November
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and registration
13:00 – 14:30 CIL introductory and advanced training
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 15:45 CIL introductory and advanced training
15:45 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00 CIL introductory and advanced training
18:00 Informal dinner in Ridgeway House lounge
Tuesday 5th November
9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and coffee
9:30 – 9:50 Welcome talk
9:50 – 10:15 Francis Watson, University of Manchester – Rich Tomography in Synthetic Aperture Radar
10:15 – 10:40 Rasmia Kulan, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source – Reconstruction And experiment Settings optiMisation for neutron Imaging Applications
10:40 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:25 Bo Simmendefeldt Schmidt, University of California, Irvine – Anisotropic Regularization Using CIL
11:25 – 11:50 Kubra Kumrular, University of Southampton – Introducing a novel 3D bioimaging system and advancing 3D image reconstruction methods for volumetric imaging of spheroids
11:50 – 12:15 Tristan Manchester, Diamond Light Source – LITEbox – LED Instrument for Tomography Education in a box
12:15 – 12:30 Lightning talks
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:35 CoSeC award introduction – Barbara Montanari
13:35 – 14:00 Thomas Zillhardt, Diamond Light Source  – CoSeC award talk
14:00 – 14:25 Sunday Nwokolo, Bangor University – Advanced Computational Techniques for the Recovering of Partially Damaged CT Dataset
14:25 – 14:50 Evan Kiely, University of Warwick – Applying Iterative Reconstruction to Low Dose Tomography
14:50 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:00 Town Hall Meeting
16:00 – 17:00 CCPi Working Group
17:00 – 18:00 Poster and networking session
19:00 Workshop dinner at Wildwood restaurant in Didcot
Wednesday 6th November
9:30 – 12:30 Bring-your-own-data Hackathon
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 17:00 Bring-your-own-data Hackathon
Thursday 7th November
9:30 – 12:00 Bring-your-own-data Hackathon
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 CCPi Show and Tell – presentations from the hackathon
14:00 – 15:00 Hackathon wrap-up
15:00 Departure

This is a tentative programme and may be subject to change

This year we are planning to run two parallel training courses:
Introductory: Introduction to CT, data processing and reconstruction with Filter Back Projection with CIL (no previous experience in CT or CIL required)
Advanced: Introduction to iterative methods for XCT with CIL (some previous experience in CT or CIL is expected)

November 4, 2024

12:00 pm

07/11/2024

1:30 pm

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire UK