2022 Bmad Development Workshop

Thursday Oct 6, 2022, 2:00 PM → 8:50 PM America/New_York

401 Physical Sciences Building (Cornell University)

Workshop to discuss the present state of the Bmad simulation toolkit and to talk about and plan future development.

Workshop is in-person only.

Please register if you are interested. There is no registration fee.

Also: There is a Bmad School to be held after the workshop.

Talks

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: David Sagan

Welcome-and-Intro.pptx

2 Low Energy Space Charge Simulations with Bmad

Speaker: Mr Ningdong Wang (Cornell University)

22_10_06_BmadDevWorkshop.pptx

3 Machine Learning and Bmad

Speaker: Lucy Lin (Cornell)

Lin_Bmad.pdf

4 Experience in using Bmad with the Cornell CESR storage ring

Speaker: Jim Crittenden (Cornell University)

crittenden_6oct2022.pdf

5 ERLs, FFAs, EIC: Designing Advanced Beamline Layouts with Bmad

Speaker: Joseph (Scott) Berg

JSBerg-221006.pptx

2:50 PM Break

Talks

6 PyTao and using Bmad with the LCLS control system.

Speaker: Christopher Mayes

7 EIC Tracking Simulations with Bmad

Speaker: Mr Matthew Signorelli (Cornell University)

Signorelli_Bmad22.pdf

8 Bmad in the classroom

Speaker: Georg Hoffstaetter

9 Software Sustainability

Speaker: David Sagan

Sustainability.pptx

4:00 PM Break

Roundtable Discussion

Possible topics for discussion:
* Sustainability of Bmad
* Plans for the future - Areas needing development (low energy, spin, ...??)
* Community and Outreach
* User support, Bug reporting
* Interoperability with other codes.
* Documentation
* Availability -- Move to GitHub, conda
* etc...