Workshop on Accelerator Operations '98
Schedule  as of 16 MAY 1998

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0900 - SESSION A - Maintenance Styles

-- Steve Suhring (TJNAF)  (biog.)   Preventive Maintenance  (abstract)
-- Bob Mau (FNAL)  (biog.)   Fix it if it's broken  (abstract)

1030 - Break:

- Refreshments
- Group Photograph

1100 - SESSION B - Maintenance Posters

1200 - Lunch break

1330 - SESSION C - Maintenance Statistics

-- Jean Boillot  (biog.) / Simon Baird (both from CERN)    Analyze Operational Statistics  (abstract)
-- Chris Piaszczyk (Northrop Grumman)  (biog.)   Machine Reliability Databases  (abstract)

1500 - Break for refreshments
1515 - Open panel discussion
1700 - Supper break

1830 - SESSION X - The DOE Accelerator Order

Chair:   Chris Nelson (Los Alamos National Lab)  (biog.)

- Speakers
-- DeVaughn Nelson (Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy)   The New DOE Accelerator Order  (abstract)

2100 - End

WAO'98  Wednesday May 20, 1998:      Looking at Ourselves

Chairs:  Nigel Stevenson and Rick Bloemhard (TRIUMF)

0830 - Logistics and Announcements
0835 - SESSION D - How We Do Business at the BC Transit Sky Train Control Center

- Invited Speaker: Ian Graham of B.C. Rapid Transit Co. Ltd. Sky Train Control Center

0915 - SESSION E - Problems at Small Labs

-- Introduction - N.R.Stevenson
-- CANADA:   René Van den Elzen  (biog.)
Challenges facing TRIUMF-ATG Operations  (abstract)

-- USA:   A.Kellock  (biog.)

Ion Beam Laboratory, IBM ARC (San Jose, Californina, USA)
 Ion Beam Analysis at IBM ARC - Keeping It Running    (abstract)
-- UK:   D.Kinch - Nycomed-Amersham
-- CANADA:  Ken Buckley  (biog.)
Difficulties Encountered by TRIUMF-PET Operations  (abstract)

-- ARGENTINA:  Roberto Strangis, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica
Possible Additional Speakers
-- AUSTRALIA:   D. Arnott -
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization

-- ROMANIA:  Liviu Popa-Simil -
National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Engineering

1000 - Panel Discussion - Above speakers & chairpersons
1030 - Break:

-- Refreshments

- SESSION F - How We Do Business Posters

1115 - SESSION G - Team Building

- Invited Speaker: Lynn Duncan of HRDQ Consulting
- Discussion

1155 - Announcements

1200 - Lunch break

1300 - Tour of TRIUMF

1300 - 1400 Buses leave UBC for TRIUMF
1430 - 1530 Buses leave TRIUMF for UBC

1700 - Buses leave UBC for Banquet on Grouse Mountain
1830 - First Screening of Theater in the Sky film Born to Fly
1900 - Second Screening of Born to Fly
1930 - Evening Banquet

Buses leave banquet approximately 2130, 2145, 2200

WAO'98  Thursday, May 21, 1998:      Theme -   Training

Chair:   Simon Baird (CERN)

0830 - Logistics and Announcements

0835 - SESSION H - Training and Staff Development

-- Matt Hardy (LANL)  (biog.)   Developing Accelerator Operators at LANSCE  (abstract)
-- David Mantrom (NIF - LLNL)  (biog.)   Plans for Operations Training and Operations Procedures at NIF  (abstract)

1030 - Break for refreshments

1045 - SESSION I - Training Posters

1200 - Lunch break

1330 - SESSION J - Training and Staff Development

-- Carey Meyers (Nav Canada - Vancouver Area Control Center)  Nav Canada training program for Air Traffic Controllers
-- Scott Anderson (SLAC)  Training Program at SLAC
 (abstract) in Word DOC format    (abstract) in plain text format

1500 - Break for refreshments
1515 - Open panel discussion
1700 - Supper break

1830 - SESSION Y - Web-based LogBooks and Other Web Tools

Chair:   Anton Mezger (Paul Scherrer Institute)

- Speakers
-- Anton Mezger (Head of Operations, PSI)  (biog.) Present State of Logging Tools at PSI  (abstract)
-- Tom Meyer (Crew Chief, Fermilab)  (biog.) The Web-based Electronic Logbook Project at Fermilab  (abstract)
-- David Windmueller (Senior Accelerator Operator, TJNAF)  (biog.) Web-based Logbooks at Jefferson Lab  (abstract)
-- (more speakers to be announced)

2100 - End

WAO'98  Friday, May 22, 1998:      A Better Work Environment

Chair:   Martha Zumbro (LANL - LANSCE)

0830 - Logistics and Announcements

0835 - SESSION K - Control Room Layout

- Speakers (4)
-- Tim Fox (Jefferson Laboratory)  (biog.)  (abstract)
-- Peter Gear (Rutherford)  (biog.)  (abstract)
-- Gordon Roy (TRIUMF)  (biog.)  (abstract)
-- Stan Pasky (APS-ANL)  (biog.) and Greg Banks (APS-ANL)  (biog.)  (abstract)

- SESSION L - Control Room Layout Posters

Chair:   Mike Stanek (SLAC)

1030 - SESSION M - Scheduling

- Speakers (4)
-- Tadashi Yoshida (Head, Accel. Div, JAERI, Japan)   (abstract) (This paper will not be delivered but will appear in the publications)
-- Eiichi Takada (HIMAC, NIRS, Japan)  (biog.)  Personnel and Accelerator Scheduling at HIMAC  (abstract)
-- Robert Miller (Advanced Light Source, LBNL)  (biog.)   Personnel and Accelerator Scheduling Issues at ALS  (abstract)
-- Floyd Gallegos  (Deputy Group Leader, LANSCE-6, LANL    
- Discussion

1200 - Lunch break

1330 - SESSION N - Highlights and After-thoughts

- 1330 Maintenance
- 1400 Training

1430 - Looking Forward

- Assessment of this workshop
- What's Next? (WAO 2000 and beyond)

1500 - End of Workshop