CCPi News
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CCPi five year plan:
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- Over Christmas we have been awarded from EPSRC an extension to the 
current CCPi and we will be running for a further five years from 
September 2015.
- We are also going to be joined by a new CCP in PET/MR who are 
supporting the - SPECT image reconstruction code (see 
http://stir.sourceforge.net).

- Plans for forthcoming activities will be organised in the next few months;
but comments/suggestions/support welcome:
http://tyne.dl.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Visualisation/SLACombinedReport


Development:
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Since CCPi released an executable iterative CGLS algorithm for image 
reconstruction from XTek Nikon Metrology CT systems. Barry Searle 
([log in to unmask]) is organising a user analysis day (email if 
interested).
The code is on the CCPForge is http://ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk/gf/project/cgls

There are a few Training and Developers' Days to consider:-

1. Touch-table usage and programming.
On the 24 March 2015 a Developers' Day for CCPi on Touch Table 
integration and use; at the University of Reading. Contact Barry Searle 
([log in to unmask]) for a place.

2. Thursday 26th February in the VEC VR Lab commencing 10.00am - 
Visionary Render training course with VEC. (details from Lynn Dyer 
[log in to unmask])

3. 17-20 February 2015, Developers' Day at Manchester supported by CCPi 
- "Avizo developement - Module integration - Reconstruction techniques - 
Image processing" four day workshop: Participants from ICMCB-CNRS: CCPI: 
MXIF: UOM - Maths: AVIZO: AMARI: Diamond I12 (Contact at Manchester 
[log in to unmask])

4. 16-17 April 2015; Training Diamond Manchester Collaboration, CCPi and 
HIP, the University of Manchester and Diamond Light Source will be 
running a 2 day course on the Visualisation and quantification of 
tomographic data. The course will be based both around open-source 
software (ImageJ) and commercial software AVIZO Software course. This is 
the fourth training course of this kind to be offered by the Diamond 
Manchester Collaboration and will be at Diamond Light Source. The course 
will consist of a lecture and hands-on exercises intended for new or 
existing users of Avizo software. Attendee capacity for the training is 
limited to 25 so if you are interested please register with me at your 
earliest opportunity. As we are also training future trainers, people 
volunteering to help in future courses will be given priority.

5. Also at RAL are some Mantid training sessions:
Mantid Training Courses Feb 2015. The following courses will be based at 
ISIS, RAL and are:
- Monday 16th February 1-5pm: Mantid Introduction An introduction to the 
Mantid interface, how to graph and visualize your data, manipulate it 
with the built in algorithms, together with an introduction to curve 
fitting and live data analysis.
- Tuesday 17th February 9-12am: Introduction to Python This half day 
course will introduce you to the Python scripting language, no previous 
experience required, although some understanding of loops and 
conditional if statements will be expected.
- Tuesday 17th February 1-5pm: Python in Mantid This course concentrates 
on using Python to build analysis scripts within Mantid as well as 
controlling the Mantid GUI from python, and accessing the underlying 
data within Mantid workspaces.
- Wednesday 18th February 9-5pm: Extending Mantid using Python For the 
more adventurous among you this course will introduce you to the many 
ways you can use Python to extend the capabilities within Mantid adding 
Python Algorithms and curve fitting functions, as well as diving deeper 
into the structure of workspaces. After the feedback from the previous 
run this course has been extended to a full day course, together with 
adding more material. Booking a place If you are interested in any other 
these courses please send an email to [log in to unmask]


Events:
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There is an IMAT (ISIS Neutron Spallation Tomography) Demo in February 
for management and we wish the developers the best in presenting this 
data framework. We will update on progress at a show-and-tell.

- Also new data streaming equipment is being purchased to test this data 
with more details to come.

- There is continual industrial support from the Harwell Imaging 
Facility in the form of dedicated high-memory visualisation workstations 
available at the:
. Atlas Visualisation Facility in RAL; and
. ICAL (Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life) in Manchester
http://www.ical.manchester.ac.uk/


Vacancy:
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- PDRA vacancy: "The Diamond Manchester Collaboration (DMC) has a post 
available in our dynamic team of 30 Academics, Fellows, PDRAs and PGR 
students. The DMC (based at Diamond Light Source/Rutherford Appleton 
Laboratories in Oxfordshire) is a joint venture between the Univ. of 
Manchester and Diamond Light Source).  The post has a core research 
focus on demonstrating the impact of imaging & diffraction techniques on 
industry. The post holder will one main project, but will also assist on 
a number of collaborations within the MXIF, University of Manchester and 
with academic and industrial researchers worldwide."
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/universityofmanchesterinternal/displayjob.aspx?jobid=9154


FINAL POINT:
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If you manage to get hold of one of these calendars the Visualisation 
Labs in STFC is Miss June on the STFC Photowalk Calendar 2015 ;-)
http://tyne.dl.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Visualisation/WebHome#News


Martin
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Email [log in to unmask], Srikanth Nagella ([log in to unmask]), 
Ron Fowler ([log in to unmask]), Barry Searle 
([log in to unmask]) or Martin Turner ([log in to unmask])