1. Peter Willendrup, Peter Christiansen, Kim Lefmann McStas release 1.9 and beyond McStas release 1.9 and beyond 1 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond Emmanuel Farhi, Klaus Lieutenant

2. ● McStas ● Project status ● New features in McStas 1.9 ● New stuff in 1.9.1 and beyond Agenda 2 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

3. ● Project status – strengthened efforts ● 'New' people: Peter Christiansen, Post doc at Risø from feb 1st. Will work on TS2 instruments and polarized neutron support in McStas (MCNSI input very welcome!) Project status 3 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

4. ● More than 20 (!) McStas oriented posters @ ICNS, Sydney! ICNS 2006 dissemination: 4 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

5. ● Project Infrastructure: ● New, joint website @ www.mcstas.orgwww.mcstas.org ● Bugzilla ● VnCS alliance with VITESS New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 5 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

6. ● Web tools: ● Web frontend – html based simulation frontend, based on work by ILL student C. Jean ● Will be 'extended' for two different applications: ● DMC PSI Powder machine: Upload powder structure, press the buttons, download virtual powder spectrum. (Beam time applications etc.) ● NMI3/MCNSI Brockhouse phonon simulator. 'Measure your own Nobel prize dataset' New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 6 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

7. ● Components: ● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E. Farhi) ● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...) ● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be integrated in 1 component) ● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi (K. Lieutenant) New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 7 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

8. ● Components: ● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E. Farhi) ● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...) ● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be integrated in 1 component) ● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi (K. Lieutenant) New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 8 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

9. ● Components: ● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E. Farhi) ● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...) ● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be integrated in 1 component) ● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi (K. Lieutenant) New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 9 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

10. ● Components: ● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E. Farhi) ● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...) ● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be integrated in 1 component) ● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi (K. Lieutenant) New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 10 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) Introducing McStas 1.9

11. ● Components: ● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E. Farhi) ● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi (K. Lieutenant, G. Zsigmond) ● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...) ● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be integrated in 1 component) New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 11 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

12. ● Tools ● mcdaemon – on Unix, send -USR2 (save) signals to running process ● Many usage related adjustments to mcgui New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 12 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

13. ● Documentation: ● Improvements to tutorial / teaching material (Copenhagen University course) ● Will provide 'extended' tutorial, eventually a complete teaching material for neutron course, build powder diffractometer (DMC), TAS (Rita-II), SANS (Sans-II @PSI). ● Many edits of the component manual New stuff in 1.9, november 16 th '05 13 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

14. ● Important bugfixes / validation results: ● PowderN tested against Squires/Bacon/... ● Isotropic_Sqw and PowderN in agreement ● GROUP misbehaviour solved ● New contributions: ● T. Vanvuure (ILL) – Advanced, physical Realistic PSD detector ● -”- Banana detector ● Possibly O. Kirstein (Ansto) – PST device ● K. Hewitt Klenø (Copenhagen Univ) – Chopper upgrades – see talk ● VRML support in mcdisplay – HTML/VRML format directly possible only with browser/plugin New stuff in 1.9.1 (march 06?) 14 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

15. ● JUMPS ● Concentric components ● First polarisation capable components? (Peter Christiansen) ● mcresplot for Scilab/Matlab ● mcformat PGPLOT -> other formats ● Sources (ILL source: Ageron Tripoli, VITESS) ● Volume data (PSD versus time (scan)) ● More example instruments ● Special TOF/TAS class instrument frontends: ● TAS with reciprocal space code – possible collaboration with M Koennecke, PSI, UB matrices etc. ● TOF with chopper phase angles -> chopper diagrams New stuff in 1.10 (autumn 06?) 15 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond

16. ● Many exiting things to do now and in the future... :) The end... 16 McStas team (RISØ/ILL) McStas 1.9 release and beyond