ECNS'99 and McStas references

[Thomas Hansen]

I presented three times a poster containing simulations on the high
intensity powder diffractometer D20 at ILL. Of course, these have been
realised by means of your McSTAS package inspite the fact that nothing is
for free, and I had to invest nevertheless some programming affords to
obtain nice results. As I was very satisfied with your conception of
McSTAS, which gives a lot of freedom to the user (if he accepts some
programming ...), I encouraged  the audience to try it for their own
particular problem, so I made some "advertising" for your project.
Especially in France, people were pretty much excited of these
possibilities, less in Britain and Germany, probably as they are more
involved in new national soursec and/or the future ESS and already doing
simulations theirselves, some of them based upon McSTAS. Okay, but that's
not the point here ... All these posters are NOT covered by proceedings,
just two of them (in France and Germany) by abstract books and only in the
French abstract, McSTAS has been mentioned and cited, sorry. Ah, I
mentionned McSTAS also in my talk at the IUCr congress in Glasgow, but
again, you won't find a citation of it in the abstracts. Just for your
records:

1) 8èmes Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique (JDN8), La Grande Motte, May
1999, Thomas HANSEN: "Simulation Monte-Carlo du diffractomètre à poudre D20
et implications sur la forme de raies"

2) Deutsche Neutronenstreutagung (n99), Potsdam, May 1999, Thomas HANSEN
and Pierre CONVERT: "D20 - Neutronen-Pulverdiffraktometer mit sehr hoher
Intensität - Ein Schritt zu zeitaufgelöster Neutronenbeugung"

3) XVIIIth IUCr Congress & General Assembly, Glasgow, August 1999, Thomas
HANSEN and Pierre CONVERT: "Towards time resolved neutron diffraction: D20;
a high intensity neutron powder diffractometer" [Hansen, T., and Convert,
P. (1999). Acta Cryst. A55 Supplement, Abstract M07.OD.005]

4) UK Neutron and Myon Users' Meeting (NMUM99), Durham, September 1999,
Thomas HANSEN: "Monte Carlo simulation of the high intensity diffractometer
D20 with regard to time resolved powder diffraction"

Regards,

Thomas

>Dear McStas users,
>
>While I was myself sadly not present at the recent ECNS'99 conference in
>Budapest, Kim Lefmann told me that there were several presentations
>mentioning McStas in addition to his McStas poster presentation. This
>got me thinking that it would be nice to maintain a list of papers that
>reference McStas; such a list would be useful to impress our current
>sponsors and to improve the possibilities for future funding.
>
>So, if you have a paper that references McStas, please send me a
>reference for such a list (notes about as yet unpublished work is also
>welcome, of course). I will make the list available on the web page.
>
>Kim Lefmann also told me that some papers referenced McStas using the
>web page address. Since this summer we have a better publication to
>reference, the McStas paper that was published in Neutron News:
>
>    K. Lefmann and K. Nielsen, Neutron News, 10/3, 20 (1999)
>
>Regards,
>
> - Kristian.
>
>--
>Kristian Nielsen        kristian.nielsen at risoe.dk
>Risø National Laboratory
>Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry Department
>Tel. +45 4677 5515   Fax +45 4677 4790

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