{"id":1962,"date":"2016-01-05T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lookingatnothing.com\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2016-01-05T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T08:21:59","slug":"it-is-the-year-that-will-be-2016-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1962","title":{"rendered":"It is the year that will be (2016 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to 2016! This year is bound to bring much goodness with it, so let’s see what we can do:<\/p>\n

\"Konstn\u00e4rsfest<\/a>
Konstn\u00e4rsfest p\u00e5 Skagen – Peder Severin Kr\u00f8yer (1888). Public domain image from: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hipp_hipp_hurra!_Konstn%C3%A4rsfest_p%C3%A5_Skagen_-_Peder_Severin_Kr%C3%B8yer.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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  1. The Book<\/a>: This time on position number one in the hope it will make a difference. The Book will contain all the information on SAXS accrued over the years. Interestingly, it is a living document, which can be cited<\/a>: at any given moment, you can cite the document in a state it was in at that time, and due to version control, it can be retrieved in that exact form.<\/li>\n
  2. Round-Robin: After the Shock of the Suddenly Degrading Particles<\/a>, we are trying to get a grip on the solution. We hope to continue the inter-instrumental comparison when this is resolved (I will stop making puns now).<\/li>\n
  3. Ultra-SAXS version 3: As mentioned<\/a>, with the help of two synchrotrons, I will be building version 3 of the Ultra-SAXS instrument! This will be more motorized and altogether even more awesome than versions 2 and 1. Here is hoping for success and perhaps a publication at the end of this to summarize the lessons learnt from all three.<\/li>\n
  4. McSAS<\/a> will be upgraded as well, with smearing functions<\/a> to allow the fitting of scattering patterns affected by either pinhole, square or line beam shapes. More accuracy, better results.<\/li>\n
  5. Data corrections: The imp2 set of corrections is nearly compete<\/a>, but the hope is to get them integrated into Dawn in the near future. Here’s hoping that this can be done without too many headaches!<\/li>\n
  6. Data management: Last year, I started on a data management database<\/a> for our experiments. The hope is that this can be done relatively painlessly in Python with Pandas<\/a>, hopefully with a bit of SQL functionality added to that for compatibility!<\/li>\n
  7. Standardization: The standardization of SAS<\/a> is a big issue. In essence, this is the formalization of a subset of measurement methodologies to assess particular types of samples.<\/li>\n
  8. Talks: This year, I will be heading to the Nanotech 2016 <\/a>Conference in Washington, where I will be speaking about the EU nanomaterial definition<\/a> in this session<\/a>, courtesy of Pierre Panine.<\/li>\n
  9. Papers: To be brutally honest, I do not feel like I have anything worked out well enough to write a worthwhile paper just yet. Let’s hope this changes in the course of this year.<\/li>\n
  10. Holidays: This year, for the first time in half a decade, I have quite a bit of holidays on my contract. They will be consumed for the benefit of mankind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There! that should be enough to keep me (and possibly a small group) busy for a while. So much to do, it will certainly be a strain on the time- and work-life balane management skills. See you on the other side of the year to find out what worked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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