Consortium for Management of Experimental Data in Structural Biology
High Data-Rate MX Meeting
at BNL on Thursday 26 May -- Saturday 28 May 2016

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• BNL HDRMX Meeting Agenda
• BNL HDRMX Meeting Participants

This is the first of a series of three meetings to be run in Spring and Summer 2016 on changes needed to existing major software packages for support of very high data rate macromolecular crystallography. Additional support is being requested in parallel from Dectris, Ltd of Baden Switzerland, NIH/NIGMS and DOE/BER. To ensure maximum participation across the community, the sessions will be held at three geographically distributed locations. The first meeting will be on 26 -- 28 May 2016 at National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. The second meeting will be an informal session during the meeting of the American Crystallographic Association in Denver, Colorado, USA, 22 -- 26 July 2016. The support being requested from NSF in this proposal is primarily for support fo The third meeting will be on 2 September 2016, as a satellite meeting to the European Crystallograhic Meeting in Basel, Switzerland, 28 August 1 September 2016. Registration for the third meeting is open at http://ecm30.ecanews.org/satellitemeetings/high-data-rate-mx-satellite-meeting.html. To date, a very helpful funding commitments from Dectris of Baden, Switzerland, LSBR at BNL and from NIGMS have been received.

Note: Until and unless specific arrangements have been made, all attendees need to assume full responsibiity for their expenses, including but not limited to transportation, food and accommodations. As of this writing (7 May 2016) the funding commitments in hand are sufficient to pay for food and hotels for the accepted participants at the May meeting, and to support a small portion of some transportation costs for the May meeting. Participants are completely responsible for costs for the July and September meetings.

Note: Due to various rules and policies, even though we expect to be able to cover food during the May meeting, we will not be able to cover expenses for alcoholic beverages. That is something attendees must pay for themselves.

Accommodations for the 26 - 28 May 2016 Meeting at BNL

Attendees in need of accommodations for the meeting should reserve a room at

Hampton Inn Long Island/Brookhaven
2000 North Ocean Avenue, Farmingville, NY 11738
PHONE: +1-631-732-7300
You may book your room using this booking link:

or calling +1-800-HAMPTON (+1-800-426-7866) and referencing the High Data-Rate MX Meeting no later than 24 April 2016. The agreed rate is $119 per night for checkin 25 May 2016, and is subject to state sales and occupancy taxes, which currently are a combined total of 11.625% per room per night and are subject to change without notice.

Working Dinners on 26 and 27 May 2016

For those who are interested, we will have working dinners at Perabell Patchogue, 69 E. Main Street, Patchogue, NY 11772, +1-631-447-7766, 6:30 pm, Thursday, 26 May 2016, and at La Margherita, 1229 Station Rd, Medford, NY 11763, 1-631-924-0048, 6:30 pm, Fridat, 27 May 2016. In order to allow us to reserve enough space and to organize transportation, if you wish to participate in these dinners, please provide the following information: the nights you will participate, whether you will need transportation, or can help with transportation, and any special dietary requirements.

Our thanks to Dectris, Ltd., whose sponsorship is supporting these working dinners.

The menu for the dinner at Perabell, 6:30 pm, Thursday, 26 May 2016 is:

• First Course (choose one of the following):
  • Lentil Florentine Soup (vegetarian), or
  • House Salad, Mixed Greens, Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Red Onions, Fresh Mozzarella, Balsamic Dressing & Grilled Crostini, Can be Made Gluten Free
• Second Course (choose one of the following four entrees):
  • Sauteed Chicken Milanese, w. Prosciutto, Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato &wmp Arugula Salad, Roasted Potators, Drizzled w. Aged Balsamic Reduction, or
  • Cedar Roasted Salmon, Apple & Horseradish crusted w. Sour Crea, & Chive Mashed Potato, Grilled Asparagas, or
  • Gorgonzola Crusted 10oz FlatIron Steak w. Caramelized Onion Hashed Potato & Creamed Spinach (gluten free), or
  • Mushroom Ravioli w. Wild Mushrooms, Truffle Cream Saucd (vegetarian)
• Third Course (choose one of the following three deserts):
  • Chocolate Lava cake, or
  • Seasonal Cheesecake, or
  • Fruit Salad (w. or w/o whipped cream)
• Soda, coffee and tea are included. Cash bar at participant's expense for alcoholic beverages

The menu for La Margherita, 6:30 pm, Friday, 26 May 2016 is at http://www.lamargheritapizza.com/menu.html. We will cover either pizza or regular Italian entrees and sides to a budget limit of $30 a head. The pizza is particularly good. We will cover coffee and soda. Cash bar at particpant's expense for alcoholic beverages

Process for Participation in the 26 -- 28 May 2016 Meeting at BNL

In order to conform to U.S. Department of Energy regulations, the number at attendees at the meeting in-site at BNL is limited. Both for that reason and in order to accommodate people who need to particpate but who have sceduling conflicts, we will support remote access to this meeting. If you wish to participate either on-site or electronically please send an e-mail with "HDRMX" in the subject line to.

Note added 7 May 2016: *** We regret that we cannot accept additional on-site participants at of this date, but a few additional electronic participants could be accepted. *** The following information is left posted including the on-site information for the record.

1. Your name
2. Your institutional affiliation
3. Your mailing address
4. Your email address
5. Whether you are requesting on-site participation or electronic participation
6. If you are requesting on-site participation
   1. Please specify whether you need local accommodations or have already made arrangements
   2. Please specify any dietary requiements
   3. Your BNL life number or BNL Guest number (if you have one)
   4. If you do not have an active BNL life number or BNL Guest number,
      and you are accepted for on-site participation, you must go to
              https://www.bnl.gov/guv/gis.asp
      and register. This process can take time, especially for non-US citizens, and you
      will not be able to enter the site without having completed the process.
7. If you are requesting electronic participation
   1. Your telephone number, country code first, as if you were dialing from a cell-phone
      in another country (e.g. +1-631-344-8168)
   2. Your Skype ID (if you have one)
   3. The email address you use for Google Hangouts (if you use Google Hangouts)

Contact Information

During the meeting the best contact for participants in need of guidance or for external people trying to locate a meeting participant is Jean Smiles, NSLS-II Photon Science Division, work +1-631-344-4696, cell +1-631-404-8938

Maps

• Site Map
• Hampton Inn to Building 463B (Biology)
• Hampton Inn to Building 745 (NSLS-II)
• Building 745 (NSLS-II) to Perabell (Thursday working dinner)
• Perabell to Hampton Inn
• Building 745 (NSLS-II) to La Margherita (Friday working dinner)
• La Margherita to Hampton Inn

Participants

The participants in the May meeting were: