Name: Mantid Developer Meeting and User Workshop
Start: 2025-11-03T08:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-06T19:35:00+00:00
Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Mantid Developer Meeting and User Workshop

from Monday, 3 November 2025 (08:30) to Thursday, 6 November 2025 (19:35)

Monday, 3 November 2025
08:30 Badging and Welcome
Badging and Welcome
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

08:30 Visitor Badging

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Overview - Sarah Foxley (STFC)

09:30 Icebreaker
10:00 Morning coffee break
Morning coffee break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Visitor Centre
10:20 Facility Updates
Facility Updates
10:20 - 12:00
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

10:20 Facility updates - Sarah Foxley (STFC)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Visitor Centre
13:00 Meta Hackathon
Meta Hackathon
13:00 - 14:45
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

13:00 Hackathon of Hackathons - Introduction - Caila Finn (STFC)

13:30 Hackathon of Hackathons - Part 1 - Caila Finn (STFC)
14:45 Afternoon coffee
Afternoon coffee
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Visitor Centre
15:15 Hackathon of Hackathons (continued). Preparation for Tuesday Code Camp.
Hackathon of Hackathons (continued). Preparation for Tuesday Code Camp.
15:15 - 16:45
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

15:15 Meta Hackathon - Part 2 - Caila Finn (STFC)

16:15 Prep for Tuesday code camp - Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Sarah Foxley (STFC)
Tuesday, 4 November 2025

08:30 Coffee and networking
Coffee and networking
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Visitor Centre
09:00 Code Camp
Code Camp
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

09:00 Recap of previous day - Sarah Foxley (STFC)

09:15 Code Camp - Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Sarah Foxley (STFC)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Visitor Centre
13:00 Updates
Updates
13:00 - 14:35
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

13:30 Autoreduction and Live Reduction using Mantid at ORNL - Marie Backman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

13:45 Texture in Mantid - Andy Bridger (STFC)

14:15 Release notes in Mantid - Gui Maciel Pereira (STFC)
14:35 Afternoon coffee
Afternoon coffee
14:35 - 15:05
Room: Visitor Centre
15:05 Updates (continued)
Updates (continued)
15:05 - 17:00
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

15:05 Unwrapping NAPI - Scott Boston (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:20 Mantid in a Browser: a greener alternative to cloud servers? - Duc Le (STFC)

15:40 Data Handling for Mantid Consuming Workflows - Michael Walsh

15:55 Dependency Management and Cybersecurity - Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:15 Modernizing Scientific Software Documentation: From Qt Assistant to QtWebEngine in Mantid - Darsh Dinger (Software Engineer at SNS (ORNL))

16:30 Beyond Conda: Pixi and the Future of Scientific Python Environment Management - Chen Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:45 Close out - Sarah Foxley (STFC)
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

08:30 Coffee and networking
Coffee and networking
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Visitor Centre
09:00 Code Camp
Code Camp
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

09:00 Recap of previous day - Sarah Foxley (STFC)

09:15 Code Camp
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Visitor Centre
13:00 Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

13:00 Lightening Talks

14:35 Exploring how LLMs could improve my work - Oleksandr Koshchii (Forschungszentrum Juelich)
14:45 Afternoon coffee
Afternoon coffee
14:45 - 15:05
Room: Visitor Centre
15:05 Lightning Talks (continued) and Close out
Lightning Talks (continued) and Close out
15:05 - 17:10
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

15:05 Coderabbit: Worth using? - Jose Borreguero Calvo (ORNL)

15:10 Discussion around using AI to develop Mantid

15:45 Lightening Talks

16:30 Close out - Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Sarah Foxley (STFC)
Thursday, 6 November 2025
10:00 Project Reports
Project Reports
10:00 - 12:15
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

10:00 Welcome - Hannah Griffin (STFC)

10:05 Introduction - Stephen Cottrell (STFC)

10:15 Mantid as a Project - Toby Perring (STFC)

10:35 Technical Working Group Report - Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:55 Discussion - Anders Markvardsen (STFC) Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Stephen Cottrell (STFC)

11:20 Future Role of the Science Working Group - Anders Markvardsen (STFC)

11:30 Thoughts about the SWG from the chair - Anna Sokolova (ACNS, ANSTO)

11:40 Future of the User Meeting - Stephen Cottrell (STFC)

11:50 Discussion (Role of SWG) - Anders Markvardsen (STFC)

12:00 Mantid Update from the ACNS - Anna Sokolova (ACNS, ANSTO)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Visitor Centre
13:30 Science Applications
Science Applications
13:30 - 14:45
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

13:30 Automation and/or Streaming of Mantid Data Treatments - Duc Le (STFC) Samuel Jones (STFC)

13:50 Mantid Update from ISIS - David Voneshen (STFC)

14:10 Texture Analysis (ISIS/PSI collaboration) - Florencia Malamud (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:25 Single Crystal Diffraction Analysis using Mantid - Pascal Manuel (STFC)

14:35 Correcting spin leakage in ToF full polarisation analysis SANS experiments - Diego Alba Venero (STFC)
14:45 Break
Break
14:45 - 15:00
Room: Visitor Centre
15:00 Science Applications (continued)
Science Applications (continued)
15:00 - 16:35
Room: Visitor Centre
Contributions

15:00 Mantid Update from the SNS - Jonathan taylor (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:20 Mantid Update from the ILL - Stephane ROLS (Institut Laue Langevin)

15:40 Mantid Update from the CSNS - Rong Du (institute of high energy physics)

16:00 Mantid Update from the MLZ - Oleksandr Koshchii (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

16:20 Closeout - Anders Markvardsen (STFC) Stephen Cottrell (STFC)