ROCK-IT Bluesky Workshop

5 Nov 2025, 08:30 → 7 Nov 2025, 23:00 Europe/Berlin

DESY

The ROCK-IT project (https://www.rock-it-project.de/) is holding a three day Bluesky Workshop at DESY for purposes of training and knowledge sharing within the controls community this November. We are extending an open invitation to the entirety of the scientific controls community regardless of preferred control system or experience with Bluesky.

 

The ROCK-IT project is a Helmholtz funded project that aims to develop all the necessary tools for automation and remote access of in-situ and operando experiments while producing FAIR data. The project has identified Bluesky and its community tools as an excellent framework for accomplishing its goals. We hope that this workshop will create opportunities to share community knowledge and collaborate on shared solutions to solve community problems.

 

Planned sessions include:

- Bridging Bluesky tools into the Bluesky ecosystem (and vice-versa)

- Bluesky and Ophyd(-Async) tutorial sessions

- Tool specific sessions (eg. Bluesky Queueserver)

- Poster sessions

- Presentations from attendees and ROCK-IT representatives

- Breakout sessions to discuss new ideas and points of connection

Wednesday 5 November

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome

09:00 → 10:30 Community Talks

10:30 → 11:00 Poster Session

11:00 → 12:30 Community Talks

12:30 → 13:30 Catered Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Tutorials: Bluesky and Ophyd(-Async)

Online tutorials on using Bluesky and Ophyd(-Async). You only require a laptop with a modern web browser.

13:30 → 15:00 Working Groups

We will decide on and break into working groups to collaborate on Bluesky and related tools/processes.

15:00 → 15:30 Poster Session

15:30 → 17:00 LEAPS Experiment control SIG strategy discussion

15:30 → 17:00 Working Groups

We will decide on and break into working groups to collaborate on Bluesky and related tools/processes.

Thursday 6 November

09:00 → 10:30 Community Talks

10:30 → 11:00 Poster Session: Post Session

11:00 → 12:30 Community Talks

12:30 → 13:30 Catered Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Tutorials: Queueserver and serialization

Online tutorials on using Bluesky and Ophyd(-Async). You only require a laptop with a modern web browser.

13:30 → 15:00 Working Groups

We will decide on and break into working groups to collaborate on Bluesky and related tools/processes.

15:00 → 15:30 Poster Session

15:30 → 17:00 Working Groups

We will decide on and break into working groups to collaborate on Bluesky and related tools/processes.

18:00 → 19:00 Workshop Dinner

Friday 7 November

09:00 → 10:30 Community Talks: Working Group presentations

10:30 → 11:00 Poster Session

11:00 → 12:00 Community Talks: Closing discussion

13:00 → 16:00 DESY Tour

1. Building #1 / DESY in miniature
2. HERA
3. FLASH
4. CSSB (Structural Biology)
5. Petra