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APAC 2007

APAC 2007. By Anil Rawat Computer Centre Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore INDIA Email: rawat@cat.ernet.in. Asian Particle Accelerator Conference – 2007. BARC (Bhaba Atomic Research Centre), India VECC (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre), India

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APAC 2007

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  1. APAC 2007 By Anil Rawat Computer Centre Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore INDIA Email: rawat@cat.ernet.in

  2. Asian Particle Accelerator Conference – 2007 • BARC (Bhaba Atomic Research Centre), India • VECC (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre), India • DST (Department of Science Technology), India • TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Centre), India • ACFA (Asian committee for Future Accelerator) • IUAC (Inter University Accelerator Centre), India APAC 2007 was held at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, INDIA from January 29 to February 2, 2007. RRCAT is a unit of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, engaged in R & D in non-nuclear front line research areas of Lasers, Particle Accelerators & related technologies.  URL for APAC 2007 is http://apac07.cat.ernet.in/ Supporting Institutes of APAC 2007

  3. Statistics of Papers received • Total Abstracts created – 547 • Papers accepted by Scientific Programme Committee – 460 • Papers edited by editorial team - 260 • Initial QA failed papers – 19 • Final QA passed papers – 254 • Invited Orals and Posters not yet submitted - 16 • Papers dropped – 6 • Among final QA passed papers • Invited Orals – 45 • Contributed Orals – 17 • Posters – 192

  4. Paper processing • 30% papers were having green dot. • 57% papers were having yellow dot (which were edited by editorial team for paper processing) • 13% papers were having red dot. • Paper contributions (*.doc, .tex source files) were on different OS Platforms like Intel PC, Macintosh, Linux and Unix. Platform distribution for 254 papers is as follows- • Intel PC – 234 • Macintosh – 11 • Linux – 8 • Unix – 1

  5. Statistics of Registered participants • Total 341 participants were registered and attended the conference for APAC 2007. Participants were from various parts of the world - • Asia – 248 • Australia – 02 • Europe – 58 • Middle East – 02 • North America – 30 • South America – 01

  6. Editorial Team for APAC 2007 • John Poole, CERN, Geneva • Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz, CERN, Geneva • Ivan Andrian, Electra, Italy • Akihiro Shirakawa, KEK, Japan • Hirokazu Tanaka, KEK, Japan • Sei-Jin Kwon, Pohang, Chaina • Anil Rawat, RRCAT, India • Alpana Rajan, RRCAT, India • Umesh Sharma, RRCAT, India • Diptikant Pathy, RRCAT, India • S. Raghvendra, RRCAT, India • Prashant Limaye, RRCAT, India Six members from the above list did the editorial work for the first time. The training provided by John and Christine was very useful to train the new editors.

  7. Problem faced by Editorial Team • A4 size paper printed on US size paper (1.79%): page setup was not as per JACoW format. • Font Problems (5.56%): Font size used in paper and authors list were not as per JACoW format. • Formatting problems (40.78%): • Few papers were in single column format. Editors corrected them to two column format with proper column width. • Spacing in between paragraphs was not uniform. • Paragraph indentation was not proper in many papers. • Figure caption problem was very common. E.g. in place of ‘Figure’ many authors had written ‘Fig.’. Many times Editors made indentation proper. Sometimes it was not possible to change figure caption, so they were left as written by authors. • References section was not properly indented. Editors of APAC 2007 came across following problems while processing papers-

  8. Problem faced by Editorial Team Contd… • No postscripts files – 25.99%: Author did not upload PS files of contributed paper. Editors need to make PS from source file and then pdf file. It made paper processing, time consuming for editors. This also increased number of papers with yellow dots. • Slow graphics problem - 1.79%: Display of image was slow while processing papers. • Other miscellaneous problems – 20.44%: Number of pages for contributions was not as per limit. Invited papers were allowed to have maximum 5 pages and other papers were allowed maximum 3 pages. • Unusable files- 3.57%: Paper files uploaded by author were found corrupted – authors were asked to re-upload the files. Editors of APAC 2007 came across following problems while processing papers-

  9. Glimpses from APAC 2007 Editorial Team Where is John?

  10. Glimpses from APAC 2007 Contd… Paper Reception Desk Everyone is smiling?

  11. Thank You !

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