ContributorCampXIV

Contributor Camp XIV Planning

Where and When

November 11-17 2025 at the Technical University of Munich

The fourteenth SasView Contributor Camp (formerly known as code camp) will be held in Garching, Germany, starting Nov 10 on the Technical University of Munich (TUM) campus and is sponsored by the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum Neutronen für Forschung und Innovation and the ESS. The full camp runs from the morning of Tuesday Nov 11 through Monday afternoon Nov 17.

Overview

The camp is in the planning stages so there are few details fleshed out below. Things will be added as they are firmed up. However, the aim is for the camp to have a serious emphasis on improving support for magnetic SANS along with the usual topics of addressing issues, training new contributors and holding discussion round tables. The emphasis however is not meant to be exclusionary: As always, folks with other interests to contribute are always welcome!

Registration

Coming soon.

Travel and Accommodations

Attendees are responsible for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence.

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Dorint Business Hotel two tram stops away from venue. Participants can either sign up here (page to be created) for the block booking at the [Dorint Business Hotel] for 139 Euro per person/night including breakfast, or book their own accommodation around. Further convenient hotel options are the Motel One Muenchen-Garching, the Hoyacker Hof or further hotels within Garching or Garching-Hochbrueck. Directly on the TUM campus is the Courtyard by Marriott Munich Garching.

It turns out this is a busy time in Munich and the hotels are filling up fast, hence we recommend booking early though, as long as there is space available in the block. Cancellations to the block booking can be made till a month before the camp.

Meals

The hotel rooms reserved in the block include a complementary breakfast. There is a restaurant on the ground floor of the ISA building and several restaurants nearby the venue for lunch though not open on the weekend in most cases. There are a variety of restaurants around the hotel area for dinner.

Getting to the hotel

From the Munich airport The most convenient connection is by train (S8 towards Herrsching) from the airport to Ismaning and further by bus (S230 towards Garching, Forschungszentrum). There are further connection possibilities that pass either Eching (train S1 towards M. Leuchtenbergring and then bus 695 towards Garching-Hochbrueck) or which pass Munich city center, which is a bit off-way.

Arriving by train From Munich main station one has to take the underground line U6 towards Garching, Forschungszentrum. However, this line does not stop at the main station but nearby stops like Odeonsplatz or Sendlinger Tor, to which a number of underground lines is connected to the main station.

Getting to and from the Venue

The venue is two train stops north of the hotel on the U6 underground line. THe Dorint Hotel is located nearby stop Garching-Hochbrueck, and the venue at Garching, Forschungszentrum (end-stop).

Venue

On the top floor of the ISA building on the campus of Technical University Munich (TUM) in Garching Germany just north of Munich proper and next to the FRM2 research center. This is an great space well suited for our type of event

WiFi

Details to come but eduroam access is expected among other things.

Participants (current list)

Participant	Affiliation	Arrival	Departure	Hotel	Notes
Paul Butler	NIST	2025-11-09	2025-11-18	Dorint (expected)	expected - no travel arrangements made yet
Annika Stellhorn	ESS	2025-11-10	2025-11-18	Dorint	expected - no travel arrangements made yet

Project board

• will be posted as the time approaches

Agenda

will be posted closer to the date but is planned to involve some contributor training sessions and breakout discussion sessions besides working directly on the SasView assets (code, documentation, tutorials, websites, etc). There is also expected to be a big push in improving the support for hard condensed matter SAS analysis, particularly magnetic SANS.