WG 2 – Detection system performance

Part of the meeting was planned to be the announcement of the results for our election of our WG2 co-chairs and representatives to the new governing bodies of QUAREP-LiMi (ERB, OB, SC). Unfortunately, we had some difficulties with the online voting platform. Therefore, we decided to do the elections via acclamation during the meeting. Results of the elections are: Co-chairs (for the next 2 years term): Gert-Jan Bakker, Valeria Berno, David McFadden, and Britta Schroth-Diez. ERB representative: David Grunwald, OB representative: Gerhard Holst. SC representative election will take place in our April meeting. The main topic of our 39th meeting was to discuss our potential contribution to the ELMI2024 community space. We agreed to do a similar workshop as we did last year, with particularly focusing on automation of the workflow and presentation of our protocols. To be able to do so, we need to finalise and ideally publish our protocols until ELMI2024 in June. To be able to do so, we formed two smaller groups to go over the protocols again until the April meeting. In addition to our protocols efforts, we aim to also finalise the joined WG2-7camera glossary project and keep working on our first paper.

In short, the main topic of this meeting was to discuss a potential collaboration with the MetrologyJ_QC group. For that, Orestis and Julien joined us as guests.

We found that both our efforts are complementary and thus can nicely be combined. The MetrologyJ_QC analysis tool focusses on calculating camera read noise, DSNU (dark signal non-uniformity), and hot and cold pixels. Our WG2 analysis tool focusses on calculating the photon-conversion factor. In addition, we as WG2 aim to combine our analysis with an easy to use (automated) acquisition protocol.

Generally, QUAREP-LiMi needs to develop a nice overarching framework for running all our quality control scripts automatically together easily in one tool. Someone needs to take the lead for this endeavour. There is already great groundwork being done, thanks to Kees, for WG1 and also for WG2.

In addition to this main topic there was the report from the last WG9 and WG7 meetings as well as a short review of the next steps to be done toward our paper.

After a short session of QUAREP-LiMi news and updates on our other running projects, we mainly focussed on our planned paper which should accompany the publishing of our protocols. We discussed main aspects, determined topics which need to be addressed and members who our responsible for working on the topics. To be able to have time to do so, we decide to skip the meeting in January 2024.

1) First we discussed some general QUAREP-LiMi news:

– report from the WG9 & co-chairs meeting on May 2nd (feedback from general meeting, QUAREP-LiMi Organigram)

2) Second we talked about the preparation of our contribution for ELMI 2023:

– presenters, preparation support team members, dates for preparation meetings, abstract was sent, date for the actual workshop, which setups will be available

3)  Third, we review the annual meeting:

– intro session: needs to be improved, idea from WG9: have meeting schemes (Spring: external & outreach, Fall: internal – update about work group progress

– our break out room: comments to follow up (advice about when a detector is OK / not OK; make protocol available)

– main panel (great) & general feedback (general goal of QUAREP needs to be made more clear)

– our survey (short look at the results, need to be looked at closer later)

4)  Mathias reported from his EMVA1288 training (will optimize and upload the slides):

– report followed by discussion about how to use the material, how to adapt it to our LiMi needs, we always use EMVA1288 as guidance

5)  Last we postponed David’s report again, to the June meeting and agreed on the next steps.