5th and Final I.FAST Annual Meeting

from Tuesday, October 21, 2025 (12:00 PM) to Wednesday, October 22, 2025 (4:00 PM)
CERN (80/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 21, 2025
Oct 22, 2025
AM
8:30 AM Doors opening  
9:00 AM
Plenary Session 3 - Jose Manuel Perez-Morales (CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM European Strategy: large collider proposals - Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))  
9:30 AM Outlook of the Innovation Fund projects - Dr Luca Garolfi (TERA Foundation / CERN)  
9:50 AM Final Results of the Longitudinally Variable Dipole - Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
10:10 AM The Additive manufactured RFQ prototype: results and perspectives - Tobia Romano (Politecnico di Milano, Riga Technical University)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary Session 4 - Thomas Shea (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Results and experience with the CompactLight Prototype structures - Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra Trieste)  
11:20 AM The CBI legacy - Dr Nicolas Delerue (CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay)  
11:30 AM The HEPTO prototype: final results and outlook - Mr Ben Shepherd  
11:50 AM Ongoing upgrades and outlook on ultra-low emittance rings - Riccardo Bartolini (DESY)  
12:10 PM The I.FAST progress in beam windows and materials (ZOOM) - Marilena Tatiana Tomut (GSI Helmholtzzentrum Darmstadt, WWU Münster)  
PM
12:00 PM Registration  
2:00 PM
Plenary Session 1 -Dr Toms Torims (CERN) (until 3:45 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome Adress - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
2:10 PM Introduction by the Project Coordinator - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)  
2:25 PM Deliverables and Milestones status - Luigi Giuseppe Celona (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (IT))  
2:35 PM Training initiatives: outcome and perspectives, impact on Accelerator Communication and Outreach - Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))  
2:55 PM Industry Collaboration: the I.FAST legacy - Mauro Morandin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
3:15 PM Novel particle accelerators - progress in the last 4 years - Dr Riccardo Pompili  
3:30 PM Lasers for Plasma Accelerators - outcomes and results (ZOOM) - Dr Leonida Antonio (Leo) Gizzi (CNR, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa, Italy)  
3:45 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:15 PM
Plenary Session 2 - Jens Stadlmann (until 6:05 PM)
4:15 PM Progress of the International Muon Collider Collaboration - Nadia Pastrone (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
4:30 PM Progress at the Accelerator frontier (ZOOM) - Frank Zimmermann (CERN) Giuliano Franchetti  
4:45 PM The I.FAST superconduting magnet prototypes - Ernesto De Matteis (INFN Milano - LASA)  
5:05 PM Superconducting thin films: impact and legacy of I.FAST - Dr Oleg Malyshev (UKRI/STFC Daresbury Laboratory)  
5:25 PM Additive manufacturing in the accelerator community: where are we - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))  
5:45 PM Progress on sustainability - Denise Voelker  
7:30 PM --- Dinner at Café Papon ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Closing Session - Mike Seidel (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM CERN Programmes - Giovanna Vandoni (CERN)  
2:30 PM The EPITA proposal, a new instrument for the accelerator community - Dr Toms Torims (CERN)  
2:50 PM TIARA and future EC Calls for accelerators - Jose Manuel Perez-Morales (CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas) Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)  
3:10 PM I.FAST Financial outlook - Cloe Levointurier-Vajda (CERN)  
3:25 PM Presentation by the SAC: impact of I.FAST on accelerator technologies - Akira Yamamoto (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) Prof. Akira Yamamoto (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
3:45 PM Concluding remarks - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)