5th and Final I.FAST Annual Meeting

from Tuesday, 21 October 2025 (12:00) to Wednesday, 22 October 2025 (16:00)
CERN (80/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025
AM
08:30 Doors opening  
09:00
Plenary Session 3 - Jose Manuel Perez-Morales (CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas) (until 10:30)
09:00 European Strategy: large collider proposals - Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))  
09:30 Outlook of the Innovation Fund projects - Dr Luca Garolfi (TERA Foundation / CERN)  
09:50 Final Results of the Longitudinally Variable Dipole - Fernando Toral (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
10:10 The Additive manufactured RFQ prototype: results and perspectives - Tobia Romano (Politecnico di Milano, Riga Technical University)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary Session 4 - Thomas Shea (until 12:30)
11:00 Results and experience with the CompactLight Prototype structures - Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra Trieste)  
11:20 The CBI legacy - Dr Nicolas Delerue (CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay)  
11:30 The HEPTO prototype: final results and outlook - Mr Ben Shepherd  
11:50 Ongoing upgrades and outlook on ultra-low emittance rings - Riccardo Bartolini (DESY)  
12:10 The I.FAST progress in beam windows and materials (ZOOM) - Marilena Tatiana Tomut (GSI Helmholtzzentrum Darmstadt, WWU Münster)  
PM
12:00 Registration  
14:00
Plenary Session 1 -Dr Toms Torims (CERN) (until 15:45)
14:00 Welcome Adress - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
14:10 Introduction by the Project Coordinator - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)  
14:25 Deliverables and Milestones status - Luigi Giuseppe Celona (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (IT))  
14:35 Training initiatives: outcome and perspectives, impact on Accelerator Communication and Outreach - Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))  
14:55 Industry Collaboration: the I.FAST legacy - Mauro Morandin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
15:15 Novel particle accelerators - progress in the last 4 years - Dr Riccardo Pompili  
15:30 Lasers for Plasma Accelerators - outcomes and results (ZOOM) - Dr Leonida Antonio (Leo) Gizzi (CNR, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa, Italy)  
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15
Plenary Session 2 - Jens Stadlmann (until 18:05)
16:15 Progress of the International Muon Collider Collaboration - Nadia Pastrone (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
16:30 Progress at the Accelerator frontier (ZOOM) - Frank Zimmermann (CERN) Giuliano Franchetti  
16:45 The I.FAST superconduting magnet prototypes - Ernesto De Matteis (INFN Milano - LASA)  
17:05 Superconducting thin films: impact and legacy of I.FAST - Dr Oleg Malyshev (UKRI/STFC Daresbury Laboratory)  
17:25 Additive manufacturing in the accelerator community: where are we - Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))  
17:45 Progress on sustainability - Denise Voelker  
19:30 --- Dinner at Café Papon ---
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Closing Session - Mike Seidel (until 16:00)
14:00 CERN Programmes - Giovanna Vandoni (CERN)  
14:30 The EPITA proposal, a new instrument for the accelerator community - Dr Toms Torims (CERN)  
14:50 TIARA and future EC Calls for accelerators - Jose Manuel Perez-Morales (CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas) Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)  
15:10 I.FAST Financial outlook - Cloe Levointurier-Vajda (CERN)  
15:25 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))  
15:45 Concluding remarks - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)