EUWAA 2026

31 Mar 2026, 18:00 → 2 Apr 2026, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

The fourth European Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (EUWAA) will take place at CERN from 31st March to 2nd April 2026.

The EUWAA workshop provides a forum for building a coordinated European approach to Accelerator, Detector, and Beamline alignment. It brings together research, industry, and the scientific community to share experience, define priorities, and explore new methods - from instrumentation and measurement to AI and workforce development - shaping the skills and capacity Europe needs for the future.

CERN safety flyer.pdf

EUWAA 2026 information sheet.pdf

EUWAA2RUN.pdf

Tuesday 31 March

18:00 → 20:00 Cheese and wine icebreaking party

Wednesday 1 April

07:00 → 07:30 EUWAA2RUN

Speaker: Patrick Bestmann (CERN)

08:00 → 08:30 Welcome coffee

08:30 → 09:20 Introduction session

08:30 Welcome from management

Speaker: Yannis Papaphilippou (CERN)

EUWAA_Introduction.pdf

EUWAA_Introduction.pptx

08:45 Introduction and round table

Speaker: Helene Mainaud Durand (CERN)

EUWAA 2026_Intro-1_final.pdf

EUWAA 2026_Intro-1_final.pptx

09:00 Outcome of last EUWAA and organization of this one

Speakers: David Martin (ESRF), Helene Mainaud Durand (CERN)

EUWAA_2026_outcome_final.pdf

EUWAA_2026_outcome_final.pptx

09:20 → 12:20 Actions from last EUWAA

09:20 LGC Open Source: status and next steps

Speakers: Francis Klumb (CERN), Guillaume Kautzmann (CERN)

20260401_LGC_EUWAA.pptx.pdf

20260401_LGC_EUWAA.pptx.pptx

09:50 Software inter-comparison

Speaker: Youen Delalande (Synchrotron Soleil)

EUWAA 2026 - Software intercomparison - Delalande v2.pptx

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 Outreach, KT, recruitment

Speakers: Camille Vendeuvre (CERN), Cristina Gonzalez Torres (ESRF)

20260401_EUWAA_outreach_KT_recruitment.pdf

20260401_EUWAA_outreach_KT_recruitment.pptx

11:20 Establishment of measurement uncertainty (glossary, best practice guide & common approaches)

Speakers: David Martin (ESRF), Sébastien Ducourtieux (Synchrotron Soleil)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch in Restaurant 2, building 504

13:45 → 15:45 Inter-lab comparison (ILC)

13:45 Introduction to the Inter-Lab Comparison

Objectives,organization,specificities, scientific paper in preparation

Speaker: Patrick Bestmann (CERN)

EUWAA_2026_ILC Introduction.pdf

EUWAA_2026_ILC Introduction.pptx

14:00 Analysis and preliminary results

Speakers: David Jourdain (Synchrotron Soleil), Gilles Gatta (ESRF)

EUWAA_2026 - Intercomparison - 01-04-2026.pdf

EUWAA_2026 - Intercomparison - 01-04-2026.pptx

14:30 Discussion and next steps

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 17:15 Parallel brainstorming sessions

16:15 [Instruments & methods]: ATS800: applications and feedback

Speaker: Tomasz Zawierucha (ESS EIRC)

EUWAA2026_ATS800_CERN.pdf

EUWAA2026_ATS800_CERN.pptx

16:15 [R&D]: How to deal with refraction?

Speakers: David Martin, Stephen Kyle (University College London)

2026-04-EUWAA Refraction_2.0.pdf

2026-04-EUWAA Refraction_2.0.pptx

UCL Luminar 2016 - EUWAA 2016.pdf

UCL Luminar 2016 - EUWAA 2016.pptx

16:15 [Workforce]: Working with a service contract (invitation to tender, documentation, software, training, etc.)

Speakers: Mr Jean-Frederic Fuchs (CERN), Markus Schloesser

2026-04-01_EUWAA-CONTRACT_ALL.pdf

2026-04-01_EUWAA-CONTRACT_ALL.pptx

17:15 → 18:00 Summary from brainstorming sessions and discussions

18:30 → 19:00 Transport to Bois Joly Restaurant, Crozet

19:00 → 21:00 Networking dinner: Bois Joly Restaurant, Crozet

Thursday 2 April

08:00 → 08:30 Welcome coffee

08:30 → 10:30 Parallel brainstorming sessions

08:30 [Instruments]: Calibration, check and testing of instruments & equipment: best practices, frequencies, how to deal with ISO recommendations?

Speakers: Dirk Mergelkuhl (CERN), Torsten Miertsch (GSI)

EUWAA_2026_CCT_v1.pdf

EUWAA_2026_CCT_v1.pptx

08:30 [R&D]: How to develop and qualify alignment systems? Challenges of supporting systems and initial assembly of components on girders.

Speakers: Marta Llonch Burgos (ALBA Synchrotron Light Source), Sébastien Ducourtieux (Synchrotron Soleil)

08:30 [Workforce]: How to recruit the best person for the job? How to involve universities and engineering schools? How to perform KT and training? How to keep the motivation?

Speakers: Camille Vendeuvre (CERN), Cristina Gonzalez Torres (ESRF)

20260402_Brainstorming_KT_Outreach.pdf

20260402_Brainstorming_KT_Outreach.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break and group photo

11:00 → 12:15 Summary from brainstorming sessions and discussions

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch in Restaurant 2, building 504

13:30 → 14:45 Preliminary ILC analysis: feedback on procedures and instruments

14:45 → 15:30 Digital metrological twins

14:45 Digital-Metrological Twins in Dimensional Metrology

Speaker: Daniel Heisselmann (PTB)

15:10 From laser scanning to digital twins: research activities of the TRIO group - INSA Strasbourg

Speaker: Tania Landes (INSA)

EUWAA_2026_LANDES_Trio_def.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Summary

EUWAA_2026_summary.pdf

EUWAA_2026_summary.pptx