International Conference on Accelerator Optimization

from Tuesday 6 October 2015 (20:00) to Friday 9 October 2015 (14:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Oct 2015
7 Oct 2015
8 Oct 2015
9 Oct 2015
AM
09:10 Welcome - Admin & logistics - Prof. Joaquin Gomez Camacho (Universidad de Sevilla)  
09:20 oPAC - Prof. Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)  
09:30 Session 1. Invited talk: LHC and upgrades - Dr Oliver Bruning (CERN)  
10:00 Optics studies in the CERN PS Booster - Dr Meghan McAteer (CERN)  
10:20 Study of the single-bunch instabilities in the LHC - Daria Astapovych (CERN)  
10:40 Tracking studies for the upgrades of the large hadron collider - Emilia Cruz Alaniz (University of Liverpool)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 The LHC Collimation System Optimization - Dr Hector Garcia Morales (Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL))  
11:50 Cryogenic Beam Loss Monitors for the Superconducting Magnets of the LHC - Marcin Ryszard Bartosik (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
09:00 Session 3. Invited talk: Solaris - The Polish Light Source - a new generation of high brightness storage rings - Dr Wawrzyniak Adriana (Solaris)  
09:30 Linear optics characterization from turn-by-turn measurements at the Alba storage ring - michele carla' (cells-alba)  
09:50 Storage Ring Performance Improvement Based on Genetic Algorithms - xavier nuel gavaldà  
10:10 Development and applications of the Time Correlated Single Photon Counting at ALBA - Laura Torino (ALBA CELLS)  
10:30 Diagnostics and feedback requirements for the new Low-Emittance Ring of the ESRF - Dr Bertus Kees Sheidt (ESRF, France)  
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Session 4. Invited talk: Accelerator applications at IBA - Dr Eric Forton (IBA - Ion Beam Applications)  
09:00 Session 5. Invited talk: Next generation detector technologies - Dr Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY)  
09:30 TANGO control system for electrostatic accelerators - Dr Victor Joco  
09:50 Device Control Database Tool (DCDB) - Mr Pavel Maslov (Cosylab)  
10:10 High Performance Tool For Coupled Linac Design - Dr Marco Panniello (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
10:30 The GPU based Particle-in-Cell Solver - Martina Sofranac (CST)  
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Characterization of the optical performance of high resolution electron beam imaging systems - Dr Ralph Fiorito (Cockcroft Institute)  
11:50 Non-invasive profile monitors for energy-frontier machines - Dr Adam Jeff (University of Liverpool (GB))  
PM
20:00 --- Reception ---
12:10 Commissioning of the Prototype Stripline BPM System for the CLIC Drive Beam - Alfonso Benot Morell (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES))  
12:30 Applications of fast feedback for beam stabilisation at future electron-positron colliders - Dr Glenn Christian (University of Oxford (GB))  
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Session 2. Invited talk: Next Generation heavy ion accelerators: FAIR within the International Accelerator Road Map - Prof. Oliver Kester (GSi Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)  
14:30 A cryogenic current comparator for the low energy antiproton facilities at CERN - Miguel Filipe Abreu Fernandes (CERN)  
14:50 Development of a novel position-resolving cavity for the isochronous mass measurement in the CR@FAIR - Xiangcheng Chen (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)  
15:10 Designing ESS cold linac BLM system using heuristic optimisation algorithms - Michał Jarosz (ESS)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Poster Session (until 16:30)
16:30 The Laser Laboratory for Acceleration and Applications (L2A2) - Prof. Jose Benlliure  
16:50 Real time beam monitoring in the INFN-LNS Superconducting Cyclotron injection line - Dario Nicolosi (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
17:10 Developments and Optimisation of the University of Birmingham Cyclotron - Dr Tony Price (University of Birmingham (GB))  
17:30 Proposal for a 72.75 MHz RFQ for the LINCE Accelerator Complex - Dr Angie Orduz (University of Huelva)  
12:00 Invited talk: Progress in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry - Prof. Hans-Arno Synal (ETH Zürich)  
12:30 Best perfromance and optimization of a linear injector - Dr Liviu Penescu  
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Scientific Photography Awards, sponsored by Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum (until 14:10)
14:10 Proton beam optimization for dosimetry studies with radiochromic films and ionization chambers at the 3 MV tandem accelerator of CNA - Maria Cristina Battaglia (Centro Nacional de Aceleradores)  
14:30 Study of heavy ion implanatation into dielectric matrices - Salvatore Bruschetta  
14:50 Recent developments of the 1MV AMS facility at CNA - Grazia Scognamiglio (Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, Seville)  
15:10 Preliminary beam profile studies for optimization of the CNA irradiation lines - Dr Yolanda Morilla (CNA (US-CSIC-JA))  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Poster Session (until 16:30)
16:30 A versatile neutron monitor - Pavel Kavrigin (Vienna University of Technology (AT))  
16:50 Measurement of the fluorescence yield produced by a 135 to 2000 MeV proton beam at COSY - Charlotte Roose (ESS)  
17:10 Optimization of Beam Position and Phase Monitors for the IFMIF/LIPAC high current hadron linear accelerator - Dr Ivan Podadera Aliseda (CIEMAT)  
17:30 Design of cavity BPM electronics for the ELI-NP project - Manuel Cargnelutti (Instrumentation Technologies)  
19:00 Outreach Seminar: Aceleradores para medicina (in Spanish) - María Isabel Gallardo (Universidad de Sevilla)  
20:30 --- Banquet ---
12:10 Recent developments of the supersonic gas-jet beam profile monitor - Dr Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool)  
12:30 Reward-renewal model of SiPM response to arbitrary waveform optical signals of beam loss monitoring systems - Dr Sergey Vinogradov (University of Liverpool)  
12:50 Summary and Conclusion  
13:00 --- Lunch ---