OMA at IPAC19
The world’s largest conference on particle accelerators (IPAC’19) took place this year in the Australian city of Melbourne, from 19 to 24 of May. Over 1,000 delegates from five continents gathered in the Melbourne Exhibition Centre to hear about the latest advances in accelerator science through and intense programme of talks and poster sessions together with an industry exhibition.
There were several contributions from OMA Fellows to the scientific programme. This included posters by Ewa Oponowicz, Jacinta Yap, Navrit Bal and Sudharsan Srinivasan about with their latest research results.
Project Coordinator Prof Carsten Welsch presented a poster about research progress made in the network, as well as the various training events that have been held since project start.
A dedicated industry stand showcased the OMA project along with the many projects coordinated or participated by the University of Liverpool: AVA, LIV.DAT, EuPRAXIA and EuroCirCol, as well as the spin-out company D-Beam, specialized in advanced beam diagnostics.
The stand was also the platform to launch the 2nd issue of the OMA brochure which was distributed to conference participants from all over the world, showcasing Fellows’ progress made and giving an overview of the many events and activities the network has already organized.
All contributions to IPAC can be found at http://www.ipac19.org.