Liverpool and Seville team up for oPAC’s grand finale
As the oPAC project comes to an end, the network’s coordination team at University of Liverpool and the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) are preparing its grand finale in the form of an International Conference on Accelerator Optimization. The conference will take place from 7 to 9 October 2015 in Seville, at the facilities of the CNA.
Confirmed invited speakers include Dr. Oliver Brüning (Head of accelerators and beam physics group at CERN), Prof. Dr. Oliver Kester (Director of the Facility of Antiproton and Ion Research at GSI), Mr. Yves Jongen (founder and chief research officer of IBA Group), and Prof. Carlo Bocchetta (Project leader at the Polish Light Source – Solaris). The conference will offer the opportunity to present contributed talks and posters to all the accelerator science community. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, beam dynamics, beam diagnostics, simulation tools, and control and data acquisition systems. The conference will also promote the research outcomes from oPAC, fostering further collaborations between oPAC partners and participating scientists from outside the network. The proceedings will be published in a special edition of Physical Review STAB, giving the fellows an excellent opportunity to disseminate their work.
Registration for the conference is now open and the deadline for submission of abstracts is the 31st of July. The fee of €600 includes hotel accommodation with breakfast, conference documentation, lunches during the event, a cocktail reception, the conference tour and formal dinner, as well as daily transport from the hotel to CNA. Instructions for registration and further information about the event can be found on the conference indico page. The oPAC network is much obliged to CNA and Prof. Joaquín Gómez Camacho for hosting the conference.
