U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Education in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology

University of New Mexico (2014)

USPAS sponsored by the University of New Mexico
held in Albuquerque, NM
June 16-27, 2014

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June 16-27, 2014 two-week full courses

Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology with Simulations and Measurements Lab (undergrad level)
William Barletta, MIT/USPAS; Amber Johnson, Fermilab; John Byrd and Fernando Sannibale, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Accelerator Physics Using Maple
Uli Wienands and Eduardo Marin Lacoma, SLAC National Accelerator Lab

High-Intensity RF Linear Accelerators
Yuri Batygin, Los Alamos National Lab; Peter Ostroumov, Argonne National Lab and Amichay Perry, Illinois Institute of Technology

Microwave Sources
Bruce Carlsten and Steve Russell, Los Alamos National Lab; Kim Nichols, University of New Mexico

June 16-20, 2014 one-week half courses

Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma – Synergy and Bridges
Andrei A. Seryi, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford, Imperial College London and Royal Holloway University of London, UK

MATLAB for Physics
Dan Green, Fermilab

RF Linac for High-Gain FEL
Dinh Nguyen, John Lewellen and Leanne Duffy, Los Alamos National Lab

June 23-27, 2014 one-week half courses

Beam by Design: Advanced Manipulation of Relativistic Electrons with Lasers
Gennady Stupakov and Erik Hemsing, SLAC National Accelerator Lab

EPICS Control Systems
Andrew Johnson, Argonne National Lab; Eric Norum, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Kay Kasemir, Oak Ridge National Lab

Medical Accelerators
Bruce Faddegon and Jose Ramos Mendez, UC San Francisco; David Robin, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Lucas Brouwer, UC Berkeley

The Physics of Free Electron Lasers
Dinh Nguyen and Quinn R. Marksteiner, Los Alamos National Lab