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

Northern Illinois University (2017)

USPAS sponsored by Northern Illinois University
held in Lisle, IL
June 12-23, 2017

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June 12-23, 2017 two-week full courses

Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology with Simulations and Measurements Lab (undergraduate level)
William Barletta, USPAS/MIT, Linda Spentzouris, IIT; Elvin Harms, Fermilab; Amber Johnson, University of Maryland

Accelerator Physics
Xiaobiao Huang, SLAC National Accelerator Lab; Xiaoying Pang and Sergey Kurennoy, Los Alamos National Lab

Measurement and Control of Charged Particle Beams
Michiko Minty, Brookhaven National Lab and Frank Zimmermann, CERN

Beam Physics with Intense Space Charge 
Steve Lund, Michigan State University and John Barnard, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

RF Superconductivity for Particle Accelerators
Sergey Belomestnykh and Alexander Romanenko, Fermilab

June 12-16, 2017 one-week half courses

Accelerator Power Electronics Engineering
Paul Bellomo and Jim Sebek, SLAC National Accelerator Lab

Diffraction Limited Storage Rings
Yunhai Cai, SLAC National Accelerator Lab

Vibrational Aspects of Accelerators
Michael McGee, Warren Schappert and Jeremiah Holzbauer, Fermilab

June 19-23, 2017 one-week half courses

Pulsed Power Engineering
Craig Burkhart, Mark Kemp and James Sebek, SLAC National Accelerator Lab

Injection and Extraction of Beams
Uli Wienands, Argonne National Lab and Edu Marin-Lacoma, CERN

Engineering for Particle Accelerators
Vyacheslav Yakovlev, Thomas Nicol, Timergali Khabiboulline and Vladimir Kashikhin, Fermilab