Online Summer 2022 USPAS Session

Session Details:

Due to pandemic-induced travel restrictions for some instructors and students, we are moving our school online again. To accommodate the constraints of online learning, we are shortening the lecture hours per day to about half and doubling the number of days of our usual sessions. Full courses that were 2-weeks in duration at in-person sessions are now 4-weeks. Half courses that were 1-week in duration at in-person sessions are now 2-weeks. Courses will be conducted via Zoom videoconference software. Lectures will start at 10:00 am CDT in a first “morning” session of approximately 2 hours, followed by a "lunch" break and an “afternoon” session. The duration and timing of these will be variable. But students should expect a 5-hour daily window starting at 10:00 am CDT to be filled by lectures, recitations, online labs, and the break. Instructors will schedule additional evening homework sessions with instructor, teaching assistant and grader help available to students. Specific class schedules and further details will be provided to enrolled students as we move forward.

Please note: the online format is intensive. Students should plan on 4+ hours per day of Zoom-based lectures, recitations, labs and homework help sessions plus additional time to study and carry out daily homework, project activities, and exams. Those planning concurrent work and study activities with the session should evaluate loads carefully.

Since most class lectures and labs as well as plenary school functions will be recorded, all participants will be asked to sign a "Consent to Be Recorded" waiver.

Class sizes are limited. Priority will be given to those who enroll for a grade/credit and auditors will be considered for admission on a space-available basis. We anticipate videos of most courses will be posted and those wishing to informally audit can do so after the session. Those unwilling or unable to enroll for credit (including international students not currently enrolled in a U.S. university) will be accepted on a case-by-case basis.

Participation is open to both U.S. and non-U.S. residents. International participants not currently residing in the U.S. may apply to attend the program and may request a scholarship but they may not earn credit from Michigan State University. They may ask that their performance be rated and when the session is over the USPAS will provide a letter confirming participation and rating.

University and college students and postdocs within 5 years of graduation may request a scholarship. Students receiving a scholarship are expected to take their course for a grade / credit. Scholarships will be awarded without regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin. Consideration will be given to balancing class sizes. To encourage the participation of identities historically underrepresented in Accelerator Science and Engineering, we offer the Sekazi K. Mtingwa Scholarship. All scholarship requests and supporting documents must be received by April 20, 2022. Supporting documents are only required from students who request a scholarship.

University Sponsor: Michigan State University
Location & Dates: ONLINE June 6 - July 1, 2022	Deadline Dates: Scholarship applications & supporting docs: April 20, 2022 Non-scholarship applications: April 20, 2022

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Courses run in parallel so students may take one full course OR two half courses OR one half course. Students may not take all of the courses simultaneously. Students must attend all 4 weeks of the USPAS to be eligible for MSU credit; credit will not be awarded for attending one 2-week half course.

Full Courses: Students successfully completing one 4-week full course are eligible for 3 units of credit from Michigan State University.

June 6 - July 1, 2022

• Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology with Simulations and Measurements Lab (undergrad level)
  Instructors: Pavel Snopok, Onur Gilanliogullari and Sarah Weatherly, Illinois Institute of Technology; Diktys Stratakis and Elvin Harms, FNAL; Xueying Lu, NIU and Argonne National Lab; Kiersten Ruisard, Fanglei Lin and Vasiliy Morozov, Oak Ridge National Lab; Brian Beaudoin and Amber Johnson, University of Maryland; Nicole Neveu, SLAC
  This class is full. Please contact the USPAS to have your name added to the waiting list.
  


• Accelerator Physics
  Instructors: Yue Hao, Michigan State University; Yichao Jing, Brookhaven National Lab and Stony Brook University; Tianhuan Luo, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  This class is limited to 30 students
  
  
• RF Superconductivity for Particle Accelerators
  Instructors: Sergey Belomestnykh and Sam Posen, Fermilab; Irina Petrushina, Stony Brook University; Silvia Verdu Andres, Brookhaven National Lab
  This class is limited to 20 students
  
  
• Beam Physics with Intense Space Charge
  Instructors: Steven Lund, Michigan State University and USPAS; John Barnard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Arun Persaud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel Winklehner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  This class is limited to 20 students
  
  
• Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers for Bright X-Rays
  Instructors: Ryan Lindberg, Argonne National Lab; Kwang-Je Kim, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab; Zhirong Huang, SLAC National Accelerator Lab
  This class is limited to 20 students
  
  

Half Courses: Students successfully completing two 2-week half courses are eligible for 3 units of credit from Michigan State University. Credit will not be awarded for taking only one 2-week half course.

June 6 - 17, 2022

• Plasma-Based Acceleration
  Instructors: Alec Thomas and Qian Qian, University of Michigan; Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi and Jiayang Yan, Stony Brook University; Warren Mori, UCLA
  
This class is limited to 20 students


• Cryogenic Process Engineering
  Instructors: Pete Knudsen and Nusair Hasan, Michigan State University/FRIB
  This class is full. Please contact the USPAS to have your name added to the waiting list.
  
  

June 20 - July 1, 2022

• Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
  Instructors: Michael Litos, University of Colorado; Spencer Gessner, SLAC
  
This class is limited to 20 students


• Superconducting Accelerator Magnets
  Instructors: Paolo Ferracin and Maxim Marchevsky, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Ezio Todesco, CERN
  This class is limited to 20 students

Deadline for scholarship applications & supporting documents: April 20, 2022. Please email your supporting documents to uspas@fnal.gov

Deadline for non-scholarship applications: April 20, 2022. Supporting documents are not required.