Northern Illinois University (2025)

USPAS sponsored by Northern Illinois University
held in Rohnert Park, CA
July 28-August 8, 2025

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Certificate Course:

July 28 - August 1, 2025 or August 4 - 8, 2025

• Concepts of Accelerator Science and Technology
  Instructors: Elvin Harms, Nusano, Inc; Nicole Neveu, SLAC
  July 28 - August 1
  Instructors: Nicole Neveu, Sebastian Aderhold, Paris Franz and Jane Shtalenkova, SLAC
  August 4 - 8

University Credit Courses:

July 28 - August 8, 2025 two-week full courses:

• Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology with Simulations and Measurements Lab (undergrad level)
  Instructors: Pavel Snopok, IIT; Xueying Lu, Northern Illinois University; Amber Johnson, University of Maryland; Vasiliy Morozov, Oak Ridge National Lab; Yagmur Torun, IIT
  TAs: Cannon Coats, Texas A&M University and Logan Knudson, UC Davis


• Accelerator Physics
  Instructors: Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Cornell University and Brookhaven National Lab; David Sagan, Cornell University
  TAs: Joseph Devlin and Matthew Signorelli, Cornell University
  
  
• Microwave Measurements and Beam Instrumentation Laboratory
  Instructors: Gang Huang, Tianhuan Luo, Shree Subhasish Basak, Shreeharshini Dharanesh Murthy, Yilun Xu and Lawrence Doolittle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
  
• Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics
  Instructors: Xiaobiao Huang, SLAC; Jeffrey Eldred, Fermilab (remote); Yongjun Li, Brookhaven National Lab; Steve Lund, Michigan State University/USPAS
  TA: Yi-Kai Kan, Brookhaven National Lab
  

July 28 - August 1, 2025 one-week half courses

• Plasma-Based Acceleration
  Instructors: Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, Stony Brook University; Alec Thomas, University of Michigan (remote); Warren Mori, UCLA (remote)
  TAs: Claire Hansel, University of Colorado Boulder and Xuan Zhang, Stony Brook University


• Photocathode Physics
  Instructors: Jared Maxson, Cornell University; Sid Karkare, Arizona State University
  TA: Alimohammed Kachwala, Jefferson Lab
  
  
• Cryogenic Process Engineering
  Instructors: Nusair Hasan, Michigan State University/FRIB; Peter Knudsen, Lab for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland; Jonathon Howard, Michigan State University/FRIB
  
  

August 4 - 8, 2025 one-week half courses

• Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
  Instructors: Mike Litos, University of Colorado and Spencer Gessner, SLAC
  TAs: Claire Hansel, University of Colorado Boulder and River Robles, Stanford University
  
  
• High Brightness Electron Injectors and Applications
  Instructors: Pietro Musumeci, UCLA and Daniele Filippetto
  TAs: Paul Denham and Brian Schaap, UCLA
  
  
• Superconducting Materials for High-Energy Physics
  Instructor: Lance Cooley, Florida State University and Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Lab
  TA: John Rogers, Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Lab