Summer 2025 Application Form

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The USPAS collects data on race/ethnicity and gender. Disclosure is voluntary and individual responses are kept confidential. Please select what best describes you.

• Race/Ethnicity:*
  Asian Black or African American* Hispanic or Latino/a* Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander* Native American or Alaskan Native* White More Than One More Than One (including at least one underrepresented category * above) Prefer Not to Answer

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• Yes   No : I am currently enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate student. If your answer is yes, please tell us at which university you are enrolled*

• Yes   No : I have previously attended the USPAS*

• Yes   No : I am a graduate student enrolled in one of the DOE Accelerator Science & Engineering Traineeships*
  1) Michigan State University’s Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (ASET);
  2) Stony Brook University/Fermilab’s Ernest Courant Traineeship in Accelerator Science & Engineering;
  3) Illinois Institute of Technology/Northern Illinois University’s Chicagoland Accelerator Science Traineeship (CAST)
  4) Cornell University/Arizona State University/University of Chicago/UCLA's Tigner Traineeship in Accelerator Science;
  5) Old Dominion University/Norfolk State University/Hampton University Traineeship (VITA)
  
  

Please make your course selection(s):*

• *New* One-week Certificate Course (Graded pass/fail. Passing students will receive a USPAS Certificate of Achievement.)

  Half course July 28-August 1
  

  Concepts of Accelerator Science and Technology CLASS FULL
  

  
  

  Half course August 4-6
  

  Concepts of Accelerator Science and Technology CLASS FULL
  

  
  

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• One 2-week university full course (Students successfully completing a full course will earn 3 units of credit from Northern Illinois University).

  Full Courses July 28 - August 8, 2025
  
  Fundamentals of Accel Physics and Technology with Simulations and Measurements Lab CLASS FULL
  Accelerator Physics CLASS FULL
  Microwave Measurements and Beam Instrumentation Lab CLASS FULL
  Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics
  
  

• — OR —

• Two successive one-week university half courses (Students successfully completing two half courses will earn 3 units of credit from Northern Illinois University).

  Half courses July 28 - August 1, 2025
  

  Plasma-Based Acceleration CLASS FULL
  Photocathode Physics CLASS FULL
  Cryogenic Process Engineering CLASS FULL
  

  
  

  Half courses August 4-8, 2025
  

  Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
  High Brightness Electron Injectors and Applications CLASS FULL
  Superconducting Materials for High-Energy Physics
  
  

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• A single one-week half course only (Students attending only one half course are not eligible to enroll for university credit. They can, however, ask to have their homework and exams graded and will be informed of their rating when the school is over.)

  Half courses July 28 - August 1, 2025
  

  Plasma-Based Acceleration CLASS FULL
  Photocathode Physics CLASS FULL
  Cryogenic Process Engineering CLASS FULL
  
  

  
  

  Half courses August 4 - 8, 2025
  

  Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
  High Brightness Electron Injectors and Applications CLASS FULL
  Superconducting Materials for High-Energy Physics
  
  

Class sizes are limited. Priority will be given to those who ask to have their performance graded, who enroll for credit either via our academic host university or through their home university if USPAS courses are directly co-listed (i.e. Indiana University, MIT, MSU, etc) or are available at their home university via Special Topics courses. Auditors will be admitted on a space-available basis only after those seeking credit and/or a grade.

International participants not currently in the U.S. may participate but they cannot earn host university credit. They may ask that their performance be graded and when the session is over the USPAS will provide a letter confirming participation and rating earned.

• Credit / Audit Status:*
  Certificate course (only available for the Concepts class) Enrolling for university credit and/or enrolling for a grade International student living outside the USA whose performance will be graded Audit (not available for the Concepts course)

We are no longer accepting scholarship requests for this session.