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.

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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
  

  
  

  Half course August 4-6
  

  Concepts of Accelerator Science and Technology

  
  

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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
  Accelerator Physics
  Microwave Measurements and Beam Instrumentation Lab
  Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics
  
  

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• 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
  Photocathode Physics
  Cryogenic Process Engineering
  

  
  

  Half courses August 4-8, 2025
  

  Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
  High Brightness Electron Injectors and Applications
  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
  Photocathode Physics
  Cryogenic Process Engineering
  
  

  
  

  Half courses August 4 - 8, 2025
  

  Particle Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
  High Brightness Electron Injectors and Applications
  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.

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  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)

Currently-enrolled university and college students as well as postdocs within 5 years of graduation may request financial support. To be considered for any of these merit-based awards you must check the relevant application form boxes and submit supporting documents including: a cover letter explaining why the USPAS is important to your career and describing prior research experience, work with or as a user of particle accelerators; your CV/resume; one letter of recommendation.

If you submitted these documents for the winter 2025 or summer 2024 sessions you do not need to resubmit them for this application. We retain supporting documents for one year.

Students receiving any scholarship are expected to fully participate in all aspects of the course and must take their course for a grade/credit. Students receiving housing support must share their hotel room with another student. Scholarships are open to both U.S. and non-U.S. residents. Consideration will be given to balancing class sizes. Applications in multiple scholarship categories are possible and prior awards do not preclude receiving support again.

Scholarship requests and supporting documents are due April 15, 2025. This deadline will be strictly enforced. Please email your supporting documents to uspas@fnal.gov

1. USPAS Scholarship*

Covers the registration fee (includes 2 meals per day) or shared housing or both. This award does not cover travel.

Registration fee requested
Shared hotel room, half-board & registration fee requested
No financial support requested

Students who request a USPAS scholarship to cover their "Shared hotel room, half board; registration fee" will automatically be considered for one of two enhanced scholarships:

• Mel Month Scholarship for Accelerator Science and Engineering

  Covers the registration fee (includes 2 meals per day), lunch per diem, shared housing and most travel expenses. The Mel Month Scholarship supports the study of Accelerator Science and Engineering (AS&E). Eligible scholarship recipients are actively-enrolled Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) students. A maximum of two scholarships will be awarded at each USPAS session. This scholarship is available to foreign and domestic matriculated undergraduate and graduate students and covers the registration fee (includes 2 meals per day), lunch per diem, shared housing and most travel expenses to and from the school session. More information on the Month Scholarships can be found at https://uspas.fnal.gov/about/about-month-scholarship.shtml

• Sekazi K. Mtingwa Scholarship

  Covers the registration fee (includes 2 meals per day), lunch per diem, shared housing and most travel expenses. The Sekazi K. Mtingwa Scholarship supports the study of Accelerator Science and Engineering (AS&E). Eligible scholarship recipients are actively-enrolled Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) students. This scholarship is available to foreign and domestic matriculated undergraduate and graduate students and covers the registration fee (includes 2 meals per day), lunch per diem, shared housing and most travel expenses to and from the school session. More information on the Mtingwa Scholarships can be found at https://uspas.fnal.gov/about/about-mtingwa-scholarship.shtml
  

2. APS Division of Physics of Beams Travel Awards

Covers travel to and from the session. Reimbursable for actual expenses up to a limit.

The Division of Physics of Beams of the American Physical Society is offering a limited number of travel expense scholarships to USPAS students. Applicants must be members of the APS DPB unit (if you are not already a member you must join before requesting the award; student membership is free for the first year). The travel award amount is limited to expenses up to $750.00 with all receipts required. You can enroll for DPB membership at https://www.aps.org/membership/ and more details on eligibility and the selection criteria can be found at DPB Scholarship Details.

APS DPB travel award requested (only available to those who are members of/join the APS DPB unit)