Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Committee

The Particle Accelerator Science and Technology(PAST) committee is one of the technical committees of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma SciencesSociety.

Particle Accelerator Conference

PAST co-sponsors the Particle Accelerator Conference along with theAPS Division of Physics of Beams.

The Particle Accelerator Conference has been held biannually since1965.It is the principal conference in the United States devoted broadly totheScience and Technology of Particle Accelerators. The conference wascreatedunder the auspices of the IEEE. The PAST committee of NPSS continuesthattradition in cooperation with the Division of Physics of Beams of the American Physical Society. The Particle AcceleratorConference is governed by an Organizing Committee. The Bylaws of the North American PAC areavailablein this link as a pdf file.

PAC07, the 22nd ParticleAccelerator Conference, was held at theAlbuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 25-29,2007. Los Alamos National Laboratory hosted the conference withStan Schriber as Conference Chair and Bob Garnett as ScientificProgram Chair.

PAC’09 will take place 4-8 May 2009 in Vancouver, B.C. at the FairmontHotel, Vancouver, the same conference hotel as PAC 85 & PAC 97. TheConference Chair is Paul Schmor. The Program Chair is Shane Koscielniak.

PAC’11 will take place in New York City at March 28 to April 1, 2011 inNew York City’s Marriott Marquis on 46th Street and Broadway, which wasthe site of PAC’99. The Conference Chair is Bill Weng.

Proceedings of recent PAC conferences are available via IEEE Xplore (search forParticle Accelerator Conference) or the JACoWWebsite.

Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Technical CommitteeMembership and Activities

Members of the Committee are the PAST TC Chair who is appointed bythe IEEE NPSS President, the past TC Chair, elected PAST NPSS AdCommembers at large, the chair of the last PAC and the chair of theupcoming PAC.

The Bylaws of the NPSS PAST TC areavailable in this link as a pdf file.

The current membership is:

Stan Schriber, (MSU), chair for term 1/2009 - 12/2012.

Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL), past chair

Bruce Brown (FNAL), former past chair.

Sandra Biedron (ANL), elected member.

Paul Schmor (TRIUMF), PAC’09 chair.

Thomas Roser (BNL), PAC’11 chair.

Vic Suller (LSU), IPAC'12 chair.

In addition to the Particle Accelerator Conference, the PASTcommittee will leverage the NPSS and IEEE resources to promoteaccelerator science and technology. IEEE member recruitment andadvancement (IEEE Senior Member and IEEE Fellow Nomination) aresupported. Please contact the PAST chair with your comments, proposalsand suggestions.

PAST Award

The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society invites nominations for the

    Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award

Two Awards will be granted to recognize outstanding contributions to the development of Particle Accelerator Science and Technology. At least one award will be given to an individual early in his/her career.

Nomination packages are to be submitted in six copies. The package should include a nomination letter containing a suggested award citation, a brief curriculum vitae, a list of relevant publications and up to three letters of support from persons besides the nominator.

Nominations must be received by December 15, 2008

            Dr. Ilan Ben-Zvi
            Brookhaven National Laboratory
            MS 911B
            Upton, NY 11973
            E-mail: ilan@bnl.gov

A certificate and a cash award will be made at PAC’09 in Vancouver.

Further details can be found at ParticleAccelerator Science and Technology Award (PAST Award).

PAST Doctoral Student Award

The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society invites nominations for the

   2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award

This Award is given to recognize significant and innovative technical contributions to the field of particle accelerator science and technology as demonstrated in a student’s doctoral thesis.
A certificate and a cash award will be made at PAC’09 in Vancouver. The recipient will be invited to present the work as an invited talk in an appropriate session of the meeting.

More details can be found at http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/PASTstudentAward.htm

Nomination are to be submitted electronically to Ilan Ben-Zvi, ilan@bnl.gov. It should include a nomination letter from the thesis adviser containing a suggested award citation, a link to a web site containing the Ph.D. thesis, a brief curriculum vitae, a list of relevant publications and up to three letters of support from persons besides the nominator.

Nominations must be received by December 15, 2008

            Dr. Ilan Ben-Zvi
            Brookhaven National Laboratory
            MS 911B
            Upton, NY 11973
            E-mail: ilan@bnl.gov

2009 PAST Doctoral Student Award Committee: Ilan Ben-Zvi (Chair), Sandra Biedron, Chan Joshi and Patrick O’Shea

Accelerator Related Conference Links

The accelerator community is served by many conferences andworkshops inaddition to the Particle Accelerator Conference. In addition to linksprovidedbelow, there are conference links provided by

Other NPSS Conferences for Accelerator Science

IEEE Pulsed PowerConference (held jointly as PPPS2007)
InternationalConference onPlasma Science (held jointly as PPPS2007)
Nuclear and Space RadiationEffects Conference
IEEE-NPSS Real TimeConference
International Conference onAccelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPS)

JACoW and Conferences

The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website is maintained to provideonline access to the proceedings from several accelerator-related JACoW Collaboration Conferences. The collaborating conferences nowinclude: APAC, EPAC, PAC, COOL, CYCLOTRONS, DIPAC, FEL, ICALEPCS, ICAP,ICFAAdvanced Beam Dynamics Workshops, LINAC, RUPAC. Please see the JACoWlink for access to the proceedings.

Other General Accelerator and Beams Conferences

ERL07 41st ICFA AdvancedBeam Dynamics Workshop on Energy Recovery Linacs, Daresbury Laboratory,UK, May 21-25, 2007
LCWS 2007 2007 InternationalLinear Collider Workshop, DESY, Hamburg Germany, 30 May - 3 June 2007
Compumag 2007 16th IntlConf on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Aachen, Germany June24-28, 2007
CEC/ICMC 2007 CryogenicEng Conf and Intl Cryogenic Materials Conf, Chattanooga, TN July 16-20,2007
AccApp'07 EighthIntl Topical Mtg on Nuclear Appls, Utilizations of Accels, Pocatello,ID July 30-Aug 2, 2007
ICIS 200712th International Conference on Ion Sources, Jeju, Korea August 26-31,2007
FEL07 29thInternational Free Electron Laser Conference, Novosibirsk, RussiaAugust 26-31, 2007
IMMW1515th International Magnet Measurement Workshop,Fermilab August 21-24,2007
MT20 20thInternational Conference on Magnet Technology, Philadelphia August 27 -31, 2007
SNEAP Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel, Ann Arbor, MI October: 12 - 17, 2008

Accelerator Training

Academic Training in the field of accelerators and beams isprovided in both special settings like USPAS and in traditionalacademic departments.The USPAS provided links for many other programs: USPAS

Membership

I would urge you to consider IEEE membership inorder that you might lend your support to the orderly management ofour conferences and publications, the growth of local, national andinternational professional ties, systematic efforts towardprofessional recognition with awards, prizes, and advanced membershipgrades, and, through IEEE USA, advocacy for support of science.

You may become an NPSS Affiliate Member if your professionalinterests are in the fields covered by NPSS, but you do not desire theadditional benefits derived from belonging to the parent IEEEOrganization. You will be entitled to all the benefits of NPSS but notof IEEE. Further information can be found on the NPSS Membershiplink.

Useful Links

ICFAthe International Committee for Future Accelerators sponsors a numberof activitiesof interest to the accelerator community. Some workshop links are shownabove.In addition, there are several ICFA Panels on specialized acceleratortopics:

ICFA Beam DynamicsPanel [WorkshopLink]
ICFA Panel onAdvanced and Novel Accelerators
Additional panels are listed on the ICFA web page above.

A very helpful reference for contacting many academic andresearch institutionsis provided with the HEP Virtual Phonebook

Complaints, suggestions, comments, ... should be sent to:

Bruce C. Brown or Stan Schriber. Updated April 26, 2009.