JAIfest 2015

Thursday Dec 10, 2015, 9:00 AM → 6:10 PM Europe/Zurich

Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre (University of Oxford)

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Coffee/tea on arrival

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Session 1

Convener: Dr Glenn Christian (University of Oxford (GB))

9:30 AM Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute)

9:40 AM Latest progress toward high intensity FFAG accelerators

10:00 AM Generation of Laser Pulse Trains for Tests of Multi-Pulse Laser Wakefield Acceleration

10:20 AM Radiation pressure driven ion acceleration in near critical density targets

10:40 AM Coherent combination of fibre lasers: steps towards realistic applications

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee/Tea

11:20 AM → 1:00 PM Session 2

11:20 AM Positron Acceleration in a Non-linear Ion-Wake Excited by Plasma Electron Wakefields

11:40 AM High energy and high charge electron acceleration in self guided laser wakefield accelerators

12:00 PM Pushing beam power boundaries in proton accelerators

12:20 PM Quantitative single shot, spatially resolved plasma wakefield diagnostics

12:40 PM Photoinjector Development at Daresbury Laboratory

1:00 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 3:45 PM Session 3

1:45 PM FLASHForward – beam-driven wakefield acceleration at FLASH

2:05 PM Status of the Diamond Light Source Upgrade

2:25 PM Design, development and use of the spectrometer for investigating coherent THz radiation produced by micro-bunching instabilities at Diamond Light Source

2:45 PM High Power THz generation using pre-bunched electron beams

3:05 PM Single short Smith-Purcell diagnostics: concept and progress

3:25 PM Development of room temperature THz detectors at RAL

3:45 PM → 4:10 PM Tea/Coffee

4:10 PM → 6:10 PM Session

4:10 PM Status and developments for the Compact Linear Collider

4:30 PM ProBE: Proton Boosting Extension for Imaging and Therapy

4:50 PM Continuous frequency scanning interferometry

5:10 PM Advanced diagnostics at the HL-LHC, Linac4 and FETS

5:30 PM Recent LHC BDSIM developments

5:50 PM MICE status and plans