JAIfest 2015

Thursday 10 Dec 2015, 09:00 → 18:10 Europe/Zurich

Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre (University of Oxford)

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee/tea on arrival

09:30 → 11:00 Session 1

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

09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute)

09:40 Latest progress toward high intensity FFAG accelerators

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

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

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

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee/Tea

11:20 → 13:00 Session 2

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

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

12:00 Pushing beam power boundaries in proton accelerators

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

12:40 Photoinjector Development at Daresbury Laboratory

13:00 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:45 Session 3

13:45 FLASHForward – beam-driven wakefield acceleration at FLASH

14:05 Status of the Diamond Light Source Upgrade

14:25 Design, development and use of the spectrometer for investigating coherent THz radiation produced by micro-bunching instabilities at Diamond Light Source

14:45 High Power THz generation using pre-bunched electron beams

15:05 Single short Smith-Purcell diagnostics: concept and progress

15:25 Development of room temperature THz detectors at RAL

15:45 → 16:10 Tea/Coffee

16:10 → 18:10 Session

16:10 Status and developments for the Compact Linear Collider

16:30 ProBE: Proton Boosting Extension for Imaging and Therapy

16:50 Continuous frequency scanning interferometry

17:10 Advanced diagnostics at the HL-LHC, Linac4 and FETS

17:30 Recent LHC BDSIM developments

17:50 MICE status and plans