Previous Accelerator Brown Bag Seminars
Fall 2003
June 5
Gregory Werner, Cornell University
Surface Effects in Superconducting Cavities
June 12
Gerry Dugan, Cornell University
Technology Options for Linear Colliders
June 26
Yulin Li, Cornell University
Non-Evaporable Getter Thin Films and Its Applications in the Accelerator Vacuum Systems
July 10
Peter Revesz & Jeff White, Cornell University
Review of X-Ray Monitors in CESR
July 17
Stu Peck, Cornell University
CESR Feedback for CHESS Positioning
July 24
Sergey Belomestnykh, Cornell University
Using passive superconducting cavities in CESR-c for bunch shortening
July 31
Valery Shemelin, Cornell University
Optimized cavity shape for ERL Injector and TESLA Structure
August 14
Charles Sinclair, Cornell University
Challenges and Issues with the ERL Electron Source
September 5
Jeff Smith, Cornell University
New IR Diagnostic Tools for the CESR Ring
September 12
Alexander Mikhailichenko, Cornell University
Optimal Wiggler
September 19
Joe Rogers, Cornell University
Canceled
September 26
Dave Rice, Cornell University
BEPC-II Upgrade Plans
October 3
Lia Merminga, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
ERL related activities at CASA
October 16
Court Bohn, Northern Illinois University
Dynamics of Beam-Halo Formation Revisited
October 17
Ralph Fiorito, Catholic University of America
Non-intercepting Diagnostics for Relativistic Charged Particle Beams
October 24
Greg Werner, Cornell University
A Review of Voltage Breakdown
October 31
Sergey Belomestnykh, Cornell University
Superconducting RF for High Current Storage Rings: Operating Experience, Test Results and Future Applications
November 7
Bjoern Schmekel, Cornell University
Bunching Instability of Rotating Relativistic Electron Layers and Coherent Synchrotron Radiation
November 14
Matthias Liepe, Cornell University
Superconducting RF in Energy Recovery Linacs
November 21
Dave Rice, Cornell University
Overview over high luminosity e+/e- collider activities in the World
December 5
Richard Helms, Cornell University
Nonlinear evaluation of the CESR BPM System
Spring 2004
January 16
Ivan Bazarov, Cornell University
Beam Break-Up, Feynman, and Complex Zeros
January 23
David Sagan, Cornell University
BMAD Accelerator Simulation Package
January 30
Joe Rogers, Cornell University
Report on the Accelerator Working Group from the Winter 2004 American Linear Collider Workshop
February 4
Harald Rose, Darmstadt University
The XPEEM Project SMART: Where X-rays, Accelerators, and Electron Microscopes meet.
February 13
Mike Billing, Cornell University
Coupling Measurements using Model Independent Analysis
February 27
Georg Hoffstaetter, Cornell University
ERL and X-FEL Projects in Japan
March 12
Joe Rogers, Cornell University
Beam-Beam Simulations for e+/e- Colliders.
March 19
Jeremy Urban, Cornell University
Status of Beam-Beam Simulations at Cornell
April 2
Richard Talman, Cornell University
String Reformulation of Space Charge Forces.
April 30
Sasha Temnyhk, Cornell University
Electron-Cloud '04 Workshop Report
Summer 2004
May 7
Ingrid Wilke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Femtosecond Relativistic Electron Beam Bunch Length Measurements
May 10
2:30pm
Frederic Le Pimpec, SLAC
Beam Surface Interaction: A Vacuum Point of View
May 14
Sami Gamal El-Din Tantawi, SLAC
Multimoded RF Systems for X-band Future Linear Colliders.
May 21
Grigorii Eremeev, Cornell University
Baking out Q-slope...
May 28
Charles Sinclair, Cornell University
Photoemission Cathodes for ERL Applications
June 4
Bob Sieman, SLAC
Plasma wakefield and laser-driven accelerators
June 18
Levi Schachter, Technion, Israel
Energy Recovery in an Optical Collider
June 25
Xianghong Liu, Cornell University
Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Studied by Rydberg Tagging and Ion Imaging
July 23
Matthias Liepe, Cornell University
The Cornell ERL Injector Cryomodule: Pushing the limits of SRF Cavity Technology
July 30
Mark Palmer, Cornell University
A New CESR-c Luminosity Monitor
August 6
Lora Hine, Cornell University
Outreach Efforts at LEPP
August 13
Mei Bai, Brookhaven
RHIC Polarized Proton New Working Point Commissioning
Fall 2004
September 17
Yuri Orlov, Cornell
Beam Dynamics in the Planned EDM Experiment
October 1
Dave Rubin, Cornell
Subject: The beam-beam effect in CESR
October 8
Rongli Geng, Cornell
Recent Results of High Gradient Superconducting Cavities at Cornell
October 15
Nikolay Malitsky, BNL
Status of the UAL Environment
October 22
Don Hartill, Cornell
Subject: Using synchrotron light for transverse emittance
measurement at the ERL
October 29
Alexander Temnykh, Cornell
CESR-c accelerator studies and machine status
November 3
Andy Wolski, LBL
Moving Towards a Design for the International Linear Collider Damping Rings
November 5
Mark Psiaki, Cornell
Control Techniques for Multi-Variable Systems
November 12
Ernie Fontes and Don Bilderback, Cornell
Synchrotron radiation research at CESR: past, present and the future new Energy Recovery Linac source of x-rays
November 19
Ivan Bazarov, Cornell
Subject: ERL injector optimization
December 3
Hasan Padamsee, Cornell
Subject: LEPP work in SRF
December 8
Peter Tenenbaum, SLAC
Obstacles to Luminosity Production in the International Linear Collider Low Emittance Transport
December 10
Jeremy Urban, Cornell
Cornell's Involvement in Accelerator R&D for the International Linear Collider
Spring 2005
January 28
Eduard Pozdeyev, TJNAF
Small Isochronous Ring project at MSU
February 2
Eugene Tanke, CERN
A visit to the CERN and SNS hadron linacs
February 4
Anders Ryd, Cornell
CLEO-c
February 11
Robert Meller, Cornell
Longitudinal Feedback on the ATF Damping Ring
February 18
Nick Agladze, Cornell
Holographic Fourier transform spectrometer for electron bunch characterization
March 4
Steve Peggs, BNL
Exploiting Accelerator Physics from the Tevatron to the LHC
March 11
Dave Rice, Cornell
Recent Activities and Future Plans for a 1/fb/day Collider
April 1
Matthias Liepe, Cornell
RF Control
April 15
Karen White, JLAB
Subject: JLAB control system choices
April 22
David Gurd, ORNL
The SNS Control System: Challenges and Choices
April 29
Townsend Zwart, MIT
A Journey Through the Bates Accelerator Complex: New Technologies Applied to an Old Machine and their Potential Application to Future Facilities
Summer 2005
June 3
Yuri Orlov, Cornell
Accelerator Physics Tricks in a New Version of the EDM Search
June 10
David Sagan, Cornell
Accelerator Markup Language/Universal Accelerator Parser
July 1
Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State University
Coherent Beamstrahlung at CESR and the ILC
July 8
Swapan Chattopadhyay, JLAB
Accelerators at Jefferson Lab -- Physics Results, Operation, Construction and R&D
July 29
Richard Talman, Cornell
High Spectral Brightness Upgrade for CHESS, based on the intended ERL Gun and Cryomodule
August 12
Richard Talman, Cornell
Accelerator Simulation Using the Unified Accelerator Libraries (UAL)
Fall 2005
August 19
Ryoichi Hajima, Japan Atmoic Energy Research Institute
Status and Future Plans for the JAERI Energy-Recovery Linac
September 9
Boris Knyazev, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
Operation and Applications of a 400 W Average Power Terahertz FEL Based Upon an ERL
September 16
Alexander Temnykh, Cornell
Precise Magnetic Survey of CESR IR Elemetns with Vibrating Wire Technique
November 18
Richard Talman, Cornell
Conversion of CESR to Bright X-Ray Source
December 2
Jeff Smith, Jeremy Urban, Alexander Mikhailichenko, Cornell
What's Up Series: ILC Accelerator Physics R&D at Cornell
Spring 2006
January 20
Nathan Moody, Univ of Maryland
Low Workfunction Multi-Alkali Dispenser Photocathodes
February 24
Dr. Genfa Wu, JLAB
Recent Developments for JLAB's Next Generation Cavities, Couplers, and Cryomodules
March 4
Cornell
What's Up Series: ILC
March 10
Sergey Belomestnykh, Cornell
On Power Savings Options with the CESR RF System.
March 17
Lazar Staykov, DESY-Zeuthen
Emittance Measurement System for the Second Phase of the Photo-Injector PITZ
April 14
Alex Dragt, University of Maryland
Computation of Transfer Maps from Surface Data with Applications to Wigglers.
Summer 2006
June 26
Chris Tennant, JLab
ERL Studies at Jefferson Lab
July 28
Jim Crittenden, Cornell
Operational Status of CESR-c
August 11
Alexander Mikhailichenko, Cornell
Selected contributions to the ILC and LHC.
Fall 2006
September 15
Richard Talman, Cornell
Emittance Growth Due to Space Charge Forces in an Electron Bunch Compressor.
September 29
Dr. Michael Borland, ANL
Possible Upgrades of the APS.
October 3
Dr. Alexei Blednykh andDr. Jim Rose, BNL
RF system overview and Wakefield analysis for the NSLS-II.
October 20
Dr. Levi Schachter, Technion
Experimental Observation of Direct Particle Acceleration by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
November 3
Dr. Makoto Kuwahara, Nagoya
Recent R&D for Polarized Electron Sources at Nagoya University.
November 10
Jeremy Urban, Cornell
An Optimized Superferric Wiggler Design for the International Linear Collider Damping Rings.
November 17
Dr. Curt Hovater, Jefferson Lab
CEBAF Energy Upgrade LLRF Activities.
December 1
Ivan Bazarov, Cornell
Vision of an X-Ray Source at Wilson Laboratory.
December 8
Dr. John Byrd, LBNL
Experimental study of the Fast Beam-Ion Instability at the Advanced Light Source.
December 15
Dr. Samer Banna, BNL
First Experimental Observation of the PASER.
December 18
Fay Hannon, JLab
Optimization of the JLab/AES 100 mA Injector and Progress Update on the Daresbury ERL Prototype.
December 21
Dr.Scott Price, GE - Global Research Center
'X-Ray Imaging Technology: Medical, Non-Destructive Testing, Opportunities in the Future.
December 22
Dr. Sergei Nagaitsev, FNAL
Electron Cooling. CANCELLED.
Spring 2007
January 12
Dr. Chong-Do Park, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory
The Pohang Light Source Vacuum System.
January 19
Sergey Belomestnykh, Cornell
Operating Experience with Superconducting Cavities at Storage Ring Based Light Sources.
January 30
John Flanagan, KEK
Electron cloud studies at KEKB.
February 1
Kathy Harkeay, ANL
Characterizing the Electron Cloud at the APS.
February 2
Art Molvik, LLNL
Quantitative Experiments with Electrons in a Positive-Ion Beam.
February 9
Mark Palmer, Cornell
International Linear Collider Research Plans for CESR.
March 9
Dr. Samer Banna, BNL
First Experimental Observation of the PASER.
March 30 Cancelled
Dr. Philippe Piot, Northern Illinois Univ.
Phase Space Manipulations of Electron Beams and Potential Applications.
April 5, 4pm
Dr. Rami Kishek, UMD
High-Quality Beams for Next-Generation Accelerators
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