A strong contingent of researchers from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division and Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) taught courses at the Winter 2025 session of the US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS), an important institution of education that provides programs on beam physics and associated accelerator technologies. The session ran from January 27 – February 7, 2025, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Simon Leemann, a staff scientist in ATAP’s Advanced Light Source Accelerator Physics Program, joined Thomas Schietinger from the Paul Scherrer Institute and Ryan Lindberg from Argonne National Laboratory in teaching “Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology with Simulations and Measurements Lab.”

Berkeley Lab Emeritus Kem Robinson taught “Project Management for Scientists and Engineers” alongside Michael Geelhoed from Fermilab and Kasey Lund from Nusano.

ATAP Superconducting Magnet Program (SMP) Senior Scientist and Deputy Program Head Paolo Ferracin, Staff Scientist Maxim Marchevskii, and Senior Scientist and Program Head Soren Prestemon joined Ezio Todesco from CERN and SMP postdoctoral students Marek Mosat and Yufan Yan in delivering a class on “Superconducting Accelerator Magnets.”

Remi Lehe, a research scientist in ATAP’s Advanced Modeling Program, joined Auralee Edelen and Ryan Roussel from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in teaching “Optimization and Machine Learning for Accelerators.”

Also representing Berkeley Lab at USPAS was William Waldron, a staff scientist in the Engineering Division, who joined Craig Burkhart from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Chris C. Jensen from Fermilab in teaching “Pulsed Power Engineering.”

Berkeley Lab’s involvement with USPAS goes back to the school’s early days. Beginning with the symposium-style programs of the 1980s and including the Joint International Particle Accelerator School, more than 80 people who were, had been, or would become employees of Berkeley Lab have taught at USPAS for more than 100 courses and lectures. Many of these courses are team-taught with colleagues from other institutions, building lasting connections throughout the accelerator community.

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