ATAP frequently presents seminars by our staff, Berkeley Lab colleagues, and visiting researchers. Of related interest are the Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium series and the main Berkeley Lab Events Calendar. They are included here when the speaker is from ATAP.
2024
5/9/24
Dr. Severin Diederichs, CERN
Resonant emittance mixing of flat beams in plasma accelerators
4/26/24 (3 p.m. Pacific time)
Dr. Charlotte Palmer, Queen’s University Belfast
Exploiting novel liquid sheet targets for the generation of bright MeV proton beams
4/5/24
Dr. Arnaud Devred, CERN
Update on superconducting magnets & devices development at CERN
4/26/24 (10 a.m. Pacific time)
Prof. Frédéric Sirois, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Fast normal zone propagation velocities in stacks and CORC cables made with CFD REBCO-tapes
3/12/24
Robert Jacob, UC-Berkeley and BELLA Center
Isomer population control via direct irradiation of solid-density targets using a compact laser-plasma accelerator
3/10/24
Lin Yi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Technology development for NASA’s deep space communications
2/12/24
Prof. Naoyuki Amemiya, Kyoto University / Dr. Michinaka Sugano, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Updates on the research and development of SCSC cables at Kyoto University (Prof. Amemiya: 30 min.) / Characterization of mechanical properties of ultra-thin Nb3Sn wires and twisted cables (Dr. Sugano: 30 min.)
2/8/24
Dr. Fedor Gömöry Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences
AC losses in filamentized REBCO tapes
2/5/24
Dr. Debra Callahan Focused Energy, Inc
From Ignition on NIF to Fusion Energy on the Grid using Proton Fast-Ignition
1/22/24
Steve Hunt Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
The design of a very low cost proton linac for cancer treatment
2023
12/19/23
Salim Ogur CERN
Challenges and Mitigations in Optics Design and Accelerator Commissioning
12/14/23
VP Nguyen University of Massachusetts Amherst
Machine-learning powered FPGA-based system enabling healthcare, remote sensing, and quantum qubit control
12/14/23
Drew Bertwistle
My Career as an Accelerator Physicist at a Synchrotron
12/8/23
Kelly Swanson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Application of machine learning to guide high-repetition-rate, laser-driven particle acceleration experiments.
11/17/23
Kyle Jensen University of Nebraska
Novel Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration and Next-Generation Light Sources
11/1/23
Dr. Pablo Cayado Llosa University of Geneva in Switzerland
Analysis of the Variations in the Critical Current of Commercial Coated Conductors Subjected to Different Temperature and Pressure Conditions
10/27/23
Dr. Jean-Francois Croteau LBNL
Material Characterization at Different Length Scales and at Different Steps During Superconducting Magnet Fabrication: Focus on Nb₃Sn Wires with Artificial Pinning Centers
10/23/23
Dr. Sai Srikanth Arvapalli Superconducting ICT Device Laboratory of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kobe, Japan
Strategies to enhance performance of superconductors for high-field applications
10/10/23
Dr. Alexander Scheinker Los Alamos National Laboratory
Adaptive and Physics Constrained Generative Deep Learning for Electrodynamics
9/7/23
Tanner Simpson University of Rochester
Spatiotemporal Control of Photoionization and Terahertz Generation
8/18/23
Dr. Amato Giaccia Stanford University
Laser Hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications: A transformational approach to precision, personalized particle beam therapy
8/15/23
Dr. Ken Hara Stanford University
Modeling of partially ionized, partially magnetized plasmas: fluid moment, particle, and
data-driven models
7/10/23
Dr. Tirtha Mandal HBNI, Mumbai
Understanding ultrashort high-intensity laser matter interaction through MeV fast
electrons and x-ray generation studies
7/10/23
Dr. Vladimir Matias iBeam Materials
From Ion Beams to Superconducting Magnets and LEDs
6/2/23
Dr. Ryan Roussel Stanford University
Progress in Machine Learning Technology for Accelerator Control and Characterization at SLAC
5/30/23
Prof. Bradley Shadwick University of Nebraska
An Unconditionally Stable, Fully Eulerian Vlasov-Maxwell Solver
5/11/23
Mr. Thomas Nes University of Twente and CERN
Development of four pancake coils with solder and dry-wound no-insulation techniques and a prototype cloverleaf coil for future REBCO based accelerator magnets
4/25/23
Dr. Fernando Toral Fernandez CIEMAT Madrid, Spain
Ongoing activities on accelerator technology at CIEMAT
4/17/23
Haidar Al-Naseri Umeå University, Sweden
Modeling and analyzing strong-field effects in quantum plasmas
4/14/23
Pierre-Louis Bourgeois Laboratoire de Chimie Physique: Matière et Rayonnement, University of Paris (Sorbonne), France
Improving modelisation of laser-particle interaction in PIC simulations
4/13/23
Kook-Jin Moon Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Uniform onset of the long proton bunch modulation seeded by an electron bunch in an overdense plasma
3/31/23
Prof. Lucio Rossi University of Milan and INFN-Milano
IRIS – The Innovative Research Infrastructure on applied Superconductivity in Italy:
Scope and plan
2/8/23
Prof. Bartek Glowacki University of Cambridge
Hydrogen Cryo-electromagnetics: Turning Point for Applied Superconductivity
2/7/23
Prof. Galileo Violini La Sapienza University
Synchrotrons in the South, a proposal for the Great Caribbean
1/25/23
Dr. Mojtaba Hajialamdari
Ultrafast OPCPA, Yb:fiber, Yb:YAG systems and introduction to a compact size system for post compression of ultrashort laser pulses
1/17/23
Dr. Zhuowen Zhao LBNL
MLExchange, bringing machine learning to scientific discovery
2022
01/05/22
Dr. Benjamin Greenwood Queen’s University
Studies of Laser-Driven Ions and Kilo-Amp Pulses in Novel Regimes
12/15/22
Prof. Yasuyuki Shirai Kyoto University
Prospect of Liquid Hydrogen Cooled Superconducting Power Apparatus
12/13/22
Dr. Stefan Scheuren Technische Universität Darmstadt
Demonstration of non-destructive, isotope-sensitive material characterization using a laser-based epi-thermal neutron source
10/31/22
Dr. Yongjun Li
NSLS-II single particle beam dynamics studies – from lattice design to beam commissioning
10/31/22
Dr. Luca Bottura CERN
Magnets for a muon collider – challenges and perspectives
10/28/22
Dr. Thorsten Hellert
Commissioning Simulations at PETRA-IV
10/21/22
Dr. Weiming Guo
Design of the VEGA accelerators and a nonlinear storage-ring-lattice tuning method
9/28/22
Dr. Ryan Roussel Stanford University
Phase Space Reconstruction from Accelerator Beam Measurements Using Neural Networks and Differentiable Simulations
09/14/22
Dr. Eremey Valetov University of Michigan
Status and Beam Dynamics of the Muon g-2 Experiment
07/08/22
Dr. Ralf Wunderlich University in Leipzig, Germany
Color center formation in diamonds and its application
01/28/22
Dr. Jean-Christophe Chanteloup LULI, Ecole Polytechnique
From Coherent Beam Combining to Digital Laser
