Welcome to CSSA 2011

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This year marks a century since the first discovery of Superconductivity by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the University of Leiden on April 8th 1911, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913. It took almost 50 years to build the first superconducting magnet after this discovery but since then it has helped scientists around the world make breakthrough discoveries in almost every field of science.

Particle accelerators from the Tevatron, HERA, LEP, SNS and to the LHC have all been realised mainly because of the developments in the field of superconductivity. Superconducting RF (SRF) technology has played a key role in light sources, such as CESR, CLS, SOLEIL, Diamond and also the linac based XFEL. Ambitious accelerator projects like the International Linear Collider could be thought of only because of the advances made in SRF technology, in pushing accelerating gradients to the fundamental limits. To celebrate the centenary year of the discovery of superconductivity, we would like to invite you to participate in a ‘Centennial Symposium on Superconducting Accelerators’ organised jointly by Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC) and Cockcroft Institute (CI) at STFC Daresbury Laboratory on April 8, 2011.

Programme Committee

Shrikant Pattalwar (ASTeC/CI) – Chair
Peter McIntosh (ASTeC/CI)
Andy Goulden(ASTeC/CI)
Tom Bradshaw (RAL)
John Vandore (CryoX)
Roger Jones (University of Manchester/CI)
Sue Waller (ASTeC) - Event Manager

Registration

Registration Fee £25