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SAC 2010

AGENDA for

THE COCKCROFT INSTITUTE SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SAC) MEETING

Sunday, October 31, 2010:
Swapan Chattopadhyay to host Evening Dinner of SAC Committee at the resident hotel or local restaurant. Time to be announced

Monday, November 1, 2010


   8:30 – 9:00

Committee Closed Session

SAC committee

9:00 – 9:30
(25+5)

Welcome and Director’s Perspective

Swapan Chattopadhyay

9.30 – 10.00
(25+5) minutes

ALICE Developments and NLS Status

Jim Clarke  (ASTeC)

10.00  – 10:15

Atto-second FEL Concepts

Brian McNeil (Strathclyde)

10.15  – 10.45
(25+5) minutes

EMMA Commissioning  

James Jones (ASTeC)

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea

 

 

11:00 – 11:30
(25+5) minutes

Beam Dynamics: EMMA, Damping Rings and Positron Sources

Andy Wolski (Liverpool)

11:30 – 12:00
(25+5) minutes

RF Structures Research

Roger Jones (Manchester)

12.00 – 12.25
(20+5) minutes

Plasmonics, Photonics and Meta-materials

Rebecca Seviour (Lancaster)

12.25– 13.25

Lunch

Student Posters

13.25 – 13:55
(25+5)minutes

High Performance Electron Gun Research and  Development

Boris Miltsyn (ASTeC)

 

13:55 – 14:25
(25+5) minutes

Anti-matter Research and Beam Instrumentation

Carsten Welsch (Liverpool)

14:25 - 14:55
(25+5)

Mathematical Physics and Computation

Robin Tucker (Lancaster)

14:55 – 15:25
(25+5)

CONFORM, BASROC,ADSR and Nuclear Medicine

Roger Barlow (Manchester)
Hywel Owen (Manchester)

15:25 – 15:35 Coffee/Tea

Refreshments

 

15:35– 16:45
(70) minutes

Tour of  ALICE, EMMA , SRF, Vacuum, Laser and other Labs

Joe Herbert, Peter McIntosh and Neil Bliss (ASTeC/DL)

16.45 – 17.05
 CERN-CI Collaboration (15+5) minutes

LHC Commissioning, Upgrade and LHeC

Rob Appleby (Manchester)
John Dainton (Liverpool)

17.05 – 17.20

Cavity Search for Hidden Sector Photons

 Peter Williams  (ASTeC)

 

17:20 – 18:00
(30+10) minutes

 

Science with ALICE

 

W. Flavell, E. Seddon, P. Weightman

18:00 – 19:00

Committee Closed Session

 

19:30

Dinner of Committee with Speakers and Leadership at a Local Restaurant

Chinese Delight?

 

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Radio-Frequency Science and Technology

 

 

08.30 – 09.05
(30+5) minutes

SCRF and RF

Peter McIntosh (ASTeC/STFC)

09.05 – 9.40
(30+5) minutes

Power RF/Crab Cavities and Compact Linacs

Graeme Burt (Lancaster Eng.)

Neutrino Factory/Muon Collider

 

 

9:40 – 10.10
(25+5) minutes

MICE/R&D for Neutrino Factory

Ken Long (Imperial/CI)

 

 

 

SUMMARY

 

 

10:10-10:30

Outlook/Future Strategy/New Initiatives

Swapan Chattopadhyay

10.30 – 14.00

Lunch and Closed Session for Committee Report Writing

 

14.00 – 15.00

Exit Summary: Open Session

SAC Chair