Almost 50 participants gathered at the Technical University of Vienna between 7 – 9 May 2014 to participate to the 3rd oPAC Topic Workshop on Beam Diagnostics. The workshop was opened with a welcome address of CIVIDEC’s CEO, Prof. Erich Griesmayer, and Ms Luisa Griesmayer who was in charge of local organization together with the EU Project TEAM. oPAC project coordinator, Prof. Carsten P. Welsch from the Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool, then continued with a talk about the “Challenges and Trends in Beam Diagnostics” that provided an overview and motivation for the event. Dr. Peter Forck of GSI in Germany continued with a talk on “non-invasive profile monitors for heavy ion beams” before oPAC Fellows and other participants talked present their recent research achievements in this area. In the afternoon Dr. Volker Schlott, head of PSI’s beam diagnostics group, continued with an overview of “beam instrumentation for light sources and free electron lasers” that acted as basis for a series of shorter contributions in the area of light source diagnostics. The first day was completed by a session on instrumentation for medical accelerators, started with a talk by Dr. Fadmar Osmic on the new Medaustron cancer therapy facility in Vienna.
