Poster
From March, 7th – 11th 2011 an advanced DITANET School on Beam Diagnostics took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The School was combined with the network’s annual meeting and brought together around 100 researchers from major research centres, universities and private industry from all over the world.
The School started with a recap of some of the key concepts introduced during the first school back in 2009. Helmut Wiedemann, Professor emeritus from Stanford University, started with an introduction to accelerator physics, before beam profile and beam position measurements were covered in one hour lectures by leading experts in the respective field.
During the week, beam instrumentation for specific applications, such as low energy accelerators, light sources, colliders or high intensity accelerators were presented in detail. The intense lecture program was complemented by dedicated Question & Answer sessions, as well as focused tutorials.
In addition, participants were given the opportunity to present their own work in this interdisciplinary field in a poster session that triggered many interesting discussions. An excursion to the island of Utö, a one hour boat ride through ice-covered waters from Stockholm, on Wednesday and a dedicated industry session on Friday rounded up a week that was found extremely enriching by all participants.
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network DITANET – “DIagnostic Techniques for particle Accelerators – a european NETwork” has been coordinated by the University of Liverpool since 1st November 2008. With a maximum budget of up to 4.16 M€ it is the largest-ever EU funded education action for early stage and experience researchers in beam instrumentation for accelerators. The network was initiated and is coordinated by Carsten P. Welsch who joined the Cockcroft Institute in November 2008.
Later this year, the DITANET collaboration will organize an international conference in beam diagnostics. This event will take place from November 9th – 11th 2011 in Seville, Spain.
