ATAP Seminars

(not incl. FNAL, other joint seminars, UCB or Interdisciplinary Colloquium unless ATAP speaker)

Speaker

Title

2024

Dr. Charlotte Palmer

Queen’s University Belfast

Exploiting novel liquid sheet targets for the generation of bright MeV proton beams

4/26/24

​Prof. Frédéric Sirois

Polytechnique Montréal

Fast normal zone propagation velocities in stacks and CORC cables made with CFD REBCO-tapes

4/26/24

Robert Jacob

LBNL

Isomer population control via direct irradiation of solid-density targets using a compact laser-plasma accelerator

4/12/24

Dr. Lin Yi

NASA JPL

Technology Development for NASA’s Deep Space Communications

4/10/24

Dr. Arnaud Devred

 CERN

Update on Superconducting Magnets & Devices Development at CERN

4/5/24

Prof. Masami Iio / Dr. Mukesh Dhakarwal, High Energy Acceleration Research Organization (KEK), Japan

Construction status of superconducting muon source for COMET experiment, (Prof. Iio, 30 min.) / Research and development of radiation-resistant HTS coils for future accelerator applications (Dr. Dhakarwal, 30 min.)

3/4/24

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.)

2/12/24

Dr. Fedor Gömöry

 Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences

AC losses in filamentized REBCO tapes

2/8/24

Dr. Debra Callahan

Focused Energy, Inc

From Ignition on NIF to Fusion Energy on the Grid using Proton Fast-Ignition

2/5/24

Steve Hunt

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

The design of a very low cost proton linac for cancer treatment

1/22/24

Speaker

Title

2023

Salim Ogur

CERN

Challenges and Mitigations in Optics Design and Accelerator Commissioning

12/19/23

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

12/14/23

Kelly Swanson

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Application of machine learning to guide high-repetition-rate, laser-driven particle acceleration experiments.

12/8/23

Kyle Jensen

University of Nebraska

Novel Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration and Next-Generation Light Sources

11/17/23

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

11/1/23

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

10/27/23

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

10/23/23

Dr. Alexander Scheinker

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Adaptive and Physics Constrained Generative Deep Learning for Electrodynamics

10/10/23

Tanner Simpson

University of Rochester

Spatiotemporal Control of Photoionization and Terahertz Generation

9/7/23

Dr. Amato Giaccia

Stanford University

Laser Hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications: A transformational approach to precision, personalized particle beam therapy

8/18/23

Dr. Ken Hara

Stanford University

Modeling of partially ionized, partially magnetized plasmas: fluid moment, particle, and

data-driven models

8/15/23

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

7/10/23

Dr. Ryan Roussel

Stanford University

Progress in Machine Learning Technology for Accelerator Control and Characterization at SLAC

6/2/23

Prof. Bradley Shadwick

University of Nebraska

An Unconditionally Stable, Fully Eulerian Vlasov-Maxwell Solver

5/30/23

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

5/11/23

Dr. Fernando Toral Fernandez

CIEMAT Madrid, Spain

Ongoing activities on accelerator technology at CIEMAT

4/25/23

Haidar Al-Naseri

Umeå University, Sweden

Modeling and analyzing strong-field effects in quantum plasmas

4/17/23

Pierre-Louis Bourgeois

Laboratoire de Chimie Physique: Matière et Rayonnement, University of Paris (Sorbonne), France

Improving modelisation of laser-particle interaction in PIC simulations

4/14/23

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

4/13/23

Prof. Lucio Rossi

University of Milan and INFN-Milano

IRIS – The Innovative Research Infrastructure on applied Superconductivity in Italy:

Scope and plan

3/31/23

 Prof. Bartek Glowacki 

University of Cambridge

Hydrogen Cryo-electromagnetics: Turning Point for Applied Superconductivity

2/8/23

Prof. Galileo Violini

La Sapienza University

Synchrotrons in the South, a proposal for the Great Caribbean

2/7/23

Dr. Mojtaba Hajialamdari

Ultrafast OPCPA, Yb:fiber, Yb:YAG systems and introduction to a compact size system for post

compression of ultrashort laser pulses

1/25/23

Dr. Zhuowen Zhao

LBNL

MLExchange, bringing machine learning to scientific discovery

1/17/23

Speaker

Title

2022

Dr. Benjamin Greenwood

Queen’s University

Studies of Laser-Driven Ions and Kilo-Amp Pulses in Novel Regimes

01/05/22

Prof. Yasuyuki Shirai

Kyoto University

Prospect of Liquid Hydrogen Cooled Superconducting Power Apparatus

12/15/22

Dr. Stefan Scheuren

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Demonstration of non-destructive, isotope-sensitive material characterization using a laser-based epi-thermal neutron source

12/13/22

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

10/31/22

Dr. Thorsten Hellert

Commissioning Simulations at PETRA-IV 

10/28/22

Dr. Weiming Guo

Design of the VEGA accelerators and a nonlinear storage-ring-lattice tuning method

10/21/22

Dr. Ryan Roussel

Stanford University

Phase Space Reconstruction from Accelerator Beam Measurements Using Neural Networks and Differentiable Simulations

9/28/2022

Dr. Eremey Valetov

University of Michigan

Status and Beam Dynamics of the Muon g-2 Experiment

09/14/2022

Dr. Ralf Wunderlich

University in Leipzig, Germany

Color center formation in diamonds and its application

07/08/2022

Dr. Jean-Christophe Chanteloup

LULI, Ecole Polytechnique

From Coherent Beam Combining to Digital Laser

01/28/2022

Speaker

Title

2021

name

Institution

Title

date

Jeroen van Tilborg

BELLA Center, LBNL

Plasma-Based Accelerators for Future Light Sources: From High-Brightness Injectors to Driving Compact Free-Electron Lasers (ALS Colloquium series)

09-29-2-21

Creve Maples

Theurgics, Ltd.

“Understanding Complex Information: The Human-Machine Interface"

5-28-2021

Speaker

Title

2020

Felicie Albert

LLNL

Tutorial:  LWFA driven light sources

11-18-2020

Warren Mori

UCLA

Tutorial:  Review of Plasma Accelerators

11-18-2020

LK Len

DOE

DOE General Accelerator R&D Program

11-18-2020

Zhe Zhang

SLAC

Teeport: break the wall between the optimization algorithms and problems”

11-6-2020

Feng Zhou

SLAC

 "LCLS-II electron source commissioning results and plans" 

8-7-2020

Vassilia Zorba

LBNL

"Femtosecond laser plasma spectroscopy in isotopic and elemental analysis”

7-31-2020

Stephen Gourlay

LBNL

"Snowmass 2021: Survey of Potential Collider Options"

6-11-2020

Gregory Scharfstein

LBNL

“Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer at Berkeley Lab”

6-5-2020

Hui Cai

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

“Synthesis and Property Engineering in 2D Semiconductors and Quantum Materials”

3-27-2020

Cameron Geddes

LBNL

"Compact Accelerators: From Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Photon Science to the Energy Frontier"

3-25-2020

Chitraleema Chakraborty

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Next Generation Quantum Emitters for Scalable Quantum Technologies”

3-25-2020

 Siying Ping

Stanford University

Nanophotonic materials: from tunability to topology”

3-23-2020

You Zhou

Harvard University

Department of Physics

“Controlling light-matter interactions using two-dimensional materials and heterostructures”

3-20-2020

Chen-Ting Liao

JILA, University of Colorado Boulder & NIST

Harnessing Coherent X-rays to Probe the Fast & Small World of Quantum Matter

3-18-2020

Antonino Di Piazza

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

“Limitations of the locally-constant-field approximation at low and high energies”

3-2-2020

Russell Wilcox

LBNL

"Joules in Femtoseconds at Kilohertz from Fiber Lasers Coherently Combined in Time, Space and Frequency"

2-26-2020

Jeremy Munday

UC Davis

Engineering the Quantum Vacuum

2-14-2020

Speaker

Title

2019

Maria Gatu Johnson

MIT

Exploring Stellar Nucleosynthesis and Basic Nuclear Science using High Energy Density plasmas at OMEGA and the NIF

12-13-2019

Joseph Minervini

MIT

"Superconducting Technology for Fusion Energy"

12-12-2019

Nicole Neveu

SLAC

Modeling the LCLS-II Injector: from Optimization to Machine Learning

12-6-2019

Ernst Sichtermann

LBNL

“Electron Ion Collider”

11-22-2019

Bernard Hidding

University of Strathclyde

LWFA --> PWFA --> Trojan Horse --> X-FEL

10-31-2019

Elias Métral

CERN

“Coherent Beam Instability Studies at CERN”

10-24-2019

Nate Pogue

LLNL

"Multi-Pulse Scorpius Linear Induction Accelerator for Flash X-Ray Radiography"

10-18-29019

Lucio Rossi

CERN

"LHC, HiLumi LHC and the CERN plan for future accelerators"

09-30-2019

Robert Collister

LBNL

“Electron Electric Dipole Moment (EEDM)"

09-20-2019

Ishay Pomerantz

Tel Aviv University

“Laser Neutron Generation"

09-6-2019

David Larbalestier

NHMFL

“New Opportunities in High Field Magnets”

08-19-2019

Sergei Nagaitsev

CERN

Fermilab Accelerator Science: from intensity frontier to energy frontier to quantum science

08-06-2019

Ellie Blakely

LBNL

“Radiation Biology”

08-02-2019

Lieselotte Obst-Huebl

LBNL

Laser-driven proton beam profiles in ultra-high fields

07-19-2019

Sergio Carbajo

SLAC

“Laser for Accelerators”

06-27-2019

Thorsten Hellert

LBNL

“The Advanced Light Source Upgrade”

06-14-2019

Thomas Schenkel

LBNL

“Cold Fusion Research”

06-06-2019

Franklin Dollar

UC Irvine

Short-wave Infrared Laser Plasma Interactions for X-Ray Generation”

05-24-2019

Stephen A. Lyon

Princeton University

“Mobile Electron Spin Qubits: Si ICs meet Superfluid Helium”

05-16-2019

Joe Calvey

Argonne National Lab

“Modeling Ion Effects for the APS-Upgrade”

05-10-2019

David Sagan

Cornell University

The Bmad Software Toolkit: From Lattice Design to Control Room Modeling of Charged Particles & X-rays

02-22-2019

David Bizzozero

TEMF

Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Wake Fields with a discontinuous Galerkin Method

02-11-2019

Zeudi Mazzotta

ARCNL, CNRS-LULI

ANGULAR ADGEDGE A high precision large bandwidth portable device and a related method for measuring the pointing fluctuations of electromagnetic radiation. Results of measurements in APOLLON (LULI, Paris) and ILIL (INO, Pisa).

02-08-2019

Peter Rakitzis

University of Crete

Ultrahigh-Density Spin-Polarized H and D Atoms Observed via Magnetization

Quantum Beats

02-07-2019

Lev Vaidman

The Alex Magut-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems

Physics Department,

Tel Aviv University

Past of Quantum Particle

2-6-2019

Speaker

Title

2018

Bradley Shadwick

University of Nebraska

Structure Preserving Reductions of the Vlasov-Maxwell System with Applications to Plasma-Based Accelerators

12-07-2018

David Cesar

UCLA

MeV photoelectrons as ultrafast probes for dielectric laser acceleration and transmission electron microscopy

11-09-2018

Thorsten Hellert

LBNL

Development of an AT toolbox for simulated commissioning of light sources

10-23-2018

Weixing Cheng

BNL

NSLS-II diagnostic systems and beam measurements

10-22-2018

Zeus Marti

Barcelona Autonomous University

Fast Beam Based Alignment Using AC Excitations

10-01-2018

Anthony Gee

Map Extraction for Analysis of Collective Effects

9-13-2018

Michael Ehrlichman
Cornell University

Beam-based Measurement of Localized Transverse Impedance for the CHESS Upgrade Project

9-04-2018

Diana Jahn and Markus Roth

GSI

Towards highest peak intensities of MeV ion bunches and applications with the laser-driven LIGHT ion beamline

8-06-2018

Xueying Lu

MIT

A Metamaterial Wagon Wheel Structure for Wakefield Acceleration by Reversed Cherenkov Radiation

7-13-2018

Auralee Edelen

SLAC

Exploratory Studies in using Neural Networks for Modeling and Control of Particle Accelerators

6-29-2018

Stanislav Baturin

University of Chicago

Pen & Paper Mathematical Models for State of the Art Wakefield Accelerators

6-15-2018

Samuel Yoffe

University of Strathclyde, UK

Laser-Matter Interactions at the SCAPA Facility:  Controlling Self-Injection in the LWFA Using Density Modulations

5-23-2018

Marija Vranic

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Extending PIC Modeling Beyond the Classical Laser-Matter Interactions:  Quantum Radiation Reaction, Pair Production & QED Cascades

5-17-2018

Tessa Charles

CERN

Applications of Caustic Methods to Longitudinal Phase Space Manipulation

5-16-2018

Radue Secareanu

ELI-NP RA1, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics & Nuclear Engineering

Laser Safety Program at ELI-NP

5-15-2018

Jérôme Faure

LOA, ENSTA-CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Laser Driven Electron Acceleration with kHz Rate Lasers

5-15-2018

Alexey Bezryadin

University of Illinois

Superconducting Quantum & Nanoscale Devices Controlled by Meissner Currents

5-4-2018

Herman Winick

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Division of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Synchrotron Light Sources in Developing Countries:  SESAME & Others

4-19-2018

James Rosenzweig

Particle Beam Physics Laboratory

Inverse Free-Electron-Laser Based Inverse Compton Scattering:  An All-Optical 5th Generation Light Source

4-5-2018

Martin Maurel

GLOphotonics SAS

Hollow-Core Photonics Crystals Fiber/Non-Linear Applications

2-27-2018

Michael Schenk

CERN

Theory, Simulations & Experiments on a Novel Landau Damping Technique

2-26-2018

Samuel Totorica

SLAC

Particle acceleration in laser-driven magnetic reconnection.

2-15-2018

Giulio Stancari

Fermilab Accelerator Division

Physics & Technology of Electron Lenses for the Fermilab Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) & for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (HL-LHC)

2-9-2018

Yannis Papaphilippou

CERN

Reaching Ultra-Low Emittance in the CLIC Damping Rings – Beam Dynamics & Technology

2-8-2018

Emelie Nilsson

CERN

Lessons Learned from the 2-m Nb3Sn 11T Model Dipole Magnets –From Coil Fabrication to Magnet Tests

2-2-2018

Tomas Mocek, Michal Chyla, Jan Pilar

Introduction of HiLASE Centre, Picosecond, kW-Class thin-disk lasers platforms PERLA and Characterization of Bivoj: 100-J / 10-Hz nanosecond diode pumped solid state laser

2-2-2018

Bill Flounders

Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory

You Plan to Do Your Nanofabrication Where?!

2-1-2018

Emmanuele Ravaioli

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A New Quench Detection System for HTS Magnets:  Stray capacitance Change Monitoring

1-17-2018

Shouyuan Chen

Extreme Light Laboratory, University of Nebraska

Bright and tunable all-laser-driven x-ray source and its applications

1-10-2018

Speaker

Title

2017

Jens Osterhoff

DESY

FLASHForward - A Future-Oriented Wakefield-Accelerator Research and Development Facility at FLASH"

10-16-2017

Antonio Di Plazza

Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik

Modern aspects of quantum electrodynamics in intense and tightly focused laser fields

10-10-2017

Alexander S. Pirozhkov

Kansai Photon Science Institute

J-KAREN-P Laser: Approaching the diffraction-limited, bandwidth-limited Petawatt

9-27-2017

Kiersten Ruisard

University of Maryland

Damping transverse resonances with nonlinear quasi-integrable optics at University of Maryland Electron Ring

9-15-2017

George Hine

University of Maryland

Compact Laser-Driven Electron and Proton Acceleration with Low Energy Lasers

9-14-2017

Thorsten Hellert

DESY

Intra Bunch Train Transverse Dynamics in the Superconducting
Accelerators FLASH and European XFEL

8-18-2017

W. Allan Gillespie

Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee, Scotland

Laser Engineered Surfaces for Accelerator Applications

06-9-2017

David Bruhwiler

RadiaSoft

Nonlinear Proton Beam Dynamics with Space Charge in the IOTA Ring

5-25-2017

Fuhao Ji

Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, The University of British Columbia

Multi-channel spin polarimetry and ultrafast electron bunch compression: applications of modern electron-optical methods

5-22-2017

Rodrigo Lopez-Martens

Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquee, ENTSA Paristech, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay

Relativistic Plasma Mirrors Driven at 1kHz

5-16-2017

Roxana Tarkeshian

Institut fur Angewandte Physik, Universitat Bern

Towards plasma-based techniques for ultra-short FEL eˉ bunches

5-5-2017

Paul B. Rose Jr. and Anna S. Erickson

Imaging of Special Nuclear Materials Using Monoenergetic

Gamma Rays from Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions

5-1-2017

Giovanni Iadorola

CERN

Electron Cloud Effects at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

4-27-2017

Peter Kuske

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Transparent Off-Axis Injection and Round Beams

4-21-2017

Dustin H. Froula

University of Rochester

Laser Plasma Interactions at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

3-28-2017

Rosa Romero and

Paulo Guerreiro

University of Porto, Portugal

The dispersion-scan technique and its application to the compression and measurement of few-cycle laser pulses

3-21-2017

Arkady Gonoskov

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Particles and photons in laser fields of extreme intensity: from phenomena to possibilities

2-9-2017

Enam Chowdhury

The Ohio State University

High and Ultra-High Intensity Laser Matter Interaction

2-6-2017

Stephen Webb

Radiasoft

Symplectic Methods for Electromagnetic Plasma Simulations

1-27-2017

Speakers

Title

2016

Xiaobiao Huang

SLAC

Development and application of online optimization algorithms

12-2-2016

Srinivas Krishnagopal

Bhabha Atomic Research Center

The High Intensity Proton Linac Programme in India

11-18-2016

Benoit Salvant

CERN

Impedance Studies at CERN

11-7-2016

Thorsten Hellert

DESY

Intra Bunch Train Transverse Dynamics in the Superconducting
Accelerators FLASH and European XFEL

10-5-2016

Sami G. Tantawi

 Professor at Stanford University / SLAC

Advanced RF Acceleration Science and Technology

8-2-2016

William Barletta & Martin Breidenbach

Accelerator Research in the US for High Energy Physics:  A Biased Perspective

7-21-2016

Fabien Quéré

Lasers, Interactions &

Dynamics Laboratory

Ultrahigh-Intensity Laser-Plasma Interactions using Structured Light Fields

6-14-2016

H.-Ulich (Uli) Wienands

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Channeling, Volume Reflection & Gamma-Ray Production by Electrons at Multi-GeV Beam Energy in Crystals

2-23-2016

Jake Bromage

Institute of Optics,

University of Rochester

Technology Development for Ultra-Intense OPCPA

2-19-2016

Speaker

Title

2015

Ronnie Shepherd

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Experiments Studying Radiation & Heat Transport of Laboratory Plasma at Near Astrophysical Conditions

12-18-2015

Yuhui Li

DESY

Magnetic Tuning Procedures for the Large Scale Production of Undulator Segments for the European XFEL

12-7-2015

Michael Campbell

University of Rochester

Laboratory for Laser Energetics

NIF an Unexpected Journey or Lessons Learned to Secure Projects of Scale

9-8-2015

Serena Persichelli

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Beam Coupling Impedance Model of the CERN Proton Synchrotron

4-29-2015

Sydney Gales

ELI-Nuclear Physics/OFIN-HH Bucharest

Marriage of Laser & Accelerator Technology: Project Implementation & Scientific Program

4-6-2015

Venkat Srinivasan

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Future of Energy Storage

2-27-2015