General Lab Information

The ATF Program Advisory Committee

Charter

The Accelerator Test Faility (ATF) Program Advisry Committee (APAC) is responsible for evaluating research proposals from ATF users and the scientific utilization of the ATF. It also provides advice and feedback on the developments and upgrades required to achieve and maintain the highest possible scientific and technological productivity at the facility. In keeping with this mandate, APAC will provide advice on the following topics:

  • User Experiement proposals approval based on scientific and/or technical merit, as appropriate.
  • Progress and performance of ongoing user experiments.
  • Scientific output and utilization of ATF as a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
  • Planning, development, and operation of ATF to meet long-term scientific and technology objects of the DOE Accelerator Stewardship mission.
  • Policies and precedures relevant to user access and utilization of ATF.

APAC members and a Chair are appointed by the ATF Director for five-year terms, with approximately one third of the members rotating off and being replaced every two years. APAC is composed of no more than ten scientists knowledgeable in the areas of research relevant to the ATF scientific programs. The APAC Chair may engage ad hoc consultants as needed to handle specific proposals falling outside the committee’s expertise. Such consultants may be engaged through either mail-in or in-person participation. Alternatively, the APAC Chair may designate a subpanel charged specifically with reviewing technical and/or commercial-use proposals.

APAC meets annually in conjunction with the ATF User Meeting. The ATF Director, in consultation with the APAC Chair, may call additional meetings as necessary. Before each meeting, the ATF Director provides a charge to the APAC and describes specific advice required from APAC.

APAC deliberations are confidential. The APAC Chair provides a confidential report of APAC’s findings and recommendations to the ATF Director shortly after each APAC meeting. Based on the APAC report, and in consultation with the APAC Chair, the ATF Director approves and implements each year’s user experimental program, updated facility policies, and facility recommendations. The report along with the facility implementation plan will be made available to Brookhaven’s senior laboratory management. In consultation with the APAC Chair, comments and recommendations that are relevant to the overall program will be forwarded to the Accelerator Stewardship Program Manager at DOE.

Current Committee Members

  • Sandra Biedron (Chair), University of New Mexico
  • Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • Manuel Hegelich, TAU Systems
  • John Power, Argonne National Lab
  • Craig Siders, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • Evgenya Simakov, Los Alamos National Lab
  • Ronald Williams, FAMU

Former Chairs of the Committee

  • Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Lab
  • Swapan Chattopadhyay, Thomas Jefferson NAF
  • Chandrasekhar Joshi, UCLA
  • Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • James Rosenzweig, UCLA
  • Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Robert Siemann, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Maury Tigner, Cornell University

Former Members of the Committee

  • Ralph Assmann, DESY
  • Ilan Ben-Zvi, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Jianming Cao, Florida State University
  • Alexander Chao, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Ernest Courant, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CERN
  • Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University
  • Horst Foelsche, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Ernest Fontes, Cornell University
  • Wei Gai, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Robert Gluckstern, University of Maryland
  • Katherine Harkay, Argonne National Lab.
  • Michael Harrison, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Thomas Katsouleas, Duke
  • Samuel Krinsky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
  • Thomas Marshall, Columbia University
  • Roger Miller, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Steven Milton, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Patric Muggli, Max Planck Institure for Physics & CERN
  • Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab National Accelerator Lab.
  • Patrick O'Shea, University of Maryland
  • Claudio Pellegrini, University of California at Los Angeles
  • Veljko Radeka, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Ronald Ruth, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Richard Sheffield, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Vladimir Shiltsev, FNAL
  • Todd Smith, Stanford University
  • Peter Thieberger, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Jonathan Wurtele, University of California at Berkeley
  • Vitaly Yakimenko, SLAC National Accelerator Lab

Former Scientific Program Director

  • Ilan Ben-Zvi
  • Robert Palmer