WAO'18: Workshop on Accelerator Operations
Motivation
The 11th Workshop on Accelerator Operations (WAO) will take place on
Long Island in Stony Brook, New York, USA, from September 30 to October
5, 2018. WAO 2018 is hosted by the RHIC and NSLS-II facilities at
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The objective of the workshop is to create an open forum for those
involved in daily accelerator operation to present, discuss, and
exchange ideas with their peers from around the world. Operators from
facilities of all sizes gather to collaborate on topics such as
accelerator operation, performance, organization, maintenance,
documentation, software, control room layout, remote operation, and
safety. It also serves the accelerator operations community as a means
to establish benchmarks by facilitating comparisons of methods,
efficiencies, costs, reliability, beam quality and other performance
measures.
The workshop style atmosphere is organized with scheduled talks, a
poster session, and discussion periods; along with the opportunity for
further discussion at breaks and meals, it allows for interpersonal
communications not commonly found at conferences.
Program Topics
- Adapting to Change
- Aging Accelerators
- Beam Diagnostics
- Designing and Building a Control Room
- Commissioning new Accelerators
- Compact Facilities
- How We Do Business
- Involving Operators in Accelerator Physics
- New Technologies
- Operator Interface to Controls
- Operator Roles Outside Operations
- Operator Tools and Software
- Operator Training Programs
- Machine Optimization
Local Organizing Committee
- Greg Marr (Host)
- Peter Ingrassia
- Paul Sampson
- Travis Shrey
- Lee Hammons
- Vincent Schoefer
- Anna Petway (Workshop Coordinator)
- Emil Zitvogel
- Nick Franco (IT Admin)
- Nancy Boyle (Budget Admin)
- Jim Jamilkowski
- Reid Smith
- Tara Shiels (BNL Tours)
- Christine Meyer
- Caitlin Hoffman
- Bryan Callaghan
Workshop Co-hosts
- Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
- National Synchrotron Light Source II
International Program Committee
- Michael Bieler (DESY)
- Jon Bonofiglio (NSCL)
- Brian Freeman (JLAB)
- Kazuro Furukawa (KEK)
- Rossano Giachino (CERN)
- Laurent Hardy (ESRF)
- Glen Johns (SNS)
- Dan Johnson (FNAL)
- Gregory Marr (BNL)
- Montse Pont (ALBA)
- Petra Schuett (GSI)
- Peter Schuh (SLAC)
- Yoshiyuki Iwata (NIRS)
- Violeta Toma (TRIUMF)
- Jun Xing (IHEP)
- Wenzhi Zhang (SINAP)
Accommodations
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Sponsors & Exhibitors
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