July 5-11, 1998
Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
Hosted by:
Institute for Plasma Research
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Sponsored by:
U.S. Department of Energy
High Energy Physics Division
Advanced Technology Branch
- The Workshop
- Participation
- Correspondence
- Scope
- Topics
- Important Dates
- Scientific Advisory and Organizing Committee
- Group Leaders and Working Groups
- Location
- Accommodations and Parking
- Registration Information
- Transportation and Directions
- Companion Program
- Information for Authors (Submission of Papers)
- Preliminary Program
- Invited Speakers
- Preliminary Workshop Schedule
- Application Form (Web) (rtf) (postscript) (pdf)
The Eighth Workshop on Advanced Accelerator Concepts will be held from July 5-11, 1998 in the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. This series started in the early 1980s. The last two workshops were held at the Abbey at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA in 1994 and at Granlibakken Conference Center at Lake Tahoe, California, in 1996. The 1998 workshop will be sponsored as usual by the U.S. Department of Energy (High Energy Physics Division, Advanced Technology Branch). The Institute for Plasma Research at the University of Maryland will host the workshop.
The workshop will be limited to 150 participants. Participation is by invitation only, and we have encouraged students and junior colleagues active in the fields of accelerators, lasers, plasmas and particle/photon beam physics and technology to apply. The deadline for applying is February 22, 1998. Once we have received the applications for participation, the Advisory and Organizing Committee will select 150 participants. Selection will reflect a balance of fields, institutions, students, colleagues, experts, national laboratories, and key international figures. Interested parties can apply using the Application Form(Web) (rtf) (postscript) (pdf) or by submitting the required information to the Workshop Coordinator via email or fax.
Send all correspondence to:
Victor Granatstein, Workshop Chair
c/o Carol Bellamy, Workshop Coordinator
Institute for Plasma Research
Building #223, Paint Branch Drive
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-3511 USA
Telephone: (301)405-4964
Email: cbellamy@glue.umd.edu
Fax: (301) 314-9437
The Advanced Accelerator Concepts workshop is the only acknowledged and fully sponsored forum that provides a platform for inter- and cross-disciplinary discussions on various aspects of advanced accelerator and beam physics/technology concepts covering a wide range of applications--from high energy colliders to synchrotron radiation sources. The wide scope of the workshop includes new methods of particle acceleration to high energies, techniques for production of ultrahigh gradient electromagnetic fields in the laboratory, diagnostics and control of particle/photon beams to ultrashort dimensions and ultrafast time scales, and improved concepts for rf energy and beam sources. The workshop achievements and proceedings will be critical in directing the future of accelerator- and beam-based science world wide.
February 22--Deadline for application forms
March 31--Second announcement mailed
April 1--Deadline for contributed abstracts
May 1--Notification of acceptance
June 1 -- Final program mailed
July 5-11 -- Workshop
July 6 -- Submission of all invited and contributed papers
September 20 -- Submission of Working Group summaries
Swapan Chattopadhyay, Berkeley Labs
Pisin Chen, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
"Beam Physics at Very High Energy Densities"
Eric Esarey, Naval Research Laboratory
Wim Leemans, Berkeley Labs
"Plasma-Based Acceleration Concepts"
Jay Hirshfield, Yale University
Wayne Kimura, STI Optronics
"Novel Structure-Based Acceleration Concepts"
Todd Smith, Stanford University
Chris Clayton, UCLA
"Beam Generation, Monitoring, Conditioning and Control at High Frequency and Ultrafast Time Scales"
Patrick O'Shea, Duke University
Linda Spentzouris, Fermi National Acceleration Laboratory
"Particle Beam Sources"
Michael Fazio, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thomas Marshall, Columbia University
"Radiation Sources"
The meeting will be held at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel located
at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, just 15 minutes from
Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI). The Renaissance is
the best hotel in Baltimore, having earned both the AAA four-diamond
award and the Mobil four-star award. In addition, the hotel offers:
Rooms at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel will cost participants US $133 (plus tax) per night, single or double occupancy. Parking rates are currently $11 per day for hotel guests and US $14 per day for non-guests. (Note: Due to the excellent location of the hotel, cars are unnecessary for those planning to stay at the hotel.)
Registration materials will be mailed out by March 31, 1998. The registration fee of US $350 includes admission to all oral and poster sessions, the proceedings, and meeting materials, and six breakfasts, four lunches, daily coffee breaks, a reception buffet, and banquet.
By Air: Participants are encouraged to use Baltimore-Washington International Airport. SuperShuttle vans leave BWI every 30 minutes for downtown Baltimore and cost $10 one-way. Taxi and limousine service from BWI to Inner Harbor is approx. $25 (for up to 3 people).
By Amtrak: Penn Station is about 15 blocks from the hotel; taxi service is available (approx. $8 one way).
By MARC Train: Take the Camden Line. Turn left as you exit Camden Yards Station and go one block to Pratt Street; turn right on Pratt and walk four blocks to the hotel (on your left).
By Car: The Renaissance Harborplace Hotel is on Pratt Street, between Calvert and South Streets; the garage entrance is on South Street. Directions follow:
From Washington, DC (south): Take Rte. 295 (Baltimore-Washington Parkway) until Parkway ends. Follow signs for Inner Harbor to Pratt Street; turn right on Pratt and go approx. 8 blocks. Hotel will be on your left. OR Take I-95 North to Rte. 395 (Downtown) exit #53. Follow signs for Inner Harbor to Pratt Street; turn right on Pratt and go approx. 6 blocks to the hotel (on your left).
From New York-New Jersey (northeast): Take I-95 South through the Fort McHenry Tunnel to Rte. 395 (Downtown) exit #53. Follow left exit (Downtown). Stay straight and turn right at the 3rd traffic light onto Pratt Street; go approx. 6 blocks to the hotel (on your left).
From Pennsylvania (north): Take Rte. 83 South until it ends in downtown Baltimore. Turn right on Lombard Street to South Street. Turn left on South; hotel will be on your right, at the corner of South and Pratt.
From West Virginia (west): Take Rte. 70 East to Rte. 695 South (toward Glen Burnie), to I-95 North (exit #11A). Take I-95 to Rte. 395 (Downtown) exit #53. Follow signs for Inner Harbor to Pratt Street. Turn right on Pratt, go approx. 8 blocks to hotel (on your left).
Companions are welcome to attend the meeting, and a program of activities is being planned to coincide with the workshop sessions. Companions are also encouraged to join the workshop participants in an excursion on Wednesday afternoon and several evening activities, including a reception on Sunday and a banquet on Thursday. At the reception on Sunday we will present more details of the planned program of activities. Samar Guharay of the University of Maryland will be available throughout the week to help coordinate activities. Information about guest fees for the excursion, banquet, and other activities will be sent with the registration material on March 31.
The workshop proceedings will be published, following tradition, in the American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Series. Both electronic (CD-ROM) and hard-copy publishing are planned, as with the last workshop. All manuscripts from prospective authors of invited and contributed talks, posters, etc., are due without exception by July 9th. The summaries of the Working Group Leaders are due by September 20, 1998 at the latest. Authors of contributed and poster papers (with the exception of invited speakers) should submit a 250-word abstract by April 1, 1998.
AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS/STYLE GUIDES/FORMS
AIP requires authors to follow detailed instructions to prepare their camera-ready manuscripts. They are available as printed booklets and as a PDF online. (PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A MACRO, STYLE GUIDE, OR TEMPLATE. THEY ARE ONLY VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS WHICH INCLUDE A SAMPLE PAPER AS AN EXAMPLE.)
For those authors who wish to use a LaTeX macro, AIP has made available
on the World Wide Web a template to follow for camera ready manuscript
preparation. The LaTeX style files and the documentation for conference
proceedings are available at:
ftp://ftp.aip.org/ems/tex/macros/proceedings/6x9
for proceedings to be published in the 6x9 inch format.
Please ftp ALL the files in the directory you choose. Each directory contains macros, documentation, and sample input files. Users should get ALL the files in the directory they choose.
FORMS
INSTRUCTIONS FOR REMOTE ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT TRANSFER
The preferred method for submitting your manuscripts for the 8th Workshop on Advanced Accelerator Concepts is via an anonymous login to the official ftp site. Submissions can be made anytime between now and July 9th. Use the standard procedure. FTP to "ftp.eng.umd.edu". Use "anonymous" as the login ID and your complete e-mail address as the password. Change directories, once logged in, to "/pub/waac8/incoming". "Put" your files there. Use as the file name the last three letters of your last name, your first initial, and up to 4 more characters (for a total of 8) before the file extension which is indicative of the type of file. For example, a WORD document from Wes Lawson could be named "lawwxxxx.doc".
Then send an e-mail to lawson@eng.umd.edu which contains: (1) the name(s) of author(s), title of the paper; (2) submission date and the session you will present the paper in; (3) a list of all file names submitted, with a description of each file; (4) the contact person's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
The full workshop program will be available by the time of the second announcement. The program will consist of a set of invited talks throughout the week, solicited from international experts and recommended by the Advisory and Program Committee. These talks will fill the plenary sessions, taking the entire first day of the workshop and consisting of one or two per day thereafter. The last day of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation of the Working Group summaries. The rest of the workshop time will be spent in working group discussions (seven in all), spontaneous group discussions, and poster presentations. The posters will remain up throughout the entire time, and will include perhaps one rotation. There will be an informal reception upon arrival, a free afternoon for sightseeing, and a banquet, as well as other social events.
The preliminary program consists of the following invited speakers:
| MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | |
| 8:15 | Announce- ments |
Announce- ments |
Announce- ments |
Announce- ments |
Announce- ments |
Announce- ments |
| 8:30 | Sessler | Danly | Petelin Wurtele |
Plettner Lawson |
Clendenin Tajima |
Wrap-up Session 1 |
| 9:30 | Katsouleas | Whittum | Workshop Session 4 |
Workshop Session 6 |
Workshop Session 11 |
Wrap-up Session 2 |
| 10:30 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 11:00 | Marshall | Pogorelsky Zimmermann |
Workshop Session 5 |
Workshop Session 7 |
Workshop Session 12 |
Wrap-up Session 3 |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | LUNCH | EXCURSION | LUNCH | LUNCH | ADJOURN |
| 1:30 | Rosenzweig | Workshop Session 1 |
- | Workshop Session 8 |
Workshop Session 13 |
- |
| 2:30 | Esarey | Workshop Session 2 |
- | Workshop Session 9 |
Workshop Session 14 |
- |
| 3:30 | BREAK | BREAK | - | BREAK | BREAK | - |
| 4:00 | Organize Sessions |
Workshop Session 3 |
- | Workshop Session 10 |
Workshop Session 15 |
- |
| - | - | - | - | BANQUET | - | - |