Name: LINAC2026 - 33rd Linear Accelerator Conference
Start: 2026-08-16T08:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-08-21T18:05:00+09:00
Location: Daejeon Convention Center

LINAC2026 - 33rd Linear Accelerator Conference

from Sunday, 16 August 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 21 August 2026 (18:05)

Monday, 10 August 2026
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
Thursday, 13 August 2026
Friday, 14 August 2026
Saturday, 15 August 2026
Sunday, 16 August 2026

14:00 Registration

14:00 - 20:00

16:00 Student Poster Session

16:00 - 18:30

18:30 Welcome Reception

18:30 - 20:00

Monday, 17 August 2026

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 08:50

08:50 Welcome Address

08:50 - 09:20
09:20 Plenary Talks
09:20 - 10:20
Contributions

09:20 Present status and future plans for linear accelerators in Korea - Yeonsei Chung (Institute for Basic Science)

09:50 Updates on the Worldwide efforts for transmutation of spent nuclear fuel with accelerator driven systems - Bruce Yee-Rendon (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary Talk
11:00 - 11:30
Contributions

11:00 High-dimensional beam tomography with PolariX: Experimental results from DESY and PSI - Sonja Jaster-Merz (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
11:30 Invited Talks
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Beam commissioning of the ESS accelerator: Results and Challenges - Sofia Johannesson (European Spallation Source)

11:50 Status of the LCLS-II-HE Upgrade - Daniel Gonnella (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:10 Coupled dynamics and transverse matching of intense heavy ion beams - Alec Gonzalez (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Invited Talks
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Four-dimensional phase space tomography from one-dimensional measurements of a hadron beam - Austin Hoover (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:20 Simple and Stable 3-GeV Linear Accelerator in High Brilliance Synchrotron Light Source NanoTerasu - Takao Asaka (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)

14:40 Systematic Mitigation of Intra-Beam Stripping and Distributed Beam Loss in High-Intensity H⁻ Linacs: Experimental and Operational Experience at J-PARC - Yong Liu (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
15:00 Oral Posters

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 Poster Session

16:00 - 17:00
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
08:30 Invited Talks
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Operational Status of the KOMAC 100 MeV Proton Linac and Pilot R&D for the 200 MeV Upgrade - Han-Sung Kim (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)

08:50 PIP-II PROJECT PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES - Olivier Napoly (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:10 High intensity, high polarization electron gun for Electron–Ion Collider - Erdong Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 Photocathode-driven injector linac design for Korea-4GSR - Chang-Ki Min (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)

09:50 First robotic assisted string assembly of PIP-II SSR2 cavities at Fermilab - Mattia Parise (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:10 Automated Commissioning and Intelligent Operational Strategies for the HIAF-iLinac SRF System - Feng Qiu (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary Talks
11:00 - 11:30
Contributions

11:00 Charge Selector Challenges in High Power Heavy Ion Linacs - Alexander Plastun (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
11:30 Lightning Talks by Participating Industries

11:30 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Invited Talks
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Development and First Beam Generation of A Conduction-Cooled SRF Photogun - Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs (United States))
15:00 Oral Posters

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 Poster Session

16:00 - 17:00
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
08:30 Invited Talks
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Post-Mortem Insights into the SNS RFQ: Implication and Paths Forward for high beam power operation - Haitao Ren (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:50 Overview and current status of the IFMIF-DONES accelerator systems - Ivan Podadera (Consorcio IFMIF-DONES España)

09:10 A SURVEY OF THE GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC KLYSTRON MARKET AND ITS FUTURE - John Moss (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:30 Status of the HIAF Linacs - Weilong Chen (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:50 TRANSFORMING THE BNL 200 MeV H⁻ LINAC: 10³ LOWER LOSSES, 2× HIGH-CURRENT TRANSMISSION, AND 2× LOWER EMITTANCE - Deepak Raparia (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:10 High-Current Heavy-Ion Acceleration Above 100 mA in a Four-Rod RFQ - Masahiro Okamura (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary Talks
11:00 - 11:30
Contributions

11:00 Laser-plasma accelerator driven radiation generation and applications - Jeroen van Tilborg (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:30 Invited Talks
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Status of the NEWGAIN Project: The New Heavy Ion Injector for SPIRAL2 - Frederic Chautard (Grand Accélérateur Nat. d'Ions Lourds)

11:50 Breaking the Cryoplant Barrier: Conduction-Cooled Nb₃Sn SRF Linacs for Industrial and Environmental Applications - Jayakar Thangaraj (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
12:30 Social Outing

12:30 - 16:00
Thursday, 20 August 2026
08:30 Invited Talks
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 25 years of FEL operation at FLASH (DESY) - Katja Honkavaara (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

08:50 Compact and efficient CW electron LINACs for industrial and environmental applications - Robert Rimmer (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

09:10 Intrabeam Scattering and 6D Brightness: Modelling, Measurement, and the Road to a Brighter SwissFEL electron source - Thomas Lucas (Paul Scherrer Institute)

09:30 Technical commissioning of the ESS linac cavities for the Beam on Dump Phases - Marten Koopmans (European Spallation Source)

10:10 Progress in the LIPAc Validation and the roadmap towards SRF Linac Beam Commissioning - Keitaro Kondo (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Invited Talks
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Development of the composite structure SRF cavities for pursuing high operational stability at IMP - Shichun Huang (Institute of Modern Physics)

11:20 Operation challenges of large-scale low-beta SC cavities in heavy ion linac - Sang-hoon Kim (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
12:00 Student Prizes

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Invited Talks
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Progress on Staging of laser-plasma accelerators - Aodhan McIlvenny (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:20 Experimental Generation of Extreme Electron Beams for Advanced Accelerator Applications - Claudio Emma (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:40 Simultaneous boost of electron beam energy and brightness in a plasma wakefield accelerator - Douglas Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
15:00 Oral Posters

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 Poster Session

16:00 - 17:00

19:00 Conference Banquet

19:00 - 20:00
Friday, 21 August 2026
08:30 Invited Talks
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 A Very compact Inverse Compton scattering gamma-ray source at Tsinghua University - Chuanxiang Tang (Tsinghua University)

08:50 Low-emittance muon beam acceleration using a radio frequency quadrupole for the J-PARC muon g−2/EDM Experiment - Yuga Nakazawa (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

09:10 New-type high-voltage pulse generator with wide-band rf amplifiers: The principle and application for particle accelerators - Kazuaki Togawa (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)

09:30 Development of MW-Level Compact P-Band Metamaterial Klystrons at CSNS - Zhencheng Mu (Institute of High Energy Physics)

09:50 The Jefferson Lab Injector Upgrade: Design, Commissioning, and Operational Performance - Reza Kazimi (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

10:10 Demonstration of cavity field mapping by falling drops of liquid - Xiaonan Du (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary Talks
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:30 Linac Facilities for Single Event Effects Testing - Steven Lidia (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
12:00 Closing Talk

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 Closing

12:30 - 13:00

13:30 Facility Tour

13:30 - 17:30