Name: IPAC'26 - the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Start: 2026-05-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-22T18:00:00+02:00
Location: C.I.D

Monday, 18 May 2026

09:00 MC0 : opening session: Welcome Address
Welcome Address
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium Michel d'Ornano
09:30 MC0 : opening session
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 GANIL - SPIRAL2 facility : first years of operation and new developments. - Robin Ferdinand (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique)

10:00 CERN’s future vision and priorities - Mark Thomson (University of Cambridge)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 MC0 : opening session
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Synchrotron light facility updates: the bright future of synchrotron science - Laurent Chapon (Advanced Photon Source)

11:30 First Acceleration of Positive Muons: From Initial Demonstration to High-Energy Development - Masashi Otani (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex)

12:00 Commissioning Progress of the ESS Linear Accelerator - Natalia Milas (European Spallation Source)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 MC7: Accelerator Technology
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Additively-manufactured monocrystalline YBCO superconductor - Cristian Boffo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 HTS Technology development for energy efficient magnets in PSI Large Research Facilities - Stephane Sanfilippo (Paul Scherrer Institute)
MC1 : Colliders and related accelerators (Invited)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 2
Contributions

14:00 Project status and R&D efforts for Super Tau-Charm Facility - Jingyu Tang (University of Science and Technology of China)

14:30 Prospects for linear colliders - Steinar Stapnes (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

15:40 The Ghost Collider: An Innovative Higgs Factory - Robert Apsimon (Lancaster University, Cockcroft Institute)
15:00 Contributed 2
Contributed 2
15:00 - 15:20

15:20 Contributed 3
Contributed 3
15:20 - 15:40

15:40 Contributed 6
Contributed 6
15:40 - 16:00

16:00 Poster session

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Chair's reception
Chair's reception
18:00 - 22:00
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
09:00 MC2 : Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 First Lasing of a Cavity Based X-ray FEL - Patrick Rauer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
MC8 : Applications of Accelerators, Engagement with Industry, Technology Transfer and Outreach
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Particle Accelerator-driven Muon Spectroscopy: An invaluable tool to understand our material world. - Adrian Hillier (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

09:30 First mixed He/C ion beams at a clinical facility: two years from concept to first ion imaging experiments - Elisabeth Renner (TU Wien)

09:50 Accelerators activities at ENEA for aerospace - Giulia Bazzano (ENEA Frascati Research Centre)

10:10 Recent Progress at KoBRA: From First Beam to User Program - Geonhee Oh (Institute for Basic Science)
09:30 Contributed 8
Contributed 8
09:30 - 09:50

09:50 Contributed 9
Contributed 9
09:50 - 10:10

10:10 Contributed 11
Contributed 11
10:10 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 MC3 : Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 High quality electron beams with tunable energy produced by laser-plasma acceleration - Brigitte CROS (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas)

11:30 First direct observation of a wakefield generated with structured light - Aaron Liberman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
MC5 : Beam Dynamics and Electromagnetic Fields
11:00 - 11:30
Contributions

11:00 Manipulating and Diagnosing Electron Beam with Cross-Plane Coupling in Transverse and Longitudinal Phase Spaces - Seongyeol Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
11:30 MC4: Hadron Accelerators
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Status and Comparison of World-wide In-flight Fragment Separators - Haik Simon (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

12:00 Accelerator Complex Evolution at Fermilab - Mary Convery (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
12:00 MC6 : Beam Instrumentation, Controls, Feedback & Operation
12:00 - 12:30
Contributions

12:00 ML-driven Automated Tuning of SACLA XFEL: Progress and Future - Eito Iwai (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, RIKEN SPring-8 Center)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 MC2 : Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions

14:00 Attosecond FEL Physics - Agostino Marinelli (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 Commissioning and Performance of the ThomX Compact Compton Source Demonstrator - Iryna Chaikovska (Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie)

15:00 High Charge Operation and Future Upgrades of the APS-U Injector Chain - Joseph Calvey (Argonne National Laboratory)
MC7: Accelerator Technology
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions

14:00 Innovate for Sustainable Accelerator Systems (iSAS) - Maud Baylac (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie)

14:30 The tristron, a new paradigm in high-efficiency RF power generation - Igor syratchev (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

15:00 Scale up in length of Nb3Sn accelerator magnets: the experience of MQXF coils - Susana Izquierdo Bermudez (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
15:20 Contributed 15
Contributed 15
15:20 - 15:40

Contributed 16
Contributed 16
15:20 - 15:40

15:40 Contributed 17
Contributed 17
15:40 - 16:00

Contributed 18
Contributed 18
15:40 - 16:00

16:00 Poster session

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Main Reception
Main Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
09:00 MC8 : Applications of Accelerators, Engagement with Industry, Technology Transfer and Outreach
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Accelerator-based lithography and the Induction Storage Ring Light Source - Michael Ehrlichman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
MC1 : Colliders and related accelerators (Invited)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 A quarter century of RHIC – performance far beyond design - Michiko Minty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:10 Near Resonance Polarization Modulation (NRPM), a Novel Method for High Precision Beam Energy Measurement in Storage Rings - Yi Wu (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
09:30 MC4: Hadron Accelerators: MC4: Hadron Accelerators
MC4: Hadron Accelerators
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Development and commissioning of normal conducting ion linacs: the INFN-LNL experience. - Francesco Grespan (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 MC3 : Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Controlled injection and acceleration of 10 GeV-class electron beams in a laser wakefield accelerator - Alex Picksley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:50 Short-pulse driven photogun for very hard x-ray free-electron laser - Wei Hou Tan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:10 A Portable Muon Source for artificial muon muography - Masao Kuriki (Hiroshima University)
MC5 : Beam Dynamics and Electromagnetic Fields
11:00 - 11:50
Contributions

11:00 Overview of crab cavities for light sources and particle colliders - Rama Calaga (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

11:30 Beam Dynamics Challenges and Optics Development for the PERLE Multi-Turn ERL - Alex Fomin (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 Engagement with Industry Session

14:00 - 16:00
MC2 : Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators
14:00 - 14:30
Contributions

14:00 Commissioning and current status of High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) - Yuhui Dong (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
14:30 MC5 : Beam Dynamics and Electromagnetic Fields
14:30 - 15:00
Contributions

14:30 Realization of High-Intensity Beams with Smaller Emittance Without a Transverse Feedback System - Yoshihiro Shobuda (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
15:00 Contributed 31
Contributed 31
15:00 - 15:20

15:20 Contributed 32
Contributed 32
15:20 - 15:40
15:40 MC6 : Beam Instrumentation, Controls, Feedback & Operation
15:40 - 16:00
Contributions

15:40 AI and machine learning techniques for LNL accelerators - Ysabella Kassandra Ong (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
16:00 Poster session

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Equal Opportunities

18:00 - 20:00
Thursday, 21 May 2026
09:00 MC2 : Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 MAX 4U, an upgrade of the MAX IV 3 GeV ring. - Eshraq Al-Dmour (MAX IV Laboratory)

09:30 First lasing and stable operation of a direct amplification enabled harmonic generation free electron laser - Zheng Qi (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute)

10:10 Demonstration of mode-locked frequency comb for an x-ray free-electron laser - Wenxiang Hu (Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich)
MC3 : Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Laser Plasma Accelerated Proton Bunches surpassing 100 MeV - Ulrich Schramm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 MC4: Hadron Accelerators
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Progress and status of high intensity heavy ion accelerator facility (HIAF) in China - Jiancheng Yang (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

11:50 Beam commissioning and upgrade progress for the CSNS-II RCS - Ming-Yang Huang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

12:10 Plasma-Assisted Space-Charge Neutralization for High-Current Cyclotron Axial Injection Using Beam-Ionized H2 and Kr Gas - Chong Shik Park (Korea University Sejong Campus)
MC6 : Beam Instrumentation, Controls, Feedback & Operation
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Overview of the Beam Position Monitors Development for the Next Generation Light Sources - Laura Torino (ALBA Synchrotron (Spain))

11:50 Development of a new ultraslow muon beam diagnostic system for the J-PARC muon g-2/EDM experiment - Mayu Wada (The University of Tokyo)

12:10 Achieve a record dynamic range of halo diagnostics with a novel fluorescence wire concept - Renjun Yang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 Award Session

14:00 - 15:20

15:20 Entertainment Session

15:20 - 16:00

16:00 Poster session

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Conference Banquet
Conference Banquet
18:00 - 22:00
Friday, 22 May 2026
09:00 MC5 : Beam Dynamics and Electromagnetic Fields
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Beam Dynamics in the SNS Linac and Beam Test Facility - Kiersten Ruisard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
MC6 : Beam Instrumentation, Controls, Feedback & Operation
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 From femtosecond to attosecond RF field control - Frank Ludwig (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

09:50 Intelligent scientific facility R&D: AI/ML developments at SLAC MeV-UED - Fuhao Ji (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:10 Progress in Data-Driven Beam Diagnostics within LIV.INNO - Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 MC0 : closing session
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Review of inverse Compton scattering sources and research paths towards fundamental physics studies - Vittoria Petrillo (University of Milano-Bicocca)

11:30 Machine learning for design and control of particle accelerators: A look backward and forward - Auralee Edelen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:00 The European Research Roadmap on Concepts and Technologies for Accelerators - Mike Seidel (Paul Scherrer Institute)
12:30 Closing Remarks

12:30 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Laboratory Tour

14:00 - 18:00