Jack Salvesen presents at IPAC 2025

This June, Jack Salvesen, a DPhil at the John Adams Institute, attended IPAC 2025. Read more to hear from his experience!

I had the privilege of attending IPAC 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, as a recipient of the student grant. This was an excellent opportunity to present key aspects of my DPhil research and to engage with collaborators from other laboratories as well as colleagues working on related topics.

I was invited to give an oral contribution during the industry session on Wednesday 4 June 2025. My talk, Student Perspectives on Career Pathways, explored the concerns and aspirations of students in the accelerator physics field. I am grateful to all those who contributed to the discussion or responded to my survey. Overall, students expressed optimism: we are confident that accelerator physics provides a strong foundation of transferable skills and that, even if permanent positions in the field are limited, we can thrive in other sectors. At the same time, there are clear concerns about long-term job availability, and many students remain keen to work in national and international laboratories.

In addition to the invited talk, I presented three posters:

• Operational Challenges of the SuperKEKB iBump Feedback System
• Modelling Optics and Beam-Beam Effects of SuperKEKB with Xsuite
• Interaction-Point Beam Offset Tolerances for Luminosity Performance at FCC-ee

Discussing my work in depth and receiving detailed feedback at these sessions proved invaluable. Preparing and refining the contribution papers offered further experience in scientific writing and critical review. With my DPhil now in its final year, the presented material will form an integral part of the thesis.

The conference was lively and intellectually stimulating, with many engaging plenary, parallel, and poster sessions. Informal conversations over lunches and during the welcome reception and conference dinner further enriched the experience.

I am grateful to the conference committee for selecting me for the student grant and making my attendance possible. Special thanks go to Mr Yoichi Sato for inviting me to speak on such an important topic and for his role in organising the session on productive research environments. I also thank my co-authors, CERN, and the University of Oxford for their support throughout my research.