Members of the JAI attend IBIC2025

The JAI was represented by students and staff at the International Beams Instrumentation Conference (IBIC2025), Liverpool, UK, who joined researchers and professionals from around the world to explore the latest developments in beam instrumentation and diagnostics. The conference provided a platform for sharing insights, fostering collaboration, and highlighting innovations that are shaping the future of accelerator science. Read more to find out about their experience!

Corey Lehman

I recently attended the IBIC2025 conference in Liverpool as a DPhil Student with the Diamond Light Source Diagnostics team. As part of this conference, I presented a poster and paper showing some of the research I've completed over the last 6 months. The focus is on the use of Machine Learning to infer useful information from a distributed network of Beam Loss Monitors - a common type of beam instrumentation. Machine Learning is a growing tool in the beam instrumentation world due to its ability to simplify and analyse complex data, and its applications are still being explored.

The conference was particularly useful for me in networking with others researching in adjacent fields. It was great meeting some of the researchers whose papers I have been reading and using, and the poster sessions gave a condensed overview of current related research happening around the world. Overall, it was an excellent experience, and I hope to attend again in the future as my research grows.

Seb Wilkes

I presented work on working with a beamline at Diamond as part of efforts to help offer advanced specialist scientific imaging conditions.  This took the form of an oral presentation. The purpose of the conference was to gain insights into what sorts of questions the community would have about my work, in order to prepare myself for a future PhD viva where presumably similar questions might be asked.  It was useful to field these questions. It was also reassuring that other investigations presented at the conference which had utilised similar techniques to my own presentation were something I could then engage with. Finally, it was a great chance to see my home city in a new light! That is something that I will always cherish.