This page gives information on the John Adams Institute Seminar Series. The seminars are usually held on Thursdays at 16:15, during term time, in the Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford.

Due to public-health concerns around the Covid-19 pandemic, the seminars will be held online via Zoom until further notice.

For Michaelmass term 2021 the JAI have helped to organise the UK accelerator physics institutes seminar series.

The details of which can be found on the seminar series Indico page.

Upcoming Seminars


Presenter	Title	Date	Time	Venue	Zoom Link
Dr. Walter Wuensch (CERN)	The CHUV-CERN Collaboration on a High-energy Electron FLASH Therapy Facility	Thursday 14th October 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay	Quantum Beams	Thursday 21st October 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Prof. Lia Merminga (Fermilab)	The PIP-II Project at Fermilab	Thursday 28th October 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Dr. Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)	NIMMS	Thursday 4th November 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Dr. Peter Spiller	FAIR	Thursday 11th November 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Dr. Walter Venturini (CERN)	SC-RF	Thursday 18th November 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Dr. Winni Decking	European XFEL	Thursday 25th November 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Dr. Thibaut Lefevre	Beam Instrumentation and Diagnostics	Thursday 2nd December 2021	16:15 - 17:15	-	Zoom link

Previous seminars

2021

Seminar slides and videos for 2021 can be found on the JAI seminar series indico page and the joint UK accelerator institutes seminar series indico page.


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
Dr. Jason Crnkovic (FNAL)	The g-2 Experiment	Thursday 17th June 2021	-	-	Video

Dr. Sandra Biedron (University of New Mexico)	Thoughts for Dynamic Systems	Thursday 10th June 2021	-	-	Video

Dr. Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)	AWAKE: Accelerating Electrons to GeVs in a Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Experiment	Thursday 3rd June 2021	-	-	Video

Prof. Andrei Seyri (Jefferson Lab).	The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) - Accelerator Design Overview	Thursday 27th May 2021	-	-	Video

Dr. Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN).	The Future Circular Collider Hadron-Hadron Collider (FCC-hh)	Thursday 20th May 2021	-	-	Video

Prof. Ken Long (JAI)	The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications (LhARA)	Thursday 13th May 2021	-	-	Video

Dr. Ian Martin (STFC-RAL).	The Diamond-II Upgrade Project	Thursday 6th May 2021	-	-	Video

Dr. Mats Lindroos (ESS).	Building the European Spallation Source Accelerator	Thursday 29th April 2021	-	-	Video

JAI Graduate Students.	Design Project on the eSPS Facility at CERN	Thursday 11th March 2021	-	-	-

Dr. John Thomason (STFC-RAL).	Upgrade of the ISIS Facility - "ISIS 2"	Thursday 4th March 2021	Slides	-	-

Dr. Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN).	Physics vs Cancer: What are the Hot Topics in Particle Therapy Accelerator Development?	Thursday 25th February 2021	-	-	-

Dr. Makoto Tobiyama (KEK).	The SuperKEKB Accelerator	Thursday 18th February 2021	-	-	-

Prof. Lucio Rossi (University of Milano and INFN Milano).	Superconducting Magnets: An Enabling Technology for Physics Research and Society	Thursday 11th February 2021	Slides	-	Video

Prof. Shinichiro Michizono (KEK).	The International Linear Collider	Thursday 4th February 2021	Slides	-	Video

Dr. Frank Zimmermann (CERN).	The FCC-ee Higgs and Electroweak Factory	Thursday 28th January	Slides	-	Video

Prof. Steinar Stapnes (CERN).	The eSPS Facility at CERN	Thursday 21st January 2021	Slides	-	Video

2020


Presenter	Title	Date
JAI Graduate Students	Student Design Project: A Rapid Cycling Synchrotron for a Muon Collider	Thursday 12th March 2020

Dr. Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN)	Physics Beyond Colliders at CERN: New discoveries beyond new supercolliders?	Thursday 5th March 2020

Dr. Hector Garcia-Morales (JAI Oxford)	Machine Learning Techniques for Particle Accelerators	Thursday 20th February 2020

Dr. Daniel Schulte (CERN)	The design of a future Muon Collider	Thursday January 30th 2020

2019


Presenter	Title	Date
Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay	Advanced Research in IOTA: Beyond PIP-II; Nonlinear Dynamics; Optical Stochastic Cooling and Quantum Science	Thursday 18th April 2019

Dr. Brian W.J. McNeil (University of Strathclyde Glasgow)	Pushing the X-ray Free Electron Laser to its limits	Thursday 6th March 2019

Dr. Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN)	CERN Test Beamlines	Thursday 21st Feb 2019

Dr. Laurence Court (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)	Physics approaches to improving access to cancer care in low- and middle-income countries	Thursday 17th January 2019

Dr Stephen Brooks (Brookhaven National Laboratory)	Permanent Magnet Accelerator Arcs with Linear Fields	Tuesday 15th January 2019

2018


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides
Prof Sultan B. Dabagov (XLab Frascati)	Advanced Channeling Technologies: Strong External Electromagnetic Fields to Guide Charged & Neutral Beams	Thursday 15th November 2018

Prof Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)	From Accelerator and Particle Physics to Cancer Treatment	Tuesday 17 May 2018

Dr. Lecz Zsolt (ELI-ALPS Hungary)	Short wavelength radiation from intense laser-plasma interactions	19th of April 4.15pm	Slides

Dr. Christoph Montag (Brookhaven National Lab Shirley NY USA)	eRHIC Design Status	Tuesday 8 May 2018 4:15 pm	Slides

Dr. Kiersten Ruisard (University of Maryland Washington D.C. USA)	Design of nonlinear quasi-integrable optics for resonance suppression at the University of Maryland Electron Ring	Thursday 22nd February 2018 4:00 pm	Slides


Dr. Sergey Belomestnykh (Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois USA)	Radio frequency superconductivity for particle accelerators:Recent trends in physics and technology	Monday 12 February 2018 4:15 pm	Slides


Dr. Andrew M. Hutton (Jefferson Lab Newport News Virginia USA)	JLEIC –An Electron-Ion Collider Proposal at Jefferson Laboratory	Thursday 18th January 2018 4:15 pm	Slides

2017


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
Dr. Steve Peggs ( CBETA Project Director BNL USA)	The Cornell-BNL ERL Test Accelerator: Status and Opportunities	Wednesday 18th October 2017	slides
Dr. Joshua McNeur (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)	Dielectric laser accelerators: towards a photonic accelerator on a chip	Wednesday 6th December 2017
Valery Dolgashev (SLAC)	Cryogenic Normal Conducting RF Accelerators - Experiments That Enable High Brightness RF Guns	Monday 19th June 2017	slides	video	Vimeo
Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (Fermilab/NIU)	Progress Towards Ultra-cold Quantum Degenerate Electron and Photon Sources	Wednesday 24th May 2017		video	Vimeo
Nick Walker (DESY)	From Linear Collider to European XFEL, and back again	Monday 13th March 2017	slides	video	Vimeo
John Osborne (CERN)	Civil engineering aspects and challenges for CERN’s Future Accelerators (100km Future Circular Collider / Linear Colliders and High Luminosity LHC)	Wednesday 1st March 2017	slides	video	Vimeo
Gil Travish (Adaptix Ltd.)	Medical Imaging with Ionizing Radiation: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities	Wednesday 22nd February 2017	slides
Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)	AWAKE, the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Experiment at CERN	Thursday 26th January 2017	slides	video	Vimeo

2016


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
Dr. Giuliano Franchetti (GSI)	Space Charge Effects in Nonlinear Circular Accelerators	Friday 16th December 2016		video	Vimeo
Mike Lamont (CERN)	The challenges of LHC commissioning past and future	Thursday 3rd November 2016	slides		Vimeo
Dmitry Shwartz (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)	VEPP-2000 e+e- collider at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics	Friday 28th October 2016	slides
Prof Vasyl Maslov (Kharkov Ukraine)	Wakefield Excitation in Plasma by Short Train of Laser Pulses in Nonlinear Bubble/Blowout Regime	Thursday 13th October 2016	slides		Vimeo
Konstantin Lekomtsev (JAI RHUL)	Generation of THz radiation at KEK LUCX facility	Thursday 7th July 2016	slides
Emilia Cruz Alaniz (JAI Oxford)	Designing the interaction regions of the upgrades of the LHC	Thursday 7th July 2016	slides
Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (Fermilab/NIU)	Accelerator Science Program at the FAST/IOTA Complex at Fermilab	Thursday 2nd June 2016	slides		Vimeo
Prof. Gennady Shvets (The University of Texas at Austin)	Synergistic Direct/Wakefield Acceleration of Plasma Electrons In the Plasma Bubble Regime Using Tailored Laser Pulses	Wednesday 25th May 2016	slides		Vimeo
Nikolay Mezentsev (BINP)	Superconducting wigglers and undulators	Monday 23rd May 2016	slides		Vimeo
Andrew Lancaster (JAI Oxford)	How far how fast and what shape?	Thursday 19th May 2016	slides
Neven Blaskovic Kraljevic (JAI Oxford)	Nanometre-level stabilisation on nanosecond timescales	Thursday 19th May 2016	slides
Zsolt Lécz (ELI-ALPS)	Interaction of plasmas with intense laser pulses carrying orbital angular momentum	Thursday 14th April 2016	slides
Prof. William Barletta (USPAS/ MIT)	Accelerator Research in the U.S. for High Energy Physics: A biased perspective	Wednesday 6th April 2016	slides		Vimeo
Prof. Vladimir Kekelidze (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)	International project NICA at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research	Thursday 17th March 2016	ppsx pdf
Daniel Schulte (CERN)	FCC-hh	Thursday 10th March 2016	slides		Vimeo
Prof. Malte Kaluza (Jena)	Visualising the Dynamics of a Plasma-Based Electron Accelerator	Thursday 18th February 2016	slides
John Fox (SLAC)	Wideband intra-bunch feedback systems	Friday 12th February 2016	slides		Vimeo

2015


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (stream)
	JAIfest 2015	Thursday 10th December 2015
Prof. Alessandro Olivo (University College London)	Multi-modal phase-based x-ray imaging: detecting the undetectable	Thursday 29th October 2015	slides	Vimeo
Dr. Stephen Webb (RadiaSoft LLC)	Nonlinear Integrable Optics as a Route to High Intensity Accelerators	Monday 7th September 2015	slides	Vimeo
Androula Alekou (JAI Oxford)	Protons electrons and muons	Thursday 4th June 2015	slides
Jimmy Holloway (JAI Oxford)	Driving Plasma Wakefields - experiments and simulations with particle and laser beams	Thursday 4th June 2015	slides
Suzie Sheehy (JAI Oxford/STFC)	The IBEX Paul Trap: Studying accelerator physics without the accelerator	Thursday 21st May 2015	slides
Ryan Bodenstein (JAI Oxford)	Accelerator Physics Around ¾ of the World: A Summary of Experiences & Planned Work at FONT	Thursday 21st May 2015	slides
Nicholas Matlis (LBNL)	Micromanaging laser-plasma interactions for fast accelerator science	Friday 6th March 2015
Rebecca Seviour (Huddersfield University)	Photonics Particle Accelerators and beyond the Standard Model	Thursday 12th February 2015	slides

2014


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
Chan Joshi (UCLA)	Electron and Positron Acceleration in a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator	Tuesday 16th December 2014	slides
Richard Walker (Diamond)	The Origins of Particle Accelerators and their Early Development in the UK	Thursday 4th December			on request
Professor Andrei Seryi (JAI)	Science and the Art of Inventiveness	Friday 24th October 2014			podcast
	Octoberfest at JAI	Friday 3rd October 2014	agenda
Pantaleo Raimondi (ESRF)	ESRF Operation Status Report & Phase I and II Accelerator Upgrade Programme	Tuesday 9th September 2014	slides
Jean-Luc Vay (LBNL)	Efficient Particle-In-Cell modeling of laser-driven plasma accelerators	Thursday 12th June 2014	slides	video	Vimeo
Terence Garvey (PSI)	The Swiss Free Electron Laser Linac	Thursday 8th May 2014	slides	video	Vimeo
Julia Grebenyuk (DESY)	Plasma wakefield acceleration: towards high-quality stable beams at FLASHForward at DESY	Tuesday 18th February 2014	slides		on request
Prof Il Soon Hwang (Seoul National University)	Prospects for Accelerator Driven Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Waste Transformation	Tuesday 21st January 2014	slides		Vimeo

2013


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
	Octoberfest at JAI	Thursday 24th October 2013
Prof. Subal Kar (University of Calcutta)	Progress with Metamaterial Research	Tuesday 15th October 2013	slides		Vimeo
Alexey Burov (FNAL)	Nested Head-Tail Vlasov Solver: a New Powerful Program for Transverse Beam Stability Analysis	Thursday 10th October 2013	slides
Prof Bernhard Hidding (University of Strathclyde)	Towards hybrid plasma-based multi-color FELs	Thursday 26th September 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Vladimir Vogel (DESY)	20 Kelvin cold High gradient RF gun	Monday 23rd September 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Prof. Chan Joshi (UCLA)	Latest Results on PWFA and LWFA from UCLA	Monday 9th September 2013
Alexander Gerbershagen (University of Oxford/CERN)	CLIC Drive Beam Phase Stabilisation	Friday 26th July 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Carol Johnstone (Particle Accelerator Corporation and Michigan State University)	Advances in Particle-beam therapy accelerators and imaging technologies	Wednesday 10th July 2013
Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)	Manipulation of transverse beam distribution in circular accelerators: beam splitting by particles trapping into resonance islands	Thursday 4th July 2013	pdf pps	video	Vimeo
James Holloway (University College London)	Micro-Bunching Conventional Particle Beams to Drive Plasma Wakefield Acceleration	Thursday 30th May 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Steven Jamison (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)	Ultrafast lasers and Terahertz Radiation for Accelerator Diagnostics and Beam Manipulation	Thursday 23rd May 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Prof Jonathan Marangos (Imperial College London)	Ultrafast science with X-ray FELs	Thursday 16th May 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
John Allen (Elekta Limited)	Technology Challenges of Commercial Medical Electron Accelerators	Thursday 2nd May 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Jose Abelleira Fernandez (EPFL/CERN)	Crab-waist collisions. From lepton to hadron colliders.	Thursday 21st March 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Patric Muggli (Max Plank Institute for Physics)	Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and the AWAKE Project at CERN	Thursday 21st February 2013	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr David Findlay (STFC)	Accelerators for neutrons	Thursday 14th February 2013	slides	video	Vimeo

2012


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
Dr Deepa Angal-Kalinin (ASTeC STFC Daresbury Laboratory)	Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) and proposed FEL test facility Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) at Daresbury Laboratory	Thursday 22nd November 2012	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Frank Zimmermann (CERN)	Circular Higgs Factories: LEP3 TLEP and SAPPHIRE	Thursday 1st November 2012	slides	video	Vimeo
	Octoberfest at JAI	Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Dr Massimo Ferrario (INFN-LNF)	Advanced Accelerator Activities at SPARC_LAB	Thursday 21st June 2012	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr. Peter Kuske (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)	Longitudinal Dynamics of Single Bunches and Longitudinal Bunch Gymnastics	Thursday 3rd May 2012		video	Vimeo
Prof V. Balakin	New techniques and technology for cancer treatment with a proton beam	Wednesday 21st March 2012
Dr Steve Peggs (European Spallation Source)	The Conceptual Design of the ESS	Tuesday 20th March 2012	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Steinar Stapnes(CERN)	Next step at the energy frontier: A future compact multi-TeV electron-positron collider (CLIC)?	Thursday 1st March 2012		video	Vimeo
Dr Vadim Dudnikov (Muons Inc Batavia IL USA)	Development of Negative Ion Sources	Friday 17th February 2012		video	Vimeo
Prof Bob Bingham (CLF RAL)	The Role of Plasmas in Particle Acceleration	Thursday 16th February		video	Vimeo
Prof Allen Caldwell (MPI Munich)	Proton-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration	Thursday 9th February 2012	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Alessandro Variola (LAL Orsay)	The ThomX project: a Compton light source	Thursday 2nd February 2012		video	Vimeo
Dr Steffen Doebert (CERN)	High average current photo injector (PHIN) for the CLIC Test Facility at CERN	Thursday 19th January 2012	slides	video	Vimeo

2011


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Video (stream)
Prof Georg Hoffstaetter (Cornell University)	Review of energy recovery Linacs	Thursday 8th December 2011	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Dan Faircloth (ISIS - RAL)	Ion Sources for High Power Accelerators	Thursday 17th November 2011		video	Vimeo
Dr Marc Wenskat (Desy Hamburg)	High gradient superconducting cavitites - a worthy challenge	Thursday 19th October 2011	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Yuri Kubyshin (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya)	Design and construction of a compact 12 MeV race-track microtron at the Technical University of Catalonia	Thursday 26th May 2011		video	Vimeo
Prof Jim Clarke (ASTeC)	The ALICE electron test accelerator - challenges achievements and future plans	Thursday 17th March 2011	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Marco Silari (CERN)	Medical Applications of Particle Accelerators	Thursday 10th March 2011	slides	video	Vimeo
Prof Jerry Hastings (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)	LCLS: The world's firs X-ray Free Electron Laser	Thursday 3rd March 2011		video	Vimeo
Dr Gordon Robb (University of Strathclyde)	Quantum and Classical FELs	Thursday 24th February 2011	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Ryutaro Nagaoka (Synchrotron-SOLEIL)	An overview of collective effects in 3rd generation light sources and studies of beam instabilities at SOLEIL	Thursday 3rd February 2011	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Mark Wiggins (Strathclyde University)	The ALPHA-X laser wakefield accelerator: towards a compact light source	Thursday 6th January 2011	slides		Vimeo

2010


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Vimeo stream
Dr Rakesh Roshan & Dr Gurinder Punn (Isis Innovation Ltd)	Activity of the Isis Innovation Ltd	Monday 13th December 2010	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Vitaly Yakimenko (BNL)	Experimental Program at Brookhaven Accelerator Test Facility	Thursday 2nd December 2010		video	Vimeo
Dr Oliver Heid (Siemens)	Accelerators - an industry perspective	Thursday 18th November 2010	slides	video	Vimeo
Dr Stephen Molloy (RHUL)	European Spallation Source(ESS): EM Fields & SC Cavities in Particle Accelerators	Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Dr Susan Smith (ASTeC)	ALICE: Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments	Wednesday 20th October 2010
Junji Urakawa (KEK)	Quantum Beam Technology Program supported by MEXT (JAPAN)	Wednesday 22 September	slides	video	Vimeo
John Ellis (CERN)	Gauguin's Questions in Physics	Tuesday 21st September	slides	video	Vimeo
Carsten Hast (SLAC)	User Facilities for HEP and Photon Science at SLAC: FACET, NLCTA, ASTA, and ESTB	Thursday 9th September	slides	video	Vimeo
Eros Pedroni (PSI)	Past and future strategies of PSI for advancing proton pencil beam scanning	Thursday 29th July 2010
Alan Phelps (Strathclyde)	Research progress at Strathclyde relevant to Accelerators	Thursday 17th June 2010	slides	video	Vimeo
Roland Garoby (CERN)	Plans for a Superconducting Proton Linac at CERN	Thursday 10th June 2010	part1 part2	video	Vimeo
Jon Clare (University of Nottingham)	Developments in resonant power converters for RF tube modulators	Thursday 6th May 2010	slides	video	Vimeo
Ray Veness (CERN)	Technological Challenges for the LHC Vacuum System	Thursday 15th April 2010	slides	video	Vimeo
Brigitte Cros (LPGP, CNRS-UP11, Orsay)	Laser plasma accelerators: state-of-the-art and perspectives	Thursday 11th March 2010	slides	video
Marcus French (STFC)	The STFC Detector Systems Gateway Centre	Thursday 11th February 2010	slides	video
John Thomason (ISIS STFC)	A Journey Through ISIS	Thursday 14th January 2010	pdf ppt	video

2009


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)
Tsumoru Shintake (Spring 8)	Construction status of the X-ray Free Electron Laser project in Japan	Monday 7th December 2009	slides	video
Chan Joshi (UCLA)	Injection and Acceleration of Electrons in the Self-Guided LWFA	Thursday 29th October 2009	slides	video
Louis Rinolfi (CERN)	The CLIC study for a future e+/e- linear collider	Thursday 22th October 2009	pdf ppt	video
Jom Luiten (Eindhoven University of Technology)	Generation of intense THZ pulses using ultrashort, high-brightness electron bunches	Thursday 8th October 2009	slides	video
Matthias Fuchs (MPQ Munich and Ludwig Maximilians University)	Towards table-top free-electron lasers (FELs) using laser-accelerated electron beams	Thursday 30th July 2009	pdf ppt	video
Marica Biagini (INFN, Frascati)	The SuperB accelerator project: a new e+e- collider	Thursday 9th July 2009	slides	video
Hugues Monard (LAL)	A new accelerator for LAL	Thursday 18th June 2009	slides	video
Marcello Giorgi (INFN, Pisa)	The Super Flavour Factory SuperB	Monday 9th June 2009	slides	video
Simon Jolly (Imperial College)	Bigger, Better, Faster, More: High Power Proton Accelerator Development at the Front End Test Stand	Thursday 21st May 2009	slides	video
Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)	The Status of the LHC and Future Projects at CERN	Friday 13th March 2009	pdf ppt	video
Steve Peggs (BNL)	Hadron Therapy Technologies	Thursday 15th January 2009	slides	video

2008


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)
Gero Kube (DESY)	Review of Synchrotron Radiation based Diagnostics for Transverse Profile Measurements	Thursday 4th December 2008	slides	video
Carlo Benedetti (INFN, Bologna)	Simulation of the laser plasma interaction with the PIC code ALaDyn	Thursday 20th November 2008	slides	video
Susan Smith (ASTeC)	ALICE: Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments	Thursday 6th November 2008	slides	video
Lucie Linssen (CERN)	Towards a CLIC detector, opportunities for R&D	Thursday 23rd October 2008	slides	video
Ken Peach (JAI)	A new accelerator for advanced research and cancer therapy	Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Yoshita Kuno (Osaka)	Search for Lepton-Flavour-Violating Muon to Electron Conversion at J-PARC and Development of Highly Intense Muon Sources	Thursday 9th October 2008	slides	video
Yacine Kadi (CERN)	Proliferation safe nuclear power - Does that exist?	Thursday 19th June 2008	slides	video
Stephen Milton (Elettra, Trieste)	The FERMI@Elettra project (FEL)	Thursday 12th June 2008	pdf ppt	video
Rob Appleby (Manchester)	Post Collision and Interaction Regions for Future Linear Electron- Positron Colliders	Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Joel Goldstein (Bristol)	Linear Collider Flavour Identification	Wednesday 28th May 2008
Dr Jean-Pierre Delahaye (CERN)	Synergies and Collaboration between CLIC and ILC on e+/e- Linear Collider studies	Thursday 22nd May 2008	pdf pptm	video
Tim Gershon (Warwick)	SuperB -- A High Luminosity Asymmetric e+e- Super Flavour Factory	Wednesday 14th May 2008
Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)	Commissioning the LHC Accelerator and its Physics Programme	Thursday 6th March 2008	slides	video
Yannis Papaphilippou (CERN)	Optics solutions for the PS2 ring	Thursday 7th February 2008	slides	video
Victor Malka (LOA/X/ENSTA/CNRS)	Status and principle of laser plasma accelerators	Thursday 10th January 2008	slides	video

2007


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)
Hans Weise (DESY)	The European XFEL Project	Thursday 29th November 2007	slides	video
Christian Grah (DESY)	The Very Forward Region of the ILC Detectors	Thursday 15th November 2007	pdf ppt	video
Daniel Schulte (CERN)	An Introduction into Beam-beam Effects in Linear Colliders	Thursday 8th November 2007	ps pdf	video
Ted Wilson (CERN & JAI)	A Century of Accelerators and Beyond	Thursday 1st November 2007	slides	video
Professor Herman Winick (SLAC)	From Röntgen to X-ray Free-electron Lasers, The Evolution of X-ray Sources and Science over 100 Years	Thursday 16th August 2007	slides	video
Dr Andrea Latina (CERN)	Use of the Tracking Code PLACET for ILC Beam Dynamics Simulations	Wednesday 11th July 2007	slides	video
Dr Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)	Stars, accelerators and underground labs	Thursday 14th June 2007	slides	video
Paul Schuurmans (MYRRHA)	From MYRRHA to XT-ADS	Thursday 3rd May 2007	ppt pdf	video
Dr Marco Borghesi (School of Mathematics and Physics The Queen's University of Belfast)	Laser-driven, high-energy ion sources: state-of-the-art and perspectives for applications	Thursday 22nd March 2007	slides	video
Elizabeth Surrey (Culham)	An overview of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF)	Thursday 15th March 2007		video
Dean Adams (RAL)	The ISIS Accelerator Facility	Thursday 1st March 2007	slides	video
Oliver Bruning (CERN)	LHC Challenges and Upgrade Options	Thursday 22nd February 2007	slides	video

2006


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)
Dr Richard P. Walker (Diamond Light Source)	The Diamond Light Source	Wednesday 13th December 2006	slides	video
Dr Andy Wolski (Cockroft Institute)	ILC Damping Rings Design and Accelerator Physics Issues	Wednesday 29th November 2006	slides	video
Sergei Nagaitsev (FNAL)	Electron cooling of high-energy antiprotons at Fermilab	Monday 13th November 2006	slides	video
Simon Hooker (Oxford)	Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators	Wednesday 18th October 2006	slides	video
Philip Bryant (CERN)	Gantries for Hadron Therapy	Thursday 11th May 2006	ppt mpg	video
Martin Suter (Institute for Particle Physics ETH Zurich Switzerland)	Accelerator mass spectrometry - scientific and technical challenges	Wednesday 5th April 2006	slides	video

2005


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)
Dr Swapan Chattopadhyay (Jefferson Lab)	Accelerators of the Twenty First Century: Einstein's Legacy	Thursday 1st December 2005	ppt pdf mpg1 mpg2	video
Dr Robert Edgecock (RAL)	An Introduction to Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators (FFAG)	Thursday 17th November 2005	ppt pdf	video
Dr Lee Roberts (Boston University)	Beam Dynamics in the Muon (g-2) Storage Ring	Monday 14th November 2005	ppt pdf	video
Junji Urakawa (KEK)	Research and Development Status and Programs for ILC at KEK-ATF	Thursday 27th October 2005	slides
Dr Robert Palmer (Brookhaven National Lab)	New Ideas on Ionization Cooling	Wednesday 11th May 2005	slides	video
Dr Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College London)	Monoenergetic electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators	Thursday 5th May 2005		video
Dr Nicholas Walker (DESY)	A general introduction to ILC machine issues	Thursday 3rd February 2005	pdf ppt	video

2004


Presenter	Title	Date	Slides	Video (download)	Vimeo stream
Swapan Chattopadhyay (Jefferson Lab)	From Quark Confinement to Protein Dynamics via Nano-beams and Attosecond Pulses (Inaugural Lecture for JAI)	Monday 25th October 2004	slides	video

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John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science Seminar Series

This page gives information on the John Adams Institute Seminar Series. The seminars are usually held on Thursdays at 16:15, during term time, in the Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford.

Due to public-health concerns around the Covid-19 pandemic, the seminars will be held online via Zoom until further notice.

For Michaelmass term 2021 the JAI have helped to organise the UK accelerator physics institutes seminar series.

The details of which can be found on the seminar series Indico page.

Upcoming Seminars

Previous seminars

Seminar slides and videos for 2021 can be found on the JAI seminar series indico page and the joint UK accelerator institutes seminar series indico page.

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John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science Seminar Series

This page gives information on the John Adams Institute Seminar Series. The seminars are usually held on Thursdays at 16:15, during term time, in the Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford.

Due to public-health concerns around the Covid-19 pandemic, the seminars will be held online via Zoom until further notice.

For Michaelmass term 2021 the JAI have helped to organise the UK accelerator physics institutes seminar series.

The details of which can be found on the seminar series Indico page.

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Seminar slides and videos for 2021 can be found on the JAI seminar series indico page and the joint UK accelerator institutes seminar series indico page.

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