Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2025

9 Jul 2025, 08:00 → 10 Jul 2025, 18:20 Europe/London

Alan Letchford, Andy Smith (University of Manchester), Dan Turner (CERN), David Dunning, David Kelliher (STFC), Glenn Christian (Diamond Light Source), Hayley Cavanagh (STFC - RAL - ISIS), Kay Dewhurst, Stephen Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams group invite the community to our two-day Annual Conference, the UK’s premier national event in the field of particle accelerators! The scientific programme will feature plenary and keynote talks, a panel discussion, parallel sessions and a poster session. The conference is intended to bring the entire community together for two days of vibrant physics discussion, knowledge sharing and networking. We encourage participants at all career stages, from PhD, through postdocs, to senior professors and industry partners to attend. 

This year, we welcome you to Oxford for an in-person conference on 9-10 July 2025, hosted jointly by Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and the John Adams Institute, University of Oxford.

Participants can take the opportunity to tour facilities at the Harwell Campus, including Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and EPAC. This promises to be a very special event, and we hope that you will join us for this exciting UK conference!

We strongly encourage colleagues to submit an abstract for a poster or oral presentation.

Wednesday 9 July

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 09:35 Conference Welcome

Speaker: Andy Smith (University of Manchester)

09:35 → 09:40 Welcome to Oxford

09:40 → 10:10 RELIEF project - Reducing the environmental impact of leather tanning

Speaker: Robert Apsimon

10:10 → 10:40 AI for accelerators

Speaker: Andrea Santamaria Garcia

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee 🍵

11:00 → 12:20 Panel discussion: Future funding of accelerator science and technology

12:20 → 13:20 Lunch 🥗

13:20 → 13:50 Magnet Simulation

Speaker: Ben Pine

13:50 → 14:20 Diamond II

14:20 → 14:40 Coffee 🍵

14:40 → 16:00 Parallel talks: Parallel session I - (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)

14:40 Parallel Talk 1

14:55 Parallel Talk 2

15:10 Parallel Talk 3

15:25 Parallel Talk 4

15:40 Parallel Talk 5

14:40 → 16:00 Parallel talks: Parallel session II (Second room)

14:40 Parallel Talk 1

14:55 Parallel Talk 2

15:10 Parallel Talk 3

15:25 Parallel Talk 4

15:40 Parallel Talk 5

16:00 → 17:00 IOP PAB Group Prize talk:

Speaker: Shinji Machida

17:00 → 18:15 Poster session and evening reception 🥂

18:30 → 23:00 Conference dinner + Prizes 🥇

Poster prize and Group prize winners announced

Thursday 10 July

09:15 → 09:55 HALHF - A hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory based on plasma-wakefield and radio-frequency acceleration

Speaker: Richard D'Arcy (University of Oxford)

09:55 → 10:25 NOMAD - Compact accelerators for Cultural Heritage

Speaker: Tessa Charles (Australian Synchrotron (AU))

10:25 → 10:55 EPAC

Speaker: Rajeev Pattathil

10:55 → 11:15 Coffee 🍵

11:15 → 12:15 Parallel talks: Parallel session I (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)

11:15 Parallel Talk 6

11:30 Parallel Talk 7

11:45 Parallel Talk 8

12:00 Parallel Talk 9

11:15 → 12:15 Parallel talks: Parallel session II (Second room)

11:15 Parallel Talk 6

11:30 Parallel Talk 7

11:45 Parallel Talk 8

12:00 Parallel Talk 9

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 13:30 Conference Close

Speaker: Andy Smith (University of Manchester)

13:30 → 18:00 Tours of accelerators on Harwell Campus

If you want to join a tour, please indicate this during registration or contact a committee member. Spaces may be limited.
Each delegate may attend 2 tours from the following options:
- Diamond Light Source
- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
- EPAC (Extreme Photonic Applications Centre)

13:30 Bus to RAL site

14:00 Tour of facility 1

15:00 Change over

15:20 Tour of facility 2

16:30 Bus to Oxford