Opening, Closing, Prize and Special Presentations

Opening Presentation
The Global Design Initiative for an International Linear Collider
Barry Barish (CALTECH, Pasadena, California)

2006 EPS-AG Prize Presentations
Lutz Lilje (DESY, Hamburg)
Vladimir Teplyakov (IHEP, Protvino)

Special Presentation
Before the Big Bang: An Outrageous New Perspective, and its Implictions for Particle Physics
Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

Closing Presentaton
ITER and International Scientific Collaboration
Stefano Chiocchio (ITER, Garching)

Circular Colliders
Session Coordinator: Francesco Ruggiero, CERN, Geneva
Operation of High-luminosity Meson Factories and the challenge to go to the Next Generation
Kazunori Akai (KEK, Ibaraki)
Monday, 26 June 2006
LHC Progress and Commissioning Plans
Oliver Sim Brüning (CERN, Geneva)
Monday, 26 June 2006
RHIC Operational Status and Upgrade Plans
Wolfram Fischer (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Tevatron Operational Status and Possible Lessons for the LHC
Valeri Lebedev (Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
LHC Luminosity and Energy Upgrades
Walter Scandale (CERN, Geneva)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
HERA and the Next Generation of Lepton-Ion Colliders
Ferdinand J. Willeke (DESY, Hamburg)
Friday, 30 June 2006

Synchrotron Light Sources and FELs
Session Coordinators: Carlo Bocchetta, Sincrotrone Trieste and Susan Smith (CCLRC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire)
Overview of FEL Injectors
Massimo Ferrario (INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma))
Thursday, 29 June 2006
Overview of the Status of the Soleil Project
Jean-Marc Filhol (Soleil, Gif-sur-Yvette)
Thursday, 29 June 2006
Overview of Single Pass Free Electron Lasers
Claudio Pellegrini (UCLA, Los Angeles, California)
Friday, 30 June 2006
Results from the VUV-FEL
Jörg Rossbach (DESY, Hamburg)
Monday, 26 June 2006
Laser Systems and Accelerators
Holger Schlarb (DESY, Hamburg)
Thursday, 29 June 2006
A Review of ERL Prototype Experience and Light Source Design Challenges
Susan Louise Smith (CCLRC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire)
Monday, 26 June 2006
Overview of the Status of the Diamond Project
Richard Walker (Diamond, Oxfordshire)
Thursday, 29 June 2006

Linear Colliders, Lepton Accelerators and New Acceleration Techniques
Session Coordinator: Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CERN, Geneva
The Global Design Initiative for an International Linear Collider
Barry Barish (CALTECH, Pasadena, California)
Monday, 26 June 2006
Beam Delivery System in ILC
Grahame A. Blair (Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
CLIC Feasibility Study in CTF3
Andrea Ghigo (INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma))
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Damping Rings towards Ultra-low Emittances
Susanna Guiducci (INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma))
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Laser-Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: Concepts, Tests and Premises
Victor Malka (LOA/ENSTA/École Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Monday, 26 June 2006
SCRF Test Facilities towards the ILC
Kenji Saito (KEK, Ibaraki)
Monday, 26 June 2006
Neutrino Factories and Beta Beams
Michael Zisman (LBNL, Berkeley, California)
Friday, 30 June 2006

Hadron Accelerators
Session Coordinator: Søren Pape Møller, ISA, Aarhus and Danfysik, Jyllinge
The ERL High Energy Cooler for RHIC
Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Crystal Channelling in Accelerators
Valery M. Biryukov (IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Commissioning Highlights of the Spallation Neutron Source
Norbert Holtkamp (ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
Monday, 26 June 2006
Present Status of the J-PARC Accelerator
Hitoshi Kobayashi (KEK, Ibaraki)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Approaches to High Intensities at FAIR
Peter J. Spiller (GSI, Darmstadt)
Monday, 26 June 2006
Highlights from Commissioning HIRFL-CSR
Wen-Long Zhan (IMP, CAS, Lanzhou)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006

Beam Dynamics and Electromagnetic Fields
Session Coordinator: Reinhard Brinkmann, DESY, Hamburg
Instabilities and Space Charge Resonances in High Intensity Accelerators
Oliver Boine-Frankenheim (GSI, Darmstadt)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Modeling of Space Charge and CSR Effects in Bunch Compressor Systems
Martin Dohlus (DESY, Hamburg)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Non-linear Collimation in Linear and Circular Colliders
Angeles Faus-Golfe (IFIC, Valencia)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Observation and Modeling of Electron Cloud Instability
Katherine C. Harkay (ANL, Argonne, Illinois)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
State of the Art in EM Field Computation
Cho-Kuen Ng (SLAC, Menlo Park, California)
Thursday, 29 June 2006

Beam Instrumentation and Feedback
Session Coordinator: Michiko Minty, DESY, Hamburg
High Precision SC Cavity Alignment Diagnostics with HOM Measurements
Josef Frisch (SLAC, Menlo Park, California)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Developments in Beam Instrumentation and New Feedback Systems for the ILC
Hitoshi Hayano (KEK, Ibaraki)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Femtosecond Bunch Length Measurements
Steven Jamison (University of Abertay, Dundee)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Ionization Profile Monitoring at the Tevatron
Andreas Jansson (Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois)
Thursday, 29 June 2006

Accelerator Technology
Session Coordinators: Francisco Perez, Synchrotron ALBA, Barcelona, Jean-Michel Lagniel, CEA, GANIL, Caen
Digital Low Level RF
Maria-Elena Angoletta (CERN, Geneva)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Design, Construction, Installation and First Commissioning Results of the LHC Cryogenic System
Serge Claudet (CERN, Geneva)
Tuesday 27 June 2006
Latest Developments on Insertion Devices
Pascal Elleaume (ESRF, Grenoble)
Tuesday 27 June 2006
New Developments on RF Power Sources
Jörn Jacob (ESRF, Grenoble)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Latest Developments in Superconducting RF Structures
Peter Kneisel (Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Gantry Design for Proton and Carbon Hadrontherapy Facilities
Udo Weinrich (GSI, Darmstadt)
Friday, 30 June 2006

Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer and Industrial Relations
Session Coordinatosr: Håkan Danared, MSL, Stockholm and Dewi Lewis, General Electric HealthCare, Amersham, Bucks.
How to Create a Business out of Manufacturing Linacs
Robert Wray Hamm (AccSys, Pleasanton, California)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Synchrotron Technology for Industrial Research, Development and Quality Assurance - Experience in Commercial Services
Tilo Baumbach (FZ Karlsruhe)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Can the Accelerator Control System be bought from industry?
Mark Plesko (Cosylab, Ljubljana)
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
FFAG Accelerators and their Applications
Yoshiharu Mori (KEK, Ibaraki)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Developments in Proton and Light-ion Therapy
Sandro Rossi (CNAO Foundation, Milan)
Friday, 30 June 2006