Large Vacuum Systems – goals, challenges, choices, solutions

Programme

Session 1

Chair: Joe Herbert

10:00
Opening Remarks
Joe Herbert – Accelerator Science and Technology Centre, Sci-Tech Daresbury.

10:05 
INVITED TALK Latest Status of the Cyclotron Vacuum System at TRIUMF
Dimo Yosifov, TRIUMF, Canada.

10:35
Vacuum systems for extreme conditions with super intense lasers
Steve Blake, Central Laser Facility, Harwell Oxford

10:55
Vacuum Requirements & Challenges on ISIS – The UK’s Largest High Vacuum Research Facility
Sunil Patel – ISIS, Harwell Oxford.

Session 2

Chair: Sunil Patel

11:45
The LHC Vacuum System: from design to recent operation performances
Giulia Lanza – CERN

12:15
Vacuum for Fusion
Paul Flower – Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham

12:35
Diamond Light Source Vacuum Systems
Matthew Cox – Diamond Light Source, Harwell Oxford

12:55
Closing remarks – Joe Herbert

13:00
Meeting close

13:00
LUNCH and Exhibition

13:00
POSTER SESSION – in Exhibition Hall until Close at 16:00
Delegates are encouraged to visit the exhibition after lunch, the poster session will be held in the in the exhibition area