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  • Rendering of the Illinois Accelerator Research Center that will be located at Fermilab10th Apr 12 - Fermilab - JAI collaboration
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI) have recently signed a Memorandum Of Understanding. The MOU provides a framework for cooperation...
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  • On the photo (left to right): Andrei Seryi, Vadim Dudnikov, Scott Lawrie, Alan Letchford, Dan Faircloth. On the table – “Dud22nd Feb 12 - Prof Vadim Dudnikov spends Valentines week with the ISIS Ion Source Section
    Creating an efficient ion source is an art, and even sometime referred as magic. The new joint project is aimed to turn the art and magic of ion sources into predictable science.
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  • The EMMA particle accelerator. Photo: STFC10th Jan 12 - EMMA promises better cancer therapy
    Source: STFC
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  • Signing ceremony, 12 September 201122nd Sep 11 - "Together we are stronger"
    As a result of the official visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Moscow on September 11-12, 2011, an MOU has been signed on Monday September 12 between JAI and the Nuclear Cluster of the Skolkovo Fund for Developing and Commercialising New Technologies.
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  • Appeal 2011, Denys Wilkinson Building2nd Jul 11 - Particle Accelerators
    Shedding Light on the Dark Universe
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  • BNL aerial view29th Jun 11 - BNL - JAI collaboration agreement
    Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI) signed a collaboration agreement on 17 May 2011.
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  • JINR delegation visiting ISIS7th May 11 - JINR delegation visit to JAI
    The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science has recently hosted the visit of a delegation from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR, Russia) to UK on 26-28 April 2011.
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  • JAI Advisory Board Panel, 201126th Apr 11 - JAI Advisory Board
    The annual meeting of the JAI Advisory Board took place in Oxford on April 18-19 of 2011. The board, chaired by Dr. Ewart Blackmore (TRIUMF, Canada), has reviewed the JAI scientific and training programme and the plans for further developments of the Institute.
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  • JAI-JINR agreement24th Feb 11 - JAI-JINR agreement
    The Collaboration Agreement between the JAI and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), was signed in Dubna on 21 February, 2011. Following the signing ceremony, JAI and JINR participated in the UK-Russia Joint Committee on Science and Technology Co-operation organised within the framework of the visit of David Willetts, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, to Russia.
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  • In the Diamond Control Room, left to right: Riccardo Bartolini, Andrei Seryi, Pantaleo Raimondi and Simone Liuzzo23rd Feb 11 - SuperB scientists test new ideas at Diamond
    Accelerator physicists working on the recently funded SuperB accelerator in Italy have been collaborating with Diamond’s and JAI's accelerator physicists to test new techniques for low emittance tuning, which can potentially benefit both Diamond and the SuperB.
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  • An image of the conference6th Oct 10 - "Opportunities from Accelerator Technology" workshop at JAI
    On October 6, 2010, a workshop titled "(Opportunities from Accelerator Technology )" was held in JAI.
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  • Ken Peach (right) hands over the key to the John Adams Institute to Andrei Seryi, the new Director on Monday August 9th 201010th Aug 10 - New Director takes over the John Adams Institute
    Professor Andrei Seryi took over the Directorship of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI) on August 9th 2010, succeeding Professor Ken Peach, who was Director from May 2005.
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  • Suzanne Sheehy17th May 10 - Suzanne Sheehy Royal Commission Fellowship

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Lecture Material - Oxford

Accelerator physics

For the Michelmas term 2010 and Hilary term 2011, the graduate lectures are given by Prof. Ted Wilson.

Lecture material by Ted Wilson:

All the material related to these lectures has been posted here. Most of the lectures are available as on-line videos.

Lecture material by Riccardo Bartolini:

All the material related to these lectures has been posted here.

Hamiltonian dynamics

Lecture material by Chris Warsop:

All the material related to these lectures has been posted here.

Accelerators applications

Lecture material by Ken Peach and others:

All the material related to these lectures has been posted here.

Lecture on particle accelerators (Electronics and Detector course)

Lecture by George Doucas on circular accelerators
Lecture by David Urner on linear accelerators

Optics and Optical design

Lecture material prepared by Richard Bingham:

Download the sessions 1 to 4 as a compressed archive (zip; 1016kb)