15TH INTERNATIONAL PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE
It is with great pleasure that we can announce the availability of the IPAC’24 proceedings at https://www.jacow.org/ipac2024/
Highlights from IPAC’24
The 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC’24, took place at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, from Sunday, May 19 to Friday, May 24. IPAC’24 offered opportunities for accelerator scientists, engineers, students and vendors to meet and interact while experiencing the charm and attractions of Music City. This fully in-person event featured 1,275 registered participants from 39 different countries — an increase from previous IPACs in the Americas — even though attendance was affected by present global geopolitical issues.
IPAC’24 was sponsored both financially and technically by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society and the American Physical Society Division of Physics of Beams and was co-hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Fulvia Pilat from ORNL was the conference chair, and Wolfram Fischer from BNL was the scientific program committee chair.
Global experts presented pioneering research and development in accelerator technologies. Project leaders discussed new accelerator projects, progress on active upgrades and the operational status of facilities worldwide. Attendees had the chance to network with peers and establish new business contacts.
The Music City Center provided meeting spaces for daily sessions in the Davidson Ballroom and Room 104. The Sunday welcome reception and an industrial exhibition were held in Exhibition Hall A. The Monday morning opening session and Wednesday evening event jointly hosted by Women in Science and Engineering, or WISE, and the journal Physical Review Accelerators and Beams took place at the Broadway Ballroom in the Omni Hotel, which was the conference hotel.
IPAC’24 was attended by 214 students from around the world — 98 of these young scientists and engineers received grants made possible by the sponsorship of various societies, institutes and laboratories. For the first time, the Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society awarded 17 early-career travel grants to attend IPAC’24, covering registration, travel, lodging, meals and incidental expenses. The organizers of IPAC’24 express deep gratitude for this valuable support.
The final program included 87 talks, 7 invited industry talks and 1,325 posters. A total of 1,040 papers were published on the Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW).
