Low Level RF Workshop 2013

from Monday, 30 September 2013 (08:45) to Friday, 4 October 2013 (20:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Sep 2013
1 Oct 2013
2 Oct 2013
3 Oct 2013
4 Oct 2013
AM
08:45 SLAC Tour   ()
10:00 LBNL Tour   ()
07:30 Registration Tuesday Morning   ()
08:30 Welcome Speakers Doolittle/Smith   ()
08:35
Session1: Lab Status/Activities/Highlights (until 10:19) ()
08:35 KEK Lab Talk : KEK LLRF SYSTEMS - Dr Takako Miura (KEK)   ()
08:52 Status of LLRF technology at SPring-8 - Dr Yuji Otake (XFEL Research and Development Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN)   ()
09:09 JLAB LLRF activities - Tomasz Plawski (Jefferson Lab)   ()
09:21 Toward the next generation: LLRF activities in LBNL - Gang Huang (LBNL)   ()
09:33 LLRF Status and Future Projects at Fermilab - Mr Brian E. Chase (FNAL)   ()
09:50 ORNL Lab Talk: Operational Experience with the SNS Low Level RF Systems - Mark Crofford (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)   ()
10:02 Cern Highlights 2011-2013 (Lab Talk) - Dr Wolfgang Hofle (CERN)   ()
10:20 --- Break ---
10:40
Session 2: Lab Status/Activities/Highlights (until 11:48) ()
10:40 Overview on the LLRF and MicroTCA developments at DESY - Holger Schlarb (DESY)   ()
11:02 BNL Lab Talk: Recent Applications and Performance of the RHIC LLRF Platform Across the Collider-Accelerator Complex - Kevin Smith (BNL)   ()
11:19 Overview of the LLRF Activities at SLAC - Bo Hong (SLAC)   ()
11:31 The SwissFEL LLRF system - concept and realization - Mr Roger Kalt (Paul Scherrer Institut)   ()
08:30 Announcements   ()
08:35 Keynote - Applications of X-Ray Light Sources - John Byrd (LBNL)   ()
09:20
Session 1: Hardware (until 10:20) ()
09:20 A Leading-Edge Hardware Family for LLRF and Diagnostics in CERN's Synchrotrons - Mr John Molendijk (CERN)   ()
09:45 RF Backplane for MTCA.4 Based LLRF Control System - Dr Krzysztof Czuba (ISE, Warsaw University of Technology)   ()
10:20 --- Break ---
10:40
DSP Tutorial II: Real-life Implementation (until 11:25) ()
10:40 DSP Tutorial II : Real-life implementation in FPGAs - Mrs Geetha Narayan (BNL)   ()
11:25
Session 2: Hardware (until 12:15) ()
11:25 MTCA.4 Fast Digitizer - Mr Samer Bou Habib (DESY / WUT-IES)   ()
11:55 Standardization of ITER Instrumentation and Controls based on Hardware Catalogs - Dr Stefan Simrock (ITER)   ()
08:30 Announcements   ()
08:35
Industry Talk, "Realizing the Potential of High-Performance Data Converters," Tom Linnebrink (until 09:20) ()
08:35 Realizing the Potential of High-Performance Data Converters - Tom Linnenbrink (Teqnovations)   ()
09:20
Session 1: Operations (until 10:20) ()
09:20 A LLRF implementation to Extend the Present LHC RF System to High-Lumi Beam Currents - Dr Themistoklis Mastoridis (California Polytechnic State University)   ()
09:50 Cavity autorecovery with beam - Ms Angela Salom (CELLS)   ()
10:20 --- Break ---
10:40 DSP Tutorial Part III: Avoiding Resource Overutilization - Lawrence Doolittle (LBNL)   ()
11:25
Session 2: Operations (until 12:15) ()
11:25 Multiharmonic beam loading compensation in the J-PARC synchrotrons - Dr Fumihiko Tamura (J-PARC Center)   ()
11:50 Beam-Based Feedback for the European XFEL - Mr Sven Pfeiffer (DESY)   ()
08:30 Announcements   ()
08:35
DSP Tutorial Part IV: System Simulation From Design Through Commissioning, Stefan Simrock, ITER (until 09:20) ()
08:35 DSP Tutorial IV: System Simulation From Design Through Commissioning   ()
09:20 In Memoriam: Ron Akre   ()
09:30
Session 1: SRF & Piezo (until 10:20) ()
09:30 Performance of CW superconducting cavity at ERL test facility - Dr Feng Qiu (KEK)   ()
09:55 RF Operational Experience with High QL CW SRF Cavities - Mr Ramakrishna Bachimanchi (Jefferson Lab)   ()
10:20 --- Break ---
10:40
Session 2: SRF & Piezo (until 12:00) ()
10:40 Development and Test of Digital LLRF Control Procedures and Techniques in Scope of ILC - Mr Mathieu Omet (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)   ()
11:05 Application of Active Disturbance Rejection Control in Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities - Dr Shen Zhao (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)   ()
11:30 Piezo characterization, tests and operation at FLASH - Dr Mariusz Grecki (DESY)   ()
PM
17:00 Registration Open   ()
19:00 --- Dinner - Granhall ---
20:30 --- Registration ---
12:00
Session 3: Systems (until 12:30) ()
12:00 Progress in Low Level RF System at FLASH Facility - Dr Valeri Ayvazyan (DESY)   ()
12:30 --- Lunch - Granhall ---
14:00
Session 4 Systems (until 15:35) ()
14:00 Update on XFEL LLRF system development and production - Julien Branlard (DESY)   ()
14:25 Recent Progress of LLRF System for SACLA - Dr Yuji Otake (XFEL Research and Development Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN)   ()
14:50 LLRF system for the HIE-Isolde - Dr Daniel Valuch (CERN)   ()
15:15 Crab Cavity system for the LHC high-luminosity upgrade. Proposed LLRF - Dr Philippe Baudrenghien (CERN)   ()
15:50 --- Break ---
16:10
DSP Tutorial I: Basic Theory - Presenter Tim Berenc, ANL - Tim Berenc (Argonne National Laboratory) (until 16:55) ()
16:55
Session - Other (until 17:55) ()
16:55 Standardization of EPICS Device Support for data acquisition - Dr Stefan Simrock (ITER)   ()
17:20 LLRF Using SoC FPGAs in a Multiple Development Tool Environment - Philip Varghese (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)   ()
17:55 Announcements   ()
18:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
19:00 --- Dinner Granhall ---
12:15 Topical Discussion, Trends in FPGA development tools   ()
12:30 --- Lunch -Granhall ---
14:00 --- Afternoon Outing - free time ---
17:00 --- Start Bus service to Banquet ---
19:00 --- Working Dinner at GarWoods ---
21:00 --- Bus Service (Return) ---
21:50 --- Finish Bus service return ---
12:15 Short presentations from student posters   ()
12:30 --- Group Photo ---
12:45 --- Lunch - Granhall ---
14:00
Posters, Exhibitors (until 18:00) ()
18:00 --- Exhibitors and Sponsors Reception - Granhall ---
19:00 --- Dinner - Granhall ---
12:00 Topical Discussions, Piezo Control math   ()
12:16 Topic Discussion, Quirks of various high power RF sources   ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Announcements   ()
14:05
Session 3: Phase Calibration (until 14:55) ()
14:05 Properties of a Distortion-Compensating Phase Calibration Processor - Lawrence Doolittle (LBNL)   ()
14:30 XFEL MO and RF Phase Reference Distribution - Dr Krzysztof Czuba (ISE, Warsaw University of Technology)   ()
14:55 Closeout   ()