6 May 2009. Minutes of the BD Panel Meeting in Vancouver, Canada

25 June 2007. Minutes of the BD Panel Meeting in Albuquerque

18 March 2004. Proposal to compile a new accelerator catalog

News from the previous Chair, John Jowett (to the end of 2003)

31 December 2003 

• The proceedings of the HALO'03 workshop have now been published by AIP. 
• John Jowett and Helmut Mais have expressed their wish to retire from the Panel at the end of 2003.  
• Weiren Chou now takes over as Chairman of the Panel.

27 November 2003.  Some changes are being made to this Web in preparation for its move to a new location  maintained by the new Panel Chairman:

• The "Older links to newsletters" link has been removed.  Past newsletters are available from the Archive.
• The "Email Panel Chairman" has been removed as the email address should no longer be used.  From 1 January 2004, any mail sent to this address will be automatically forwarded to the new chairman.  The address will be deleted on 1 July 2004.   [note added:  the previous address, wwwslap.cern.ch/icfa has been replaced by www-bd.fnal.gov/icfabd]

7 November 2003.  The Lepton Colliders DataBase is created by the High Luminosity e+e- Colliders working group.

• I have decided to resign as Panel Chairman at the end of this year. 
• ICFA has appointed Dr Weiren Chou as Chairman of the Beam Dynamics Panel from 1 January 2004.

18 August 2003. 

• At its meeting on 15 August 2003 at Fermilab, ICFA approved three proposals for ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshops in 2004.   These are numbers 31-33 in the series and are listed on the home page.   Further details of these workshops will be available in due course.  

22 July 2003. 

• ICFA has approved a new member of the Panel, Dr Jie Gao of LAL, Orsay, France. 

10 June 2003. 

• The Working Group on Future Light Sources has a new Web page.  Please see, in particular, the obituary of Jean-Louis Laclare, a founding member of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel.  

1 May 2003. 

• The next meeting of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel will be held during the PAC2003 conference on Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 5:30 - 7:30 pmSenate Suite, Hilton Hotel, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.  The meeting will be chaired by Dr Weiren Chou.

• Dr Oliver Napoly has retired from the Panel.

31 March 2003. 

• The Web page for the 30th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High Luminosity e+e- Collisions is now on line. 

20 March 2003

• At its meeting in Tsukuba on 13 February 2003, ICFA approved two new members of the Beam Dynamics Panel.  Dr  JiuQing Wang of IHEP, Beijing replaces Prof. Chuang Zhang who retires from the Panel. Dr Junji Urukawa of 
• Dr Junji Urukawa of KEK will replace Dr Kohji Hirata when he retires in summer 2003. 
• ICFA also approved the formation of a new working group on Remote Experiments in Accelerator Physics, bringing to four the number of working groups under the Beam Dynamics Panel.  Dr David Rice will chair this working group.

26 November 2002. 

• The Proceedings of the 20th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High Intensity and High Brightness Hadron Beams, are now available from the American Institute of Physics.

22 November 2002. 

• The Proceedings of the 18th Advanced ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop, Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics are now available from World Scientific publishers.

29 October 2002. 

• Our working group on High Luminosity e+ e- Colliders has a new home page.

11 October 2002

• At its meeting at CERN on 10 October, ICFA approved the 30th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop: Beam Dynamics Issues for High Luminosity e+e- Factories, to be held at SLAC.  Tentative dates are 13-17 October, 2003.   This will be a continuation of the series of workshops held in Frascati in 1997, KEK in 1999, and Cornell in 2001.  Further information on this workshop will be available from the Panel's home page in due course.
• The next issue of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter will be edited by Alessandra Lombardi.  Contributions, prepared according to the usual recommendations, should be received by mid November. 

26 September 2002. 

• The Web proceedings (transparencies and other material) for the 26th ICFA Advanced  Beam Dynamics Workshop: Nanometre-Size Colliding Beams are now available on the workshop Web page.  It is worth remembering that the same is true for many other past workshops in the ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Series.  These valuable resources are all accessible from the Panel's home page.

5 August 2002

• At its meeting in Amsterdam on 30 July, ICFA approved the 29th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop:  Beam Halo Dynamics, Diagnostics, and Collimation (HALO’03).  Further information can be found on our home page.
• Please send further contributions to the August/September issue of the Beam Dynamics Newsletter to Caterina Biscari as soon as possible.

27 June 2002. 

• Yoshihiro Funakoshi of KEK has resigned as chairman of the Panel's working group on Future High Luminosity e+e- Colliders.  The new chairman is Caterina Biscari of  LNF-INFN.

21 June 2002. 

• The latest newsletter, No. 27, is now available.  It contains important information about changes in our editorial methods.  Most notably, contributions in LaTeX will no longer be accepted.

3 June 2002. 

• We have a new poster encouraging people to visit our home page and sign up for the new mailing list for the newsletter.  Please help the work of the panel by downloading it, printing it (preferably A3 or larger and in colour) and displaying it in your institution.

28 May 2002. 

• The next meeting of the Beam Dynamics Panel will take place on 4 June 2002 at the EPAC2002 conference in Paris.  The outline agenda is here. 

24 April 2002

• The paper edition of the 26th ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter, a special edition on Recirculating Linac Light Sources, is being mailed out now (although it has been available on the Web for some time)
• The 27th issue of the newsletter is currently being edited by Weiren Chou.  Please contact him quickly with any contributions.
• The 28th issue, due out in August 2002, will be edited by Caterina Biscari.  Please send any contributions to her by mid-July. 
• There have been a number of changes to our home page.  The most significant one is that is is now possible to sign-up to a mailing list for the ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter.  Please sign up immediately (the form is very short and simple!) and you will be notified promptly by email whenever a new issue of the newsletter becomes available on the Web.  Please also encourage your colleagues to do the same. 
• This measure should greatly improve the timeliness of the newsletter distribution and reach more members of the accelerator physics community at minimal cost.  The paper version of the newsletter always takes some time to print and distribute.
• Although we may add known names to the list ourselves to get it started, you should not worry about this as duplicate entries will be eliminated.   Also, we promise to practise restraint in our use of this list.  Apart from three notifications of newsletters per year, we will only use it for occasional important announcements.  And we will not, of course, give anyone else access to the list.
• In addition, we have consolidated past newsletters into a new archive, in PDF format, on the Web.  These go back to 1995.  If any past Panel members have electronic versions (or can make scans) of earlier issues, we would be grateful to hear from them.
• The Panel is grateful to Yuhong Zhang of Jefferson Lab for implementing these innovations.

20 March 2002

• As part of an effort to consolidate the archive of ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletters, we are trying to get as many as possible of the older newsletters into PDF format and will gradually suppress older links to other formats such as HTML or Postscript.  
• The Web site for the 27th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on "The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams" has been created.  See the link on the home page. 

18 February 2002

• At its meeting on 15 February 2002, ICFA approved five new members of the Beam Dynamics Panel: Dr Caterina Biscari (LNF-INFN), Dr Alessandra Lombardi (CERN), Dr Olivier Napoly (DAPNIA-CEA), Dr David Rice (Cornell University) and Prof. Yuri Shatunov (BINP).  The list of Panel members on the Panel's home page has been updated.
• It also approved the 3rd Workshop on Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics, to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, in January 2003.   This is therefore the 28th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop and is jointly sponsored by the ICFA Panel on Advanced and Novel Accelerators.

7 February 2002

• Prof. Claudio Pellegrini of UCLA (USA) has expressed his wish to retire from the Panel. His replacement will be announced in due course after approval by ICFA. 
• The ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel Chairman has a new impersonal email address: mailto:ICFA.BeamDynamicsPanel@cern.ch?subject=[ICFA BDP ChNews]that is preferred for Panel business.

29 January 2002

• The April newsletter will be edited by Weiren Chou (chou@fnal.gov).  Please send your contributions to him by 15 March 2002.
• Are you, or do you know, someone completing a Ph.D. Thesis in a Beam Dynamics subject?  If so, please remember to prepare an announcement for the newsletter.

22 January 2002

• New Web pages covering the Panel's activities in the Americas region are now online at Jefferson Lab.
• Dr J.-L. Laclare of  SOLEIL (France), Dr Elcuno A. Perelstein of Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, Dubna (Russia) Dr Dmitri Pestrikov of Budker Inst. of Nucl. Phys., Novosibirsk (Russia) and have expressed their wish to retire from the Panel.  Their replacements will be announced in due course after approval by ICFA.