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Express January 2017 Issue 2 Highlights Meet our new Fellows New Partners join OMA Upcoming OMA Events I am delighted to say that we have filled all our OMA Fellowships well before the end of the first year in the project. Amongst hundreds of applications, we have recruited the very best researchers for our projects and they all have now started in their research projects. Against the trend that can often be seen in physics and engineering we have achieved a very good balance amongst Fellows with 7 female and 8 male Fellows from all parts of the world now in post. Following up directly on what we started in our first OMA newsletter, this issue will present several of them to you. I really can’t wait meeting all of them for the first time during our researcher skills school in Liverpool! The European Union recently celebrated 20 years of its Research Fellowship Programme. Since 1996 already, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) have provided grants to train excellent researchers at all stages of their careers. The programme is named after the double Nobel Prize winner Marie Skłodowska- Curie to honour and spread the values she stood for. To date, around 100,000 researchers have benefited from the programme – among them five Nobel laureates and one Academy Award winner. One of the flagship schemes of this programme are European Training Networks, such as OMA. They provide a unique training environment and have shown to be highly efficient for building bridges between research communities, sectors, as well as for filling skills gaps internationally. Accelerator research seems particularly well suited for the ambitions of this programme as it almost naturally joins sectors, countries and researchers at different experience levels. For sure all of this is already happening in OMA. Enjoy this newsletter. And off we go… Prof. Carsten P. Welsch OMA Coordinator

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  • ExpressJanuary 2017

    Issue 2

    Highlights

    • Meet our new Fellows

    • New Partners join

    OMA

    • Upcoming OMA

    Events

    I am delighted to say that wehave filled all our OMAFellowships well before the endof the first year in the project.Amongst hundreds ofapplications, we have recruitedthe very best researchers for ourprojects and they all have nowstarted in their research projects.Against the trend that can oftenbe seen in physics andengineering we have achieved avery good balance amongstFellows with 7 female and 8 maleFellows from all parts of theworld now in post. Following updirectly on what we started inour first OMA newsletter, thisissue will present several of themto you. I really can’t wait meetingall of them for the first timeduring our researcher skillsschool in Liverpool!

    The European Union recentlycelebrated 20 years of itsResearch FellowshipProgramme. Since 1996 already,the Marie Skłodowska-CurieActions (MSCA) have providedgrants to train excellentresearchers at all stages of theircareers. The programme isnamed after the double NobelPrize winner Marie Skłodowska-Curie to honour and spread the

    values she stood for. To date,around 100,000 researchers havebenefited from the programme –among them five Nobel laureatesand one Academy Award winner.

    One of the flagship schemes ofthis programme are EuropeanTraining Networks, such as OMA.They provide a unique trainingenvironment and have shown tobe highly efficient for buildingbridges between researchcommunities, sectors, as well asfor filling skills gapsinternationally.

    Accelerator research seemsparticularly well suited for theambitions of this programme as italmost naturally joins sectors,countries and researchers atdifferent experience levels. Forsure all of this is alreadyhappening in OMA.

    Enjoy this newsletter.

    And off we go…

    Prof. Carsten P. WelschOMA Coordinator

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    Meet our new FellowsAll fifteen OMA Fellows have now been recruited to the OMA project. We presented some ofthem in the last issue, below is the next group.

    WELCOME TO OMA!

    Network News

    Carlos Afonso graduated from University ofMinho with a Bachelor's in InformaticsEngineering in 2014. In the same year hestarted his Master's in InformaticsEngineering at University of Minho,specializing in Applications Engineering,Distributed Systems, and Cryptography.During his Master's, he did an internship withthe Iberian-International NanotechnologyLaboratory, working with data analysis ofelectron microscopy data. Carlos graduatedwith a Master's degree in 2016, his Master’s

    project was the creation of an elasticitycontroller for applications orchestrated withCloudify.In October 2016 Carlos joined the OMAnetwork to work at CNAO.

    Project:Light ion therapy software for data exchange

    Carlos Afonso

    Giulia Aricò carried out her Master's degree inMedical and Biological Physics at theUniversity of Trento (Itlay) from 2010 to2012. She developed her Master thesis at thePaul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), in thefield of proton therapy.

    In the years 2013-2016 she performeddoctoral research at the HeidelbergUniversity Hospital, in collaboration with theDKFZ (Germany). She investigated thefragmentation of carbon and helium ionbeams in different materials, to improve thephysical beam model used in radiotherapy.Fixed target experiments were performed atthe HIT facility, and the Timepix detectors,developed at CERN, were used for particleidentification and tracking. During her PhDshe also performed measurements at theHIMAC facility (Japan) to investigate the

    response of the Timepix detectors to ionsheavier than carbon, like neon and argon.

    In 2016 Giulia joined the OMA project atCERN to work on the improvement of theFLUKA code for medical applications. Herexpertise includes proton and ion therapy,particle beam accelerators, solid statedetectors and Monte Carlo simulations.Recently Giulia has obtained her PhD degreefrom the Heidelberg University.

    Project:Improvements on FLUKA for medical applications

    Giulia Aricò

    https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/oma-project/projects/cnao/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/oma-project/projects/cern/

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    Anna Baratto Roldán studied Physics at theUniversity of Trieste in Italy. Following thecompletion of her Bachelor’s degree in 2013,she enrolled in the MSc course of Nuclear andSubnuclear physics at the University ofTrieste, choosing medical Medical Physics asher main subject. During her studies shedeveloped a keen interest in the fields ofcharged particle therapy and radiobiology.

    Anna carried out her Master’s thesis within acooperation program between the Universityof Trieste and the INFN Section of Milan, andobtained her Master’s degree in March 2016.For her thesis project, she worked on themeasurement and analysis of chargedsecondary particles emitted by oxygen beamsimpinging on a PMMA target. The project waspart of a larger experiment, held at theHeidelberg Ion Beam Therapy centre, which

    aimed to develop new real-time monitoringtechniques for Charged Particle Therapy.

    In November 2016, Anna joined the OMAproject at University of Seville and CNA,where she will work on realization of a systemfor irradiation of cell samples at the cyclotroninstalled at CNA. In order to do so, she willperform dosimetry studies outside and in theregion of the Bragg peak, as well as developMonte Carlo tools for the calculation ofproton relative biological effectiveness (RBE).

    Project:Radiobiological effectiveness of protons

    Anna Baratto Roldán

    Samuele Cotta received his Bachelor’s degreein Physics in 2013 from the University ofInsubria in Como (Italy), with a thesis aboutthe characterization of a PbWO4 calorimeterread out by SiPM.In the same year he started his master’sstudies at the University of Insubria, focusingon medical physics.Samuele obtained his Master’s degree inPhysics in March 2016 with a thesis about thecharacterization of an active detector forneutron flux measurements. During his thesiswork he assembled and tested a detectorbased on a CsI crystal, which was then used tomeasure the neutron contamination flux in aradiotherapy treatment room. The results

    were also obtained through Monte Carlosimulations with Geant4.

    In January 2017 he joined the OMA project atViALUX in Chemnitz. The project will focus onthe enhancement of the long-term reliabilityof new 3D/4D scanning sensors for use inradiotherapy environment.

    Project:Optimization of high-performance 3D/4Dsurface scanning technology for patientmonitoring in radiotherapy environment

    Samuele Cotta

    https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/oma-project/projects/us-cna/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/oma-project/projects/vialux/

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    Andrea De Franco graduated from theUniversity of Genova with a Master in Physicsof Fundamental Interactions in 2012. Histhesis concerned the design anddevelopment of a novel neutron detectorbased on diamond with the main purpose ofmeasuring neutron flux and spectrum inaccelerator driven fast nuclear reactorprototypes. He spent one year in Japan in theframework of the Vulcanus in Japan project,at the beginning of which he studiedJapanese for 4 months. Later he did aninternship of 8 months in the nuclear powerplant system engineering department ofHitachi, where he performed safety systemanalysis for possible facility upgrade. FromOctober 2013 to September 2016 Andreaperformed research at the sub-department of

    astrophysics of the University of Oxford forthe Cherenkov Telescope Array project. Hisfocus was on the development of a camerafor ground based multi-Teraelectronvoltgamma-ray astrophysics.

    In November 2016 Andrea joined the OMAproject as a fellow at the EBG MedAustron inWiener Neustadt (Austria), where he willperform studies on facility optimization forpatient throughput enhancement.

    Project:

    Treatment facility optimization studies

    Andrea De Franco

    Anna Vnuchenko graduated from theUniversity of Paris-Saclay, France in 2016 witha Master’s degree in physics. She completed amultidisciplinary program with aspecialisation in large facilities. For herstudies Anna was awarded a scholarship fromFrench Government and Paris-Sud University.Anna also holds a degree with honours fromthe department of physics and mathematicsof the National Teachers’ Training Universityin Ukraine.She has work experience from thedepartment of nuclear and physical researchin IAP-NASU, where she took an active part indesign, installation and commissioning of anautomated goniometer on nuclear recoil end-station of the accelerator-based facility tostudy the radiation damage produced due to

    the ions implantation. Apart from acceleratorphysics other areas of research were thefundamental investigations of interactionprocesses of MeV ions with matter by meansof HRBS and HERDA techniques.

    Anna joined the OMA network to work onApplication of high gradient RF technology forhadron therapy accelerators, a project hostedby CSIC/IFIC.

    Project:Application of high gradient RF technology forhadron therapy accelerators

    Anna Vnuchenko

    https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/oma-project/projects/medaustron/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/oma-project/projects/csic/

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    New Partners join OMAThe OMA network is delighted to welcome three new adjunct partners in the consortium.

    OncoRay in Dresden, Germany, is a center forradiation research in oncology, with researchfocusing on the fields of medicine, physics,biology and information sciences. Itsobjective is to achieve a decisiveimprovement in the treatment of cancerusing biologically individualized,technologically optimized radiotherapy. Keyresearch projects include further

    development of image-guided proton therapyand the development of novel imaging-basedmonitoring procedures to accurately track theproton beam in the patient during treatment.The OncoRay partners are also working on alaser-based proton therapy. Further prioritiesat the Center lie in patient-oriented clinicalresearch and the study of biomarkers forradiotherapy.

    The University of Pennsylvania School ofMedicine is one of the world's leadingacademic medical centers, dedicated to therelated missions of medical education,biomedical research, and excellence inpatient care. The Department of RadiationOncology at Penn Medicine is one of thelargest and most respected programs in theworld. The comprehensive program providespatients access to nearly every optionavailable to treat their cancer. The broad

    range of radiation treatments availableinclude proton therapy, intensity-modulatedradiation therapy (IMRT), high-dose rate(HDR) and low-dose rate brachytherapy,partial breast irradiation, stereotacticradiosurgery (SRS) and Gamma Kniferadiation. The department has an outstandingresearch program that provides patients withaccess to clinical trials that expand theirtreatment options.

    The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt(PTB) is the National Metrology Institute ofGermany with scientific and technical servicetasks. PTB measures with the highestaccuracy and reliability – metrology as thecore competence.For service and research in the field ofdosimetry for external beam radiotherapyPTB operates an electron accelerator facility

    in Braunschweig, Germany. Threeaccelerators offer excellent experimentalpossibilities for investigations with high-energy photon and electron radiation: fromfundamental research to applications inhospitals. The linear accelerators available aretwo clinical accelerators and a researchelectron accelerator.

    OncoRay

    The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

    The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

    Welcome to OMA!

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    Proton Therapy Network launch meeting with talk

    about OMA

    Proton Therapy Network is a newmultidisciplinary community bringingtogether clinicians, hospital physicists andradiographers, industry, patientrepresentatives and policy makers withscientists and engineers from the engineeringand physical sciences community in the UK.Through this network they will work togetherto establish a research base and national

    infrastructure surrounding the governmentinvestment in proton therapy.The first Launch Meeting of the ProtonTherapy Network took place on 12th ofDecember 2016 in Manchester, and includeda talk by Prof. Carsten Welsch, OMACoordinator, who presented researchchallenges in the field of medical acceleratorsand the OMA network.

    The third meeting of the OMA SC took placeon 10th of January 2017 via a videoconference. The representatives of CNAO,IBA, GSI, US/CNA and University of Liverpoolmet to review the activities of the last 6months and plan next project actions andevents.The discussion about past activities focusedon recruitment, which was the major task forthe project in the first twelve months and wassuccessfully completed. The SC emphasisedthe engagement and collaboration of all theBeneficiaries in the recruitment process.The ongoing activities debated includedexternal and internal communication, career

    development plans for the fellows, and theprogress report, which has to be submitted tothe European Commission to summarize thefirst year of project implementation.The SC also discussed initial plans for OMAevents in the autumn of 2017: OMA Schoolon Monte Carlo Simulations and the Mid-term Review Meeting. The nextcommunication activities were also agreed,including the project brochure and promotionat external events. The SC concluded themeeting with approving accession of PTB asan adjunct partner of the network.The minutes of the meeting will be circulatedto all Beneficiaries shortly.

    3rd OMA Steering Committee meeting

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    The OMA network coordinator, Prof CarstenWelsch, gave a talk about the OMA projectand the importance of medical acceleratorsin general at the BERTI Symposium inMunich on 19th January 2017. The talkfocused on use of accelerators for medicalpurposes and research within the OMAframework that will lead to furtherdevelopments in this field.The BERTI Symposium is an eventsummarising three years of a BiomedicalImaging and Informatics - European Researchand Training Initiative - a Network funded bythe European Union and coordinated byTechnische Universität München. BERTI has

    trained 14 Early Stage Researchers within thisinterdisciplinary and intersectoral network ofcomputer scientists, natural scientists,engineers, clinicians, and partners fromindustry.Representatives of BERTI joined the OMAKick-off Meeting in 2015 to share theirexperiences in the implementation of aEuropean Training Network. The talk aboutOMA continues the exchange of goodpractice between two major Europeanprojects.

    Medicine: Accelerate it!

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    Reminder: OMA Complementary Skills School3rd – 7th April 2017, University of Liverpool, UK

    The first gathering of OMA Fellows will takeplace in Liverpool, UK. The one-week longtraining will be organized around thefollowing main topics:

    • Project management• Presentation skills• Scientific writing• Peer review• Team work• Time management.

    Accommodation has been booked for theOMA Fellows from Sunday 2nd April, to Friday

    7th April (check out date). The schoolprogramme will start on Monday morning of3rd April, so please arrange your arrival toLiverpool for Sunday 2nd April.

    Note that the UK is not within the Schengenarea and so non-EU nationals working outsideof the UK will need to apply for a UK visa inaddition to their work permits. Please submityour visa application well in advance. If aninvitation letter is required for visa applicationplease e-mail OMA Project Manager MagdaKlimontowska and she will provide you with it.

    1st OMA School - Medical Accelerators

    Registration now open!5th – 9th June 2017, Fondazione CNAO, Pavia, Italy

    The OMA consortium is organizing aninternational school on medical acceleratorsthat is open for participants from within andoutside the network.Renowned lecturers will complement partnerexpertise to cover topics such as beamgeneration, transport and delivery to thepatient, as well as treatment schemes, beamextraction and clinical assessment ofeffectiveness. Current challenges related tobeam diagnostics, imaging and patient issueswill also be discussed.In addition to the lectures there will be studygroups, a poster session and a dedicatedindustry session. There will also beopportunities for discussion and networkingat evening events, and a study tour to CNAOfacilities.Several scholarships for early stageresearchers from outside the network will beavailable.

    The cost for participation is €900 includingaccommodation and full board.Registration and further details:https://indico.cern.ch/event/595518/

    OMA Events

    Note: Participation in OMA Schools is obligatory for all OMA Fellows.

    https://indico.cern.ch/event/595518/

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    OMA at IPAC’17OMA will be present at the 8th InternationalParticle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) whichtakes place this year in Copenhagen,Denmark, from 9th to 14th May.IPAC is the main annual event for theworldwide accelerator community andindustry, with presentations of the latest

    results from accelerator R&D and on theprogress in existing, planned and futureaccelerator facilities.

    The representatives of OMA will promote theproject at the industrial exhibition.Visit us at Booth 20!

    Other Events

    FCC Week 2017

    In 2017 the FCC Week will take place inBerlin, Germany between May 29th andJune 2nd. The registration and abstractsubmission is open, as well as application forthe FCC Innovation Award via postersubmission.The annual meetings of the worldwide FutureCircular Collider study (FCC) are majorinternational events that review the progressin every domain which is relevant to develop

    feasible concepts for a next generationfrontier particle accelerate based high-energyphysics research infrastructure. This 3rdmeeting is jointly organised by CERN andDESY. It is also the annual meeting of theEuroCirCol EC Horizon 2020 Research andInnovation Action project.

    For details and registration please check:https://fccw2017.web.cern.ch/

    Libera Workshop 2017Instrumentation Technologies kindlyinvites you to join the Libera Workshop2017, which will be held on June 1st

    2017 in Slovenia.The Libera Workshop is one of the mainopportunities to meet and exchangeknowledge with experts in beamdiagnostics and data acquisition systemsfor particle accelerators. Participantslearn about new applications and digital

    signal processing techniques based onthe newly available technologies andhave the chance to present the status oftheir projects. It is also an opportunity toattend a demonstration of one or moreLibera solutions and take part inintensive training.Please contact InstrumentationTechnologies for more information.

    http://cern.ch/fcchttp://eurocircol.eu/https://fccw2017.web.cern.ch/https://www.slovenia.info/enmailto:[email protected]

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    Getting to know your PartnersJohannes Petzoldt, a fellow based at IonBeam Applications, has recently visited thepartner organizations that will be closelyinvolved in his project.

    His first secondment was at the University ofPennsylvania. Johannes met the clinicalpartners, Dr. Teo and Dr. Xie, for the first timeand discussed further strategies concerningthe prompt gamma camera prototype. Thedevice is used to determine the proton rangeand the first data acquisition during patienttreatment with pencil beam scanning wasperformed at UPenn in June 2016. As part ofthe secondment the fellow learned toperform the temperature and energycalibration of the camera – a procedurenecessary every couple of months to ensureproper functionality and, consequently,proton range retrieval. Supervised by Dr.Smeets the fellow performed successfulcalibration measurements, and theknowledge gained was summarized in a step-by-step manual. Additionally, the fellow tookthe opportunity to get an impression on thelocal site and the different treatment rooms.

    Johannes also performed an experimentalwork in the IBA facility in Dresden incollaboration with the clinical partners of

    OncoRay. One of Johannes’ tasks within theproject is to develop a model for ageometrical correction of the prompt gammacamera prototype, which depends on severalparameters like camera setup and beamenergy. To benchmark the model,experimental data under very specificconditions is required. The experiment wasprepared together with the group of Dr.Richter and conducted in the gantrytreatment room in a night shift. Highpositioning accuracy of 0.1mm could beachieved by using the X-ray system of thetreatment room. The fellow not only learnedhow to control the beam and the camera, butalso participated in the changing of the ionsource of the cyclotron during the night shift.

    As a result, the necessary data was obtainedin this experiment and will be analyzed backhome in Louvain-la-Neuve.

    Johannes found both visits very useful for thescientific development of his project, as wellas establishing close links with the projectpartners.

    Fellows News

    Experimental setup at OncoRay, Dresden.

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    OMA Fellows contribute to Accelerator Experience

    Days

    The Cockcroft Institute in Daresbury, UK,was recently overrun by 70+ school children(or future scientists) for the outreachAccelerator Experience Days. Severalvolunteers, amongst them OMA Fellows EwaOponowicz and Jacinta Yap, created anexciting and challenging day for the 12-15year olds in an effort to encourage the pursuitof science as a career choice. With stimulatedparticipation from local schools, the team ofvolunteers successfully managed to pique theinterest of their junior guests and hopefullyawaken some of their inner physicists.

    The students spent some time listening to anintroductory talk, discussing the work of CIscientists presented in a form of posters andwatching planned demonstrations of variousexperiments. However, the majority of the

    day was spent challenging them to createtheir own. In a mad flurry of masking tape,magnets, batteries and salad bowls, thestudents excitedly worked in groups with thevolunteers to prove themselves as capableyoung physicists. As the students enjoyedbuilding homemade salad bowl accelerators,Van De Graaff Generators and railguns,several students were also tasked with bothfilming and editing videos documenting theirexperiments and the process of making them.

    Each day ended with vibrancy as the studentsdisplayed posters and videos detailing anddemonstrating their work on theexperiments. The videos displayed thestudents success, creativity (and a sense ofhumour), which left the students, teachersand volunteers in high spirits at the end of theday.

    Jacinta supervising the experiment.

    Ewa explaining how to make a homemade salad bowl accelerator.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NQtjvGQAl8&t=4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnRbHK8zlyE&t=3shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUgU8lXdD7c&t=15s

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    Back to School

    Ewa Oponowicz, OMA fellow based at theUniversity of Manchester / CockcroftInstitute, gave an outreach talk to highschool students in her hometown in Poland.

    Having briefly explained the principles ofaccelerators, Ewa introduced the students toresearch in this field by giving someimpressive facts about the LHC, the largestand most powerful accelerator in the world.To show how wide the range of acceleratorapplications is, she presented severalexamples, starting with medicine, throughcargo scanning to archaeology.As the audience consisted of students whoare about to choose their university andcareer path, they had plenty of questions -not only on the accelerators, but also aboutthe general research opportunities and theyoung scientist career. Ewa spoke to themabout the advantages of being a researcherand has stayed in touch with thoseparticularly interested in science to answerthe questions arising.

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    AVA Network launchedThe Accelerators Validating Antimatterphysics (AVA) project started officially on the1st January 2017. AVA is an internationalcollaboration of currently 25 institutions.Benefiting from almost 4 M€ of funding fromthe European Union, AVA will train no lessthan 15 early stage researchers over the next4 years to carry out research into facilitydesign and optimization, development ofadvanced Beam Diagnostics, and novelAntimatter experiments.

    All project partners gathered for the projectkick-off meeting organized on 11th – 13th

    January 2017 at the University of Liverpool.

    The meeting was chaired by the networkcoordinator, Prof Carsten P. Welsch, whotogether with the EU TEAM introduced thepartners to the specific rules and regulationsof the Horizon 2020 framework, the projectdetailed time plan, events and the networkwide communication and outreach plans.The AVA network is currently looking forcandidates for its 15 vacant Fellowship

    positions at institutions across Europe. Theapplication deadline is 31st January 2017.Each researcher employed within the projectwill follow an innovative training program,similar to the one of the OMA network. Therewill also be opportunities to organize jointevents and training for both OMA and AVAfellows, facilitating networking and newcollaborations across the two networks.

    Partner News

    The 1st Spanish Workshop on ProtonTherapy took place on 14th December 2016at Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Faculty of Physical Sciences.It was organized to foster collaborationbetween radiotherapists, oncologists,radiologists, radiophysicists and researchersin the area of medical physics interested inproton therapy, in order to achieve optimalfunctioning of a future proton therapy facility

    in Spain. The aim of the meeting was also toestablish a common strategy for training ofprofessionals in the field proton therapy.

    OMA Beneficiary – Centro Nacional deAceleradores made important contributionsto the event, including a talk by Prof. JoaquínGómez Camacho, Director of CNA and amember of the OMA Steering Committee.

    1st Spanish Workshop on Proton Therapy

    Participants at the AVA Kick-off Meeting.

    http://www.ava-project.eu/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/quasar/eu-team/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ava/vacancies/https://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Group1-highres.jpg

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    Vacancies

    Early Stage Researcher fellowships within the AVA projectApplication deadline: 31st January 2017More information can be found here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ava/vacancies/

    PhD opportunities in the Quasar GroupApplication deadline: 31st January 2017More information can be found here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/quasar/vacancies/vacancies/

    Positions available at COSYLABCOSYLAB is currently looking to hire 40 new medical systems engineers and other engineers in thisfield. If you have just finished your studies and are looking for new challenges, please feel free todrop us an email, we will be glad to see how our paths could cross. For more information pleasecontact [email protected]

    PhD position on laser-driven ion acceleration for fundamental and applied nuclear physicsThe Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (France) (CENBG) and the EnergieMatériaux Télécommunications Research Centre of the Institut National de Recherche Scientifique(INRS) located in Varennes in Quebec, Canada, have a common opening for a three year PhDposition in joint supervision in the field of laser plasma ion acceleration starting from October2017. For more information please have a look at: http://www.cenbg.in2p3.fr/IMG/pdf/dual-phd-cenbg-inrs-2.pdf.

    The Los Alamos National Laboratory accelerator "LANSCE" is presently seeking candidates for aPostdoctoral researcher position in the field of ion sources and injectors. The full jobadvertisement can be found here: http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/jobs/all-jobs.phpJob number “IRC52093”.

    Opening for Work on an FCC Interaction RegionCERN prepares in an international collaboration the design of a 100km ring accelerator complex,the FCC. Part of this study is the consideration of an electron-hadron collider experiment. There isan opening of a 2-years position at CERN, at fellow or scientific associate level, to pursue the designof the electron-hadron interaction region which links the electron beam, considered to be anenergy recovery racetrack configuration tangential to the FCC tunnel, with the FCC hadron beam.Further information can be obtained from Oliver Bruening (CERN) and Max Klein (U Liverpool)[email protected], [email protected]

    https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ava/vacancies/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/quasar/vacancies/vacancies/mailto:[email protected]://www.cenbg.in2p3.fr/IMG/pdf/dual-phd-cenbg-inrs-2.pdfhttp://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/jobs/all-jobs.phpmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

  • OMA Events

    April 3rd – 7th 2017 OMA Complementary Skills School, Liverpool, UK

    June 5th – 9th 2017 1st OMA School – Medical Accelerators

    Other Events

    May 14th – 19th 2017 IPAC’17, Copenhagen, Denmark

    May 29th – June 2nd 2017 FCC Week 2017, Berlin, Germany

    June 1st 2017 Libera Workshop 2017, Slovenia

    Aug 20th – 24th 2017 IBIC’17, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

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    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675265.

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