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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|International Ballroom East
Session Chair:
Steve Russell
Alternate Chair:
Bruce Carlsten
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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Calibrating an Accelerator Simulator with Machine Learning
1:00–1:20PM EST
Christopher Leon (LANL), Alexander Scheinker (LANL), Petr M. Anisimov (LANL)
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Restoring Precision: Modernizing Proton Storage Ring Tuning at LANSCE
1:20–1:40PM EST
Charles E. Taylor (LANL), En-Chuan Huang (LANL), Joshua Yoskowitz (LANL), David ZImmermann (LANL)
Interstellar Propulsion and Power Nuclear Fusion Development Facility
1:40–2:00PM EST
Gerald P. Jackson (Beam Alpha Incorporated), Grace E. Bittlingmaier (Beam Alpha Incorporated)
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration, FACET-II and a Wakefield Collider
2:00–2:20PM EST
Brendan O'Shea (Stanford University)
Used Nuclear Fuel for On-Ramping the Fusion Economy with Kilogram Quantities of Commercial Tritium
2:20–2:40PM EST
Terence Tarnowsky (LANL), Richard L. Sheffield (LANL), Paul Lisowski (LANL)
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