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Jan 16 2020 Report - Jan 6 - Jan 31 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Group management, meetings, planning
     - Summer student recommendation letters
     - Paper/Funding reviews (NIM, PRAB, NSERC)
     - IPAC'20 SPC3 meeting preparation
     - Travel: Venice, Italy IPAC'20 SPC3 Meeting (Jan 13-18)
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Group management, meetings, planning
     - Xelera initial meeting re funded SBIR phase I (Jan 24)
     - IPAC'21 SPC1 meeting preparation
     - Travel: Iguazu Falls, Brazil SPC1/OC1 Meeting (Jan 27-Feb 1)

Alex Bogacz

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17) 
     - Invention disclosures - review
     -	Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
     -	Machine support 
     -	PRAB paper review
     -	CEBAF ER chicane config. with Cornell’s magnets

Rui Li

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Working on writing up the technote on uneven bunch spectra
     - Study literature about impact of uneven bunch fill on coupled bunch instability behavior
     - Schedule and planning for the next JLEIC impedance meeting
     - Continue to participate ALS-U impedance meeting
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31) 
     - Finishing up with the uneven bunch spectra technote by adding plots from Mathematica
     - Understanding effect of uneven bunch fill on coupled bunch instabilities
     - Understanding scaling of impedance on aperture size

Edy Nissen

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - I have been working to document the upcoming DODGE  experiment
     - Discussing the strategy for COMBINE with Jean and Geoff attending meetings about the future of our EIC work
     - Working as optics on call
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - I will finish my DODGE preparations
     - Work on the design for COMBINE, it needs some tweaking and updated cost projections.

Chris Tennant

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Visit to CNU robotics lab
     - Follow-up meetings for "AI in Accelerator Division" talk
     - Meeting with Communications staff about AI at JLab
     - Generate content for AI landing page
     - Work with Daniel Lersch on generating quarterly problem for AI Lunch Series
     - Checking performance of online fault classifier models
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Prep and give presentation on AI at Jefferson Lab at DOE telecon
     - Accelerator Production Systems Engineering: meetings and contributing to draft white paper
     - AI for NP Workshop: work on pre-workshop "hackathon"
     - Host Lasitha for day visit to the lab
     - Re-train ML models for SRF fault classification using new training data set (with more fault classes)

Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - 
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     -

Max Bruker

  Previous (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     -	Analysis of IMP experiment
     -	Mourned the death of JLEIC
  Next (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - DC cooler discussion at Fermilab
     -	Continue analysis of IMP experiment
     -	Fully read the eRHIC pCDR (the document is surprisingly well-written considering its length)

Fanglei Lin

  Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
       - Worked on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
       - Worked on the storage ring cooler project
       - Miscellaneous: attended the Innovative HE Cooling Project Status meeting, attended the Storage Ring Cooler meeting, attended JLEIC R&D meeting, attended JLEIC weekly 
         meeting, attended a meeting for the Spin@USPAS class
  Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
       - Work on the storage ring cooler project
       - Work on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class

Bhawin Dhital

   Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
     - Learning python and data science with python. Took some online courses on python.
     - Preparing slides on ` beam cooling ' for coming USPAS .
   Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Working with stability in a two energy storage ring cooler with ` Radiation on'.
     - Working on generalized formula for stability in a two - energy storage ring cooler.
     - Going to USPAS ( Jan 13 - Jan 24) San Diego, CA as a TA for "Accelerator Physics".

Vasiliy Morozov

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Optimization of the IBS rate in the JLEIC ion collider ring by adjusting the FODO betatron phase advance and introducing local coupling, study of chromatic 
       compensation of the IBS-optimized lattice.
     - Participated in planning JLab's contribution to eRHIC and future EIC R&D
     - Modeling eRHIC interaction region
     - Running simulations for the transparent spin experiment
     - Designing a two-energy storage ring cooler
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Continue participation in planning JLab's contribution to eRHIC and future EIC R&D
     - Preparation of a quarterly report on the transparent spin experiment
     - Spin tracking simulations for the transparent spin experiment
     - Wrapping up the IBS optimization work
     - Simulations of the two-energy storage ring cooler
     - Work on crab crossing project: evaluation of instabilities and emittance growth rate and benchmarking of simulations against the SPS data

Amy Sy

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17):
     - Longitudinal Schottky signal analysis for December 2019 IMP bunched beam cooling experiments. Plotting and evaluating spectrograms from the first set of data (700 ns bunch
       length, varying RF voltage from 0.6 kV to 2 kV) to check for missing data. Evaluating peak spacing and sideband evolution as RF voltage is varied. The synchrotron 
       frequency from the peak spacing appears to be ~50 Hz lower than expected from the experimental parameters, across all RF voltages 
     - Looking for the source of this 
       discrepancy.
   Next two weeks (Jan 23 - Jan 31)
     - Continued Schottky signal analysis for latest IMP experiment.
     - Continued work on getting the DTL portion of the JLEIC ion linac working in PyORBIT, to finish up H- intrabeam stripping estimates.

Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Vacation (until Jan 8)
     - AI workshop organizing committee meetings and organizational work
     - Accelerator restart, BTEAM meetings
     - TRC committee meetings
     - FOA report on beambeam
     - Staff evaluations
   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Hall A recommissioning, review of specifications for beam deliveries
     - USPAS meetings 
     - Preparation of slides for summer USPAS teaching  
     - Preparation of lecture notes for USPAS
     - Staff evaluations, final step
     - Calculations for spin transport IPAC contribution (with J. Grames/M. Joyce)

Randi Gamage

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - Chromaticity correction
     - Added two mobius insertions to the ICR
     - Multipole correction for jelic icr
   Next two weeks (jan 20 - Jan 31)
     - Designing a dual arm chicane for Hall D energy doubling
     - Multipole correction for jleic icr

River Huang

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - Continue working on EIC project
   Next two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     -

Isurumali Neththikumara

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -

Dennis Turner

Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
- AIPINJ
- Emittance measurment simulations
- Optics corrections for various wien filter settings
- Beam size requirements
- Generated wien filter matrices for 200keV gun voltage
- Started on a tool for performing solenoid scans
- Modified the elegant deck to reflect recent design changes
- HLA
- eDT vs. Hall B momentum in CED
- Changes to eDT for more accurate conversion to control system units
- New version of QTSnyder ready for testing with beam
- Implemented a fix in QTSnyder to catch invalid segment selections from Fopt.
- MultiWire emittance tool ready for testing with beam
- Helped with documenting RF software
- Agreed to take over Fopt as primary maintainer and Phaser as secondary from Chris Slominski
- 12GeV PRAB
- Searched for and found references for the FFB/locks section
- Completed training as it came up.
- Completed Property Validation.
- Attended BTeam, 12GeV PRAB, AIPINJ, AI Lunch meetings.
Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
- AIPINJ
- Complete solenoid scan tool.
- More emittance measurement simulations: take wien filter apertures into account.
- Import fieldmaps into the elegant deck as they become available.
- Import the elegant deck into CED InjUpgrade workspace.
- HLA
- Test QTSnyder and MultiWire with beam as Beam Studies time permits.
- Meet with Chris Slominski to discuss Fopt and Phaser.
- Address OPS-PRs as they arise.
- 12GeV PRAB
- Complete draft of FFB/locks section.
- Provide input to Chris Tennant for the DOE AI/NP telecon later this month.
- Provide Optics On-Call support as scheduled.
- Attend BTeam, AIPINJ, 12GeV PRAB meetings.

He Zhang

   Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)     
     - Revised JSPEC for better management of the code. 
     - Calculated the IBS rate for new lattices from Vasiliy.
     - Ao Liu, A scientist from Euclid Techlab, want to apply for an SBIR project on space charge effects and he wish Ji Qiang and I can join.
       Discussed with them and helped to write an LOI. 
   Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17) 
     - FOA Quarterly report.
     - Set up turn-by-turn tracking for IMP experiment and ion beam edge cooling.

Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -

Joe Gubeli

   Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
     - Isotope Experiment – Helped with the two day run to the 1G dump.
     - Halo monitor – Conducted the Halo Monitor experiment in the LERF.
     - ARDDOT – Was able to install and run the Beamenizer on a Windows 10 machine.
   Next two weeks (Nov 11 - Nov 22)
     - Isotope Experiment – Help with the two day run to the 1X line.
     - ARDDOT – Start work on the other CEBAF SLMs

Michael Tiefenback

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - 
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     -

CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson

   Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
     - Assisted in run to the 1G dump with CW beam. Unfortunately we could not run beam.
     -	Reviewed SBIR
     - Reviewed IPAC 2020 abstracts
     -	Looked over new Phase II SBIRs
     - Met with diagnostics team to derive a plan for replacing the beam-a-nizer frame grabber at the LERF
     -	Met with the magnet group and came up with a strategy for the kicker coils for RF merge test
     -	Continued gathering documents for the ERR punch list
     -	Planned for another run to the 1G dump
   Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
     - Assist with the run to the 1G dump
     -	Certify User Lab 4 in the LERF
     -	Host Michael Famiano for Acc. seminar (with Joe Grames)
     -	Move excess equipment out of the LERF

Andrew Hutton

   Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
     - The last two weeks have been mostly spent on AccApp 2020, preparing before I left for Vienna as well as the Program Committee itself.     
       One upside, I have an invited oral on Isotope production.  
     - We are finalizing the preparations for the first irradiation (mostly Steve and Kevin).  
   Next two weeks Jan 20 - Jan 30)
     - This week, I need to complete the Isotope quarterly report for the DOE, due Friday.  
     - Next week, we will commission the target beam,one, with the first irradiation hopefully the following week.  
     - There is also movement on the Straight Merger test at the ANL-AWA.  Ware preparing the coils for the cavity that is installed at the 
       AWA. Sarah is heading up this effort.

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-Dec 5 2019 Report - Nov 25 - Dec 20
+Jan 16 2020 Report - Jan 6 - Jan 31
 '''Director - Todd Satogata''' <br>
 Todd Satogata
-    Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
+    Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - ADMIN 12 GeV PRAB paper planning/writing
+       - Group management, meetings, planning
-       - MGMT Continue annual appraisals, AWP updates
+       - Summer student recommendation letters
-       - JLEIC planning and organization, cooling studies
+       - Paper/Funding reviews (NIM, PRAB, NSERC)
-       - JACOW Team meeting preparations
+       - IPAC'20 SPC3 meeting preparation
-       - IPAC'20 SPC/3 preparations, absract submissions
+       - Travel: Venice, Italy IPAC'20 SPC3 Meeting (Jan 13-18)
-      - OPS CEBAF startup support
+    Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
-      - ODU PHYS854 teaching (with Geoff Krafft)
+       - Group management, meetings, planning
-      - Madison Accelerator Lab annual telecon (Dec 2)
+       - Xelera initial meeting re funded SBIR phase I (Jan 24)
-      - HOLIDAY (Nov 28-29, Thankgiving)
+       - IPAC'21 SPC1 meeting preparation
-      - JACOW Team Meeting (Nov 30-Dec 7, attended remotely)
+       - Travel: Iguazu Falls, Brazil SPC1/OC1 Meeting (Jan 27-Feb 1)
-    Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
-       - ADMIN 12 GeV PRAB paper planning/writing
-      - MGMT Complete annual appraisals, AWP updates
-      - JLEIC planning and organization, transfer line start
-       - JLEIC ICR BPM start evaluation, calculations
-      - JACOW Post-Team Meeting info transfer to new Directors
-       - IPAC'20 SPC/3 preparations, abstract QA/reclassification
-       - OPS CEBAF ops support, Hall D procedures development
-      - ODU PHYS854 final exam (with Geoff Krafft)
-      - VACATION (Dec 19-20)
 Alex Bogacz
-    Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+    Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-      - Vacation & Holidays
-      -	Lecture preparation for USPAS’20
-   Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
        - Invention disclosures - review
        -	Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
+   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
+      - Teaching Accelerator Physics course at USPAS’20
+      -	Machine support
+      -	PRAB paper review
+      -	CEBAF ER chicane config. with Cornell’s magnets
@@ Line 47: / Line 35: @@
 Rui Li
-    Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+    Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-      - Holiday vacations
+       - Working on writing up the technote on uneven bunch spectra
-      - Recap and planning for works
-   Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - Finish writing up the technote on uneven bunch spectra
        - Study literature about impact of uneven bunch fill on coupled bunch instability behavior
        - Schedule and planning for the next JLEIC impedance meeting
+      - Continue to participate ALS-U impedance meeting
+   Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
+      - Finishing up with the uneven bunch spectra technote by adding plots from Mathematica
+      - Understanding effect of uneven bunch fill on coupled bunch instabilities
+      - Understanding scaling of impedance on aperture size
@@ Line 61: / Line 52: @@
 Edy Nissen
-     Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - I will be on extended medical leave
+       - I have been working to document the upcoming DODGE  experiment
-     Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
+      - Discussing the strategy for COMBINE with Jean and Geoff attending meetings about the future of our EIC work
-       - I will be on extended medical leave
+      - Working as optics on call
-       - I will put a little bit of time in to update my pre-proposal for for the DOE Early Career Award.
+     Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
+       - I will finish my DODGE preparations
+       - Work on the design for COMBINE, it needs some tweaking and updated cost projections.
@@ Line 72: / Line 66: @@
 Chris Tennant
-     Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - Shutdown/vacation
+       - Visit to CNU robotics lab
-       - Administrative tasks (excessing desktop, spec'ing new laptop, answering e-mails, etc.)
+       - Follow-up meetings for "AI in Accelerator Division" talk
-       - Collected and sent Cheng-Ying CCR lattice material for collaborative work
+      - Meeting with Communications staff about AI at JLab
-     Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
+       - Generate content for AI landing page
-       - Possible visit to CNU robotics lab
+      - Work with Daniel Lersch on generating quarterly problem for AI Lunch Series
-       - Start tracking distributions from Fay through CCR and evaluate performance
+      - Checking performance of online fault classifier models
-       - Prepping for AI presentation to DOE (meet with people about proposed projects)
+     Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
+       - Prep and give presentation on AI at Jefferson Lab at DOE telecon
+      - Accelerator Production Systems Engineering: meetings and contributing to draft white paper
+       - AI for NP Workshop: work on pre-workshop "hackathon"
+       - Host Lasitha for day visit to the lab
+      - Re-train ML models for SRF fault classification using new training data set (with more fault classes)
@@ Line 92: / Line 90: @@
 Yuhong Zhang
-    Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+    Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - shutdown/vacation
+       -
-    Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
+    Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
        -
@@ Line 101: / Line 99: @@
 Max Bruker
-    Previous (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+    Previous (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       -	Vacation
+       -	Analysis of IMP experiment
-       - Had a first look at some data from the IMP experiment
+       -	Mourned the death of JLEIC
-    Next (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
+    Next (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
-       - Plan and perform IMP data analysis
+       - DC cooler discussion at Fermilab
-      - Tentatively: DC electron cooler discussion at Fermilab
+      -	Continue analysis of IMP experiment
+      -	Fully read the eRHIC pCDR (the document is surprisingly well-written considering its length)
@@ Line 114: / Line 113: @@
 Fanglei Lin
-    Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+    Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-         - Holiday break
+         - Worked on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
-    Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
+        - Worked on the storage ring cooler project
-        - Work on simulations of spin transparency experiment
+        - Miscellaneous: attended the Innovative HE Cooling Project Status meeting, attended the Storage Ring Cooler meeting, attended JLEIC R&D meeting, attended JLEIC weekly
+          meeting, attended a meeting for the Spin@USPAS class
+    Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
          - Work on the storage ring cooler project
          - Work on teaching material for the Spin@USPAS class
@@ Line 140: / Line 139: @@
 Vasiliy Morozov
-     Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       -Attended the EIC Ion Collider Research and Development Project (11/16 - 11/30/19)
+       - Optimization of the IBS rate in the JLEIC ion collider ring by adjusting the FODO betatron phase advance and introducing local coupling, study of chromatic
-     Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
+        compensation of the IBS-optimized lattice.
-       -Attended the EICUG Yellow Reports - Kick-off Meeting (12/11 - 12/13/19)
+      - Participated in planning JLab's contribution to eRHIC and future EIC R&D
+      - Modeling eRHIC interaction region
+      - Running simulations for the transparent spin experiment
+      - Designing a two-energy storage ring cooler
+     Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
+       - Continue participation in planning JLab's contribution to eRHIC and future EIC R&D
+      - Preparation of a quarterly report on the transparent spin experiment
+      - Spin tracking simulations for the transparent spin experiment
+      - Wrapping up the IBS optimization work
+      - Simulations of the two-energy storage ring cooler
+      - Work on crab crossing project: evaluation of instabilities and emittance growth rate and benchmarking of simulations against the SPS data
@@ Line 151: / Line 161: @@
 Amy Sy
-     Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3):
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17):
-       - Preparing Early Career Award pre-proposal for submission.
+       - Longitudinal Schottky signal analysis for December 2019 IMP bunched beam cooling experiments. Plotting and evaluating spectrograms from the first set of data (700 ns bunch
-       - DTL phase optimization in H- ion linac in TRACK.
+        length, varying RF voltage from 0.6 kV to 2 kV) to check for missing data. Evaluating peak spacing and sideband evolution as RF voltage is varied. The synchrotron
-     Next two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
+        frequency from the peak spacing appears to be ~50 Hz lower than expected from the experimental parameters, across all RF voltages
-       - Continued work on getting the DTL portion of the ion linac working in PyORBIT.
+       - Looking for the source of this
-      - Schottky signal analysis for latest IMP experiment as necessary.
+        discrepancy.
+     Next two weeks (Jan 23 - Jan 31)
+      - Continued Schottky signal analysis for latest IMP experiment.
+       - Continued work on getting the DTL portion of the JLEIC ion linac working in PyORBIT, to finish up H- intrabeam stripping estimates.
@@ Line 168: / Line 182: @@
 '''Computational Physics - Yves Roblin'''<br>
 Yves Roblin
-     Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - CEBAF:
+       - Vacation (until Jan 8)
-           -
+      - AI workshop organizing committee meetings and organizational work
-       - JLEIC:
+       - Accelerator restart, BTEAM meetings
-           -
+      - TRC committee meetings
-       - OTHER
+       - FOA report on beambeam
-           -
+      - Staff evaluations
-     Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
+     Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
-       -
+       - Hall A recommissioning, review of specifications for beam deliveries
+      - USPAS meetings
+      - Preparation of slides for summer USPAS teaching
+      - Preparation of lecture notes for USPAS
+      - Staff evaluations, final step
+      - Calculations for spin transport IPAC contribution (with J. Grames/M. Joyce)
@@ Line 183: / Line 203: @@
 Randi Gamage
-     Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       -
+       - Chromaticity correction
-     Next two weeks (Dec 9 - Dec 20)
+      - Added two mobius insertions to the ICR
-       -
+      - Multipole correction for jelic icr
+     Next two weeks (jan 20 - Jan 31)
+       - Designing a dual arm chicane for Hall D energy doubling
+      - Multipole correction for jleic icr
@@ Line 212: / Line 236: @@
 Dennis Turner
-     Previous two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 6)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - Attended Accelerator AI projects meeting.
+       - '''AIPINJ'''
-      - Addressed High Level Apps OPS-PRs generated during ops
+         - Emittance measurment simulations
-          - eDT
+         - Optics corrections for various wien filter settings
-          - DogCalc
+         - Beam size requirements
-          - QTSnyder
+         - Generated wien filter matrices for 200keV gun voltage
-          - ArcSteer
+         - Started on a tool for performing solenoid scans
-       - Discussed with Tief a new RF cresting method using SLMs.
+         - Modified the elegant deck to reflect recent design changes
-          - AIPINJ
+       - '''HLA'''
-              - Reconciled elegant deck with Alicia's GPT model.
+         - eDT vs. Hall B momentum in CED
-       - 12GeV PRAB
+         - Changes to eDT for more accurate conversion to control system units
-          - Revised Optics Tuning section.
+         - New version of QTSnyder ready for testing with beam
-          - Completed first draft of Pathlength section.
+         - Implemented a fix in QTSnyder to catch invalid segment selections from Fopt.
-       - Continued QTSnyder upgrade.
+         - MultiWire emittance tool ready for testing with beam
-       - Attended BTeam, Injector Upgrade Modeling, AI Lunch meetings.
+         - Helped with documenting RF software
-      - Took a few sick days for doctor appointments and such.
+         - Agreed to take over Fopt as primary maintainer and Phaser as secondary from Chris Slominski
-     Next two weeks (Dec 6 - Dec 20)
+       - '''12GeV PRAB'''
-       - Provide Optics On-Call support through the end of the run.
+         - Searched for and found references for the FFB/locks section
-       - Begin working with Tief on new cresting method with SLM.
+      - Completed training as it came up.
-       - Finish QTSnyder upgrade and write ATLis for testing.
+       - Completed Property Validation.
-       - Continue work on Injector upgrade elegant deck.
+       - Attended BTeam, 12GeV PRAB, AIPINJ, AI Lunch meetings.
-       - Continue work on assigned sections of the 12GeV PRAB paper.
+     Next two weeks (Jan 20 - Jan 31)
-       - Attend BTeam, Injector Upgrade, AI lunch, 12GeV PRAB meetings.
+       - '''AIPINJ'''
-      - Continue exploring ML with Keras and TensorFlow, particularly for use at CEBAF.
+         - Complete solenoid scan tool.
+         - More emittance measurement simulations: take wien filter apertures into account.
+         - Import fieldmaps into the elegant deck as they become available.
+         - Import the elegant deck into CED InjUpgrade workspace.
+       - '''HLA'''
+         - Test QTSnyder and MultiWire with beam as Beam Studies time permits.
+         - Meet with Chris Slominski to discuss Fopt and Phaser.
+         - Address OPS-PRs as they arise.
+       - '''12GeV PRAB'''
+         - Complete draft of FFB/locks section.
+       - Provide input to Chris Tennant for the DOE AI/NP telecon later this month.
+       - Provide Optics On-Call support as scheduled.
+       - Attend BTeam, AIPINJ, 12GeV PRAB meetings.
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 Andrew Hutton
-     Previous two weeks (Dec 23 - Jan 3)
+     Previous two weeks (Jan 6 - Jan 17)
-       - Before Christmas, I developed a scaling for the AWA-ANL defection cavity for JLEIC straight merger.  I managed to find a parameter set
+       - The last two weeks have been mostly spent on AccApp 2020, preparing before I left for Vienna as well as the Program Committee itself.
-         that would enable the straight merger cavity to be a room-temperature copper cavity, rather than an SRF cavity.  But it is a bit of a
+         One upside, I have an invited oral on Isotope production.
-        brute, so may not be the optimum.
+       - We are finalizing the preparations for the first irradiation (mostly Steve and Kevin).
-       - After Christmas, I returned to AccApp 2020 preparations.  I have already evaluated the Abstracts, now I am trying to develop a layout
+     Next two weeks Jan 20 - Jan 30)
-        for each Session I am responsible for (4).
+       - This week, I need to complete the Isotope quarterly report for the DOE, due Friday.
-      - Jan 3, I am hosting Courtney Washington for a visit to the isotope irradiation area in the LERF vault.  I promised her that I would
+       - Next week, we will commission the target beam,one, with the first irradiation hopefully the following week.
-        invite her once she turned 18, which happened in November.
+      - There is also movement on the Straight Merger test at the ANL-AWA.  Ware preparing the coils for the cavity that is installed at the
-     Next two weeks Jan 6 - Jan 17)
+        AWA. Sarah is heading up this effort.
-       - I will complete the AccApp 202 preparations.
-       - I have to prepare the first draft of the Quarterly Report for the Isotope Program.  In addition, Doug Wells and I have a conference call
-        with Ethan Balkin, the DOE Isotope Program Manager, to discuss the relative importance of Copper64 when mixed with Copper 67.
-      - I leave for Vienna on January 9, returning on January 16, but will not come to the lab on January 17.

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