2020-5-28-LeadershipReports

May 20 2020 Report - May 11 - June 5 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata

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Alex Bogacz

  Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22) 
     - Presentation at PERLE bi-weekly mtg. on ‘New Lattice Design Options for PERLE’
     -	Exploring CEBAF with FFA Arcs, presentation for Bob Mc Kewon’s Committee 
     -	Preparing lecture on ‘Introduction to Accelerators’ for Summer Students
     -	Finalizing the ‘Awards database’ 
  Next two weeks (May 25 - June 5)
     - Presenting lecture on ‘Introduction to Accelerators’ for Summer Students
     -	Presenting talk  on ‘Baseline Lattice Design for PERLE’ at PERLE Collab. Mtg.
     -	Remote participation in PERLE Collab. Mtg.
     -	PRAB article review.

Rui Li

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Edy Nissen

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Chris Tennant

   Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - AI lunch (recruiting and coordinating external speakers)
     - AI hiring committee (offer is out, hopefully the candidate wants to join JLab!)
     - Final review of PRAB draft on Polynomial Neural Networks
     - PRAB draft of ML SRF classifier finalized and submitted for internal review
     - Completed datasheet (model card) to accompany publicy available dataset (ML models) used in PRAB paper
     - Code consolidation work with Adam and Lasitha
   Next two weeks (May 25 - Jun 5)
     - Asked to contribute to article for DPB
     - Asked to contribute article for the journal Information
     - Finish AI lunch series "Problem of the Quarter #4" on unsupervised learning
     - Leverage skills learned in Problem of the Quarter to do unsupervised learning and cluster analysis on C100 dataset
     - Work on outline/slides for LBNL seminar

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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang

  Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
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Max Bruker

  Previous (May 11 - May 22)
     - IPAC
     -	Did tracking simulations of IMP storage ring dynamics with bunched cooling beam space charge to find out the reason for the particle loss. A simple longitudinal model shows 
       considerable heating when bunch length jitter is introduced, but it does not show instability. Full optics tracking in 6-d including a 3-d calculation of the electric field 
       shows a random beating of the transverse action, which results in a particle loss rate comparable with the experimental result.
     -	Communication with IMP folks on potential additions to the manuscript.
  Next (May 25 - Jun 5)
     - Finalize additions and reach consensus on the full contents of the article.
     -	I'd like to understand the underlying cause of the particle loss on a conceptual level. This investigation, albeit very interesting and necessary, is unlikely to make it into the 
       current publication because of time constraints. Depending on the ultimate quality of the results, we may consider writing something up at a later time.

Fanglei Lin

  Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - Worked on study of the compact spin rotator and presented the working progress in the meeting
     -	Worked on study of electron polarization in the eSR and presented the results in the meeting
     -	Worked on the storage ring cooler project 
     -	Miscellaneous: attended the Novel Techniques for eSR Polarization Improvement, attended the EIC eSR polarization meeting, attended the EIC RCS polarization meeting, 
       attended the EIC hadron polarization meeting, attended the EIC low energy luminosity/facility optimization meeting, attended EIC design team meeting, attended alternate strong 
       cooling task force meeting, attended the Storage Ring Cooler meeting, attended the Innovative HE Cooling Project Status meeting, attended the EIC Accelerator Design meeting, attended 
       the EIC general meeting
  Next two weeks (May 25 - Jun 5)
     - Work on the compact spin rotator and eSR polarization
     -	Work on the storage ring cooler project
     -	Work on the evaluation of two-energy storage ring cooler for the task force on alternate strong cooling schemes

Bhawin Dhital

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Vasiliy Morozov

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Amy Sy

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Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin

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Randi Gamage

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River Huang

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Isurumali Neththikumara

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Dennis Turner

   Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - Attended IPAC talks
     - HLA
          - Released new version of eDT in response to feature requests from Ops. 
     - AIPINJ
          - Continue finalizing optics in the elegant model
          - Further explored numerical solutions for QW settings vs Wien settings
          - Presented latest optics at AIPINJ meeting, resulting in a list of 
     - Attended CASA, BTeam, AIPINJ meetings
     - Attended Accelerator Seminars and AI Lunch Series talks
     - Caught up with reading various papers on Wien filters, optics, etc.
   Next two weeks (May 25 - Jun 5)
     - AIPINJ
        - Continue (and hopefully finish) finalizing optics
        - Camille will be requesting a review soon; prepare slides
     - Explore implementing the beta matching using beam jitter from the paper Jay sent around
     - Attend CASA, BTeam, AIPINJ meetings
     - Attend Accelerator Seminars and AI Lunch Series talks
     - Continue with online training opportunities as time permits

He Zhang

   Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)     
     - Added a few small features to JSPEC. Adding other magnetized friction force formulas to JSPEC. Debugging and testing the turn-by-turn model and the edge effect model for IMP 
       cooling experiment. 
     - Performed simulations for eRHIC low energy cooling. 
     - Preparing the LDRD proposal. 
   Next two weeks (May 25 - Jun 5) 
     - Continue JSPEC development and cooling simulation for eRHIC.
     - Finish and submit LDRD proposal.
     - Continue simulation on IMP experiment. 

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Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan

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Joe Gubeli

   Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - Isotope Experiment –
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Michael Tiefenback

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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson

   Previous two weeks (May 11 - May 22)
     - Continued to organize and write up  minutes for Low Energy Cooling Task Force meetings
     - Submitted two FOA proposals
     - Continued to develop proposal for LDRD
     - Attended IPAC talks
   Next two weeks (May 25 - Jun 5)
     - Submit LDRD proposal
     - Develop budget for Isotope proposal
     - Review LERF start-up procedures
     - Get SOW for Linac Development revised
     - Revise AWPs for Electron cooling contract to match new SOWs and resource availability.

Andrew Hutton

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