Topics

Things I’m working on, thinking about, or hoping to think about at some point:

• General
  • Intense beam dynamics in circular accelerators (rings)
  • Intense beam dynamics in linear accelerators (linacs)
  • Inverse problems
• Accelerator physics
  • Halo formation and beam loss prediction in high-power linacs
  • Phase space painting of equilibrium distributions
  • Phase space painting in strongly coupled lattices
  • Phase space painting in nonlinear rings
  • Proton bunch compression
  • Simulation benchmarking
• Theory/modeling
  • Single-particle dynamics in strongly coupled systems
  • Multi-particle dynamics in strongly coupled systems
  • Vlasov-Poisson equilibrium distributions
  • Space-charge-driven resonances and instabilities
  • Numerical space charge solvers
  • Lie algebra tracking methods
• Phase space measurements and inference
  • High-dimensional phase space measurements (direct)
  • High-dimensional phase space tomography
  • High-dynamic-range phase space tomography
  • Uncertainty quantification in phase space tomography
  • Phase space tomography with self-consistent space charge forces
  • Maximum-entropy techniques for inverse problems
  • Bayesian inference for phase space measurements
• Optimization, machine learning, etc.
  • Generative models for accelerator applications
  • Surrogate modeling of intense beam dynamics
  • Online optimization of beam injection
  • Differentiable simulations
  • Adjoint methods for optimization of beam parameters