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PREFACE
The 6-th international PCaPAC (Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator
Controls) workshop was hosted by Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA,
from October 24-27, 2006. The workshop was attended by about eighty participants
who represented accelerator control system developers of twenty four research
institutes and centers from ten countries.
The main objectives of the conference were to discuss the most important issues of
the use of PCs and modern IT technologies for controls of accelerators and to give
scientists, engineers, and technicians a forum to exchange ideas on control
problems and their solutions.
The workshop consisted of plenary sessions and poster sessions. No parallel
sessions were held. Seventy seven oral and poster presentations were made during
the conference, on the basis of which more than fifty papers were submitted by the
authors and included in these Proceedings.
Many people contributed to the success of the workshop. Members of the Local
Organizing Committee are listed below. M. Hightower, C. Lockwood, R. Bizot, and
N. Vermeire from Jefferson Lab Director’s office did a fabulous job in organizing
and coordinating of all our efforts. Special mentions go to S. Kyte and her team
for the development and support of the official PCaPAC 2006 web site, F. Dylla for
his remarkable talk at the workshop dinner about vacuum and its importance for
science and technology, C. Watson for his very nice presentation of supercomputing
research at Jefferson Lab, D. Neal for his wonderful talk about “living on the web”,
M. Plesko and L. Catani for their excellent PCaPAC 2006 summary talk, S. Suring
and his fantastic music band for providing a very comfortable atmosphere during
the workshop dinner, N. Okay for his great moderation of a user discussion session,
M. Epps for his help during the Jefferson Lab tour, and G. Adams for his beautiful
conference photos. We thank Jefferson Lab’s Associate Director for Accelerators S.
Chattopadhyay for his support of the PCaPAC over two years and Jefferson Lab’s
Chief Operating Officer M. Dallas for his help in the organization of the workshop.
We gratefully acknowledge grants from the MathWorks Inc. and the Computer
Sciences Corporation, which allowed us to provide financial support for PCaPAC
participants from Russia and India as well as for students from local Colleges.
Finally, we thank those who participated at the workshop and contributed papers.
The printed version of the PCaPAC 2006 Proceedings is published at Jefferson Lab
according to the decision of the PCaPAC International Program Committee of
October 26, 2006.
The next PCaPAC workshop will be held in Slovenia or Italy in the fall of 2008.
M. Bickley, P. Chevtsov
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