Organizers

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Co-Chair: Andrew Hutton
Principal Scientist at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia; Andrew has more than 40 years' experience in all aspects of forefront accelerator projects. He came to Jefferson Lab to lead the commissioning of CEBAF, a 6 GeV, recirculating superconducting electron accelerator, then established and led CEBAF operations for nuclear physics research, becoming the Associate Director, Accelerators  in 2007. Andrew has now stepped down as Associate Director to concentrate on Isotope Production and other accelerator physics topics.

Born in England, Andrew gained an entrance exhibition (scholarship) to Cambridge University, England where he obtained an M.A. (Honours) degree in Natural Science, followed by a PhD in Physics from London University, England.

Andrew is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Nuclear Society where he served on the Executive Committee of the Accelerator Applications Division.

Co-Chair: Philip Cole
Philip Cole received his PhD from Purdue University in 1991. He is a Professor and Chair of the Physics Department at Lamar University. He was a postdoctoral researcher (1991-1994) and an Assistant Research Professor (1995-1997) at George Washington University. Between those two periods at GWU, he was a visiting scientist (1994-1995) at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Genoa, Italy) and a Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (Gif sur Yvette, France.)

Cole held a JLab-Bridged Assistant Professorship at the University of Texas at El Paso (1997-2004) and received the 1999 NSF CAREER Award in Nuclear Physics. In 2002 he was honored as the Society of Physics Students (SPS) Advisor of the Year. In 2014/2015 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn. He has been the General Chair for three iterations of the International Topical Meeting on the Applications of Accelerators - AccApp'15, AccApp'17, and AccApp'20.

He is a member of both the CLAS12 Collaboration (Hall B) and the GlueX (Hall D) Collaboration at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia; the co-spokesperson of E45 at J-PARC (Tokai, Japan); and is a member of the BGOOD Collaboration at ELSA (Bonn, Germany.) He has received over $4M in NSF funding, and has graduated three PhD and four Master's students in fundamental and applied nuclear physics over the course of his career. He has over 300 publications and one US Patent related to nuclear applications of accelerators.

Program Chair: Valeriia Starovoitova
Valeriia Starovoitova received her PhD at Purdue University and did her postdoctoral training at Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC), Idaho State University. She was involved in several applied nuclear physics projects, including the feasibility of photonuclear production of isotopes, nuclear waste transmutation, and photon activation analysis. In 2013 she was invited to join Niowave, Inc., a company that delivers and commissions superconducting electron accelerators. Valeriia's task was to establish and lead the Applied Physics Group, which by 2018 grew to ten researchers, including nuclear physicists and engineers, radiochemists, health physicists, and material scientists. 

In 2018, Valeriia started working at IAEA as a Radiation Technology Coordination Officer. Her Current work is focused on the assessment of alternative radiation technologies, particularly the uses of particle accelerators to replace high activity sources for medical device sterilization, food irradiation, and material processing.

In addition to the aforementioned work, for over 15 years, Valeriia has been teaching various physics and radiation technology courses as well as mentoring students conducting research for their theses and capston projects - at Purdue University, Idaho University and World Nuclear University. 

Technical Program Committee:

Melanie Bailey, University of Surry
Alex Castilla, Jefferson Lab
Sotirios Charisopoulos, IAEA
Tessa Charles, University of Liverpool
Gigi Ciovati, Jefferson Lab
Sarah Cousineau, ORNL
Slavica Grdanovska, Fermilab
Khalid Hattar, University of Tennessee
Cornelia Hoehr, TRIUMF
Patrick Hurh, Fermilab
Carol Johnstone, FNAL
Oliver Kester, TRIUMF
Geoff Krafft, Jefferson Lab
Sergey Kutsaev, Radiabeam Inc.
Richard Lanza, MIT
Shinichiro Meigo, JAEA
Natalia Milas, ESS
Brahim Mustapha, ANL
Suresh D. Pillai, TAMU
Jean-Christophe Sublet, UKAEA
Ian Swainson, IAEA
Evan Thompson, DOE-NNSA ORS
John Vennekate, Jefferson Lab
Cody Wilson, IBA