The Bates Linear Accelerator Center is a 1 GeV facility capable of
delivering pulsed electron beams of 50-60 A intensity and 40%longitudinal polarization. The recently completed South Hall Ring will
produce CW (85%duty factor extracted electron beams and alow internal
target phsics using the stored beam in the ring. Commissioning of the SHR
is underway and initial extraction tests have been performed.
We note that Bates has played an historically strong role in graduate education. While this is due in part to its close association with MIT, it also results from a large community of outside users. Since the last LRP, Bates has produced 31 Ph.D theses of which 17 were by non-MIT students.