Welcome! Welcome everyone to the BE-RF Annual Meeting! Like last year, the Section Leaders will give the Highlights of the Sections – each one in her/his own way. In alphabetical order: Section Name Section Leader Deputy SL BR Beams & RF Studies Elena Shaposhnikova Thomas Bohl CS Servos & Controls Interface Andy Butterworth Luca Arnaudon FB Feedbacks & Beam Control Wolfgang Höfle Philippe Baudrenghien IS Injector Synchrotrons Carlo Rossi Mauro Paoluzzi LRF Linacs RF Frank Gerigk Walter Wuensch MK Modulators & Klystrons Olivier Brunner Steffen Doebert PM Power Minded Eric Montesinos Gino Cipolla SRF SC RF Cavity Technology Karl Schirm Walter Venturini 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

Group Structure (December 2014) BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

RF Group December 2014 +40 colleagues in Industrial Support (distributed in 2 FSU’s) % Staff 85 51.8 Fellows 26 15.9 Doctoral Students 8 4.9 Technical Students PJAS & COAS & VISC 42 25.6 USAS & ADMI 3 1.8 Grand Total 164 100 Staff : 60 on IC contracts 25 on LD contracts Recent LD2IC: counted as LD. Gender distribution (for Staff + fellows): 12% F, 88% M Compare: last year (December 2013): 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

Arrivals/Departures 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014 TECH/DOCT DEPARTURES DOCT ARRIVALS Miriam COLLING (TECH) Giorgia FAVIA , IS (prev. TECH) Katharina FABRICIUS (TECH) Phoevos KARDASOPOULOS (TECH) Reidar LILLESTOL (DOCT) Anders MIKKELSEN, (TECH) Benedikt PETERS (TECH) Magnus SUNDAL (TECH) Daniel WINSVOLD (TECH) STAFF DEPARTURES STAFF ARRIVALS Alain MARMILLON, IS Sauro BIZZAGLIA, SRF Germana RIDDONE, PM (transfer to TE-VSC) Alan CHAUCHET, MK Maurizio VRETENAR, LRF (tranfer to DG-DI-DAT) Salvatore ENERGICO, IS Cedrick GRANDBOIS, PM Azeddine JIBAR, IS Miguel OJEDA SANDONIS, CS Helga TIMKO, FB FELL DEPARTURES FELL ARRIVALS Mathew FRASER, BR Sarah AULL , SRF (prev. DOCT) Daniel GONZALEZ OUTEDA, IS James BIBBY, PM Tobias JUNGINGER, SRF Jean-Alexandre BOUSQUET, SRF Irene MONDINO, SRF Ylenia BRISCHETTO, CS Tomoko MURANAKA, LRF (now VISC.) Francesco DI LORENZO, IS Mikko RISSANEN, MK Natalia GALINDO MUNOZ, MK Helga TIMKO, BR Philip HOFER, PM Ruben LORENZO ORTEGA, MK Alessandro MEOLI, FB Toon ROGGEN, BR Anastasiya SOLODKO, MK (prev. PJAS) Alexios VAMVAKAS, MK PJAS DEPARTURES PJAS/ADMI/VIA ARRIVALS Alexandre SAMOCHKINE, PJAS Débora AGUILERA MURCIANO, PM (VIA) Hamed SHAKER, PJAS (now VISC) Eleni DASKALAKI, MK (prev. COAS) Kyrre SJOEBAEK, PJAS Dmitry GUDKOV, MK (prev. UPAS) Xiaowei WU, PJAS Zsofia HARKALY, MK (ADMI) Oleg Gumenyuk, PJAS Andrey PASHNIN, CS (prev. FELL) Danilo QUARTULLO, BR (VIA) Athanasios ZELIOS, MK 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

Some general reminders Safety: Please care about your safety! Please care about the risks at work that you are exposed to and that your work might cause for others! Be alert! Don’t take risks! Drive carefully! Particular attention: Electricity, stored energy (el. & magn.), ionizing radiation, microwave radiation, laser, presence of cryogenics … In questions of safety, don’t hesitate to ask your Supervisor, Section Leader, Group Leader, DSO! Please also see here: https://espace.cern.ch/be-dep/safety.aspx! Work on electrical equipment only with the proper “Habilitation Electrique”! We have the RF Safety Working group, presently Eric Montesinos, Gerry McMonagle, Carlo Rossi & Johannes Broere. They also act as Safety Link Persons. The Radiation Protection Experts (RPE) in BE-RF are Pierre Maesen and Gino Cipolla. 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

Some general reminders 2 I’d like to thank the Territorial Safety Officers (TSO’s) from BE- RF – thanks for taking on this important responsibility: Vince Cobham, Stephane Curt, Valentin Desquiens, Matthias Haase, Charles Julie, Frederic Killing, Pierre Maesen, Gerry McMonagle, Christophe Renaud, Gabriel Pechaud – thank you! When you’re off sick, please inform Laurie immediately! When filling your EDH absence request for an Official trip, please indicate the reason (under “Additional information”)! Do you know you have to “badge” your badge once per month? (well – I didn’t) 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

Now to the individual Sections’ Highlights 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

BE RF Annual Meeting (4 Dec 2013)

BE RF Annual Lunch (17 Sept 2014) 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014

… and now: Thank you all for this very successful year 2014! Thanks to the Section Leaders for their Highlights presentations! Thanks to the volunteers preparing today’s event: Pei Zhang, Alexandre Lasheen, Gabriel Pechaud, Juan Esteban Muller, Sarah Aull, Azeddine Jibar, Roberto Torres- Sanchez, Valentin Desquiens, Christophe Nicou … and of course a big THANK YOU to Laurie! (also for preparing these slides)!!! Have a relaxing, agreeable, healthy and safe Christmas break and a good start into 2015! 12-Dec-2014 BE RF Annual Meeting 2014