1. MEIS at Huddersfield Roger Barlow

2. Huddersfield University Not a major research reputation (yet) In good financial shape Commitment: build up research by investment in niche areas Accelerator Science is flagship

3. Huddersfield International Institute for Accelerator Applications Less than 1 year old Staff: 4 FTE professors PhD Students: currently 4, CDT will provide 2/year MSc students: cohort of 12/year Projects: LHC, ESS, ADSR, DAE  ALUS, nsFFAG… Equipment: 20 kV Ion source, SRS Booster magnets, ….. And now MEIS

4. MEIS: the vision MEIS Users with EPSRC grants Commercial Users Users without EPSRC grants Local users

5. MEIS: the vision MEIS Papers, Status Growth of local research Papers, Grant income, Status Links with industry

6. Huddersfield / Daresbury More adaptable Not so constrained financially Will not set out to offer same standard of service Our goal: establish Huddersfield as major player in accelerator and accelerator-related research. REF criteria (papers, impact) an important metric, though not the only one.

7. Questions How do we run the system to encourage users? Length of bookings? Time slots? How far ahead? How to run fair allocation system with minimal bureaucracy? Facilities? Answers from this meeting.