Second Announcement of the Fifth Accelerator Reliability Workshop
April 26 - May 1, 2015,
in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
For a downloadable copy of the first announcement, please click HERE.
The second announcement for the workshop can be found HERE.
We are pleased to announce the next Accelerator Reliability Workshop, ARW2015, which will take place in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. ARW2015 will be hosted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
This is the fifth workshop in the Accelerator Reliability series. Previous workshops were held in Grenoble, France; Vancouver, Canada; Cape Town, South Africa; and Melbourne, Australia.
ARW2015 will follow the established format of previous ARW workshops that foster formal and informal interactions between accelerator scientists, engineers, students and industrial exhibitors, encouraging the exchange of information and ideas across the broad spectrum of accelerator science and technology topics.
The workshop program will cover aspects of Reliability Modelling and Methodologies, Quality Assurance, Engineering and Designing for Reliability, Hardware and Software Reliability, Failure Analysis, Human Factors, Operations Management and Maintenance, Refurbishments and Upgrades, Ageing Facilities and the Effects of Radiation. We will also discuss our experiences, both achievements and challenges, so that we can learn from one another.
The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by George Dodson (ORNL/SNS).
ARW2015 will offer plenary sessions on Monday through Friday morning except for the following: there will be a tour of the Spallation Neutron Source on Tuesday afternoon, and parallel sessions on Thursday afternoon. There will also be an invited speaker session early Tuesday afternoon and a poster session Wednesday afternoon.
You can now register for the ARW2015 conference and reserve your hotel accommodations online at: http://neutrons.ornl.gov/conf/arw2015/
Please bookmark this site and check regularly for updates. Please note the deadlines, specifically for registration and hotel reservations.
The workshop venue is the Crowne Plaza, Knoxville. The booking link for the hotel is: ORNL Workshop on Accelerator Reliability. A block of rooms has been reserved for ARW2015 at a reduced rate of $88 per night. This link will take you to the Crowne Plaza Knoxville website. On the left side of the page, under MAKE A RESERVATION, you will need to input your arrival and departure dates. If you are arriving BEFORE April 26, or departing AFTER May 1, you should contact the hotel’s reservation manager, Mr. Jamie Julius, to be sure that you receive the block’s negotiated rate of $88 per night for the shoulder dates. If you make reservations on your own, you will be charged a higher rate for the shoulder dates. Participants are strongly encouraged to stay at the workshop host hotel.
It is our goal to make ARW2015 an exciting and rewarding experience for all.
For additional information please contact us at: arw_reply@ornl.gov.
For abstract submission, please see the Abstract Submission page of the workshop website.
