“Unifying Physics…” first edition (CRC Press, 2015) is now in Open Access, due to CERN efforts “eBooks for all!” who worked with publishers to open up popular books in accelerator science.
You can download the “Unifying Physics…” first edition as PDF file or read online at Taylor and Francis site:
Alternatively, you can get Kindle version of the eBook at Amazon:
Science and the Art of Inventiveness. Podcast of 2014 lecture in the University of Oxford.
Physics today: Questions and Answers with Andrei Seryi
“…the primary target audience is students and postdocs, who are starting to work on advanced concepts of accelerator science. The book will give them concrete knowledge and will also make them more inventive through this robust methodology of inventiveness. If indeed I would need to formulate the primary message of the book in one phrase, I would perhaps say that the book tells the reader, “You can invent,” and it gives the knowledge and methods to support that message…”
EuroScientist: Can Inventiveness in Science be Taught?
The nested doll shown together with the schematics of laser pulses profiles used in the Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy (STED, which led Stefan W. Hell to receive the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), where the TRIZ inventive principles of the nested doll and of the system/anti-system can be seen.
CERN Courier 2015: Inventing our future accelerator.
Could a methodology used for invention in engineering find a role in guiding the innovative process that will be essential for future large-scale accelerator projects?
US Particle Accelerator School
USPAS 2016 lectures “Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma – Synergy and Bridges”, homework tasks, exam tasks. See also this newsline and connect it with inspiring comments in Mtingwa‘s review.
Case study – Exercise 10.4 from the book
“Mini-project: Define approximate parameters of a 1 GeV compact SR source ring aimed at 10 keV X-rays, based on top-off, on-orbit and on-energy injection by a laser plasma acceleration system. Discuss the research steps required for implementing such a concept.”
This project was the focus of efforts of the USPAS 2016 class, resulted in NA-PAC abstract submitted at the end of one-week lecture course, paper submitted by the students’ team, and the paper selected for a contributing talk!
NA-PAC 2022 tutorial
Tutorial presented at 2022 North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NA-PAC), August 7-12, 2022 in Albuquerque. Title: “Accelerator Science and Technology via Inventive Principles of TRIZ”. Abstract: A swift overview of modern areas of accelerator physics and technology presented via and connected through inventive principles of TRIZ – the industrial methodology of inventiveness. Wide range of topics, from synchrotron radiation to electron cooling, or plasma acceleration, to name a few, introduced via easy to follow back-of-the-envelope derivations, and connected via canonical yet adjusted for science TRIZ inventive principles and laws, are illustrated by numerous inventions such as fiber lasers, tune jumps, inverted guns, and many others. This short tutorial is a gateway opening to you a new approach, which creates an amalgam of science and industrial inventiveness, enhances creativity and boosts innovations towards developing the next generations of accelerators and their applications.
VITA graduate course, autumn 2022
Lecture 1, Aug 30. Slides PDF. Video MP4.
Lecture 2, Sep 1. Slides PDF. Video MP4.
Lecture 3, Sep 6, Slides PDF. Video MP4.
Lecture 4, Sep 8, Slides PDF. Video MP4.
HW1, Sep 13, PDF file.
Lecture 5, Sep 13, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 6, Sep 15, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 7, Sep 20, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 8, Sep 22, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 9, Sep 27, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 10, Sep 29, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 11, Oct 4, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
HW2, Oct 6, PDF file.
Lecture 12, Oct 6, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 13, Oct 13, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 14, Oct 18, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 15, Oct 20, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 16, Oct 25, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 17, Oct 27, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 18, Nov 1, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
HW3, Nov 3, PDF file.
Lecture 19, Nov 3, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 20, Nov 10, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 21, Nov 15, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 22, Nov 17, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 23, Nov 22, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 24, Nov 29, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 25, Dec 1, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
Lecture 26, Dec 8, Slides PDF, Video MP4.
US Particle Accelerator School, June 12-16, 2023
USPAS 2023, lectures, homework, mini-projects.
Course description. Organizational matters. Class photo.
Homework: HW1, HW2, HW3
Mini-project 1, Mini-project 2, Mini-project 3
Monday lectures: L1, L2, L3
Tuesday lectures: L4, L5, L6
Wednesday lectures: L7, L8, L9
Thursday lectures: L10, L11, L12
