The CERN Accelerator School (CAS), set up in 1983, aims to make good the lack of university courses in accelerator physics, and to train the staff needed to plan, construct and man new machines.
Kjell Johnsen, the first leader of the school (1983-5) set high standards, maintained by his successor Phil Bryant. So far the School has organised twenty courses and workshops and finds the demand as strong as ever. Phil Bryant now moves over to the LHC project at CERN and hands the CAS baton to Ted Wilson.
The first CAS course in 1992, on Magnetic Measurement and Alignment, will be held in Montreux from 16-20 March. Although this specialised course is the first time CAS has set out to teach magnets, it is seen as having broad appeal, since almost everyone in the accelerator world has to build a magnet sometime.
This will be followed by a two week General Course in Jyvaskyla, Finland, from 7-18 September, the first in a two-year cycle of Accelerator Physics courses.
Finally there will be a joint US- CERN Course on Factories with Electron-Positron Rings in the 'Fron tiers of Particle Beams' series. This will be in Benalmadena (Spain) from 29 October to 4 November.
Further information and application forms from Mrs S. von Wartburg, CERN Accelerator School, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, bitnet CASUS at CERNVM.CERN.CH.
Article extracted from CERN Courier, March 1992