Proceedings of the Advanced Accelerator Concepts Seminar Series 2020

TL;DR

The AAC Seminar Series 2020 was a series of nine remote sessions focused on advanced accelerator concepts, serving as a key forum for the community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contribution

This paper documents the organization and scope of the 2020 seminar series, providing a record of its topics and format as a remote alternative to the canceled workshop.

Findings

Successfully hosted nine weekly remote sessions

Provided a platform for international collaboration in accelerator research

Maintained community engagement during pandemic restrictions

Abstract

The Advanced Accelerator Concepts (AAC) Seminar Series 2020 (https://aacseminarseries.lbl.gov/), organized and hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, consisted of nine weekly sessions, each one dedicated to a particular topic of interest within the framework of advanced accelerator concepts research. The Seminar Series was a fully-remote event that provided a forum for the advanced accelerator community. The AAC Seminar Series was held in lieu of the AAC 2020 Workshop (https://aac2020.lbl.gov/), originally planned for June 2020 and canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its inception in 1982, the biennial AAC Workshop has become the principal US and international meeting for advanced particle accelerator research and development.