Announcement of the first ACFA/IPAC Accelerator Prizes

With the introduction of a 3-year cycle among the Asian, European and North American Particle Accelerator Conferences, the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators, ACFA, has decided to award prizes in conjunction with the new series of International Particle Accelerator Conferences when they take place in Asia.

The ACFA/IPAC'10 Prizes Selection Committee, under the Chairmanship of Won Namkung, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Korea, met on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 and decided the following prizes, which will be awarded during IPAC'10 in Kyoto from 23 to 28 May:

An Achievement Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field with no age limit:

Steve Myers, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva

Citation: “for his numerous outstanding contributions to the design, construction, commissionimg, performance optimization, and upgrade of energy-frontier colliders — in particular ISR, LEP, and LHC — and to the wider development of accelerator science”

A Prize for an individual, having made significant, original contributions to the accelerator field with no age limit:

Jie Wei, Tsinghua University in Beijing

Citation: “for his exceptionally creative contributions to the design, construction and commissioning of circular accelerators, in particular RHIC, SNS, LHC, as well as the design of CSNS, and for numerous significant developments in the field of beam dynamics”

A Prize for an individual, in the early part of his or her career, having made a recent significant, original contribution to the accelerator field:

Mei Bai, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Long Island, New York

Citation: “for her significant contributions to spin dynamics and polarized proton acceleration in circular accelerators — in particular AGS and RHIC, and to successful polarized proton beam collisions at 500 GeV centre of mass”