Fourth US FCC meeting

8 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 11 Sept 2026, 12:00 America/Los_Angeles

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Carl Haber (LBNL), Caterina Vernieri (SLAC), Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Loukas Gouskos (Brown University), Michael Hance (UC Santa Cruz), Spencer Gessner (SLAC), Srini Rajagopalan (BNL), Stephen Gourlay (FNAL), Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC), Vladimir Shiltsev (Fermilab)

 

The fourth US FCC (https://us-fcc.web.cern.ch) meeting will be hosted at SLAC. Save the date  September 8-11  2026,  details will follow soon.

Previous editions:

BNL, April 24-26, 2023

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1244371/

MIT, March 25-27, 2024

https://indico.mit.edu/event/876/

ANL/FNAL, April 14-17, 2025

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/67484/

 

Tuesday 8 September

09:00 → 12:30 Tutorial Session: Tutorials

Convener: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

09:00 Machine-Detector Interface

Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)

10:00 Break

10:30 Beam-Beam Modeling in WarpX - Backgrounds

11:30 Beam-Beam Modeling - Turn-by-turn simulations

Speaker: Peter Kicsiny (SLAC)

13:30 → 15:30 Review L2/3 Accelerator progress

13:30 → 15:30 Review L2/3 PED progress

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Review L2/3 Accelerator progress

16:00 → 17:30 Review L2/3 PED progress

18:00 → 20:15 Reception

Wednesday 9 September

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary

08:30 FCC project overview (TBA)

09:00 FCC PED Overview

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson

09:30 FCC Accelerator Progress

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary

10:30 US engagement in FCC

Speaker: Regina Rameika

11:00 US FCC Accelerator efforts overview

11:20 US FCC PED efforts overview

11:40 AI & Genesis: impact on future colliders

Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (LBL)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:30 Accelerator parallels

13:30 → 15:30 Instrumentation/Reco/Tagging/Simulation AI

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Accelerator parallels

16:00 → 17:00 Report from RD/CPAD

17:00 → 18:00 Panel discussion: how do we plug into the Reference Design for FCC

18:30 → 20:30 Reception: Conference Dinner

Thursday 10 September

08:30 → 10:00 Accelerator parallels

08:30 → 10:00 Overview of L2 PED aspirations - open to contributions

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Accelerator parallels

10:30 → 12:00 Report from DRDs

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Accelerator parallels

13:30 → 15:00 Detector/Computing

15:00 → 15:30 coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Accelerator parallels

15:30 → 17:00 Instrumentation/Reco/Tagging/Simulation AI: Physics new ideas/wish list

17:00 → 18:00 Panel discussion: how do we plug into the CDR for detector concepts

Friday 11 September

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary