1 October 2012, 6.30pm, The Cheshire Room,The Angel Hotel, King St, Knutsford

Dr Rob Appleby of Manchester University High Energy Physics dept, CERN, and Daresbury Cockcroft Institute will lead our discussion.

Rob is an accelerator physicist working mainly in theoretical accelerator physics and beam dynamics and also involved in the Large Hadron Collider, specifically in the optics, collimation and machine protection for the LHC upgrade. He is a member of the LHCb experiment, where he is responsible for machine induced backgrounds.

His primary research is into the physics of particle accelerators, including beam dynamics and lattice design, and he is involved in the International Linear Collider and Large Hadron Collider projects.

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