FIG Commission 6

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8th International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (IWAA
2004)
CERN, Geneva, October 4-7, 2004
The 8th International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (IWAA 2004)
was held at CERN, Geneva, on October 4-7. It followed the CERN
Accelerator School (1986) and the seven dedicated IWAA workshops at SLAC
(1989), DESY (1990), CERN (1993), KEK (1995), APS (1997), ESRF(1999) and
SPring-8 (2002).
These workshops are devoted to the large scale metrology and high
precision positioning ("alignment") of particle accelerators up to 27 km
circumference, reviewing and investigating there all suitable advanced
techniques capable of accuracies from 0.2 mm to a few micrometers over
long or large dimensions. Participants are mainly coming from
laboratories, institutes, universities or companies relating to particle
physics, synchrotron light, medical or industrial applications of
accelerators - or concerned with other scientific equipment as well.
People dealing with engineering survey and large scale metrology for
industry or with the development and manufacturing of instruments
usually find also here many subjects of interest - hence the opening to
other professionals and scientists and the support of FIG commission 6.
The IWAA 2004 gathered 125 participants from 31 scientific research
institutes, 4 universities, 14 private companies and 1 public
professional body - spread over 15 countries. The programme consisted of
46 session papers, 25 posters, 3 technical visits and a small exhibition
(10 firms) mainly focussed on hydrostatic levelling systems (HLS), wire
positioning systems (WPS) and high precision devices. The proceedings
are available from the web site
http://cern.ch/IWAA2004, together with a link to those of the past
IWAA's.
Michel Mayoud
November 23, 2004
Email: Michel.Mayoud@wanadoo.fr
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