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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" > <head> <title>JACoW / About</title> <link rel='SHORTCUT ICON' href='/pub/favicon.png' /> <meta name="description" content="The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW) is an international collaboration that publishes the proceedings of accelerator conferences held around the world."> <meta name="author" content=""> <meta property="og:title" content="JACoW / About" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="jacow.org" /> <meta property="og:description" content="The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW) is an international collaboration that publishes the proceedings of accelerator conferences held around the world." /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://www.jacow.org" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.jacow.org/pub/images/logo-400px.jpg" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pub/css/fonts.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pub/skins/Main/style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pub/css/modules.css" /> <script language='javascript' src='/wikipub/guiedit/guiedit.js'></script> <script src='/pub/js/jquery-1.8.3.min.js'></script> <script> function mmi( _group ) { $('#mm_'+_group).addClass( 'active' ); } </script> <style type='text/css'></style><script language='javascript' type='text/javascript' src='/wikipub/quicktoc/quicktoc.js'></script> <link rel='stylesheet' href='/wikipub/quicktoc/quicktoc.css' type='text/css' /> <meta name='robots' content='index,follow' /> <link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='Subscribe to JACoW News RSS Feed' href='https://www.jacow.org/pub/news.rss' /> <script> var _paq = window._paq = window._paq || []; _paq.push(['trackPageView']); _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']); (function() { var u="//analytics.elettra.eu/"; _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'matomo.php']); _paq.push(['setSiteId', '5']); var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; g.async=true; g.src=u+'matomo.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s); })(); </script> </head> <body> <center> <div id='page'> <div id='page_header'> <a href='/'><img src='/pub/images/header.png' border='0' width='960' height='100' usemap='#headermap' class='banner' /></a> </div> <div id='main_menu'> <a id='mm_main' href='/'>Home</a> <a id='mm_main' href='/Main/Proceedings'>Proceedings</a> <a id='mm_authors' href='/Authors/HomePage'>Authors</a> <a id='mm_editors' href='/Editors/HomePage'>Organizers / Editors</a> <a id='mm_team' href='/Team/HomePage'>JACoW Team</a> <a id='mm_about' href='/About/HomePage' class='active'>About</a> <a id='mm_main' href='/Main/Contacts'>Contacts</a> <a href='index.php?n=Main.Search&action=search&q=' class='nohl'><img src='/pub/images/search.png' id='search_icon' align='right' title='Search' /></a> </div>  <div id='page_content' > <table width='100%'> <tr> <td valign='top'> <div id='group_menu'><div class='ml1 ml1The Website'>The Website</div> <div class='ml2 ml2The Website' id='ml2_1'> <a href='/About/PoliciesRequirementsForPublishingOnJACoW' class='mi mil1 '>Policies & Requirements for Publishing on JACoW</a> <a href='/About/HowToJoin' class='mi mil1 '>How to Join</a> <a href='/About/ArchivingPolicy' class='mi mil1 '>Archiving Policy</a> <a href='/About/LegalAndPrivacyStatement' class='mi mil1 '>Legal and Privacy Statement</a> </div> <div class='ml1 ml1The Collaboration'>The Collaboration</div> <div class='ml2 ml2The Collaboration' id='ml2_2'> <a href='/About/TheCollaboration' class='mi mil1 '>The JACoW Collaboration</a> <a href='/About/TeamMembersRoles' class='mi mil2 '>Team Members & Roles</a> <a href='/StakeHolders/HomePage' class='mi mil2 '>Stakeholders</a> <a href='/About/Charter' class='mi mil1 '>Charter</a> <a href='/About/GoalsOfJACoW' class='mi mil1 '>Goals</a> <a href='/About/Articles' class='mi mil1 '>Articles</a> <a href='/About/AwardsToTheCollaboration' class='mi mil1 '>Awards</a> <a href='/About/PressKit' class='mi mil1 '>Press kit</a> </div> <div class='ml1 ml1JACoW Conferences'>JACoW Conferences</div> <div class='ml2 ml2JACoW Conferences' id='ml2_3'> <a href='/About/UpcomingEvents' class='mi mil1 '>Current and Upcoming</a> <a href='/About/PastEvents' class='mi mil1 '>Past</a> </div> </div> </td> <td width='100%' valign='top' class='page'>  <div id='wikitext'> <h1>About JACoW</h1> <h2>The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website</h2> <p>JACoW is located and maintained at CERN, Geneva, and is mirrored to KEK, Tsukuba, for the convenience of users. The site accommodates the following: </p> <div class='vspace'></div><ul><li>Conference proceedings </li><li>Help for authors submitting work to JACoW conferences </li><li>Help for JACoW conference organizers and editors, including documentation related to the Scientific Programme Management System (SPMS), a tool developed by the collaboration for all aspects of conference organization, and software, scripts, and other tools for conference management </li><li>Information about JACoW, the web site and the collaboration </li><li>Information relating to JACoW team and stakeholders meetings </li><li>JACoW contacts </li></ul><div class='vspace'></div><h2>How JACoW and the Collaboration Began</h2> <p>In the mid-nineties, with the arrival of electronic publication, PAC'95 and EPAC'96 were the first accelerator conferences to try their hand at publishing proceedings themselves. </p> <p class='vspace'>The proceedings of EPAC'96 were published at CERN a few months after the event. Ilan Ben-Zvi of Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientific programme chair of the coming PAC'99 conference, approached the editors of EPAC'96 and proposed that PAC proceedings be published at the same site. The organizers of the first Asian PAC, APAC'98, then in preparation, decided to join the (ad)venture. </p> <p class='vspace'>In 1997 the JACoW collaboration was created under the chairmanship of CERN's John Poole, with Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz as CERN secretary. Christine served as JACoW Coordinator and a member of the Board of Directors for many years and was succeeded by Jana Thomson of Triumf in 2022. Volker Schaa of GSI succeeded John Poole in 2007 as Chair, Ivan Andrian of Elettra succeeded Volker Schaa in 2014, and Meghan McAteer of HZB succeeded Ivan Andrian in 2022. More about the <a class='wikilink' href='https://www.jacow.org/About/TheCollaboration'>JACoW collaboration</a>. </p> <p class='vspace'>Today, JACoW hosts the proceedings of 18 different conferences: BIW, COOL, CYCLOTRONS, DIPAC, ECRIS, FEL, HIAT, ICALEPCS, ICAP, ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshops, IPAC, LINAC, MEDSI, NA-PAC, PCaPAC, RuPAC, SAP and SRF. </p> <div class='vspace'></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div>  <div id='page_footer'> <div style='float: left' class='by'><div class='page_update_info'>last update October 07, 2022, at 11:47 PM <a class='login' href='https://www.jacow.org/index.php?n=About.HomePage&action=login'>by</a> Meghan McAteer</div></div> <div style='float: right'><a href='https://www.jacow.org/About/HomePage?action=login' target='_blank'>Login</a> | <a href='https://www.jacow.org/About/HomePage&action=print' target='_blank'>Print</a></div> </div> </div> </center>  </body> </html>