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This volume provides an overview of the state of the art in computational accelerator physics, based on papers presented at the seventh international conference at Michigan State University in October 2002. The major topics covered in this volume include particle tracking and ray tracing, transfer map methods, field computation for time dependent Maxwell's equations and static magnetic problems, as well as space charge and beam-beam effects. The book also discusses modern computational environments, including parallel clusters, visualization, and new programming paradigms. It is ideal for scientists and engineers working in beam or accelerator physics and related areas of applied math and computer science.
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Computational Accelerator Physics 2002 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Accelerator Physics Michigan, USA, 15–18 October 2002 Edited by Martin Berz and Kyoko Makino Institute of Physics Conference Series Number 175 Institute of Physics Publishing Bristol and Philadelphia Preface This volume contains selected papers from the Seventh International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference that took place 15–18 October, 2002 at Michigan State University. Following a now well established tradition, the meeting succeeded the conference in Darmstadt in 2000, and in turn will be followed by the conference in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004. For the refereeing of the papers, we would like to acknowledge the help from a group of sectional editors that assumed responsibility for certain groups of papers based on their expertise. Their help was essential for the thorough refereeing and reviewing of the papers. We would like to thank Bela Erdelyi, Alfredo Luccio, Stephan Russenschuck, Ursula van Rienen, and Thomas Weiland for assuming responsibility of this important task. The meeting would not have been possible without help from various sources. We are grateful for financial support from the US Department of Energy, as well as from Tech-X and Accel, who as representatives from the commercial world helped defray travel expenses of graduate students who otherwise may not have been able to attend the meeting. Substantial support was also provided by the MSU College of Natural Science and the Department of Physics and Astronomy; specifically, we thank Lorie Neuman and Brenda Wenzlick for their enthusiasm, professionalism, and seemingly never-ending patience. Kyoko Makino and Martin Berz Other titles in the series The Institute of Physics Conference Series regularly features papers presented at important conferences and symposia highlighting new developments in physics and related fields. Previous publications include: 182 Light Sources 2004 Papers presented at the 10th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Light Sources, Toulouse, France Edited by G Zissis 180 Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials 2003 Papers presented at the Institute of Physics Conference, Cambridge, UK Edited by A G Cullis and P A Midgley 179 Electron Microscopy and Analysis 2003 Papers presented at the Institute of Physics Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference, Oxford, UK Edited by S McVitie and D McComb 178 Electrostatics 2003 Papers presented at the Electrostatics Conference of the Institute of Physics, Edinburgh, UK Edited by H Morgan 177 Optical and Laser Diagnostics 2002 Papers presented at the First International Conference, London, UK Edited by C Arcoumanis and K T V Grattan 174 Compound Semiconductors 2002 Papers presented at the 29th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, Lausanne, Switzerland Edited by M Ilegems, G Weimann and J Wagner 173 GROUP 24: Physical and Mathemati