ASC 2012 Short Courses


 

Full Day Short Courses – 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Sunday, October 7, 2012


1. Design and Modeling of LTS Superconducting Magnets
Location: Oregon Convention Center
Cost: Non-Students: $225 (early), $275 (late); Students: $125. Fee includes continental breakfast, boxed lunch and breaks. Late fee applies as of August 11, 2012.

Description: This course will cover the design of magnets based on low-temperature superconducting materials. The lectures are intended for physicists and engineers working in the areas of magnet technology and applied superconductivity, and interested in basic principles, physical parameters, analytical and numerical tools used for superconducting magnet design. The course will describe the key steps which define the magnetic, mechanical and thermal parameters of a superconducting magnet. The first part will deal with properties and characteristics of the superconducting strands and cables, with a description of the motivations behind their design features and dimensions. We will then outline the main concepts of magnetic design, starting from the analytic description of field profiles and proceeding with an overview of different coil configurations. The mechanical aspects of superconducting magnet will be presented, with particular emphasis on all the components used to contain the electro-magnetic forces and manage the stresses. Finally, we will deal with quench and protection. A case study, summarizing the main items covered by the course, will be presented and commented in the class. 

Superconducting Strand and Cable Design
Arup Ghosh, BNL, Upton, NY, USA 
 

•  Basic properties of superconducting materials
•  Practical superconductors: strand and cable designs
•  Stability
•  AC losses

Magnetic and Mechanical Design
Paolo Ferracin, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland  


•  Field description
•  Superconducting coil design
•  Electro-magnetic forces and support structures

Quench Protection Principles and systems
Helene Felice, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA 
 

•  Quench initiation and propagation
•  Detection and protection systems

 
2. Superconducting Power Devices
Location: Oregon Convention Center 
Cost: 
Non-Students: $225 (early), $275 (late); Students: $125. Fee includes continental breakfast, boxed lunch and breaks. Late fee applies as of August 11, 2012.
 
Description: Many power applications are being developed that use high temperature superconducting materials. Designs have been proposed to take advantage of their unique properties and to achieve higher performance standards than conventional power devices. This short course is focused on the use of HTS materials for power applications, and will cover Superconducting Fault Current Limiters, Superconducting Transformers, Superconducting Machinery, and Superconducting Cables. It will touch the basics of each application and describe the latest developments and ongoing projects. The course will also focus on modeling, simulations, as well as impact and integration of the power devices.
 
Overview of Conductors
P. Masson University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
 
Cables and AC Loss
F. Sirois, EP Monreal. Montreal, Canada
 
Modeling and Simulation
F. Sirois, EP Monreal. Montreal, Canada
 
Power Devices Design and Optimization
P. Masson, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
 
Impact and Integration in the Grid
F. Sirois, EP Montreal, Montreal, Canada
 
Half Day Short Course – 8:30 am – 12:30 pm, Sunday, October 7, 2012

1. Superconducting Electronics
Location: Oregon Convention Center 
Cost: 
Non-Students: $175 (early), $225 (late); Students: $95. Fee includes continental breakfast, boxed lunch and breaks. Late fee applies as of August 11, 2012.
 
Description: Low dissipation and high speeds make superconductors very attractive for electronic applications. The quantum nature of the superconducting state enables qualitatively new phenomena.  This half day course will cover the fundamentals of microwave superconductivity and superconducting qubits, the quantum mechanical analogue of the classical bit.  
 
Fundamentals of Microwave Superconductivity
Steven M. Anlage, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
 
Superconducting Qubits
Frederick C. Wellstood, University of Maryland, College Park, MD