The Fourth International Particle Accelerator Conference

Abstract

The fourth International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC'13, took place at the Shanghai International Conference Center, Shanghai, China from Sunday to Friday, 12 to 17 May, 2013. It was attended by close to 1000 full time delegates from approximately 30 different countries on all continents. Hosted by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, it was supported by the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA), the American Physical Society Division of Physics of Beams (APS-DPB), the European Physical Society Accelerator Group (EPS-AG), the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Furthermore, the attendance of over 85 young scientists from all over the world was made possible through the sponsorship of societies, institutes and laboratories worldwide (in alphabetical order): ACFA, APS-DPB, CAS, EPSAG with contributions from ALBA-CELLS, Centro Fermi, CERN, CNRS-IN2P3, DESY, Diamond Light Source, ESRF, GSI, HZB, HZDR, IFIC, JAI, Max Lab, PSI, Synchrotron Soleil and STFC/Cockcroft Institute, and IUPAP. The organizers of IPAC'13 are grateful to all sponsors for their valuable support.