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ACCELERATOR SEMINAR 

Applications of Modern Computational Tools in Accelerator Physics 

Balsa Terzic, 
CASA Group, Jefferson Lab 

In this overview talk, we present two new computational tools that can be employed to solve previously intractable accelerator physics problems.  One such computational tool is genetic algorithm (GA), which is effective in multidimensional, nonlinear optimization, especially in the higher-dimensional realm where traditional methods fail.  The other is parallel computation on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), which can speed up intrinsically parallelizable algorithms by a few orders of magnitude, thereby making historically computationally prohibitive capabilities and domains of application feasible.  We provide motivation for the use of these techniques, briefly cover the main concepts, and outline several applications where they have been successfully applied, including:  optimization of the working point in a collider, non-linear chi-square fitting, beam-beam simulations, and simulation of coherent synchrotron radiation. 

Thursday, September 12, 2013 
11:00 a.m. 
CEBAF Center, Room F113 

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