Proceedings of the 1998 International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference
The 1998 International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference, ICAP’98, was held September 14-18, 1998, at the Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, California. The meeting continued the tradition of four earlier Computational Accelerator Physics conferences, held in La Jolla, California (1988), Los Alamos, New Mexico (1990), Pleasanton, California (1993), and Williamsburg, Virginia (1996). ICAP’98 was organized by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), and received support from the U.S. Department of Energy. The aim of this conference series is to discuss recent advances in Computational Accelerator Physics and their applications to solving important problems related to present and future accelerators. The ICAP’98 program included plenary sessions on modeling challenges in next-generation accelerators, state-of-the art methods in computational accelerator physics, and a view of what high-end computing would be like in the 21st century. There were also focused sessions on accelerator design and control, modeling high intensity beam phenomena, electromagnetic modeling, advanced algorithms, software environments and libraries, visualization and graphic interfaces, modeling advanced accelerator concepts, modeling the beam-beam interaction, computing wakefields, and combined particle/field simulations. In addition to these oral sessions there was a poster session and a vendor display. Prior to the start of the technical program, a half-day tutorial on High Performance Computing was hosted by NERSC. The ICAP series recognizes that computing and, in particular, advanced computing, is playing an increasingly important role in the successful design and development of major accelerator facilities, and in research and development leading to advances in accelerator technology. We expect that this new emphasis on high-end computing will continue in future ICAP conferences.