ICALEPCS Overview
The International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS) is a biennial series of conferences inaugurated by a number of control system specialists from accelerator laboratories, fusion facilities, particle detector groups, telescope facilities around the world. The series of ICALEPCS conferences started in 1987 in Villars-sur-Ollon (Switzerland), hosted by CERN. The conferences has subsequently rotated between three major areas of the world: America (including North, Central and South America), Asia (including Oceania) and Europe (including Russia, the Near East and Africa). Over the years the conferences has seen a growing number of participants, Institutes and countries.
ICALEPCS conference series:
| Year |
City |
Country |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Villars sur Ollon | Switzerland | CERN |
| 1989 | Vancouver | Canada | TRIUMF |
| 1991 | Tsukuba | Japan | KEK |
| 1993 | Berlin | Germany | HMI |
| 1995 | Chicago | USA | Fermilab, ANL |
| 1997 | Beijing | China | IHEP |
| 1999 | Trieste | Italy | ELETTRA |
| 2001 | San Jose | USA | SLAC |
| 2003 | Gyeongju | Korea | PAL, POSTEC, KSTAR |
| 2005 | Geneva | Switzerland | CERN, CPPR |
| 2007 | Knoxville | USA | ORNL/SNS, Jlab |
| 2009 | Kobe | Japan | JASRI/SPring-8, RIKEN/SPring-8 |





