2024 J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 2743 011001
2024 J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 2743 011001
2024 J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 2743 011001
Series
ICIS’23 was the 20th event in a biennial series of conferences that are dedicated to Ion Sources and their
applications, and the first in-person conference of this series after the COVID 19 pandemic. The
conference was hosted by TRIUMF (www.triumf.ca), Canada’s Particle Accelerator Centre in Victoria, BC,
Canada, September 17 to September 22, 2023. The ICIS series covers the physics and technology of ion
sources for scientific research and applications. With the conference being the main event within the ion
sources community it offers a forum for exchanging of new ideas and establishing of collaborations.
The conference was held at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria BC, Canada, with support from
the adjacent Fairmont Empress hotel. The venue is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded
territory of the Lkwungen People, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations communities.
The biennial conference series covers the physics and technology of ion sources for scientific research
and applications. New developments and advancements have been presented and discussed. As in
previous conferences of this series, all aspects of ion sources have been covered in the categories:
The conference was organized in a hybrid mode and a zoom link was made available to participants,
who could not attend in person. A total of 178 participants have registered for the conference, of whom
20 were students and 23 attended from remote. Fifty contributions have been presented in plenary
sessions of which 20 were invited by the international advisory committee. The remaining 30 have been
selected by the Scientific advisory committee. 123 contributions have been presented at 2 poster
sessions. The high level and interesting contributions triggered lively discussions during all sessions.
Thank you to all who contributed to this.
Additional events included a tour of the TRIUMF Laboratory on September 17 just before the
conference, and a reception on the same evening. In the afternoon of Wednesday, September 20
delegates were able to enjoy the beautiful surrounding Vancouver Island by either participating in a
whale watching tour or a nature hike along the shoreline. In the evening of this day the conference
banquet was held in the Fairmont Empress hotel.
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Fifteen students participated in the student poster competition. Members of both the international
advisory committee and the scientific program committee acted as judges. Thank you to all the students
who have contributed and the judges. Three winners have been awarded.
ICIS2023 has resumed the Brightness award competition. The Brightness Award, first awarded in 2003,
and supported until 2013 by Bergoz Instrumentation, recognizes and encourages innovative significant
achievements in ion source physics and technology. It has become a prestigious award in the ion source
community, honoring recipients for important contributions to our field. We are grateful to Lanzhou-
Kejin Taiji New Technology Co., Ltd. LANITH for their continuous support in sponsoring this award. The
international advisory committee has collected nominations from within the community and the award
was announced and presented during the conference to
for
Pioneering the Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) technique for ISOL facilities
Sincere thanks also to the sponsors of this event: D-Pace, Pantechnik, LANITH, BEXT, X Tech-X and
ISOBAREX. We want to acknowledge their important contribution to our field of research.
The following proceedings contain 99 papers which have been peer reviewed by conference delegates
and finally accepted by the editorial team.
As announced during the banquet the 21st International Conference on Ion Sources will be hosted by
STFC / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford, UK, in 2025. We wish them the very best of luck in
organizing the next event.
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