Sergio Cittolin was selected by the CANPS Committee to receive the 2009 CANPS award for his “OUTSTANDING VISION AND ACHIEVEMENT in trigger and DAQ architectures for physics experiments over the last 30 years.” Sergio Cittolin has been a CERN applied physicist for the last 40 years. He was the trigger and Data Acquisition team leader for many experiments including PS, ISR, SPS-UA1, and is now project manager of the CMS LHC experiment.
He began in the early 1970s to work with the CAMAC standard, designing hardware modules that became a CERN standard for many PS, ISR and SPS experiments. Later on, he worked on computer interfaces (REMUS) as well as developed hardware and software for a stand-alone test system (Caviar-Bambi and later on MacVEE). He wrote CAMAC library subroutines that have been implemented on a variety of on-line computer systems at CERN and other international HEP physics laboratories. In the 1970s computers ranged from 8-bit microprocessors to 32-bit minis (M6800, HP/1000, PDP11, NORD, VAX), and the CAMAC interfaces included dedicated crate controllers, branch drivers and system crate configurations.
In the 1980s, he was responsible for the data-acquisition system of the UA1 experiment running at the CERN p-pbar collider. This experiment was the first to use a VME-based data readout system and a powerful distributed multiprocessor network. This experiment led to the discovery of the W boson. The experiment leader, Carlo Rubbia, was granted the Nobel prize.
In the 1990s Sergio became the project leader of the trigger and Data Acquisition system for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Different architectures and switch technologies were evaluated for this system. His vision of the evolution of trigger/DAQ architectures, in particular on event-building technologies and the real time event selection concept (High Level Trigger), was adopted by most physics experiments over the last 30 years. He is internationally known in the Real Time technical community for his many outstanding presentations. He is author or co-author of more than 200 articles and preprints, books and conference proceedings, as well as countless presentations at international workshops and conferences. In addition, he was involved in many multimedia and outreach activities and has demonstrated both real artistic talent and great didactic qualities.
Efthymios Kallos
Particle Accelerator Science and Technology
Doctoral Student Award
The recipient of the IEEE/NPSS 2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award is Doctor Efthymios Kallos.
This Award is given to recognize significant and innovative technical contributions to the field of particle accelerator science and technology as demonstrated in a student’s doctoral thesis.
This is the first time this IEEE/NPSS Doctoral Thesis Award is given.
A certificate and a cash award were made at the awards ceremony at 2009 Particle Accelerator Conference in Vancouver. Dr. Kallos presented the work as an invited talk in the awards session of the conference.
Efthymios Kallos completed his undergraduate degree in 2003 at the electrical and computer engineering department in the National and Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. degree in 2008 at the electrical engineering department of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His doctoral research work focused on using multiple electron bunches as a tool for the development of next-generation particle accelerators based on plasma wakefields. He was involved in experimentally demonstrating for the first time the acceleration of a trailing electron bunch in a high-gradient wakefield driven by a preceding bunch, through using bunches short enough to sample a small phase of the plasma wakes. Additionally, he analyzed schemes that utilize multiple bunches to drive the wakefields, showing that the energy of a trailing bunch can be efficiently multiplied in a single stage, thus possibly reducing the total length of an accelerator to a more manageable scale. He is presently a post-doctoral researcher in the Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, working on metamaterial-based electromagnetic cloaks.
Citation: For the demonstration of two-bunch high-gradient acceleration in a plasma wakefield accelerator and the development of novel multi-bunch concepts. |
