Name: 10th International symposium on Negative Ions, Beams and Sources - NIBS'26
Start: 2026-09-20T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-09-25T13:10:00-07:00
Location: Prestige Lakeside Resort Nelson

10th International symposium on Negative Ions, Beams and Sources - NIBS'26

from Sunday, September 20, 2026 (2:00 PM) to Friday, September 25, 2026 (1:10 PM)

Monday, September 14, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Friday, September 18, 2026
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Sunday, September 20, 2026

2:00 PM Registration Desk Open (Prestige), Exhibitor Booth Set-Up (Prestige), Poster Pin-Up (Hume)

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Registration Desk

6:00 PM Hume: Welcome Wine and Cheese
Welcome Wine and Cheese
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Monday, September 21, 2026

7:45 AM Coffee

7:45 AM - 8:14 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:14 AM Welcoming Speeches - Chairperson Dr. M. Dehnel & Dignitaries
Welcoming Speeches - Chairperson Dr. M. Dehnel & Dignitaries
8:14 AM - 8:15 AM
Room: Conference Room 1) Confirmed - Dr. Maggie Matear, President Selkirk College 2) Confirmed - Dr. Mike Kennefick, Western Regional Director, Mitacs 3) Confirmed - Mr. Richard McElroy, CEO, D-Pace, Inc. 4) Confirmed - Dr. Oliver Kester, Director Accelerator Division, TRIUMF

8:15 AM Bring to Order
Bring to Order
8:15 AM - 8:20 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:20 AM Welcome & Land Acknowledgement - Maggie Matear, President, Selkirk College
Welcome & Land Acknowledgement - Maggie Matear, President, Selkirk College
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:30 AM Mike Kennefick, Regional Director - Pacific, Mitacs
Mike Kennefick, Regional Director - Pacific, Mitacs
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:35 AM Oliver Kester, Director Accelerator Division, TRIUMF
Oliver Kester, Director Accelerator Division, TRIUMF
8:35 AM - 8:40 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:40 AM Richard McElroy, CEO, D-Pace
Richard McElroy, CEO, D-Pace
8:40 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:45 AM Priya Biswas, Executive Director, KAST
Priya Biswas, Executive Director, KAST
8:45 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:50 AM Housekeeping

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Conference Room
9:00 AM S1: Chairperson -- Lenaic Couedel, U. Marseille
9:00 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Shedding Light on the Cesium Sputter Ion Source - Martin Martschini (University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics – Isotope Physics, VERA Laboratory, Vienna, Austria)

9:25 AM Diagnostic Measurements and Performance of the Cesiated H- Source at LANL - David Kleinjan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:50 AM The role of surfaces in high-current negative hydrogen ion sources - Olli Tarvainen (STFC)

10:15 AM Application of TALIF for the Characterization of Negative Hydrogen Ion Production in Ion Sources for NBI - Julian Hörsch (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP))
10:35 AM Industry 1, BEST Cyclotron, David Du
Industry 1, BEST Cyclotron, David Du
10:35 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Conference Room

10:40 AM Coffee

10:40 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Conference Room
10:55 AM S2: Chairperson - Klaus Becker, AMAT
10:55 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

10:55 AM Applications, Developments, and Recent Work with O- Beams - Noel Smith (Oregon Physics)

11:20 AM First Results of a Novel Resonant Antenna Dual-Polarity Focused Ion Beam Source - Felicien Filleul (EPFL)

11:40 AM Aspects of negative ions in Microwave PECVD Plasmas for Diamond Thin Film Deposition - Michael Bradley (University of Saskatchewan)
12:05 PM Lunch

12:05 PM - 1:40 PM

1:40 PM Housekeeping
Housekeeping
1:40 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Conference Room

1:45 PM Industry 2: STAC, Jason Taylor

1:45 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: Conference Room

1:50 PM Industry 3: Pfeiffer Vacuum (Busch), Cole Frantz

1:50 PM - 1:55 PM
Room: Conference Room

1:55 PM Industry 4: SEF, Vincent Vuatelet

1:55 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Conference Room
2:00 PM S3: Chairperson - Robert Welton, SNS-ORNL
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM H- Source Developments and Operation at CERN - Jean-Baptiste Lallement (CERN)

2:25 PM Ion Source Development for AMS at WHOI - Mark Roberts (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2:50 PM Long-lived high-power negative ion beam accelerations update from the CRAFT NNBI test facility - Jianglong Wei (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
3:15 PM Coffee

3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Conference Room
3:35 PM S4: Chairperson -Emile Carbone, INRS
3:35 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

3:35 PM PIC Simulation of Negative Ion Beamline for VLEO application - Kim-Sophie Ellenberger (Institute of Space Systems IRS - University of Stuttgart)

3:55 PM 3D Full-PIC Simulations of a Penning Discharge in Complex Geometries - Mikhail Tiushev (University of Saskatchewan)

4:15 PM Analysis of the plasma meniscus in a negative ion source from the viewpoint of force balance - Kenji Miyamoto (Naruto University of Education)
5:00 PM Poster Session 1
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Commissioning of a Penning Ion Source Test Stand and Negative Hydrogen Ion Experiments for Medical Applications - Connor MacKenzie (Selkirk Ion Source Research Center)

5:20 PM Proof of Concept Work Function Measurements for the LAMP H- Ion Source - April Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

5:40 PM Progress of the RF H- Ion Source Project at RAL - Robert Abel (STFC)

6:00 PM Phase Mixing and Compensation Transitions in Single and Multiple Negative-Ion Beams - Chen Zuo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

6:20 PM Power Electronics for 655kV H- Beam Chopper - Mike RIGG (ISIS STFC)

6:40 PM Implementation of Updated Hydrogen and Deuterium Cross-Sections in Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Negative Ion Production in a Volume-Cusp Ion Source - Connor MacKenzie (Selkirk Ion Source Research Center)

6:40 PM Operation, Performance, and Modeling of a Cesium-Free Negative Hydrogen Ion Source for a BNCT Accelerator - Vladislav Vekselman (TAE Technologies)

6:40 PM The Use of Simulation Software to Predict the Expected Pressures within the Internal Plasma Chamber of a Penning-Ion Source - Sydney Spence (Selkirk Ion-source Research Centre)

6:40 PM Alkali-Free Volume Production of He- Ions in Pure Helium Plasma: A Computational Modelling Framework - Shubham Singh Baghel (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique -Énergie Matériaux, Télécommunications)

6:40 PM Numerical Analysis of Hydrogen Isotope Effects in NIFS-RNIS using KEIO-MARC with a Rate Equation Model - Hayato Soejima (Keio-University)

6:40 PM Numerical Analysis of Particle Flux Oscillation on Walls of Radio-Frequency Negative Hydrogen Ion Sources - Naomi Kawamura (Keio University)

6:40 PM Investigation of the work function of the LANSCE H- ion source converter - Anna Alexander

6:40 PM Status on the TRIUMF's new 300 keV H- injection system - Suresh Saminathan (TRIUMF)

6:40 PM Study on Key Technologies for Laser Neutralization based Negative Ion Beams - Huihui hong Yuanlai Xie

6:40 PM Optimization of Puller Offset from Plane of Plasma Extraction for H¯, 4He 2+, and 18O 3+ Ions - Ben Warfield (University of Victoria)

6:40 PM Development and Experimental Validation of LePIC+ for a Caesium-Free RF Negative Ion Source - Jasmin Deguire (D-Pace, University of Victoria)

6:40 PM Experimental Investigation of Negative Ion Production Mechanisms on Cs-Deposited Metal Surfaces - Yuya Inokuchi (Doshisha. University)

6:40 PM Langmuir probe characterization of negative ions in microwave plasmas - Portia Switzer (University of Saskatchewan)

6:40 PM Measurement of the Beam Phase Space Structure of the J-PARC Radiofrequency Negative Ion Source by a Double Slit Emittance Meter - Takaaki Ishikawa
8:00 PM NIBS2028 Proposal Presentations to IAC
NIBS2028 Proposal Presentations to IAC
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Conference Room
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

7:45 AM Coffee
Coffee
7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:00 AM Housekeeping
Housekeeping
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
Room: Conference Room
8:10 AM S1: Chairperson - Vincenzo Laporta, ISTP-CNR
8:10 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

8:10 AM Advanced Negative Ion Source concept for Neutral Beam Injectors - Gwenael Fubiani (LAPLACE, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS)

8:35 AM Simulation and Experimental Study on the Ejected Electrons from Negative Ion sources on the CRAFT NNBI test facility - yuwen yang (Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

8:55 AM Conceptual design of a negative-ion-based neutral beam module for an FRC reactor prototype. - Alexandr Ivanov (TAE Technologies)

9:20 AM Alternative Solution to Address the Challenge of Negative Ion Sources for Fusion - Lenaic Couedel (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université)
9:45 AM Industry 5: Richard McElroy, D-Pace

9:45 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Conference Room

9:50 AM Industry 6: Seth Veitzer, Silvaco

9:50 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Conference Room

9:55 AM Industry 7: James Titus, TAE

9:55 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Conference Room

10:00 AM Industry 8: Dominick Bindl, Realta Fusion

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM
Room: Conference Room

10:05 AM Coffee

10:05 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Conference Room
10:25 AM S2: Chairperson - Gwenael Fubiani, U. Toulouse/CNRS
10:25 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

10:25 AM Theoretical Vibrational-excitation Cross Sections for PIC Based Negative Ion Plasma Computations - Vincenzo Laporta (Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi - CNR)

10:50 AM Metastability of H$^-$ and O$^-$ Negative Ions at the Nanosecond Timescale - Guillermo G. Hinojosa Aguirre (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

11:15 AM Caesium Free Negative Ion Beam Developments using Microwave Heating of Low-Work Function Materials - Akihiro Matsubara (PESCO Co., Ltd)

11:40 AM Fulcher-Alpha Spectra and Laser Photodetachment Measurements and Models at SNU $H^-$ Source - Jeong-jeung Dang (Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH))

12:05 PM Impact of plasma potential modifications on the performance of ITER-relevant negative hydrogen ion sources - Dirk Wünderlich (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP))
12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: Conference Room
1:50 PM S3: Chairperson - Nikolai Lobanov, ANU
1:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

1:50 PM How Low Can we Go? Routine Reliability and Low Energy Limits for AMS with a Cs Sputter Source - Lauren Bezzina (ETH Zürich)

2:15 PM The Effects of Laser Irradiation and Source Parameters on the Cathode Temperature and Negative Ion Production in MC-SNICS ion source - Mikko Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä)

2:35 PM Correlation Between Plasma Parameters and Beam Characteristics in a RF-driven negative hydrogen ion sources - Na Wang (ASIPP.CAS)

2:55 PM Tracing Ultra-Low Level Environmental Processes using Negative Ion Beams of Rare Isotopes - Christopher Charles (TRIUMF)
3:20 PM Houskeeping
Houskeeping
3:20 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: Conference Room

3:25 PM Coffee

3:25 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Conference Room
3:45 PM S4: Chairperson - Olli Tarvainen, STFC UKIRI
3:45 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

3:45 PM The high-density core of compensating Hminus beams - Dan Faircloth (UKRI STFC ISIS)

4:10 PM DESIGN OF A NEGATIVE OXYGEN BEAMLINE FACILITY FOR EXPERIMENTAL VERY LOW EARTH ORBIT SIMULATION - Lasse Voigt (Institute of Space Systems - University of Stuttgart)
5:00 PM Poster Session 2
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM The LAMP H- ion sources: goals, status, and plans - Anna Alexander

5:20 PM High-intensity RF-driven cesiated negative hydrogen ion source equipped with J-PARC-made antenna coil for J-PARC user operation - Katsuhiro Shinto (J-PARC center / Japan Atomic Energy Agency (J-PARC/JAEA))

5:40 PM Design Evolution and Performance Improvements of D-Pace's ES-4 Emittance Scanner - Zack Watkins (D-Pace)

6:00 PM Addressing Plasma Asymmetry and Potential Control in the Negative Ion Source for Neutral Beam Injectors: the ANIS Concept - Freddy Gaboriau (LAPLACE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS)

6:20 PM PIC Simulation of Sheath Formation and Particle Loss Processes in Cusp Magnetic Fields for Negative Ion Sources - Tetsunori Otsubo (Keio University)

6:40 PM New elements of the 2D fluid transport model of the SPIDER negative ions source - Roman Zagorski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Pl-05-400 Otwock, Poland)

6:40 PM Design of a High Current Beam Extraction and Transport System for the ISIS 2X Penning H- Ion Source - Dean Morris (STFC)

6:40 PM Experimental Studies on Negative Ion Production in a 13.56 MHz RF Ion Source - Anand George (D-Pace)

6:40 PM Analysis of isotope effects on negative ion source extraction using 3D-PIC Calculation - Katsuya Hayashi (核融合科学研究所)

6:40 PM Improvements to Plasma and Process Uniformity in a Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation (PIII) System via Multi-cusp Magnetic Confinement - William Davis (Dept. of Physics & Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)

6:40 PM Direct comparison of extraction electrode current between experiments and PIC simulation in J-PARC RF-driven negative hydrogen ion source - Takanori Shibata (J-PARC/KEK/NIFS)

6:40 PM Towards Ion-Beam Studies Using the USASK Dense Plasma Focus Device - Jeisson Vanegas (PhD student)

6:40 PM Optical emission spectroscopy for measuring electron temperature and density in a Penning ion-source test stand for the production of negative hydrogen ions - Jonathan Doyle (Selkirk Innovates)

6:40 PM Mitigation of Secondary Electron Trapping in Permanent-Magnet Ion Sources by Extraction Geometry Design - rebekka nagy (University of Jyväskylä)

6:40 PM Integrating a Laser Neutralizer Wire Scanner in the LANSCE H- LEBT - Charles Rohde (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

6:40 PM Measurement of electron affinities at the HAMSTER facility - Laurenz Widermann (TU Dresden, HZDR)

6:40 PM Status of the internal RF antenna negative ion source for LAMP - Madison Howard (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

6:40 PM Numerical Analysis of the Da Vinci project negative ion-based Neutral Beam Injectors - Ken Franzen (TAE Technologies)
7:00 PM Hume: IAC Dinner/Mtg
IAC Dinner/Mtg
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

7:45 AM Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:00 AM Housekeeping
Housekeeping
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
Room: Conference Room
8:10 AM S1: Chairperson - Mark Roberts, WHOI
8:10 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

8:10 AM Review on alkali vapor charge exchange canals for He- and report on HIAF ANU alpha injector. - Nikolai Lobanov (Australian National University)

8:35 AM Negative Helium Ion Production Using Nano-Foils - Philip Jackle (Simon Fraser University, D-Pace)

9:00 AM Microwave driven Permanent Magnet Negative Helium ion source - Mikko Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä)

9:20 AM Latest Developments of Liquid Spray Neutralization for Neutral Beam Injection - SARGIS TER-AVETISYAN (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), IFIN HH, Magurele, Romania)
9:45 AM Industry 9: Cam Whitehead - LCCDTS: Industry
Industry
9:45 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Conference Room

9:50 AM Coffee

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Conference Room
10:10 AM S2: Chairperson - Jean-Baptiste Lallement, CERN
10:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

10:10 AM Lifetime and Emittance Optimization for High Intensity RF-driven H- Source - Weidong Chen (Institute of high energy physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.)

10:35 AM Design choices, implementation and status of the PIP-II Warm Front End - Lionel Prost (Fer)

11:00 AM Operational Experience with a Positive / Negative Filament Ion Source - Brian Roeder (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University)

11:25 AM Current status of Proton and Neutron irradiation beamlines at the RFT-30 H⁻ Cyclotron Facility - Jongchul Lee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)

11:45 AM Reliable long-life Operations and Record High beam current Demonstration of the H⁻ ion source at SNS - Baoxi Han (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12:10 PM NIBS2026 Group Photo
NIBS2026 Group Photo
12:10 PM - 12:15 PM
Room: Conference Room

12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Conference Room

1:00 PM Free Afternoon - Discover Nelson BC Canada

1:00 PM - 6:50 PM
Thursday, September 24, 2026

7:45 AM Coffee

7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: Conference Room

8:00 AM Housekeeping
Housekeeping
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
Room: Conference Room
8:10 AM S1: Chairperson - Dirk Wunderlich, IPP-MPG
8:10 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

8:10 AM Negative Ion Source Developments at the ITER-NBTF in Padua towards the start of MITICA-HNB Operation - Diego Marcuzzi (Consorzio RFX)

8:35 AM Stabilization of Long Beam Pulses at NNBI - Christian Wimmer (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP))

9:00 AM The DC voltage holding experiments in vacuum under cesium deposition condition - Bo Liu (Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China)

9:20 AM Neutral Beam Injectors for ITER, Progress of Design and Manufacturing Activities - Carlo Poggi (ITER Organization)
9:45 AM Coffee

9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Conference Room
10:10 AM S2: Chairperson - Andrei Smolyakov, U. Sask
10:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

10:10 AM ExB Plasmas Generated by e-beams and non-thermal electrons for processing two-dimensional materials including negative ions and applications - Yevgeny Raitses (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

10:35 AM Charged particle transport in electronegative plasmas by particle-in-cell calculations - Emile Carbone (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications)

11:00 AM Implicit PIC Simulations of Negative Hydrogen Plasmas with Intense Negative Ion Production - Denis Eremin (Ruhr University Bochum)

11:25 AM A Comparison of Implicit and Explicit PIC Schemes in One Dimension - Nicolas Savard
11:50 AM Housekeeping
Housekeeping
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Conference Room

12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Conference Room
1:30 PM S3: Chairperson - Dan Faircloth, STFC UKRI
1:30 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

1:30 PM An Expanded Survey of H-/D- Injectors at National Laboratories: Ion sources, LEBTs and RFQs - Robert Welton (ORNL-SNS)

1:55 PM Modeling of Beam Focusing with Radio Frequency Electric Field Perturbations - Tsuyoshi Yasui (Nagoya University,Japan)

2:15 PM Experimental Investigation of Power Deposition Characteristics and Neutralization Efficiency in CRAFT NNBI Test Facility - 旭峰彭 (合肥综合性国家科学中心能源研究院)

2:35 PM Neutral Beam Roadmap at Realta Fusion - Anthony Cooper (Realta Fusion)
2:55 PM Coffee

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Conference Room
3:15 PM S4: Chairperson -Alexander Ivanov, TAE
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

3:15 PM Validation of the Formation of Negative Methane Ions. - Guillermo G. Hinojosa Aguirre (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

3:35 PM Multi-Fidelity Simulation Approach for Negative-Ion Based NBI Development - Joey Eickman (Realta Fusion)
4:15 PM Housekeeping & ICIS2027 Announcement
Housekeeping & ICIS2027 Announcement
4:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Conference Room

6:00 PM Wine and Beer

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Conference Room

7:00 PM Conference Dinner and Presentation of NIBS Award

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Conference Room
Friday, September 25, 2026

8:15 AM Coffee

8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: Conference Room
8:45 AM S1: Chairperson - Morgan Dehnel, SIRC
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

8:45 AM A Survey of Negative Ion Beam Applications - Morgan Dehnel (SIRC)
10:00 AM Coffee

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Conference Room

10:15 AM Conference Wrap-Up - NIBS2026 Chairperson: Dr. M. Dehnel

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Conference Room

11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Conference Room

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