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The School will take place at the NSCL / FRIB Laboratory on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Activities will start around 8:30 am on Monday, September 10th, and will end around noon on Friday, September 14th.

Morning sessions are dedicated to lectures and training lectures, in preparation of the afternoon activities. Confirmed speakers are:

◾ Georg Berg (University of Notre Dame)

◾ Manoel Couder (University of Notre Dame)

In the first two lectures of this series we will introduce the definitions and the formalism, followed by a presentation of ion-optical elements and their combination to more complex systems that every nuclear physicist will encounter during his or her experimental research work. Lecture three and four are dedicated to the presentation and discussion of the recoil separators St. GEORGE and SECAR, respectively. The analysis of experiments using spectrometers, recoil separators and many other electromagnetic analysis systems will require detailed knowledge of the applied ion-optical concepts. Practical examples will be discussed.

In the afternoons, students will form groups and work on projects aimed at learning to use COSY Infinity for ion optical design.

The summer school will provide a SECAR and a St. George option, lecturers will provide mentoring for these devices. Students are welcome to choose other systems, but would have to provide a working code prior to the school, and identify a mentor that supports them.

Groups will then choose a single ion optical device to work on. For this device a running simulation code is available, and the students will carry out projects aimed at learning to use the code using the running code as a starting point (modifying settings, adding elements, removing elements etc).