Speaker Bio

.Dr. Cameron Geddes is the Director of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on development of ultra-intense lasers and their use to drive plasma waves, creating particle accelerators and photon sources that are radically compact – accomplishing in centimeters energies that conventionally require hundreds of meters. The Division leads development of neutron and beam sources, National programs in high field magnets, light source accelerators such as the ALS, clean energy technologies ranging from fusion to carbon sensing, precision controls and accelerator components, and computing at the largest scales (Gordon Bell prize in 2022).  He has published over 200 articles and proceedings, accumulating over 5000 citations. He received the Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of California, Berkeley, supported by the Hertz Fellowship, where he received the Hertz and APS Rosenbluth dissertation awards for the first plasma based accelerator demonstrating mono-energetic beams. Geddes is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of its Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. He serves on the Society’s Division of Plasma Physics Chair line, on the Department of Energy High Energy Physics decadal planning ‘Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’ and others.