Presentation

The 16^th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2017) will take place at the “Palau de Congressos de Catalunya” in Barcelona, from the 8^th to the 13^th of October 2017 and will be hosted by the ALBA Synchrotron.

ICALEPCS facilitates fruitful collaborations among the world´s control system specialists from large scientific installations, such as particle accelerators, light sources, laser facilities, telescopes, tokamaks, etc. The series of ICALEPCS conferences started in 1987 in Villars-sur-Ollon (Switzerland), hosted by CERN. The conferences subsequently rotated between three major areas of the world: America (including North, Central and South America), Asia (including Oceania) and Europe (including Russia, the Near East and Africa). Over the years the conferences saw a growing number of participants, Institutes and countries.
ICALEPCS is a biennial series of conferences that is intended to:

• Provide a forum for the interchange of ideas and information between control system specialists working on large experimental physics facilities around the world(accelerators, particle detectors, fusion reactors, telescopes, etc.);
• Create an archival literature of developments and progress in this rapidly changing discipline;
• Promote, where practical, standardization in both hardware and software;
• Promote collaboration between laboratories, institutes and industry.

The conference consists of scientific program including keynote, invited and contributed talks and poster sessions covering the following areas:

• Experiment Control
• Safety and Machine Protection
• Software Technology Evolution
• User Interfaces and User Experience (UX)
• Project Status Reports
• Control System Upgrades
• Data Management and Processing
• Integrating Diverse Systems
• IT Infrastructure for Control Systems
• Feedback Control and Process Tuning
• Hardware Technology
• Timing and Synchronization
• Systems Engineering, Project Management and Collaborations
• Data Analytics

The International Advisory committee (ISAC) is chaired by Andy Götz (ESRF, The European Synchrotron, France) and counts 40 members distributed as follows: 17 from Europe/Africa, 12 from Americas and 11 Asia/Oceania.

The committee met once on May 30^th and 31^st 2016 to establish the themes and will meet again during the conference in October 2017. The program committee will be appointed during the following weeks and will meet about 5 months before the conference to finalize the scientific program.

List of ICALEPCS conferences until today,