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ICALEPCS
the International Conference on
Accelerator and Large Experimental
Physics Control Systems

The International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS) is a biennial series of conferences inaugurated by a number of control system specialists from accelerator laboratories around the world.

The series of conferences is intended to:

• facilitate the interchange of ideas and information between control system specialists working on large experimental physics facilities around the world (accelerators, particle detectors, tokamaks, telescopes, etc.)
• create an archival literature of developments and progress in this rapidly-changing discipline
• promote, where practical, standardization in both hardware and software
• assist colleagues from technically less developed countries in the realization of all of these goals.

The term "Control Systems" in ICALEPCS is broadly interpreted to include:

• all components or functions, such as processors, interfaces, field-busses, networks, human interfaces, system and application software, algorithms, architectures, databases, etc.
• all aspects of these components, including engineering, execution methodologies, project management, costs, 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.

Please, contact the "ICALEPCS Steering Committee" at isc-chair@icalepcs.org for any further information concerning the ICALEPCS series.

ICALEPCS Lifetime Achievement Award

The ICALEPCS Lifetime Achievement Award is meant to honor an individual (or individuals) who throughout their careers have made invaluable and lasting contributions to the field of control systems for large experimental physics facilities. The scope of this award reaches beyond the successful completion of a single project or even several projects. The aim is to recognize those who through their vision, leadership, technical excellence, and a willingness to think beyond a single laboratory or even a country have influenced the international practice of control system development.

Due to the nature of the award, it will not necessarily be presented at every ICALEPCS. This is meant as a recognition and celebration of exceptional and career-long contribution and as such it should be awarded only when such individuals have been clearly identified.

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