Background
The Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA) is based at the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde, and was set up with support from the University, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), the Scottish Funding Council and the EPSRC. It is a user facility dedicated to providing high energy particle beams and high brightness radiation pulses for users drawn from a wide range of scientific, medical and engineering disciplines. A pair of Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser systems (40 TW peak power at 10 Hz pulse repetition rate, and 350 TW at 5 Hz, respectively) drive a suite of laser-plasma accelerator beamlines that are housed in three large radiation shielded areas. SCAPA is the largest UK, university-based, laser facility, which has a key role alongside the national-scale laboratories in providing laser beams with intensities in excess of 10²¹ W/cm², and radiation sources for use by domestic and international academic and industrial users. You can find out more on the SCAPA website.
Registration
You can sign up for the SCAPA tour and coach from SCAPA to St Andrews via the conference registration form.
Travel Advice
The closest international airport to the John Anderson Building (where SCAPA is based) is Glasgow Airport (GLA).
It takes around 20-40 minutes to get to the John Anderson Building by car, and just under an hour by bus. You can take the First Bus Glasgow from Terminal 1 to Glasgow Cathedral North Hanover Street, then walk 10 minutes.
The conference organisers are providing transportation via coach from SCAPA to the Fairmont St Andrews.