SLAC Colloquium: Landscape of Particle Accelerators, Snowmass Planning for Future, and Ultimate Colliders

Vladimir Shiltsev is a Distinguished Scientist at Fermilab. He received his PhD from Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia) in 1994, worked in leading accelerator laboratories in Novosibirsk and Protvino in Russia, the Superconducting Super Collider Lab in Texas (USA) and DESY before joining Fermilab as a Wilson Fellow in 1996. There he initiated and led the project of beam-beam compensation with the Tevatron Electron Lenses. In 2001 he became the Head of the Tevatron Department and one of the leaders of the Collider Run II team of then the world’s most powerful accelerator. In 2007, he was appointed the inaugural Director of the Fermilab Accelerator Physics Center. His research interests include beam physics of hadron supercolliders, linear e+e- colliders and muon colliders, beam-beam and space-charge effects and their compensation with electron lenses; beam instabilities, noises, ground motion and emittance control; beam cooling, acceleration in crystals, and coherent synchrotron radiation. He authored five books including Electron Lenses for Super-Colliders (Springer, 2016) and Accelerator Physics at the Tevatron Collider (Springer, 2014, with V. Lebedev), and more than 400 publications. Vladimir chaired the APS DPB in 2018, he is a recipient of many prizes and awards, Fellow of APS, IEEE and AAAS and member of the Academia Europaea and Bologna Academy of Sciences.