Reconstruction of pioneering physics experiments: Importance and lessons learned Vladimir Shiltsev

Vladimir Shiltsev got his PhD in accelerator and beam physics from Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia) in 1994, and worked in leading accelerator laboratories in Novosibirsk and Protvino in Russia, the Superconducting Super Collider Lab (TX) 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 was in charge of the Collider Run II luminosity records. In 2007, he was appointed the inaugural Director of the Fermilab Accelerator Physics Center. His research interests include beam-beam effects and their compensation; beam dynamics, instabilities, space-charge effects and emittance control; beam cooling, noises and ground motion in large hadron colliders, linear e+e- colliders and muon colliders; particle collimation with electron lenses; high-power ultra fast high voltage devices and coherent synchrotron radiation effects. He authored two books Electron Lenses for Super-Colliders (Springer, 2016) and Accelerator Physics at the Tevatron Collider (Springer, 2014, with V.Lebedev), and more than 350 publications.

Vladimir served and currently serves on a number of the US DOE and International review committees and advisory boards, including BNL, JLab, ORNL, CERN MAC, STFC/MICE/RAL (UK), FCC IAC, FACET-II, etc as well on the editorial boards for Physical Review AB and JINST journals. He is editor of the Springer PAD book series and member of the Organizing and Program Committees for the International and North American Particle Accelerator Conference series (IPAC, NA-PAC). He was the Program Committee Chair of the 2016 NA-PAC in Chicago.

In 2004, Vladimir was awarded the European Accelerator Prize from the European Physical Society for the development of the electron lens technique for beam-beam compensation. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, in 2016 he was elected to the Chair-line of the APS Division of Physics of Beams (now – Past-Chair). He also served on the APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs and on the Executive Committee of the Forum of International Physics, in 2018 he received the APS Outstanding Referee award and the 2015 Robert Siemann award. He is recipient of the George Gamow award from the Russian-American Science Association (2016).

Vladimir is actively involved in science outreach and history of physics with several dozens of publications in Physics Today, PhysicsWorld, Physics in Perspective, Science First Hands, Potential, Physics Uspekhi, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, as well as interviews, physics olympiads and many lectures in the US and worldwide. He also received the 2013 “Silver Archer” award for scientific outreach (experimental replication of Lomonosov’s discovery of Venus’s atmosphere in 1761). In 2016 was elected Honorary Member of the Lomonosov Foundation (North Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia). He is also Past-President of the Novosibirsk State University’s Alumni association and Chair of the University’s International Academic Council.