On the 25th of June, 2012, we hosted the National Vacuum Electronics Conference (NVEC) at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science in Oxford.
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We welcomed 46 participants from UK universities, research centres and industry, representing a vibrant and growing research and industrial community. The one-day conference was dedicated to vacuum electronics and RF science and engineering. The conference strongly supports and encourages early-career researchers to present their work. This year, more than half of the participants were graduate students and postdocs, who gave 70% of the talks.
Ivan Konoplev, Phil Burrows