LBNL, Berkeley, California
The 13th edition of the Beam Instrumentation Workshop (BIW08) took place at the Granlibakken Conference Center on the beautiful shores of Lake Tahoe in California during the first week of May 2008. About 130 participants registered for the workshop. Included in the program during the three and a half days were three tutorials, eight invited and seven contributed oral presentations, and more than 50 poster contributions. A discussion group session, and the vendor exhibition simultaneously held with the single day poster session, afforded many opportunities for informal discussion and idea exchange between attendees. During the workshop, the 2008 Faraday Cup Award that recognizes innovative achievements in beam diagnostics was also presented. In this talk, I will present the highlights from BIW08. The overall quality of the contributions was notably high, which made the selection of the topics for this talk quite difficult. Although I endeavored to produce a balanced choice of highlights, the final list is surely incomplete due to time limitations of the talk, and also it unavoidably reflects my personal point of view and preferences.
