Introduction to particle accelerators

The course is intended for anyone with technical or scientific background who would like to become familiar with the principles of accelerator design. The level of the course is choses with the intention of preparing those with no specialist knowledg ccelerator School but also of interest to a much wider audience> The series of eight talks span all aspects of circular machines and cover in a simple way the principles of focusing, betatron motion, sispersion, chromaticity, radio-frequency systems, ilities.