Successes

 - Good success in simulating the coaxial wire method (using HFSS to obtain S21)
  - For highly lossy materials (ferrites etc) measurements we can get good longitudinal values, but poor dipolar measurements
  - For ohmic loss materials (graphite) we can obtain good values for both longitudinal and dipolar measurements. However the parabola gradient is generally too small to be distinguished from the deviation around the analytical answer (more to be shown at next TU/CERN webmeeting)
 
 - Phase II collimator studies finished (for now) - To be given to N. Mariani and co.
 - First set of studies on SPS space charge above and below transition complete
 - To be extended to make a stability map of BT and AT


Issues

 - Trying to find a simulation code/technique that produces sufficient sensitivity to produce a good reproduction of wire method (power dissipation and fields around conductive wires) 
 - Many HEADTAIL sims to do

Future Plans

 - Contiinue wire sim work 
  - Have found a series of papers on coaxial wire in a rectangular waveguide. Would interesting to compare impedance of this set up to resistive parallel plates in a similar vein to V. Vaccarro/Students paper from IPAC'10. Suspect there maybe some frequency offset here also.
 - Further transition energy studies for SPS.
 - Study some more on the LHC-MKI (discharge, rod placement, stiffness of RF-contacts etc.)