Training

EPICS Training

EPICS Training courses have been run by various organizations at various times as the demand arises.
The US Particle Accelerator School organizes an introductory course in the US every few years.
The EPICS Summer School, a two-week immersive course, is held every year in Europe, organized by HZB, INFN, ESS and GSI.

EPICS Collaboration Meetings often include days with workshops and training. Many of the training modules are part of the Shared EPICS Training Material (see below).

The following commercial companies may be able to run EPICS training courses tailored to specific needs:

Training Materials

The following are links to the training materials available online that we know about.

Shared EPICS Training Material

The community started a hub for shared training material, including a modular Training-VM for hands-on lessons on GitHub: EPICS Training Material.

EPICS Training Resources by SNS

Kay Kasemir and colleagues from the SNS have run many EPICS courses over a 20-year period. The materials used in their courses can be found here.
The most recent course was at the USPAS held in July 2026. Materials for this including presentations and a virtual machine image with a prepared EPICS environment can be found here.

ALS-U EPICS Environment Training

The ALS-U project has developed a specific EPICS development environment. Their training material can be found here.

NSLS-II 2018: Asyn, Motion and AreaDetector

A 3-day series of lectures by Mark Rivers, which are available as YouTube videos on Brookhaven’s Website.

APS 2014 and 2015: EPICS Training Series

The Software Services group at APS ran a 6-month series of courses aimed at local users, with most of the lectures being recorded on video. The talks given in 2014 are here and the 2015 lectures are here.

AES 2013: EPICS Training

A series of training days was held at the APS for new staff over the Summer of 2013. The slides and other materials are here.

Obsolete

Other training materials can be found here.
Note: Many of them are not accessible anymore (dead links).