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21 December 2011
Inspiring the scientists& engineers of the future
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair.
The NEC, Birmingham. 15 - 17 March 2012
The biggest single event of its kind in the country, The Big Bang Fair
moves to Birmingham for 2012. An award-winning combination of exciting
theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits delivered by
household names, together with careers information provided by a wide
range of people already working in the field, The Big Bang Fair
enables young people to see science and engineering in a new light. …read more»
Medical Isotopes:
accelerator-based solutions to meet Europe’s future needs
The Cockcroft Institute recently co-hosted, in conjunction with CERN,
a workshop on the “Accelerator-driven Production of Medical Isotopes” on
the 8th and 9th of December 2011. This unique event brought together some
60 attendees including world–leading scientists and engineers, specialist
clinicians and key global technology suppliers in an open forum to discuss
some of the challenges faced in meeting Europe’s future isotope supply
needs. …read more»
6 M€ EU Project on Accelerator R&D will be coordinated by
the Cockcroft
Institute / University of Liverpool
Within the oPAC project all these aspects will be closely linked with the aim to optimize the performance of present and future accelerators that lie at the heart of many research infrastructures. The project brings together 22 institutions from around the world, including major research centres. …read more »
Symposium in celebration of five years of the Cockcroft Institute.
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http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/amazing_particles/
Daresbury's Cockcroft physicist scoops award for inspirational women
Cherry Canovan, a Lancaster University PhD student of mathematical physics at the Cockcroft Institute, has been recognised for her significant achievement in managing a successful career change into science whilst having a young family....read more »
First scanning of near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL)
A research collaboration between the Cockcroft Institute (including its stake holding partners: University of Liverpool Physics department and STFC Daresbury Laboratory’s ASTeC department), the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the National Research Council ISM of Rome Tor Vergata and the Institute of Translational Medicine have recently collected the first scanning near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL) on the ALICE accelerator at Daresbury. ...read more »
DITANET Conference held in Seville, Spain
The DITANET Consortium held a three day international conference on diagnostic techniques for particle accelerators and beam instrumentation in Seville, Spain between 9th and 11th November 2011 ...read more »
£4M EU Project on Laser R&D will be coordinated
by the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool
17 October 2011
The advancement of science and engineering in the past decades is inherently linked to the development of lasers. ...read more »
Postgraduate Conference
6 October 2011
The Cockcroft Institute held its first Postgraduate Conference on the 5th October. Several presentations were given by PhD students from each of the universities on a wide range of topics from advanced electromagnetic theory, simulations of the LHC and other accelerators, and designs of novel types of beam diagnostics. This gave the students the chance to find out about each others work and to present their own work to their peers. ...read more »
Welcome
The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened by the UK Minister for Science, Lord Sainsbury, in September 2006. It is a joint venture between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC at the Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories) and the North West Development Agency (NWDA). The Institute is located in a purpose-built building on the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus adjacent to the Daresbury Laboratory and the Daresbury Innovation Centre, and has established satellite centres in each of the participating universities.
The Institute provides the intellectual focus, educational infrastructure and the essential scientific and technological facilities for accelerator science and technology research and development, which will enable UK scientists and engineers to take a major role in innovating future tools for scientific discoveries and in the conception, design, construction and use of the world’s leading research accelerators for the foreseeable future.
The Institute is named after the Nobel prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft FRS . Born in Todmorden in north west England, and educated in part in Manchester, he is regarded as the pioneer of modern accelerator research.
Cockcroft’s subatomic legacy: splitting the atom (pdf)
This article first appeared in CERN Courier December 2007, and is reprinted with permission.
Amazing particles and light (CERN Courier March 2007)
Accelerators for nano- and biosciences (CERN Courier Oct 2002)
