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The Cockcroft Institute

Devoted to the development and construction of particle accelerators and intense sources of radiation for pure and applied research.

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October 23, 2024

EuPRAXIA holds Satellite Meeting during BSBF 2024

EuPRAXIA took centre stage at the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2024, hosting a satellite meeting which showcased its pioneering work in plasma-based accelerators and its critical role in advancing a key new European research infrastructure. The meeting was organized…
October 21, 2024

PhD Successes from Lancaster

Clockwise: Dr Alex Warwick, Dr Dan Turner, Dr Sam Smith and Dr Matt Southerby. The Cockcroft Institute congratulates four of its PhD students who have graduated over the last few months. Dan Turner and Sam Smith passed their PhD viva…
October 16, 2024

New lecturer joins the Cockcroft Institute

Dr Andrea Santamaria Garcia will join the Cockcroft Institute as a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in early 2025. Andrea specialises in machine learning applied to particle accelerators, with the aim of improving the performance of existing accelerators and…
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The Cockcroft Institute is a partnership between the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, devoted to the development and construction of particle accelerators and intense sources of radiation for pure and applied research.

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