29 April
Jim Clarke (Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group Leader) has been awarded the honour of Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
28 April
CI Director Swapan Chattopadhyay has been elected to the American Physical Society’s Division of Physics of Beams, the first such Chair from outside USA.
Chair-line, 2007-2010: Vice Chair, Chair-elect, Chair and Past Chair
28 April
Three invited talks have been solicited from Cockcroft in the International Particle Accelerator Conference 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.
21 
April
SciTech08
View a selection of photographs of the CI presentations taken during SciTech08 at the Barbican, London on the 17 th April 2008.
15 April 2008
Matter, Anti-matter and MICE
“Prof. Ken Long of Imperial College, a Special Affiliate of Cockcroft Institute and a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool speaks of the first successful milestone achieved in connection with the MICE experiment, designed to decipher matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe by observing behaviour of neutrinos… “
…read the full article at www.interactions.org
10 April
New Light Source Project LaunchN
Cockcroft Institute staff are playing a lead role in developing technologies that will enable a next generation light source in the UK. On the 11th April at the Royal Society, the UK Government will launch a project (www.newlightsource.org)to investigate the case for a next generation light source (NLS).[toggle_box]
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Cockcroft Institute staff are playing a lead role in developing technologies that will enable a next generation light source in the UK.
On the 11th April at the Royal Society, the UK Government will launch a project (www.newlightsource.org) to investigate the case for a next generation light source (NLS). Such a source would produce pulses of light so short – just a few femtoseconds in length – that it could “make videos” of chemical reactions as they actually happen. Potential applications are almost limitless; from finding out how biomolecules cause life-threatening diseases, to helping develop new types of clean energy production, and for developing higher-capacity computer memory.
Cockcroft Institute staff are already addressing the technological challenges of a new light source; they have designed and are now commissioning a prototype particle accelerator called ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments) at STFC Daresbury Laboratory. The team draw on Daresbury’s long experience at the forefront of accelerator science, including nearly 30 years of success on the SRS and the design of the DIAMOND light source. ALICE is a testbed for key technologies needed for a next light source, including high brightness photoinjectors, superconducting RF acceleration, and electron bunch compression. Additionally, exploitation of the photons produced will contribute to understanding the scientific potential of a new light source.
Cockcroft Institute staff were also instrumental in the Fourth Generation Light Source (4GLS) technical design, the excellence of which was internationally recognised and will be a key resource for NLS.
The Cockcroft Institute will work with the NLS project team headed by Jon Marangos of Imperial College and the Photon Research Institute headed by Justin Wark of Oxford University as well as STFC Daresbury and Rutherford Laboratories and Diamond Light Source Ltd. to produce an accelerator design for this world-leading project.[/toggle_item]
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2 April
Minister of State for Science and Innovation visits CI
Cockcroft Institute Director Swapan Chattopadhyay meets Science Minister Ian Pearson on his visit to Daresbury Laboratory.
left to right: Prof. Chattopadhyay, Graeme Burt, Helen Southworth, Mike Hall, Keith Mason, Ian Pearson M.P.
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2 April
Newsnight Interview
Director Swapan Chattopadhyay was today interviewed by Susan Watts, science editor of BBC TWO’s Newsnight programme. The interview will be broadcast early next week.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7338666.stm)