The annual Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Conference (CIPGC) was held on the 29th of October 2024 in the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Laboratory. This was a great opportunity for Cockcroft students to showcase the wonderful research conducted within their groups and to have a dissemination experience in a friendly environment.
Throughout the day, there were a total of 15 talks and 13 poster presentations from 43 students representing all areas of research at CI. There was also a working lunch session where participants presented the posters of their work. The presenters were questioned by the audience, and the judging panel was composed of staff representing each CI partner. The panel then judged each presentation against a set of criteria and awarded prizes for the best contributions.
The best talk prize this year was awarded to Patrick Dalton (University of Manchester) for his talk on “Developing Terahertz-Frequency Drivers: Cryogenically-Cooled Lithium Niobate Wafer Stacks for Narrowband High-Energy Terahertz Pulse Generation”. The best poster prize was given to Qiyuan Xu (University of Liverpool), for “Simulated Data-Driven Reconstruction of Transverse Beam Distribution Using Machine Learning” and Conor McFarlane (Lancaster University), for “Higher Order Mode Power in the CERN Double Quarter Wave Crab Cavity SPS Beam Tests”.
The CI postgraduate conference also welcomed contributions from the ASTeC graduate students alongside with students from all four CI universities (Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, and Strathclyde).
