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…
Researchers at Daresbury, including members of the Cockcroft Institute, are a key part of the delivery of the FermiLab led Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project. The expertise in testing…
The 10th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network annual meeting took place at the Cockcroft Institute on the 6th September The network was jointly created by the IET, IMechE, IoP and STFC…
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…
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 on 27 June. They…
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 Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology celebrated its 20th birthday on Friday the 20th September 2024 at Daresbury Laboratory. Approximately twenty years ago, accelerator science was re-established in…
Each year the European Commission organizes a briefing day for coordinators of new networks funded within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The main objective of these events is to provide…
Cockcroft scientist Professor Carsten P Welsch and experts from his QUASAR Group have secured £400k in funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for their innovative OptiX project.…