STFC publicise Cockcroft Institute activity in Europe

The role of the Cockcroft Institute and the University of Liverpool in coordinating the LA3NET project and hosting researchers feature in the latest edition of the ‘UK news from CERN’ bulletin. This publication is issued by STFC to showcase UK research activity at CERN to policy makers and the general public. The article ‘Focusing lasers on a new generation of ideas’ describes the LA3NET project in an accessible way including quotes from two LA3NET research fellows, Tom Day Goodacre who is from Manchester and works at CERN and Alexandra Alexandrova who is from Russia and is working at the Cockcroft Institute. The fellows describe their research projects and experiences in the network. These personal views are placed in the broader context of the role of the network in the advancement of particle accelerator science. To view the article follow the link to the latest issue of UK news from CERNhttp://www.stfc.ac.uk/resources/PDF/UKnewsfromCERNIssue14.pdf