Events - The Cockcroft Institute

October 1, 2025

Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy Workshop held at the Cockcroft Institute

The 4th workshop on Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy (VHEE-RT) was held at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, UK from 15th – 17th of September 2025. The inaugural workshop was held at the Cockcroft Institute in 2017, with 2nd one…

September 26, 2025

PhotonDiag2025 Conference held in Liverpool

The 7th FELs of Europe PhotonDiag conference took place in Liverpool, UK from 2nd to 4th September 2025. PhotonDiag is the première conference focused on the technical aspects of photon delivery to science experiments on advanced, accelerator-based photon sources and free-electron laser (FEL) sources…

September 24, 2025

Liverpool welcomes record number of delegates to international beam instrumentation conference

The University of Liverpool together with STFC, the Cockcroft Institute and the John Adams Institute has hosted the largest-ever European edition of the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC 2025). The 14th edition of this important event took place on campus…

August 12, 2025

Deepa Angal-Kalinin awarded prize at Particle Accelerator and Beams Conference 2025

On the 9th and 10th of July, the UK’s accelerator community gathered for the UK's flagship annual event: the Particle Accelerator and Beams Conference 2025 (PAB 2025). The hosts for this year’s event were Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and…

July 9, 2025

CI research presented at IPAC’25 in Taipei

The 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’25) was held from 1 - 6 June 2025 at the International Convention Centre and the Taipei World Trade Centre in the bustling metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan. The event was hosted by the National Synchrotron Radiation…

May 7, 2025

Key technologies for next-generation accelerators presented at I.FAST annual meeting

The fourth annual meeting of the EU-funded I.FAST (Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology) project, held in Kraków on 8 -11 April 2025, offered an excellent overview of the breakthroughs in accelerator science that are shaping the future of…

May 2, 2025

Sun shines on exciting launch of “AI & EYES” outreach box

The future of medical technology was brought to life this weekend at the launch of the brand-new outreach box, AI & EYES, developed by the talented team at UK Unplugged and experts from the Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training for…

April 30, 2025

EuPRAXIA-DN Camp on Technologies held in Pisa

The EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network (EuPRAXIA-DN) held a two-day Camp on laser and plasma-related technologies, connecting the latest research and development results in these areas with the challenges related to their integration in a plasma-accelerator-based research infrastructure. The Camp was hosted…

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April 7, 2025

2025 Particle Physics Masterclass

On the 11th and 12th March, ASTeC and the Cockcroft institute hosted the annual Particle Physics Masterclass (PPMC) at Daresbury Laboratory, an event for A-level and GCSE students to give them an introduction to the grand world of particle physics…