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May 12, 2026

Members of Cockcroft Institute join PACRI annual meeting in Lisbon

The PACRI (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) project held its first annual meeting at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal from 24th to 26th March.  With more than €10 million funding from the European Union and…
May 4, 2026

RL4AA’26 Workshop hosted in Liverpool

Participants at the RL4AA'26 workshop The fourth edition of the Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA’26) workshop was held in Liverpool from 30th March to 1st April 2026 as a LIV.INNO workshop. The workshop also received sponsorship from the Cockcroft Institute and Radiasoft.…
April 27, 2026

EuPRAXIA Gains Momentum at High-Level Brussels Event

Leading representatives from European institutions - from the European Commission to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) - together with stakeholders from research, industry, and funding agencies gathered on 23 April in Brussels, at the Foundation University, for…
January 26, 2026

IPAC’26 Scientific Program Committee meets in Liverpool

The University of Liverpool's QUASAR Group hosted an important planning meeting for the IPAC’26 Scientific Program Committee (SPC) in Liverpool from 14 - 15 January. Participants at the IPAC 2026 SPC meeting in Liverpool. The event was held at the…
January 23, 2026

IBIC 2025 Conference Proceedings published online

The International Beam Instrumentation Conference 2025 (IBIC 2025) was held from 7th to 10th September 2025 at the University of Liverpool. We are pleased to announce that the final conference proceedings have now been published and are available online at…
December 10, 2025

UK-CERN accelerator celebration day

As one of the founding members of CERN, the UK has a long history of contributing to its physics and engineering projects. In recognition of recent successes in UK-CERN accelerator science and engineering, the community came together on 26 November…
November 6, 2025

CI Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025

This year’s Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025 took place on the 15th October at Daresbury Laboratory. Participants at this year’s CI Postgraduate Conference. Students from across the Institute presented their work in three talk sessions and a poster session,…