The Cockcroft Institute

Events

May 16, 2018

Cockcroft researchers make major contributions to IPAC18

This year the 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC18) was held in Vancouver, Canada, from April 29 to May 4. IPACis the world’s largest accelerator conference, attracting more than one thousand delegates to present and discuss the latest R&D results in accelerator science. Researchers and…
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April 23, 2018

FCC Week 2018

[caption id="attachment_5264" align="aligncenter" width="600"] José Van Dijk, president of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, opening the FCC Week 2018[/caption] More than 450 participants in the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Study met last week in Amsterdam for its annual collaboration…
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April 4, 2018

Spring 2018 AWAKE Collaboration meeting held at CI

The AWAKE project -- the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator experiment – has just entered Phase 2 of its first Run, due to be completed by the end of 2018. Results from the first year have been overwhelmingly positive.…
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March 26, 2018

Annual Particle Physics Masterclass at Daresbury

[caption id="attachment_5229" align="aligncenter" width="545"] Students being welcomed to the masterclass with an introductory talk on accelerator science at Daresbury.[/caption] Between the 6th and 8th of March the Cockcroft Institute hosted its annual Particle Physics Masterclass (PPMC) at Daresbury Laboratory. The…
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March 21, 2018

High Performance Computing School at Daresbury

From 12th March, LIV.DAT students attended a High Performance Computing (HPC) School partially hosted at the Cockcroft Institute and organized by the University of Liverpool and LJMU. The four-day programme introduced fellows to the cutting edge facilities available and the…
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February 14, 2018

Meeting of the PERLE Collaboration at Daresbury

January 15th and 16th saw the evolving Collaboration on the PERLE project discussing its status and plans towards building a new class of energy recovery linac (ERL) at Orsay, at a meeting jointly organised by Daresbury (Deepa Angal-Kalinin and colleagues)…
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January 28, 2018

CI pioneers novel media training for researchers

From 15th-19th January 2018, Fellows from the Cockcroft Institute-led AVA network attended a Media Training at one of the UK’s premium creative hubs, MediaCityUK. AVA is a new European Union-funded network between universities, research centres such as CERN, and industry.…
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