The Cockcroft Institute

Events

January 29, 2015 AWAKE-UK

AWAKE-UK Collaboration met at the Cockcroft Institute

The annual meeting of the AWAKE-UK collaboration was hosted by Prof. Carsten Welsch at the Cockcroft Institute on Wednesday, 28 January 2015. Prof. Matthew Wing from UCL, spokesman of the collaboration, opened the meeting with an update on the status…
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December 9, 2014

The EU Project TEAM Training Day

[caption id="attachment_1740" align="alignright" width="300"] Rob Ashworth and Samina Faisal presenting[/caption] The EU Project TEAM from the QUASAR Group at the University of Liverpool, based at the Cockcroft Institute, organized a full day training event on European-funded project administration for institutions…
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December 1, 2014

CI GradFest 2014

[caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignright" width="300"] CI GradFest 2014[/caption] The Cockcroft Institute held it's annual GradFest on November 27th where many of the Cockcroft Institute's PhD students presented their work to each other and the rest of the institute.The talks spanned activities…
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November 21, 2014 Scientists Go Industry

Career paths for next generation researchers

  [caption id="attachment_1374" align="alignright" width="575"] Scientists Go Industry[/caption] Scientists Go Industry workshop The brainchild of the early stage researcher fellows from the LA³NET project, the Scientists Go Industry workshop was designed to explore the career options for post-doctoral level researchers.…
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October 15, 2014

Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Meeting

  Lancaster recently played a lead role in the kick-off meeting for a new engineering network linking the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and the Institute of Physics (IoP). The group brings together all…
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July 14, 2014

Accelerator Experts go to School

A week-long oPAC advanced School on Accelerator Optimization took place from 7th to 11th July 2014. The event was hosted by Royal Holloway University of London (UK) and was joined by around 80 delegates from across Europe. The School covered accelerator optimization through beam…
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