Events - The Cockcroft Institute

December 2, 2022

Annual Postgraduate Conference held at CI

The annual Cockroft Institute Postgraduate Conference (CIPGC) was held on the 15th of November 2022 in the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Laboratory. The CIPGC is an important annual event for all CI postgraduates and it provides a platform for…

September 28, 2022

First IoP Particle Accelerator and Beam Group conference held in Liverpool

The first Institute of Physics (IoP) Particle Accelerator and Beams Group (PABG) annual conference was held at the University of Liverpool on 25th and 26th July. The PABG had previously held an annual one day meeting but this was the…

September 7, 2022

31st International Linear Accelerator Conference LINAC2022 delivered in Liverpool

LINAC2022, the first LINAC conference being held in-person since Beijing in 2018 was hosted by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Cockcroft Institute (CI) and the John Adams Institute (JAI) at the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) in…

July 18, 2022

Daresbury Laboratory celebrates 60 years of inspirational science

As Daresbury Laboratory celebrates 60 years at the cutting edge of science and innovation, it looks towards a future of milestone breakthroughs, inspiration and job creation, benefitting our economy and society. Since 1962, Daresbury Laboratory has pushed the boundaries of…

July 15, 2022

The Star Wars universe takes over Lymm Festival 2022

On 29 June 2022, the Star Wars universe came to Lymm Festival, a local summer festival, bringing families and friends together in a variety of organised events. In this sold-out evening event, Prof Carsten Welsch, Head of the Liverpool Physics…

June 29, 2022

Strong delegation of CI experts at IPAC’22 in the “Land of Smile”

The 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’22) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 12-17 June 2022 at IMPACT Exhibition and Convention Centre, hosted by the Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI). It was the first in-person IPAC after two years of…

June 22, 2022

Cockcroft researcher joins forces with WHPC for the return to international in-persons events at ISC’22

Thanks to the efforts of Cockcroft Institute and Lancaster University researcher Elisabetta Boella, WHPC hosted attendee events and a half-day workshop focused on creating a diverse and inclusive community with High Performance Computing (HPC). After two years of digital events,…

June 20, 2022

Registration now open for the IOP PABG Annual Conference

The IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams Group (PABG) invite the community to a new, in person only, two-day Annual Conference, to take place on July 25 and 26, at the University of Liverpool. This will be the UK’s premier national event in…

June 6, 2022

New data science CDT officially launched

More than 100 experts joined the kick-off meeting of the new STFC Centre for Doctoral Training for Innovation in Data Intensive Science (LIV.INNO) on Tuesday, 24 May 2022. The event was chaired by Prof Carsten Welsch, LIV.INNO Director and Head…