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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…
February 16, 2026

Professor Welsch recognized on the MeetEngland 2025 Roll of Honour

Prof Carsten P Welsch, Head of Accelerator Science at the University of Liverpool and Leader of the QUASAR Group based at the Cockcroft Institute, was presented with a 2026 MeetEngland Impact Network Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in…
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…
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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…