The Cockcroft Institute

External Events

August 15, 2023

Vacuum Symposium attracts visitors from across the UK

The 12th UK Vacuum symposium was held on 13th and 14th June 2023 at Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK drawing nearly 100 visitors. The UK’s premier vacuum technology event is now in its 12th year attracting both academia and industry, highlighting…
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August 15, 2023 Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Annual Meeting 2023

Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Annual Meeting 2023

The Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced that this year the Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Annual Meeting will take place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford on the 6th October. The particle accelerator engineering network is a unique…
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July 10, 2023

Upside down – The Science of Stranger Things

In a small town where everyone knows everyone, right next to a mysterious laboratory, a peculiar event about supernatural powers, parallel dimensions and portals to another world, mesmerized the audience. Prof Carsten Welsch returned to Lymm Festival on 28 June…
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April 21, 2023

LIV.INNO School boosts students’ career skills

In addition to the cutting-edge research realized in the Centre for Doctoral Training, the LIV.INNO training programme is designed to address a wide range of important skills, including project management, networking, communication and presentation skills, with the aim to provide…
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April 5, 2023

Liverpool’s Class of 1966 visits Daresbury

Hosted by Prof Carsten P Welsch (University of Liverpool) and Peter McIntosh (STFC/ASTeC), the University of Liverpool’s physics class of 1966 (!) were given a special VIP tour of Daresbury Laboratory on Thursday, 30 March 2023. Participants first learned about…
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March 22, 2023

AWAKE-UK Collaboration met in Liverpool

On 17 March 2023, the AWAKE UK collaboration held its bi-annual meeting at Novotel Liverpool Paddington Village to discuss the status of the project and progress made across the various work packages and tasks. In-person participants of the AWAKE-UK collaboration…
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