The Cockcroft Institute

External Events

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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March 27, 2014

EIC14 – An International Workshop on Accelerator Acience and Technology for Electron-ion Colliders

[caption id="attachment_740" align="aligncenter" width="400"] EICgroup[/caption] On 17th -21st March, Peter Williams, senior physicist in ASTeC’s accelerator physics group attended EIC14, an international workshop on accelerator science and technology for electron-ion colliders, at Jefferson Lab, Virginia, USA. http://www.jlab.org/conferences/eic2014/index.html An electron-ion collider is…
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March 15, 2014 CI_Outreach

The Big Bang 2014

[caption id="attachment_1208" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Big Bang 2014[/caption]   Over 4 days in March, the National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham played host to the 'Big BangFair', the UK's largest science, engineering and technology fair. The fair was visited by more…
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