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External Events

July 8, 2019

Accelerator science showcased at international Symposium

Particle accelerators have numerous applications across many fields including fundamental research, healthcare, electronics, environment and energy, but despite the vast benefits of accelerators for our everyday life the whole research area is still pretty much unknown to the majority of…
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June 17, 2019

CI experts at IPAC’19

The world’s largest conference on particle accelerators (IPAC’19) took place from 19 to 24 of May in the Australian city of Melbourne. Over 1,000 delegates from five continents gathered in the Melbourne Exhibition Centre to hear the latest advances in…
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March 28, 2019

How fundamental science is changing our world

The Symposium "Particle Colliders - Accelerating Innovation" took place at Arena and Convention Centre Liverpool. Fundamental science benefits society in many ways, from generating knowledge about how our universe works, to enabling unexpected and often transformative applications. Particle accelerators have…
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February 15, 2019

Accelerator designers met at GSI to discuss facility optimization

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) and the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) rings are unique facilities at CERN designed to trap, store and facilitate antimatter research. They help scientists understand fundamental properties of antimatter and to advance fundamental scientific knowledge. ELENA…
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January 11, 2019

3rd OMA Topical Workshop held at GSI

Participants at the 3rd OMA Topical Workshop at GSI. A workshop on Medical Accelerator Design and Diagnostics was held at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, on 10th - 12th December, 2018. Speakers discussed the latest developments in technology for beam monitoring in medical accelerators. The…
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December 10, 2018

EuPRAXIA holds its third yearly meeting in Frascati

The EuPRAXIA consortium, of which the University of Liverpool is one of the main partners, held its third Yearly Meeting, followed by two and a half days of collaboration meetings, at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, in Frascati (Italy)…
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