The Cockcroft Institute | Internal Events

May 21, 2018

Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment Summer School

Cockcroft will be hosting the first of hopefully many summer schools as part of the Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment doctoral training centre starting on Tuesday 22nd May and running for two weeks. The school focuses on smaller…

April 4, 2018

Spring 2018 AWAKE Collaboration meeting held at CI

The AWAKE project -- the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator experiment – has just entered Phase 2 of its first Run, due to be completed by the end of 2018. Results from the first year have been overwhelmingly positive.…

March 26, 2018

Annual Particle Physics Masterclass at Daresbury

[caption id="attachment_5229" align="aligncenter" width="545"] Students being welcomed to the masterclass with an introductory talk on accelerator science at Daresbury.[/caption] Between the 6th and 8th of March the Cockcroft Institute hosted its annual Particle Physics Masterclass (PPMC) at Daresbury Laboratory. The…

March 21, 2018

High Performance Computing School at Daresbury

From 12th March, LIV.DAT students attended a High Performance Computing (HPC) School partially hosted at the Cockcroft Institute and organized by the University of Liverpool and LJMU. The four-day programme introduced fellows to the cutting edge facilities available and the…

February 14, 2018

Meeting of the PERLE Collaboration at Daresbury

January 15th and 16th saw the evolving Collaboration on the PERLE project discussing its status and plans towards building a new class of energy recovery linac (ERL) at Orsay, at a meeting jointly organised by Daresbury (Deepa Angal-Kalinin and colleagues)…

February 9, 2018

First ‘Intelligent Controls for Particle Accelerators Workshop’ Hosted at Daresbury

[caption id="attachment_5183" align="aligncenter" width="729"] Delegates attending the ICPA workshop (image STFC)[/caption] The first Intelligent Controls for Particle Accelerators workshop was held at Daresbury Laboratory, Tuesday-Wednesday 30th-31st January 2018. The goal of the workshop was to ferment cooperation and discuss future…

November 27, 2017

Postgraduate Conference 2017

The 6th annual CI Postgraduate Conference was held on 3rd November 2017 at the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Lab. It attracted 40 postgraduates and academics from all four CI Universities (Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde) and ASTeC. CI Director,…

November 13, 2017

New doctoral training centre ASHE launched at CI

The Cockcroft Institute has recently been awarded funding for a new doctoral training centre from STFC which had its first kick-off meeting on the 8th November. The Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and Environment (ASHE) project has a number of PhD…

July 14, 2017

UK XFEL Accelerator Technology Programme Kicks Off

More than 60 members of the UK accelerator community gathered at Daresbury Laboratory on 4th July 2017 to officially launch the UK XFEL Underpinning Accelerator and FEL Technology Programme. Members of ASTeC, Cockcroft Institute, Diamond Light Source and John Adams…