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September 25, 2015

Cockcroft Institute Particle Accelerator School

On the 9th of November Cockcroft will host the 2nd CI particle accelerator school (CIPAS). CIPAS is a two week residential postgraduate course for UK PhD students, on the design of particle accelerators with a strong computational design emphasis. CIPAS…
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September 9, 2015

POSIPOL 2015 Conference

Between September 2-4 2015 the Cockcroft Institute hosted the tenth international 'POSIPOL' workshop  on polarised postitron sources. Researchers from Europe, Asia and America met to discuss the latest developments in intense positron and gamma-ray sources for future linear colliders and related projects.…
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April 2, 2015

The Daresbury Laboratory Particle Physics Masterclass 2015

[caption id="attachment_2574" align="alignleft" width="300"] Students discover the ‘power of vacuum' using a pair of Magdeburg Spheres[2] , supervised by Penny Jones of Withington Girls School 6th form (‘graduate’ of the 2014 Masterclass)[/caption]Daresbury Laboratory held its Particle Physics Masterclass over 3 days…
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AWAKE-UK
January 29, 2015

AWAKE-UK Collaboration met at the Cockcroft Institute

The annual meeting of the AWAKE-UK collaboration was hosted by Prof. Carsten Welsch at the Cockcroft Institute on Wednesday, 28 January 2015. Prof. Matthew Wing from UCL, spokesman of the collaboration, opened the meeting with an update on the status…
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December 1, 2014

CI GradFest 2014

[caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignright" width="300"] CI GradFest 2014[/caption] The Cockcroft Institute held it's annual GradFest on November 27th where many of the Cockcroft Institute's PhD students presented their work to each other and the rest of the institute.The talks spanned activities…
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Cryo-Ops Group
November 18, 2014

Cryo-Ops 2014 6th International Workshop on Cryogenic Operations

From discovering Higgs Bosons at the LHC or providing ultralow temperature environment for the experiments with ISIS neutrons, one of the key technologies that must be employed reliably is CRYOGENICS. A major fraction of the construction and operational budget, particularly…
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June 12, 2014

Training the trainers: complementary skills workshop at the Cockcroft

During the delivery of European projects DITANET, LA3NET and oPAC which were all coordinated from the Cockcroft Institute a novel complementary skills training programme was developed by Prof. Carsten Welsch. Training in transferable skills that complement the technical research activities…
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June 11, 2014

First EnEfficient RF Sources Workshop

The first EnEfficient RF Sources workshop took place at the Cockcroft Institute on the 3-4th June. Over 40 delegates took part in the 2 day workshop including 18 speakers presenting the state of the art (and beyond) of RF sources…
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April 3, 2014

The Daresbury Laboratory Particle Physics Masterclass 2014

Daresbury Laboratory held its Particle Physics Masterclass over 3 days at the end March, with a record-breaking attendance of more than 330 students and 20 teachers from schools as far away as Conway and Wakefield. The event was organised and…
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