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December 1, 2020

FCC November workshop 2020 (FCC NoW)

The 2020 FCC November meeting took place between Monday, 9 to Friday, 13 November. The event reviewed the most recent developments of the concepts for the next generation of colliders that were laid out in the 2019 Conceptual Design Report. The…
November 27, 2020

CI welcomes new cohort of students

2020 has been a difficult year but that hasn't stopped our new cohort of PhD students beginning their studies with us this autumn. While they haven't been able to join us at Daresbury yet, they are all hard at work…
November 16, 2020

The Economics of Big Science

Investment in science – whether in education and training or through public funding for developing new research tools and technologies – is crucial for progress. In a book that was just published as part of Springer’s Science Policy Reports, authors…
November 12, 2020

PhD students engage in online training on Data Intensive Science

Welcome talk by Prof. Carsten Welsch and Prof. Philip James. Earlier this year the Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data Intensive Science (LIV.DAT) was awarded 60k£ funding to organise the 2020 STFC Data Intensive Summer School. For one week,…
November 10, 2020

EIC Collaboration Workshop

The Electron-Ion Collider will be a powerful new billion dollar scale facility in the United States, hosted at the Brookhaven National Lab, constructed with the aim of studying Gluons, particles which bind all the observable matter in the world around us.…
November 5, 2020

Physica Medica Focus Issue published

Physica Medica, European Journal of Medical Physics, provides an international forum for research and reviews in areas such as medical imaging, radiation therapy, as well as education and training in medical physics. The journal has just published a Focus Issue…
November 3, 2020

Antimatter network AVA reviews project successes

Participants at the final AVA Supervisory Board meeting. (Image: University of Liverpool) In January 2017 the 4M€ EU-funded Accelerators Validating Antimatter (AVA) network, coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool, was launched with a Kick-off Meeting in Liverpool where representatives…
October 30, 2020

Future Circular Collider film wins Silver in W3 Awards

On 6th October 2020 the Winners of the 15​th annual w3​ ​Awards have been  announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. Receiving over 3,000 entries  from across the globe, the w3​ ​Awards honour outstanding Websites, Marketing, Video, Mobile, …
October 14, 2020

New paper on pioneering new cancer radiotherapy

FLASH radiotherapy is a promising new technique that uses high-energy particles to treat tumours; a high dose of radiation is administered almost instantaneously - in milliseconds rather than around a minute. Here, the tumour tissue is damaged in the same…