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November 3, 2017

Physicists take their science to the visually impaired

The Cockcroft Institute is delivering a brand-new exhibit to give blind and partially sighted people throughout the UK the opportunity to experience the amazing science of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Tactile Collider is a first-of-its kind project and includes specially designed activities,…
November 3, 2017

New Big Data Science training initiative led by Cockcroft expert

The University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University have been awarded £1million for a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in data intensive science (LIVDAT). The award is part of £10million investment from the Science and Technology Facilities Council…
October 25, 2017

Cockcroft Member awarded Fellowship of The American Physical Society

Dr William Bertsche, lecturer with the Accelerator Physics group of the University of Manchester School of Physics and Astronomy and the Cockcroft Institute, has just been awarded a Fellowship of The American Physical Society (APS) for seminal contributions to the…
October 16, 2017

Cockcroft 120 Challenge

Earlier in the year we announced the Cockcroft 120 Challenge – a science communication competition to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft. We asked schools to conduct their own high voltage experiment and to create a…
October 6, 2017

Revealed: How to build a particle accelerator in a salad bowl

One of the most popular experiments performed during the Workshops on Accelerator Science for teenagers organised by the Quasar Group in Daresbury last year was the “salad bowl accelerator”.  This easy-to-build device employs the electrostatic potential created by a Van…
September 22, 2017

Erasmus students visit Daresbury Laboratory

A delegation of 40 sixth-form international students and teachers visited Daresbury Laboratory on Tuesday 19th September. The children were participating in an Erasmus project titled “Moving forward in Hi Tech” organised between schools in Turkey, Spain, UK, Italy and Holland.…
September 18, 2017

CI at INTERACT Symposium

[caption id="attachment_4925" align="alignleft" width="169"] Dr Chris Edmonds at INTERACT 2017.[/caption] QUASAR Group members Dr Chris Edmonds and Dr Ricardo Torres, of the Cockcroft Institute and University of Liverpool, went to Birmingham on 14th September to participate in the INTERACT Symposium. INTERACT…