The Cockcroft Institute

October 14, 2024

The Cockcroft Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary

The Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology celebrated its 20th birthday on Friday the 20th September 2024 at Daresbury Laboratory. Approximately twenty years ago, accelerator science was re-established in UK universities and this initiative led to the creation of…

October 4, 2024

EuPRAXIA-DN Outreach film recognized at MSCA Coordinator’s Day 2024

Each year the European Commission organizes a briefing day for coordinators of new networks funded within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The main objective of these events is to provide a briefing on the key management and procedural aspects of…

September 27, 2024

£400k awarded for breakthrough imaging research

Cockcroft scientist Professor Carsten P Welsch and experts from his QUASAR Group have secured £400k in funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for their innovative OptiX project. This two-year project, supported under the UK Research and Innovation’s…

September 25, 2024

CI research highlighted by US Department of Energy

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science in the US recently published a highlight, “Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams,” about a CI scientific research paper from the University of Strathclyde. The respective program areas…

September 16, 2024

National Postdoc Appreciation Week

This week is Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW). Science and particularly accelerator physics and engineering research requires dedication, hard work and collaboration. Post doctoral researchers (postdocs) are the life blood of our discipline. They perform much of the day-to-day research tasks,…

August 7, 2024

EVC-17 and ECOSS-37: Pioneering Advances in Vacuum and Surface Science

The joint international 17th European Vacuum Conference (EVC-17) and the 37th European Conference On Surface Science (ECOSS-37) was held from 17 – 21 June 2024 in the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. This combined event also included the…

August 5, 2024

ASTeC Highlights Report Published

The latest ASTeC Highlights Report ,which covers some of the core activities of the Cockcroft Institute, has just been published on the ASTeC website. This report covers two financial years 2021/22 and 2022/23. In the words of ASTeC Director Jim…

July 15, 2024

Professor Welsch contributes to 2024 KoWi Annual Conference on EU Research & Innovation Funding

The 2024 KoWi Annual Conference on EU Research & Innovation Funding with its about 350 participants is at the heart of KoWi’s event schedule every year. The Annual Conference provides an excellent forum for exchanging information and experiences regarding EU…

July 10, 2024

Cockcroft Experts take part in Workshop tackling radiotherapy access in Africa

Cockcroft experts from Lancaster University took part, on the 29th May in a two day Kick-off meeting at CERN for the STELLA project, “Re-engineering the Next Generation of Medical Linear Accelerators for Use in Challenging Environments”. The STELLA project, Smart…