The Cockcroft Institute

October 23, 2024

EuPRAXIA holds Satellite Meeting during BSBF 2024

EuPRAXIA took centre stage at the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2024, hosting a satellite meeting which showcased its pioneering work in plasma-based accelerators and its critical role in advancing a key new European research infrastructure. The meeting was organized…

October 21, 2024

PhD Successes from Lancaster

Clockwise: Dr Alex Warwick, Dr Dan Turner, Dr Sam Smith and Dr Matt Southerby. The Cockcroft Institute congratulates four of its PhD students who have graduated over the last few months. Dan Turner and Sam Smith passed their PhD viva…

October 16, 2024

New lecturer joins the Cockcroft Institute

Dr Andrea Santamaria Garcia will join the Cockcroft Institute as a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in early 2025. Andrea specialises in machine learning applied to particle accelerators, with the aim of improving the performance of existing accelerators and…

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…