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July 2, 2015

Audience inspired at Laser and Accelerator Showcase

An international Symposium on Lasers and Accelerators for Science & Society took place on the 26th of June in the Liverpool Arena Convention Centre. The Symposium was coordinated by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch of the University of Liverpool and the…
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July 2, 2015

Particle Accelerators for Medicine – a UK Perspective

Particle accelerators have been used for medicine since the earliest days after their invention, and already in 1896 Herbert Jackson realised that the greater energies and superior directionality afforded by accelerated particles could be advantageous over decay radiation for the…
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July 2, 2015

Advanced Researcher Career Skills Workshop

The transition to permanent employment from postgraduate research is a challenging prospect in an ever more competitive job market. The European networks oPAC and LA3NET, both coordinated by the University of Liverpool from the Cockcroft Institute, have held a joint…
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May 17, 2015

Lasers & Accelerators for Science and Society

Particle accelerators have numerous applications across many fields including fundamental research, medicine, electronics, environment and energy. As the limits of performance are reached new methods for particle acceleration and beam optimisation are needed. Lasers will play a key role in the development of accelerators by…
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April 24, 2015

Accelerator experts discuss best training schemes

The annual meeting of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) took place on 23 and 24 April 2015. It was hosted by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch and joined scholars and researchers from across Europe to review the 2015 edition of…
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April 24, 2015

PhD studentship:Ultrafast relativistic electron diffraction

Institution: University College London Dept/School/Faculty: Department of Physics and Astronomy PhD Supervisor: Dr J Underwood Ultrafast electron diffraction (ED) involves observing the changes in the electron diffraction pattern when the time delay between a pump laser pulse and a probing…
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