The Cockcroft Institute

October 16, 2015

Cockcroft Institute awarded 4 M€ in EU Funding to Battle Cancer

Cancer is a major health problem and it is the main cause of death between the ages of 45 - 65. Although significant progress has been made in the use of particle beams for cancer treatment, extensive research is still…

October 14, 2015

CI-led oPAC network holds accelerator conference in Seville

[caption id="attachment_3071" align="alignright" width="206"] One of the oPAC fellows, Daria Astapovych, presents her work on the Large Hadron Collider.[/caption] The Marie Curie Initial Training Network oPAC – Optimization of Particle Accelerators, coordinated by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch and his EU…

October 4, 2015

Academic Training Programme 2015-2016

Autumn Term Lecture Poster 2015-2016.pdf

September 25, 2015

Beam Diagnostics – Down Under

Between 13-17 September 2015 beam diagnostics experts from around the world gathered i n Melbourne, Australia for the International Beam Instrumentation Conference IBIC. IBIC is an established annual conference series that gathers the world's beam instrumentation community. The event is…

September 25, 2015

Cockcroft Institute Particle Accelerator School

On the 9th of November Cockcroft will host the 2nd CI particle accelerator school (CIPAS). CIPAS is a two week residential postgraduate course for UK PhD students, on the design of particle accelerators with a strong computational design emphasis. CIPAS…

September 25, 2015

CI Researchers Presented at EAAC15

The 2nd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (EAAC15) was held between 13th -19th September 2015 on the island of Elba in Italy. Cockcroft researchers Yuri Saveliev, Kieran Hanahoe and Guoxing Xia attended the workshop and presented results on novel acceleration schemes…

September 24, 2015

Rutherford International Fellowship Programme – deadline 31 October 2015

Apply now for a Rutherford International Fellowship CI partner ASTeC is pleased to be part of the Rutherford International Fellowship Programme and encourages eligible researchers to participate. Individuals with at least 4 years of research experience or a PhD can…

September 9, 2015

POSIPOL 2015 Conference

Between September 2-4 2015 the Cockcroft Institute hosted the tenth international 'POSIPOL' workshop on polarised postitron sources. Researchers from Europe, Asia and America met to discuss the latest developments in intense positron and gamma-ray sources for future linear colliders and related projects.…

September 7, 2015

First UK In-Kind Contribution to ESS Successfully Installed and Commissioned

The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the brightest neutron source in the world and will be built in Lund, Sweden. The project will be funded by Sweden and multiple other European nations. The UK as part of its commitment…