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April 1, 2015

Workshop and International Conference organized by the Cockcroft Institute

The Cockcroft Institute-coordinated project LA3NET delivered a workshop on Beam Diagnostics and an International Conference on Laser Applications at Accelerators between 23-27 March on Mallorca, Spain. The workshop discussed the current state-of-the-art and future trends in optical diagnostics for charged…
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March 18, 2015

Computer-aided Optimization of Accelerators

The oPAC network, coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute, has organised a three-day long workshop on Computer-Aided optimisation of Accelerators (CAoPAC) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany from 10 – 13 March 2015. oPAC is…
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March 3, 2015

And the Oscar goes to…

Particle accelerators are a key technology for many different research areas: they enable scientific discoveries through ‘particle smashers’ such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, new ways to beat cancer through ion beam cancer therapy, and are the basis…
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February 18, 2015

VIP tour of CERN

Lancaster's Vice-Chancellor, Mark E. Smith, was given a VIP tour of CERN last December, in order to see some of the exciting research being done by Lancaster and Cockcroft staff at CERN. The visit included a tour of CMS (Compact…
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February 4, 2015

PhD Vacancies at the Cockcroft Institute

The Cockcroft Institute is delighted to announce several PhD project opportunities for start in October 2015. Candidates have the possibility to work on experimental or theoretical topics in one or several of the following fields: Development of innovative beam diagnostic…
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AWAKE-UK
January 29, 2015

AWAKE-UK Collaboration met at the Cockcroft Institute

The annual meeting of the AWAKE-UK collaboration was hosted by Prof. Carsten Welsch at the Cockcroft Institute on Wednesday, 28 January 2015. Prof. Matthew Wing from UCL, spokesman of the collaboration, opened the meeting with an update on the status…
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December 9, 2014

The EU Project TEAM Training Day

[caption id="attachment_1740" align="alignright" width="300"] Rob Ashworth and Samina Faisal presenting[/caption] The EU Project TEAM from the QUASAR Group at the University of Liverpool, based at the Cockcroft Institute, organized a full day training event on European-funded project administration for institutions…
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December 1, 2014

CI GradFest 2014

[caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignright" width="300"] CI GradFest 2014[/caption] The Cockcroft Institute held it's annual GradFest on November 27th where many of the Cockcroft Institute's PhD students presented their work to each other and the rest of the institute.The talks spanned activities…
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Scientists Go Industry
November 21, 2014

Career paths for next generation researchers

  [caption id="attachment_1374" align="alignright" width="575"] Scientists Go Industry[/caption] Scientists Go Industry workshop The brainchild of the early stage researcher fellows from the LA³NET project, the Scientists Go Industry workshop was designed to explore the career options for post-doctoral level researchers.…
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