The Cockcroft Institute

October 2, 2009

News Items October 2009

14 October 2009 England's Northwest press release 12 October 2009 interactions.org press release 11 October 2009 Eminent early accelerator physicist, Prof. A.V. Crewe, Director Emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory, USA and graduate from Univ. of Liverpool dies at 82 years…

September 6, 2009

New Items September 2009

22 -23 September Meeting of the DITANET Steering Committee The third meeting of the DITANET Steering Committee was hosted by the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology on September 22nd and 23rd. The delegates from Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Spain,…

August 29, 2009

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July 11, 2009

News Items July 2009

4 July Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition “The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition has just closed, and I feel absolutely shattered, hoarse from talking, and yet strangely sad to see the end of such a fabulous week”, said Lee Jones…

June 9, 2009

News Items June 2009

30 June Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition On Tuesday June 30th, the annual Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition opens at the Royal Society in London. BBC News Link [toggle_box] [toggle_item title="Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition" active="false"] In a wide-ranging collaboration, STFC…

May 4, 2009

News Items May 2009

15 May Lord Drayson of Kensington visit Lord Drayson of Kensington, Minister of State for Science and Innovation visited the ALICE facility. 4 May University of Lancaster and the Cockcroft Institute The University of Lancaster and the Cockcroft…

April 6, 2009

News Items April 2009

New Record for GaAs Quantum Efficiency at Daresbury! This week a team of scientists and engineers from Daresbury (Ian Burrows, Ryan Cash, Barry Fell, Adrian Hannah, Lee Jones, Keith Middleman, Boris Militsyn and Mark Pendleton) in collaboration with…

January 6, 2009

News Items January 2009

27th January The Chief Executive Officer Robert Kirby-Harris of the Institute of Physics and Director General of Research Councils, Professor Adrian Smith visited the Cockcroft institute and took a tour of ALICE. on February 12, 2009. The Chief Executive Officer…

December 13, 2008

News Item December 2008

13 December At 02:00 on 13/12/08, the commissioning team successfully demonstrated energy recovery in the ALICE R&D facility. The team are now looking forward to exploiting this facility to further our understanding of the challenges of next generation light sources…