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.…
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…
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…
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…
The latest ASTeC Highlights Report ,which covers some of the core activities of the Cockcroft Institute, has just been published on the ASTeC website. This report covers two financial years…
The 2024 KoWi Annual Conference on EU Research & Innovation Funding with its about 350 participants is at the heart of KoWi’s event schedule every year. The Annual Conference provides…
Cockcroft experts from Lancaster University took part, on the 29th May in a two day Kick-off meeting at CERN for the STELLA project, “Re-engineering the Next Generation of Medical Linear…
The 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’24) was held as a fully in-person event from 19 – 24May 2024 at the Music City Centre located in the heart of downtown…
Between 16 – 19 April, the European particle accelerator community gathered in Paris for the 3rd annual meeting of the I.FAST project. Funded with 10 M€ by the European Union…