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All rights reserved. webmaster@stfc.ac.uk Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:14:11 GMT Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:14:11 GMT Sleipnir v2 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://www.stfc.ac.uk/images/logo144.jpg http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC 144 36 A team of scientists, led by the University of Liverpool, has made a major advance in the development of a diagnostic test for oesophageal cancer. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38403.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38403.aspx Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:14:00 GMT On 16 - 20 January 2011, Tim Noakes and Julian McKenzie attended the USPAS (United States Particle Accelerator School) on Cathode Physics held in Austin, Texas http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38382.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38382.aspx Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:08:00 GMT ASTeC staff participated in the "Proton accelerators for science and innovation" workshop that was held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on the 12th to 14th January 2012 to bring together leading members of the user, developer, and 'consumer' communities from the UK and the US http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38325.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38325.aspx Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:27:00 GMT Landmark technology that could revolutionise cancer therapy and pave the way for cleaner, safer nuclear reactors in the future, has been published in Nature Physics today, 8 January 2012. The pioneering EMMA (Electron Model for Many Applications) accelerator is a prototype for a brand new type of particle accelerator that will massively impact fundamental science by changing the way such accelerators across the world are designed and built in the future http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38257.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38257.aspx Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:15:00 GMT The biggest single event of its kind in the country, The Big Bang Fair moves to Birmingham for 2012. An award-winning combination of exciting theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits delivered by household names, together with careers information provided by a wide range of people already working in the field, The Big Bang Fair enables young people to see science and engineering in a new light. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/Events/38222.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/Events/38222.aspx Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:26:00 GMT Proposals are now invited for projects to exploit the photon sources on ALICE during the ASTeC-funded operations in 2012. Proposals should be made using the accompanying pro forma for the period from 1st April to 31st August 2012 and sent by email to greg.diakun@stfc.ac.uk by 14th February 2012. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38215.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38215.aspx Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:44:00 GMT A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed this week between STFC and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in order to formally recognise the establishment of a coordinated research effort contributing towards the success of the SwissFEL X-ray light source http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38209.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38209.aspx Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:02:00 GMT Brussels was buzzing last week with around 1200 policy makers, CEOs, top researchers and innovators who gathered for the first ever European Commission Innovation Convention http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/Events/38202.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/Events/38202.aspx Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:20:00 GMT The Cockcroft Institute recently co-hosted, in conjunction with CERN, a workshop on the "Accelerator-driven Production of Medical Isotopes" on 8-9 December 2011. This unique event brought together some 60 attendees including world-leading scientists and engineers, specialist clinicians and key global technology suppliers in an open forum to discuss some of the challenges faced in meeting Europe's future isotope supply needs http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38164.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38164.aspx Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:34:00 GMT A research collaboration between the Cockcroft Institute (including its stake holding partners: University of Liverpool Physics department and STFC Daresbury Laboratory's ASTeC department), the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the National Research Council ISM of Rome Tor Vergata and the Institute of Translational Medicine have recently collected the first scanning near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL) on the ALICE accelerator at Daresbury http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38145.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38145.aspx Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:55:00 GMT The weekend of the 26th November saw the delivery of a photoinjector gun and associated hardware to Daresbury Laboratory http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38061.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38061.aspx Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:12:00 GMT Professor Dirk van Delft, Director of the Museum Boerhaave, the Dutch National museum for the history of science and medicine, located in Leiden, was on a two day visit to STFC to mark the closing ceremony of the centennial celebrations of the discovery of superconductivity http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38032.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/38032.aspx Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:37:00 GMT ASTeC has a long-standing collaborative agreement with the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP) at Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/37928.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/37928.aspx Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:36:00 GMT The successful demonstration of a helical superconducting undulator for generating positrons that was recently published in Physical Review Letters (link opens in a new window) has been highlighted by the Institute of Physics website physicsworld.com (link opens in a new window) http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/37890.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/37890.aspx Fri, 4 Nov 2011 19:03:35 GMT ASTeC physicists Jim Clarke and Duncan Scott have had a paper published in Physical Review Letters. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/37750.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/ASTeC/News+and+events/News/37750.aspx Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:41:00 GMT