<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Reminder!<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Audrey Barron" <anichols@jlab.org><br><b>To: </b>"div-accelerator Staff" <div-accelerator-staff@jlab.org>, "Stuart Henderson" <stuart@jlab.org>, "Pat Stroop" <stroop@jlab.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 16, 2017 9:15:00 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Accelerator Seminar: Peter Ratoff - 10/23/17<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>ACCELERATOR SEMINAR<br></div><br><div>What's Going On at the Cockcroft Institute?<br></div><br><div>Peter Ratoff<br></div><div>Director, Cockcroft Institute<br></div><br><div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> The </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Cockcroft Institute (CI) is a partnership between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The core membership comprises the accelerator physics & engineering groups of the partner universities and the Accelerator Science & Technology Centre (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">ASTeC</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">) of STFC at Daresbury Laboratory. The CI is the </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">de facto</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> national </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">centre</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> for accelerator R&D in the UK, and with its very strong university supported backbone closely coupled to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">ASTeC</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, comprising nearly 250 faculty, professional accelerator staff, post-doctoral research associates, admin staff and PhD students, it is probably one of the largest of its kind in the world, delivering world class R&D in RF based systems and novel methods of acceleration with major contributions to the realization of national and international accelerator facilities. The CI’s cross-cutting applications </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">programme</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> allows this expertise to be used to address global challenges in health, security, energy, manufacturing and the environment, and to train the next generation of accelerator experts in areas where there is a recognized international skills shortage. We are also inspiring school students and the public through our extensive public engagement </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">programmes</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">The </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">aims and objectives of the Cockcroft Institute of accelerator science and technology will be outlined. This will provide the audience with an understanding of how we see ourselves contributing to global activities in the development and application of particle accelerators, colliders and intense light sources, as well as training some of the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers. An assortment of research highlights from our current </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">programme</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> will also be presented. This includes work on conventional RF based machines as well as novel acceleration techniques involving laser-plasma interactions and THz-dielectric structures. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Monday, October 23, 2017<br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">1:30 p.m.<br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">CEBAF Center, Room F113<br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Seminar archives are found here: <a href="https://www.jlab.org/accel/seminars/2017.html" target="_blank">https://www.jlab.org/accel/seminars/2017.html</a><br></span></span></p></div><br><div id="c527d5bf-234f-450e-be05-77753629e03f"><div>------<br><b><span style="font-size: small;">Audrey N. Barron</span></b><br><span style="font-size: small;">Administrative Assistant</span><br><span style="font-size: small;">Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators</span><br><span style="font-size: small;">Jefferson Lab</span><br><span style="font-size: small;">757-269-7327</span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://<a href="mailto:anichols@jlab.org">anichols@jlab.org</a>Email Me</a> " target="_blank">anichols@jlab.org</a></span> / <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.jlab.org" target="_blank">www.jlab.org</a></span> <br><br><img src="cid:2c99e0aa1329d611720ad363c9eed344759b9afc@zimbra" style="border: 0px none;"></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>