Speakers

From the deepest secrets of the universe to the latest applications in healthcare, materials and drug development – there will be something of interest to everyone at the ‘Lasers & Accelerators for Science and Society’ symposium, on 26th June 2015. 

 

Accelerating Researcher Careers –

Prof. Carsten Welsch, Head of the University of Liverpool Accelerator Physics Group, introduces the important role accelerators play for science and society and explains the aims of oPAC and LA³NET.

 

Particle Accelerators - Engines of Discovery -

Prof. Grahame Blair, Executive Director of Programmes for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), will talk about the importance of particle accelerators for UK science and technology.

 

Accelerating Ions to Beat Cancer -

Prof. Katia Parodi, Head of Medical Physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University, will be discussing how ion beam-based cancer therapy can provide precise targeting of tumours while sparing the surrounding healthy tissue.

 

Unravelling the Secrets of the Universe –

Prof. Brian Cox, University of Manchester, will describe how particle physics experiments help understand the basic laws of physics.

 

Pathway from Particles to Light -

Dr. Ralph W. Aßmann, leading scientist at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany, will provide an overview of DESY’s transformation from a particle physics laboratory to one of the most advanced light sources in the world.

 

Bringing Light into Research -

Prof. Victor Malka, Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA), Palaiseau, France, will be describing how in a plasma accelerators offer the opportunity to create a new generation of highly compact accelerators with new properties, such as providing a new tool for ultra-fast time-resolved science.

 

Attoscience – Exploring Nature on Shortest Time scales -

Prof. Marc J.J. Vrakking, Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany. Attoscience is exploring the fastest physical events and providing new insights into nuclear dynamics within the molecule and its electron structure.

 

If you would like to find out more there will be an opportunity to follow the talks via webcast: www.cockcroft.ac.uk/symposium-on-lasers-accelerators-for-science-and-society