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SUMMARY:Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams - Professor Swapan 
 Chattopadhyay\, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of La
 ncaster\, Liverpool and Manchester  And Director\, Cockcroft Institute Dar
 esbury\, Cheshire\, UK.
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:John Cockcroft’s splitting of the atom and Ernest Lawrence
 ’s invention of the cyclotron in the first half of the twentieth century
  ushered in the grand era of ever higher energy particle accelerators to p
 robe deeper into matter.  It also forged a link\, bonding scientific disco
 very with technological innovation that continues today in the twenty firs
 t century.  In the second half of the twentieth century\, we witnessed the
  emergence of the photon and neutron sciences driven by accelerators built
 -by-design producing tailored and ultra-bright pulses of bright photons an
 d neutrons to probe structure and function of matter from aggregate to ind
 ividual molecular and atomic scales in unexplored territories in material 
 and life sciences.  As we enter the twenty first century\, the race for pa
 rticle and light beams of ever higher energies\, brightness and luminosity
  to probe atto-metric and atto-second domains of the ultra-small structure
 s and ultra-fast processes continues.  We give a glimpse of the recent dev
 elopments and innovations in the conception\, production and control of pa
 rticle and photon beams in the service of diverse scientific disciplines. 
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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