Cockcroft Institute All-Hands Meeting

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Cockcroft Institute All-Hands Meeting Where we
are, where we want to go.. Nothing happens
unless first a dream! -- Carl Sandburg Swapan
Chattopadhyay December 4, 2008
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OUTLINE

• Mission
• Foundational Constitution, Operational Basis and
  Stakeholders the Cockcroft Model
• Mid-term review and the New CI- bid
• Academic Appointments
• Publications
• Collaborations
• Education and Training
• Industrial Advisory Committee and Knowledge
  Exchange
• SAC international Scientific Advisory Committee
  deliberations

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Cockcroft Institute Mission Deliverablesnavigate
by the stars, not by the light of every ship
passing by.

• Generic research and development at the frontier
  of Accelerator Science and Technology
• Project-specific research and development in
  Accelerator Science and Technology
• Leadership and management of national
  deliverables to international facilities
  (projects)
• Competence in crucial and specific technologies
• Support in design, construction and operation of
  national and international facilities
• Technology transfer to (and Knowledge Exchange
  with ) industry nationally and globally
• Staff complement of internationally acknowledged
  expertise
• Seamless involvement of the Universities and
  Research Councils
• Education and training to ensure a flourishing
  next generation of scientists and engineers.

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• 
  Foundational Constitution and Operational
  Basis

The Opening of the Cockcroft Institute by the
Minister of Science, Lord Sainsbury, in
2006 When we talk about world-class science we
need look no further than the North West and
the Cockcroft Institute - Prime Minister, Tony
Blair (2006)
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  Foundational Constitution and Operational
  Basis (contd)
• The Cockcroft Institute was founded Autumn 2004
  and officially inaugurated by Minister of Science
  Lord Sainsbury in 2006
• Joint partnership and commitments from University
  of Liverpool, University of Manchester, Lancaster
  University, Science and Technology Facilities
  Council (STFC, then PPARC and CCLRC separately
  before the merger) and the North West Development
  Agency (NWDA)
• A number of new faculty members ( 12 total, 4 in
  each university) in accelerator physics and
  engineering to be appointed in each of the three
  universities, according to a master plan till
  2012
• An additional limited number ( at least 2 FTEs)
  of faculty staff members in the universities to
  be funded and jointly appointed by Universities
  and STFC, aligned with the STFC mission and
  programme
• Incorporation of professional accelerator
  physicists and engineers (about 60 FTEs) from
  STFC/ASTeC
• An amount of core funding from STFC sustaining
  post-doctoral staff in balance with the faculty
  members (at least one per faculty member), some
  number of Ph.D. students and additional costs of
  education, training, experimental equipment,
  visitor programme and promotional events to run
  the institute
• Additional STFC Quota Studentships and
  Responsive Mode grants
• A purpose-built building for the Cockcroft
  Institute housing staff from the universities and
  STFC/ASTeC and funded by the NWDA.

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Stakeholders
Responsive-mode Project Funding FTE Equipment
Core funding
Building
Cockcroft Institute
Professionals 60 FTEs (2 FTEs jointly
w/univs.)
Academic (FacultyPostDocsStudents) 50 FTEs
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The Cockcroft ModelA collaboration as proposed
in the original bid and awarded grant
(Universities) (STFC ASTeC and elements at
DL) (NWDA)(Integration of all the above)CI
is not separate from ASTeC or the universities
but inclusive of all!!
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The Cockcroft Institute Board(meets quarterly)

• CHAIR
• Dr. Mike Dexter FRS, Ex- CEO of Wellcome
  Trust, corporate Board Chair and President
• ACADEMIC
• Prof. Sir Howard Newby, Vice-Chancellor,
  Univ. of Liverpool (replacing Prof. Sir Drummond
  Bone, last VC)
• Prof. Alan Gilbert, President and Vice
  Chancellor, Univ. of Manchester
• Prof. Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor,
  Lancaster University
• RESEARCH COUNCIL
• Dr. Keith Mason, CEO, STFC (RCUK)
  (represented by Dr. John Womersley, Director of
  Science Programs)
• Dr. Colin Whitehouse, Dep. CEO, STFC for
  Campus Development
• LOCAL ECONOMY/INDUSTRY
• Dr. George Baxter, Chief Scientific
  Officer, NWDA

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• MID-TERM REVIEW and THE NEW CI-BID
• The original grant period was 2004-2012, with a
  stipulated mid-term review in 2008, for
• continuation beyond 2008 on a "full Economic
  cost (fEC)-basis.
• Upon invitation/solicitation from STFC, the CI
  has submitted on October 15, 2008 a new
• proposal for continuation from April 1, 2009 till
  March 31, 2017 as part of this mid-term review.
• New bid Approx. 530 FTEs worth of total effort
  (academic faculty, post doctoral fellows, Ph.D.
• students, administration and knowledge exchange)
  plus experimental equipment and running
• costs, plus all of ASTeC, including ALICE and
  experimental laboratories, including partial
• support for running costs and science
  exploitation of ALICE and support for
  collaborators
• (Durham, Dundee, Imperial, Strathclyde,).
• Note The original 7.1 million core funding for
  the Cockcroft Institute attracted a further 12M
• in Responsive Mode Grants and 5M from NWDA,
  excluding staff costs for all university and
• STFC faculty and staff.
• Since the merger of CCLRC and PPARC, , Responsive
  Mode Grants submitted within and

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Cockcroft Institute Skills base
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Research Focus to date

• The CIs major contributions to date in national
  and
• international projects have been focused on
• High energy particle physics facilities (e.g.
  ILC, MICE for Muon Cooling and Neutrino Factory,
  Super-B)
• Fourth generation photon sources (e.g.
  Fermi_at_Elettra, FLASH, 4GLS, NLS, ALICE)
• Prototyping novel concepts (e.g. Energy Recovery
  in ALICE, electron FFAG in EMMA, laser-plasma
  studies in ALPHA-X collaboration and experiment).

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Research Focus to 2012 and beyond

• The CIs capacity and aspirations for the future
  are to
• Multiple TeV linear colliders CLIC or other
  X-band options
• Contribute to the exploitation of LHC and its
  upgrades (SPL, PS-2 and SLHC) including a novel
  electron-proton collider (LHeC)
• Expand our work to facilities serving nuclear
  sciences (e.g. HIE-ISOLDE, EURISOL and FAIR)
• Expand blue-sky research to include Laser-Plasma,
  Photonic band-gap and Meta-material studies
• Increase our core competency in high current
  proton beams for applications in intense neutrino
  beams, in particle beam cancer therapy, and in
  energy and environmental technologies.

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Science and Applications Driven Evolution of CI
Effort and Skills Base
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Gantt Chart of CI Programs to 2017
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• CI MID-TERM and NEW BID REVIEW
• The new CI bid review will take place February 10
  and 11, 2008
• Site visit details
• Feb. 10 closed session in afternoon
• Feb. 11 morning open presentations and
  facility tours
• Feb. 11 afternoon lunch and closed session
• Review Committee composition
• Steve Holmes (Fermilab, USA), Chair
• Nobu Toge (KEK, Japan)
• Derek Lowenstein (Brookhaven, USA)
• John Butterworth (University College
  London, UK)
• Paul Attfield (Edinburg, UK)
• Mike Zisman (Berkeley, USA)
• Oliver Napoly (Saclay, EU)

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Faculty Appointments

• An international recruitment campaign has
  resulted in five additional outstanding
• academic appointments in 2008
• Lancaster Univ.
• ? I Bailey (Ph.D. Victoria, from Univ.
  Liverpool) to a Lecturership in Physics (particle
  sources/expt. physics)
• ? G Burt (Ph.D. Strathclyde, from
  Lancaster Univ.) to an STFC Lecturership in
  Engineering (microwaves/ RF)
• Univ. Manchester
• ? H Owen (Ph.D., Manchester, from ASTeC) to
  a Lecturership in Physics (light sources and
  ADSR)
• Univ. Liverpool
• ? K Hock (Ph. D. Cambridge, from Univ.
  Singapore and Liverpool) to a Lecturership in
  Physics (beam physics)
• ? C Welsch (PhD Germany, from Univ.
  Heidelberg) to a Readership in Physics
  (accelerators for nuclear and
• atomic physics, experimental
  accelerator physics and beam diagnostics EU
  Marie Curie DITANET coordinator)

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CI Publications Need to increase Refereed
Publications all CI-sponsored Workshop
proceedings must be published in AIP Conf. Proc.
Series (e.g. Polarised Antiprotons) or PRST-AB
(e.g. X-band workshop), etc.
STFC/ASTeC publications, including co-authorship
with University staff
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Collaborations

• CERN/CI a new model of European collaboration in
  accelerators. Comprehensive MoU for collaboration
  on High Energy Particle Colliders, Low Energy
  Accelerators for Nuclear and Atomic Physics and
  New Frontiers (CERN Courier , November 2008,
  Faces and Places)
• Imperial College/CI MoU in progress for
  collaboration on Accelerators for Neutrino and
  Muon Physics, on Laser-Plasma Studies, on Hadron
  therapy, and on ADSR
• Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)/CI
  MoU in progress for collaboration on
  Accelerators, Free Electron Lasers and
  Laser-Plasma Studies for Nuclear Physics and
  Photon Sciences
• Collaborations with TRIUMF, Cornell, SLAC,
  University of California at Berkeley, MIT, DESY
  and KEK are being
• planned.

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Education and Training Contact Lecture
HoursNeed to focus on Succession
Planning
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The Cockcroft Institute Knowledge Exchange
Sub-Committee(meets every two months)

• Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (Chair)
• Dr. Liz Townes-Andrews (STFC, Director of
  Knowledge Exchange)
• Dr. Alan Heaton (Univ. of Liverpool, Business
  Operations Manager)
• Dr. Roderick OBrien (Lancaster University,
  Business Management)
• Dr. Mark Thomson (Univ. of Manchester,
  Intellectual Property Officer)
• Mr. Paul Treloar (NWDA, Associate Manager)

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Industrial Advisory Committee and Knowledge
Exchange

• P Saraga, Immediate past-president of the
  Institute of Physics (IoP) and past-
  president/CEO of Phillips International, has
  accepted the role of Chair of the CI Industrial
  Advisory Committee (IAC)
• The full committee membership will be confirmed
  by December, 2008
• The CI has already established partnerships with
  industry as follows
• (i) Rapiscan, USA and UK Portable
  device for rapid X-ray scanning of cargo
• based on innovative compact
  electron linear accelerator technology
• (ii) Medical Device innovations (MDi),
  UK Novel microwave-based tumour
• ablation and surgical re-section
  technique development
• (iii) e2v (UK and international) Novel
  microwave power sources for security and
• medical applications with a view
  to the appointment of joint Cockcroft-e2V
• Fellows
• (iv) Tech-X (USA) development of
  large-scale computation and simulation tools
• (with the proposed Hartree Centre
  for Computational Science and DSIC).

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The Cockcroft Institute international Scientific
Advisory Committee (SAC)(meets annually)

• Dr. Ferdinand Willeke (BNL, USA), Chair,
  2006-2008 General Accelerator Physics,
  Colliders, Light Sources
• Prof. Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC/Stanford Univ.,
  USA), 2008-2010 General Accelerator Physics,
  Linear Colliders
• Prof. Georg Hofstaedter (Cornell, USA),
  2007-2009 General Accelerator Physics,
  Colliders, Energy Recovery
• Dr. Hans Weise (DESY, Germany), 2007-2009
  Superconducting RF (SRF), Free Electron Lasers
  (FELs)
• Prof. Kwang-Je Kim (ANL/U. Chicago, USA),
  2007-2009 General Accelerator Physics, FELs,
  Linear Colliders
• Dr. Junji Urakawa (KEK, Japan), 2006-2008
  Linear Colliders, Test Facilities
• Dr. Ilan Ben-zvi (BNL, USA), 2006-2008
  Superconducting RF, ERLs, General Acelerator
  Physics
• Lia Merminga (TRIUMF, Canada), 2007-2009 General
  Accelerator Physics, Energy Recovery, SRF
• Roland Garoby (CERN, Switzerland), 2006-2008
  Radio Frequency for Rings and Linear Accelerators
  

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Directors Charge for Nov. 10-11,2008 SAC
Meeting Counsel for the Director and Institute
Management

• Comments on Pure Research Excellence the
  academic and professional quality of RD,
  independent of its strategic context Peerless,
  Outstanding, Excellent, Good, Fair or
  Below Expectations on each topic of research
  presented. If research on any particular topic is
  considered to be in less than Peerless or
  Outstanding category, indicate how we can do
  better. Are their better mathematical/theoretical
  formulations? Are we ignorant of state-of-the-art
  analyses, formulations and computational tools?
  Are we lacking in innovations and conceptual
  developments? Are the design calculations/estimate
  s less than trust-worthy? Are the experimental
  data gathered not robust and confident?
• Acknowledgement of Uniqueness and Impact of work
  in the global context are we adding significant
  new knowledge that will propel the field and
  provide new scientific tools and/or societal
  benefits ? If not, where does the knowledge exist
  that is being duplicated?

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Directors Charge Counsel for the Director and
Institute Management (contd)

• Evolving CI Skills mix
• Balance between innovative research of a generic
  and blue-sky nature, focused RD on challenges
  posed by accelerator systems which are realisable
  in the foreseeable future, and innovation in
  operating accelerators
• Omissions in the skills base and scope of work to
  date or planned
• The degree to which present work succeeds or
  fails to position the Institute to meet its
  mission and deliverables.
• The CI Board and Management Committee would
  welcome a brief and
• comprehensive Executive Summary of the SAC
  observations, comments and
• recommendations that can be shared with members
  of potential future
• external review committees.

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Preliminary Comments

• PROGRESS
• The SAC is pleased to observe that the institute
  has continued to be very productive in the recent
  yearthe SAC assesses that the overall quality
  of the scientific and technical work performed at
  the CI is very good with the individual
  activities ranging from acceptable to
  excellent!!
• The work performed at the CI has a noticeable
  impact on the field of accelerator science and
  ongoing international accelerator projects with a
  two-fold impact
• ? The CI has applied the
  state-of-the-art to existing leading accelerator
• projects ILC, CLIC, Neutrino
  factory/Muon Collider and LHC
• ? pioneered accelerator science
  approaches new mathematical methods,
• multi-particle dynamics,
  wake-fields, behaviour of materials in RF fields
  via
• microscopic material model,
  etc.
• The activities of the CI cover the entire range
  from practical applications to new
• and future developments (e.g. LHeC)
• The SAC is quite impressed by the competence and
  quality of of the CI staff, with
• balanced skills set

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Preliminary Comments (contd)

• CONCERNS
• CI resources too thinly spread over a large
  number of projects and activitiesimpact could
  be considerably enhanced if intensity could be
  increased in some areas of research at the cost
  of othersany further spreading without
  concomitant reduction will make some areas
  sub-critical, unless new funding is secured
• While progress is good with some areas
  deserving to be called as very impressive, the
  SAC would like to warn that the degree of
  integration of CI-funded activities scientific,
  technical, organisational -- appears to be still
  incomplete
• Many of the research fields under the CI
  umbrella appear to be only weakly
  coupled.identify opportunities for stronger
  collaboration between different individual CI
  projects
• The SAC would further like to comment that the
  involvement of the CI in a leading major
  nationally or internationally recognised
  accelerator project or, in the absence of the
  lack of such at present (due to various factors
  beyond control), a single local project or
  operating facility like ALICE would provide a
  strong motivation to integrate activities across
  the various partners quite naturally.

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Proposal Cockcroft Institute Programmatic and
Organisational Integration Task Forces

• Scientific Organisation and Programmatic
  Integration task Force
• Chair Swapan
  Chattopadhyay
• Membership CI Management Committee,
  All ASTeC Group Leaders, All CI Academics
• Charter (i) Develop a CI
  Scientific Functional Organisation independent of
  projects and ignoring
• 
  separations/barriers posed by stake holding
  partners
• (ii) Discuss and
  implement structure to integrate various
  scientific and technical activities and
• projects
  across CI, involving ownerships by all partners
• (iii) Develop a
  proper forum/platform for CI-wide scientific
  cross-fertilisation
• (e.g. one
  day CI symposia every quarter or six months).
• Administrative/Operational Integration Task
  Force
• Chair Liz
  Mason
• Membership Liz Kennedy,
  Sue Waller (Administration)
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  Mary Highmore (Finance/Budget)
• One
  STFC/ASTeC Rep One University Rep (Safety)
• One
  DLMedia/Information Services Rep
• Charter Explore, coordinate
  and implement, with support from CI Management
  Committee, integration

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Project/Program Management StructureInternational
Projects ILC, CLIC, LHC, LHeC,
Super-B,NFNational projects ALICE,
FFAG/EMMA,NLSCore Programs Theory, RF/SCRF
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Organisation
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Cockcroft Institute Canvas Today
Linear Collider (ILC/CLIC), Super-B, LHC, Nucl.
Phys.
Neutrino Factory/Muon Collider
Advanced Concepts and Generic Programmes
Education and Training
Graduate Courses
Damping Ring
THEORY
MICE
EMMA/FFAG, ADSR
Positrons
NF/MC
Schools and Workshops
CRAB SRF
Laser- Plasma
Beam Delivery
Super-B
RF, SCRF and Cryogenics
Next Light Source (NLS)
Community Outreach and Industry
LHC, LHeC, AD, HIE-Isolde, FAIR
Public Lectures, KE and DSIC
LABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE
ALICE and SRF FAC.
RFDiagnostics Digital Eletronics
Vacuum Surface Science
Laser-Plasma
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Research Focus to 2012 and beyond

• The challenge will be to eliminate, optimise
• and sharpen our canvas so that we are
• most effective and successful in our
• accepted and adopted projects portfolio.

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Needed Refinement in the Gantt Chart of CI
Programs to 2017
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Accommodation

• CI is growing and space is at premium. Liz Mason,
  with support from CI Management Committee, the
  academics and ASTeC group leaders, has helped
  develop a space plan to be implemented by
  January, 2009 to accommodate the immediate space
  needs. (all-hands memo last week). See Liz Mason
  or me if you have questions.

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Safety

• CI now needs to formalise its Safety commitments,
  integrating STFC and academic partners
  appropriately, not only for occupation of the CI
  building, but also for operation of the labs and
  ALICE with mixed crew involving universities
  and STFC staff.
• A new website has been created by the STFC SHE
  Group, providing access for all non-STFC CI staff
  to key safety information. Any incidents or near
  misses to be reported via this facility. See
  recent e-mail for further details.

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OUTLOOK

• CI progressing to maturity as an internationally
  renowned institution of the highest
• calibre, slowly but steadily, thanks to your
  support, dedication and ambition
• Scientific programme growing, but need to be
  optimised carefully now, commensurate
• with our budget, capacity and ambition
• High quality staff of international stature being
  retained and recruited, crucial to the
• mission of STFC, national (UK) and
  international accelerator science and technology
• skills base
• Challenges to shifting national and international
  priorities are being addressed by
• designed transformation and evolution of
  staff, skills base and projects portfolio
• Must focus on ALICE both as an operating
  accelerator RD facility as well as a facility
• to enable highest calibre scientific
  exploitation possible with it and enable other
• future facilities (e.g. EMMA, NLS, etc.) as
  the flywheel of stability for future.
• Must focus on scientific, organisational and
  administrative integration of partner
• institutions into CI seamlessly.

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OUTLOOK (contd)

• I need your support more than ever in breaking
  traditional institutional boundaries between
  STFC/ASTeC, Universities, etc. in transforming
  the Cockcroft Institute into a dynamic,
  collaborative, synergistic and symbiotic system,
  integrating seamlessly the university, STFC and
  other stakeholders.
• JOIN ME IN CELEBRATING THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY
  AT CI ON DECEMBER 8, MONDAY, 3 pm till 6 PM IN
  THE CI ATRIUM!!! SEE YIOU THERE WITH GOOD
  CHEER!!!

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