1. The Cockcroft Institute Education Programme
Neil Marks,
The Cockcroft Institute,
ASTeC
and The University of Liverpool Department of Physics.

2. Overview of presentation
Governance.
Objectives:
i) goals;
ii) route-map.
3. Delivery:
i) overview;
ii) statistics;
iii) lectures and lecturers;
iv) dissemination.
External Links:
i) John Adams Institute (JAI);
ii) CERN Accelerator School (CAS);
iii) U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS).
5. Administration:
i) attendance records;
ii) student feed-back;
6. Future:
i) review of previous 3 years and plans for advancing.

3. Governance
The head of education and training reports to the CI director; and
attends the Cockcroft Institute Management Committee (CIMC), when required, to report/consult; and
is advised by the ‘Cockcroft Institute Education and training Committee’ (CIETC); which is composed of:
senior academics from Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster universities;
senior accelerator physicists from ASTeC;
and meets 3 to 4 times a year.

4. Objectives - goals
1. To provide our post-graduate students over the three years of their degree with a comprehensive education in accelerator science and technology – irrespective of their area of specialisation;
To provide each new cohort of post-grad students, early in their academic course, with a sound introduction to the basics of accelerator physics and technology:
i) a basic outline of accelerator development;
ii) longitudinal and transverse single particle and collective beam dynamics;
iii) basic magnet and rf technology.

5. Objectives – route-map.
Cockcroft ‘CI Lecture programme - Syllabus and long term aims’ (approved by CIETC in March 2006) defines:
i) the physics and mathematics learning and ability expected of post-graduate students;
ii) the topics and syllabi for basic accelerator physics and technology courses, with an aim to cover these topics frequently (each year if possible);
iii) a syllabus for advanced accelerator physics and technology, aimed for each subject to be delivered at least once in a three year period.

6. Delivery – overview.
July 09 will end of the first complete 3 year cycle;
most of the principle subjects identified in Cockcroft will have been delivered;
the physics and technology courses have been supplemented by:
short revision courses at the beginning of each year;
maths courses relevant to acc. phys.;
a loose sequence has been developed and lecturers identified;
coverage of the basic accelerator physics and technology has been aided by students attending the introductory CERN Accelerator School (CAS) (even years).

7. Education Statistics
Numbers of 1 hour lectures (including early lectures in 05/06) per academic year:
05/06
06/07
07/08
TOTALS
Accelerator physics and mathematics - basic 24 20 44
Accelerator physics and mathematics - advanced. 35 23 82
Accelerator technology - basic 8 14 42
Accelerator technology - advanced 10 31 51
TOTAL 66 80 73
219

8. Course Details: 03/06 – 01/09 Basic
‘B’ = ‘basic’; ‘A’ = ‘advanced’; ‘P’ = physics; ‘M’ = ‘mathematics’; ‘T’ = ‘technology’
Subject
Lecturer
Course type
No. of courses presented
Introduction to accelerators
M. Poole
B ;P/T 2
Relativity and Electro- mag. revision
C.Prior
B; P/M
Transverse dynamics
B. Holzer
B; P
Longitudinal dynamics
J. Leduff
R.F. Science/Engineering
Carter/Seviour
B; P/T
Linacs
R. Jones 1
Magnets in Accelerators (inc. practical)
N. Marks
Accelerator diagnostics
G. Rehm
Synchrotron radiation applications
Bushnell-Wye.

9. Course Details: 03/06 – 01/ 09 Advanced
Subject
Lecturer
Type
No. of courses
Linear dynamics
A. Wolski
A; P/M 1
Lattice design codes (and practical)
Owen/Muratori
A; P
Wake-fields and collective effects
R.Jones 2
Generation & properties of synch. rad.
J.Clarke
A; P/T
Damping rings
Spin polarisation
Barber/Moortgat-Pick
Super-conducting R.F. Systems
J. Delayen
A; T
Vacuum systems in accelerators
R.Reid
Superconducting magnets
M. Wilson
AC and pulsed magnets
N.Marks
FFAGs
S. Machida
Lasers and accelerators
G.Hurst
Free electron lasers
B.McNeil
Lagrangian & Hamiltonian dynamics
V. Perlick
A; M
Maths tools for accelerators
Tucker/Burton/Gratus

10. Courses being delivered or planned for up to 6/09
‘B’ = ‘basic’; ‘A’ = ‘advanced’; ‘P’ = physics; ‘M’ = ‘mathematics’; ‘T’ = ‘technology’
Subject
Lecturer
Course type
Intense beams
C. Prior
A; P
Feed-back systems and orbit control
M. Boege
A; P/T
Introduction to R.F. systems
G. Burt
B; T
Non-linear dynamics
A.Wolski
Emmitance cooling
S.Chattopadhyay

11. Lecturer acknowledgements
We endeavour to maintain a balance between in-house and visiting lecturers:
In-House
Visitors
S.Chattophyay (CI Director)
M.W.Poole (ASTeC Director)
B.Holzer (DESY/CERN)
R.Carter (U. of Lancaster)
R. Seviour (U. of Lancaster)
J. LeDuff (Consultant)
R. Jones (U. of Manchester)
J. Clarke (ASTeC)
G. Rehm (DLS)
A Wolski (U. of Liverpool)
B. Muratori (ASTeC)
G. Bushnell-Wye (STFC-D.L.)
C.Prior (ASTeC/Oxford)
H.Owen (Manchester)
J. Delayen ( Jefferson Lab.)
R. Tucker (U. of Lancaster)
S. Machida (ASTeC-RAL)
G. Hurst (STFC-RAL)
D.Burton (U. of Lancaster)
G. Burt (U. of Lancaster)
B. McNeil (U. of Strathclyde)
J. Gratus (U. of Lancaster)
R. Reid (ASTeC)
M. Boege (SLS - PSI)
V. Perlick (U. of Lancaster)
Marks (ASTeC/Liverpool)
D.Barber (DESY/Liverpool)
G. Moortgat-Pick (Durham)
M. Wilson (Consultant)

12. Dissemination Lectures are:
web-cast live (free-to-air) with video transmission of lecturer and overheads, together with sound, at: ‘
recorded (video and sound) from Autumn 2007 onwards and available as archive material on CI website: ‘
archived overheads (for most courses from Summer 2006) can also be viewed and down-loaded from the same site.

13. External Links - JAI
Close contact is maintained with the John Adams Institute (JAI) through:
the JAI director (Prof. Ken Peach);
the JAI head of education (Prof. Ted Wilson);
exchange of lecturers:
Chris Prior (JAI);
Shinji Machida (JAI);
Andy Wolski (CI);
Neil Marks (CI).

14. External Links - CAS
Members of the CI participate significantly in CERN Accelerator School (CAS) activities:
organising and programme committees:
A. Wolski; N. Marks;
lecturing/tutoring at CAS schools:
A. Wolski, J.A.Clarke; B.Muratori; J. Jones; N. Marks.
The CI sponsored and hosted an Intermediate CAS, in September 2007:
 2 weeks in length;
 85 students from internationally located institutes;
CI staff and students were able to attend plenary sessions and interact with lecturers and CAS students.

15. ‘USPAS, CERN, KEK and INP (Novosibirsk)’
External Links - USPAS
Cockcroft Institute members have also developed links and lectured at U.S. Particle Accelerator Schools:
Andy Wolski, Roger Jones, James Jones,
and Deepa Angal-Kalinin
(at the International School on Linear Colliders).
Now a proposal from W.A. Barletta (Director of USPAS)* to explore the possibility for the CI to:
‘join forces’
with:
‘USPAS, CERN, KEK and INP (Novosibirsk)’
‘to hold a topical international school in the UK, Europe or USA’.
This is now being further discussed.
* mail to S. Chattopadhyay, 3/2/09.

16. Administration and can provide general comment.
attendees sign-in for each lecture; statistics on a term-by-term basis are available to CI management, NWDA and the university supervisors of the post-grad students;
at the end of each lecture course, students are invited to complete a feed-back pro-forma anonymously, commenting on
level;
content;
presentation;
and can provide general comment.

17. The Future
The autumn 09 programme will follow the pattern of providing an introduction to basic accelerator physics & technology for the new cohort of post-grad students;
BUT:
An ‘extraordinary’ (enlarged) meeting of the CIETC is envisaged during summer 2009, with student representation as well as the CI professional staff, to:
review the previous 3 year’s programme;
examine the programme in the light of the 3 year old ‘route-plan’ (Cockcroft-06-01);
consider how the education programme can be further broadened and advanced;
develop a new ‘route-plan’ for re-issue and delivery.