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  Cockcroft Institute :: Director's Corner 

  http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/director.htm

  Director's Corner Swapan Chattopadhyay Director of The Cockcroft Institute May 6 2008 Chattopadhyay Musings on completion of a full year On April 23, 2008 I completed my full year in the job officially. ... Thanks to the generosity of colleagues, friends and family on both sides of the Atlantic, and of those especially in the UK, I have grown personally to a significant measure in this transformational year. It has been a combination of inspiration and perspiration, pleasant surprises and unexpected shocks. This past year has been one of significant hardship, trials and tribulations for the entire UK physics and astronomy community. The hardship has been inflicted in the wake of the ambiguous merger of the two previously separate UK Research Councils, CCLRC and PPARC, into one new larger Research Council, the STFC, coinciding with my arrival to the UK last year. The hardship has been caused as a result of the science budget allocations following the Comprehensive Spend Review and the subse   [More...] [Less...]

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