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Director's Corner
Happy new (Gregorian) year 2008!

High energy labs and experiments from around the world welcome the new year (top left: INFN, bottom left: ALICE, right: KEK).
As our year ends and we enter a new one, it is common practice to reflect on the past and dream of or plan the future. For the ILC, the year 2007 was a busy year. Some might say it was hectic, some would call it stressful or even a disaster, but certainly a lot happened.
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-- Ewan Paterson

Director's Corner Archive

Calendar

Upcoming meetings, conferences, workshops

ILD Workshop
DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
14-16 January 2008

Tesla Technology Collaboration Meeting
DESY, Hamburg
14-17 January 2008

SiD Workshop
SLAC
28-30 January 2008

TILC08
Joint ACFA Physics and Detector Workshop and (GDE meeting) on International Linear Collider

Sendai
3-6 March 2008

Positron Source Meeting
DESY Zeuthen, Germany
7-9 April 2008

Energy Polarization Workshop
DESY Zeuthen, Germany
9-11 April 2008

SiD Workshop
RAL
14-16 April 2008


Upcoming schools

US Particle Accelerator School
UC at Santa Cruz
14-25 January 2008

 

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Director's Update
The path forward

Barry Barish
Happy New Year! This is my first column of the new year after the crippling turn of events at the end of 2007. As most of you know, we first received bad news from the UK in an STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) report that they intend to "cease investment in the International Linear Collider." Just before Christmas we received the news of a last-minute compromise fiscal year 2008 budget bill in the US, with large reductions for science funding, including a drastically reduced the level of funding for ILC R&D (in numbers: the expected 60 million dollars were reduced to 15 million dollars, plus cuts in other areas). Following these developments, the question on all of our minds is whether and how we can move forward with our global efforts toward the ILC.
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-- Barry Barish

In the News
From physicsworld
9 Jan 2008
Japanese particle physics in good health
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From Nature
9 Jan 2008
Accelerator plans stalled after US and UK cuts
Budget woes spell trouble for International Linear Collider.

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From Nature
9 Jan 2008
Editorial: Don't panic
Whether to build the International Linear Collider is an open question, but R&D on it should be supported.

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From New Scientist
8 Jan 2008
US physics begins to crumble under budget strain
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From Fermilab Today
8 Jan 2008
Solidarity
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From Daily Herald
8 Jan 2008
Batavia wants federal funding restored for Fermilab
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From San Francisco Business Times
7 Jan 2008
225 jobs cut at Stanford Linear Accelerator
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From Palo Alto Online
7 Jan 2008
SLAC is facing budget cuts, layoffs
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From Physics World
7 Jan 2008
Research funding should reward unpredictability
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From AIP FYI
6 Jan 2008
Reaction From Capitol Hill to FY 2008 S&T Funding Levels
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Announcements

arXiv preprints
0801.0866
Higgs self coupling measurement

0712.4389
Precision Measurement of a Particle Mass at the Linear Collider

0712.4210
Precision Measurements of the Stop Quark Mass at the ILC

0712.4207
Scalar Top Studies from Morioka'95 to DESY'07

0712.4156
Simulations of the Temperature Dependence of the Charge Transfer Inefficiency in a High-Speed CCD

0712.4010
A Method for the Precision Mass Measurement of the Stop Quark at the International Linear Collider

0712.3912
Direct determination of neutrino mass parameters at future colliders

0712.3814
Unparticle Searches Through Gamma Gamma Scattering

0712.3782
CKM-suppressed top quark decays t → q + W in the SM and beyond

0712.3399
Introduction to the Photon Collider

0712.2969
New results for 5-point functions

0712.2965
General Features of Supersymmetric Signals at the ILC: Solving the LHC Inverse Problem

0712.2806
Development of CMOS monolithic pixel sensors with in-pixel correlated double sampling and fast readout for the ILC

0712.2744
Anomalous gamma gamma interaction