About Sakue Yamada
Sakue Yamada (Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo and KEK).
Former ILC Research Director.
Sakue Yamada | 15 May 2008
During the ECFA workshop for the International Linear Collider in Warsaw from 9 to 12 June, the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) will meet for the first time. The three concept groups of the ILC detector which expressed their interest to prepare letters of intent (LOI) will meet IDAG.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
ECFA, IDAG, Poland, Warsaw University
Sakue Yamada | 17 April 2008
Three concept groups have responded to the call for Expressions of Interest: ILD, SiD and the 4th concept group. Now we can go one step further, namely the common task groups will be formed by the members of each of these groups.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
detector concepts, detector R&D
Sakue Yamada | 20 March 2008
... I would like to ask those groups which intend to submit Letters of Intent (LOIs) to send me an email with the names of currently participating institutions and up to two names of contact persons. There are many issues to discuss and to do together with the LOI groups before the LOIs can be submitted.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
IDAG, letter of intent, push-pull
Sakue Yamada | 14 February 2008
The new detector plans prepared in consultation with the Organizing Committee of the Worldwide Study of Physics and Detectors for Future Linear e+e- Colliders (WWS-OC) were discussed at the last ILCSC meeting on 11 February at DESY and were approved. -- By Sakue Yamada
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
Detector Design Phase
Sakue Yamada | 17 January 2008
Last October we started a new phase in planning the ILC experimental programme after many years of coordination through the World Wide Study. Following a few months of discussion, we are now ready to put the new phase on track.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
Detector Design Phase, detector development, detector management
Sakue Yamada | 21 November 2007
It has been several weeks since I last wrote for ILC NewsLine, right after becoming the research director. Since then, I had many occasions to talk with more people. Each meeting or telephone conversation was fresh to me. Through these discussions, I realised that some of the given charges are more urgent or fundamental, while the main task does not change.
Sakue Yamada | 4 October 2007
The invitation to become the newly created research director for the International Linear Collider detector design was a surprise. I have always been aware that an electron positron collider is a powerful tool for particle physics. I started my career in high energy physics in this field, and I enjoyed many exciting years. I also participated in various discussions about a future linear collider project. But that was a long time ago. In recent years, I watched from the sidelines and followed the international efforts organised to design a linear collider under the leadership of the Global Design Effort. After discussions with the ILC Steering Committee and several key physicists, I learned how far things have developed and why they introduced a Research Director.
