Over the past two years, the GDE has concentrated its efforts on advancing critical ILC R&D in order to reduce risks and to demonstrate performance. In parallel, we have established a new, more coherent and more cost-effective baseline to be used for the next phase of developing the technical design that will be incorporated in […]
In the beginning, there was… Susanna
A profile of Susanna Guiducci, ILC damping ring group leader
Susanna Guiducci has her head in the clouds – electron clouds, that is. (Sometimes she sits in clouds that gather around the Frascati hills south of Rome where she is based at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati or LNF, but that is not really relevant to this story – just very picturesque.) As new […]
Frascati Meeting Concludes with BCD Recommendations and New GDE Structure
Following last week’s meeting in Frascati, the GDE members and other attendees returned this week with only a few minor bumps and bruises from an onslaught of “rotten tomatoes”. “I was afraid that each speaker would need a flak jacket to present each portion of the Baseline Configuration Document because this is the chance for […]
Frascati News
Director’s Corner 8 December 2005 Barry Barish Frascati News This week the GDE is in Frascati, Italy. We have come together for what is only our second face-to-face meeting, following our kick-off meeting as part of the Snowmass workshop just over three months ago. The main goal, finalizing the baseline configuration, represents the successful completion […]