The TILC08 meeting in Sendai saw the first gathering of the new Accelerator Advisory Panel (AAP). Other than the yet to be established Project Advisory Committee, which will be formed following a request from the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) and will consist mainly of machine and detector experts from outside the ILC community, […]
TILC08 beyond the agenda
At the end of a productive working day, a long journey, a hard job or a rewarding week, Japanese people have a very useful phrase that expresses everything from gratitude and pride to exhaustion: Otsukare sama deshita, or simply otsukare. Even though not all participants of last week’s TILC08 meeting may be aware of the expression, all […]
ICFA Statement on Funding for the Linear Collider
The ICFA chair greeted TILC08 participants via recorded video message. What do you do when you are director of a lab and chairman of a large international committee and have been invited to different events on different continents on the same day, assuming you don’t have clones? You try to attend both — at least […]