「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」の建設実現に向け、岩手県は１７日、盛岡市で講演会「公民学連携によるまちづくり」を開いた。(Iwate prefecture organized the lecture on 17 January about the city development by the cooperation between goverment, public and academia toward the invitation of the ILC)

“If successful, the sensors we will develop may find application in planned upgrades of the innermost parts of the experiments at the LHC or at the International Linear Collider project, proposed in Japan. We are also very keen to exploit this new technology to drive a wide range of applications beyond our field,” said Dr Joost Vossebeld, Project lead.

At a ceremony today at CERN, the Israeli flag was hoisted for the first time to join the other 20 flags of the organization’s Member States, after UNESCO officially recorded Israel’s accession as a new CERN Member State.

１２月末の２０１４年度政府予算で文部科学省が要求していた調査費１千万円が盛り込まれ、国も前向きな姿勢を鮮明にするなど環境は整ってきた。ＩＬＣとともに復興を速める両輪として実現を急ぎたい。(The budget for the photon source facility in Tohoku area was delivered in the JFY 2014 national budget. Together with the ILC, the photon source will be the core facilities for the area toward the promotion of the recovery act)

岩手経済同友会の新年祝賀交歓会は９日、盛岡市内のホテルで開かれ、出席した県内企業のトップらは、東日本大震災からの復興推進と国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の誘致実現に向けた力の結集を誓い合った。(Members of Japan Association of Corporate Executives of Iwate met on 9 January and decided to cooperate to promote the region’s recovery and invitation of the ILC)