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
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The path forward
Barry Barish
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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
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