Director’s Corner 6 May 2010 Barry Barish Cost and cost growth in science megaprojects Many of the most important science questions facing us in the 21st century require developing very large facilities. Certainly, small-scale science is very much alive and innovative single-investigator research continues to produce many important discoveries. But, the trend towards larger science […]
ILC-CLIC general issues group
Director’s Corner 22 April 2010 Barry Barish ILC-CLIC general issues group At the Beijing meeting, Philippe Lebrun gave a report to the Global Design Effort Executive Committee of the initial work of the new “ILC-CLIC general issues group.” This working group consists of Philippe Lebrun (co-chair), Ken Peach and Daniel Schulte from the Compact Linear […]
Coming up – the fifth International Accelerator School on Linear Colliders
Director’s Corner 15 April 2010 Barry Barish Coming up: the fifth International Accelerator School on Linear Colliders One of the primary missions of the ILC Global Design Effort is to help in the training of the next generation of accelerator physicists. To achieve that end, we have been a sponsor and we supplied many of […]
Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC
Director’s Corner 8 April 2010 Barry Barish Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC This past week marked the beginning of a new era for particle physics with the much publicised achievement of establishing the first 7-TeV collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Both the impressive performance of the accelerator and the fact […]
Physics at the Beijing Linear Collider Workshop
Director’s Corner 1 April 2010 Barry Barish “Physics” at the Beijing Linear Collider Workshop A highlight of the opening day plenary session at the Linear Collider Workshop 2010 at Beijing from 24 to 29 March 2010 was a talk given (over video from Kashiwa, Japan) by Hitoshi Murayama simply entitled “Physics.” In actuality, Hitoshi addressed […]
Path forward following the AAP Review
Director’s Corner 18 March 2010 Barry Barish Path forward following the AAP ReviewI have been preaching about the importance of having in-depth critical technical reviews of our work for some time, and used those arguments to motivate the creation of a new review mechanism for the Global Design Effort R&D programme based on an “internal” […]
FALC meets in Mumbai
Director’s Corner 11 March 2010 Barry Barish FALC meets in Mumbai The most recent meeting of the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) was held at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India from 17 to 18 January. FALC reviewed the major high-energy programmes worldwide during this meeting, as well as hearing […]
Particle Physics for biologists and beyond
Director’s Corner 4 March 2010 Barry Barish Particle Physics for biologists and beyondIn last week’s guest Director’s Corner written by Mike Harrison, Americas Regional Director, he discussed his responsibilities to communicate and inform different parts of the US government on the motivation, status and plans for the ILC. Today’s column might be considered a sequel, […]
Change has come to linearcollider.org: take a tour of the renewed ILC website
Director’s Corner 18 February 2010 Barry Barish Change has come to linearcollider.org: take a tour of the renewed ILC website Today’s column is jointly authored by Maura Barone, manager of the project and collaborative tools for the ILC, and Barry Barish, GDE Director Welcome to the new linearcollider.org! Ever since its inception, the goals of […]
US Department of Energy ILC R&D funding request for fiscal year 2011
Director’s Corner 11 February 2010 Barry Barish US Department of Energy ILC R&D funding request for fiscal year 2011 It is an understatement to say that the US ILC R&D funding has had its ups and downs! Two years ago in the final budget compromise for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, we effectively lost our funding […]