About Barry Barish
Barry Barish is the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside and Linde Professor, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2005 to 2013 he was Director of the Global Design Effort and, apart from leading the collaboration to the publication of the ILC's Technical Design Report, contributed more than 300 Director's Corners in the ILC Newsline.
Barry Barish | 15 October 2009
(...) We were very fortunate to hear a timely report from Philippe Lebrun on the status of the LHC and plans for commissioning at the American Linear Collider Physics Group workshop in Albuquerque at the end of September. -- By Barry Barish
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Barry Barish | 8 October 2009
The expansion of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) is complete. Today I announce that Toshiaki Tauchi has accepted my invitation and has joined the EC.
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EC, executive committee
Barry Barish | 1 October 2009
The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) held its fifteenth meeting at Quebec City on 13 July 2009. -- By Barry Barish
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Canada, FALC
Barry Barish | 17 September 2009
I write this week's column as a lecturer at the fourth International Linear Collider accelerator science school that is underway at the Hotel Jixian in Huairou, located in a beautiful isolated park-like area about one hour from Beijing, China.
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China, LC school, linear collider school
Barry Barish | 10 September 2009
(...) We are undergoing a process we refer to as Accelerator Design and Integration, from which we expect to make a number of important changes to the baseline for the ILC.
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baseline, ILC baseline
Barry Barish | 3 September 2009
Today, I want to advertise another useful resource that provides detailed ILC technical developments: the monthly Project Managers' Report
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GDE Project Managers, project managers, project managers report
Barry Barish | 20 August 2009
(...) The announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy that it will provide $52.7M of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to develop the Fermilab (SCRF) programme is a very welcome development. -- By Barry Barish, Bob Kephart
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ARRA, Recovery Act, SCRF, stimulus funds
Barry Barish | 13 August 2009
Our next (...) general meeting, organised by the American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG), will be held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 29 September through 2 October 2009.
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Albuquerque, ALCPG, ALCPG09
Barry Barish | 6 August 2009
Last month, I had the opportunity to spend time at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan where I chaired a review of their Institute of Physics, which has an impressive high-energy physics programme.
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Academia Sinica, China, Taiwan
Barry Barish | 23 July 2009
... One of the most complex and difficult changes under consideration is changing from the RDR's double-tunnel to a single-tunnel configuration. A key problem to solve for a single-tunnel configuration is how to deliver the high-level radiofrequency power to the cryomodules.
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AD&I, HLRF, ILC baseline, radiofrequency power, single tunnel
