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 | 16 July 2009
Preparations continue toward our "Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders" to be held from 7 to 18 September in Beijing, China.
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LC school, linear collider school
Barry Barish | 9 July 2009
... we plan to set an average operating gradient of 31.5 MV per metre for the 14560 cavities mounted in the 1680 cryomodules of a 500-GeV ILC.
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accelerating gradient, cavity gradient, high-gradient cavity, superconducting cavity, TDP-1
Barry Barish | 2 July 2009
Today, in less than 1000 words, I announce the addition of a new member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC), Jean-Pierre Delahaye of CERN.
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CLIC, executive committee, ILC
Barry Barish | 18 June 2009
Last week we held the first ever joint meeting of the GDE Executive Committee and the CLIC Extended Steering Committee. This meeting at CERN represented another step in bringing the CLIC and ILC efforts closer together.
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CLIC, CLIC technology, ILC-CLIC collaboration
Barry Barish | 11 June 2009
... A new, more descriptive name for the process we are undertaking, Accelerator Design and Integration, became official at the first working meeting towards defining a new ILC baseline held at DESY from 28 to 29 May.
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accelerator design and integration, AD&I, baseline, ILC baseline
Barry Barish | 4 June 2009
The AAP is an "inside" panel that is augmented by some outside experts and has the mandate of continually monitoring, reviewing and giving me advice on the technical aspects of our work.
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AAP, AAP review, Accelerator Advisory Panel, review
Barry Barish | 21 May 2009
Today I want to encourage young researchers interested in becoming accelerator scientists to consider applying to participate in our "Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders."
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accelerator science, LC school, linear collider school, school
Barry Barish | 14 May 2009
Compared to most accelerators, the ILC will have a much more intimate and complex set of interfaces between the machine and the detectors (MDI).
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4th concept, detector concepts, ILD, letter of intent, LOI, SiD
Barry Barish | 7 May 2009
(...) The heart of the GDE organisation and central 'engine' is an Executive Committee (EC) that works very closely with me on carrying out all important policy, organisational and operational matters. Today, I am pleased to announce that Peter Garbincius of Fermilab has joined the EC.
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EC, executive committee
Barry Barish | 23 April 2009
Before we can develop our own test systems that use ILC modules, we are making a series of important tests using the FLASH free-electron laser linac at DESY.
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DESY, FLASH, free-electron laser
