Director’s Corner 16 April 2009 Barry Barish Gran Sasso National Laboratory survives the Italian earthquake Last week a major earthquake struck Italy about 10 kilometres from the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Gran Sasso National Laboratory). The inhabitants of the city of L’Aquila nearby the laboratory suffered numerous injuries and loss of lives, as well […]
Technological Benefits from ILC R&D
Director’s Corner 9 April 2009 Barry Barish Technological Benefits from ILC R&D We are pursuing a very ambitious R&D programme in order to develop the technologies that will be required to build the International Linear Collider. Recognising that important technological benefits are resulting from our ILC R&D programme, the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), […]
Neutrinos in Venice
Director’s Corner 2 April 2009 Barry Barish Neutrinos in Venice Last month I had the pleasure of participating in the "XIII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes" at the "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice Italy. This workshop, inspired and run by Professor Milla Baldo Ceolin (Padova University), has become an institution in […]
Science in the Obama era
Director’s Corner 19 March 2009 Barry Barish Science in the Obama era “We will restore science to its rightful place,” said President Barack Obama in his inauguration address. That statement has raised the hopes of the scientific community, and actions that have followed have further encouraged us to believe that we are entering a new […]
The ILC damping rings and electron cloud mitigation
Director’s Corner 12 March 2009 Barry Barish The ILC damping rings and electron cloud mitigation Today’s ILC NewsLine is a thematic issue focusing on aspects of electron cloud mitigation for the ILC and for other future accelerators. One of the highest-priority goals of the ILC R&D programme during the Technical Design Phase is to demonstrate […]
ILC R&D plan updated
Director’s Corner 5 March 2009 Barry Barish ILC R&D plan updated ILC Research and Development Plan for the Technical Design Phase Release 3 We characterise the present period of the Global Design Effort activities as a four-year programme to prepare ourselves to be ready to propose a well conceived ILC construction project to collaborating governments […]
TILC09 will have some special features
Director’s Corner 19 February 2009 Barry Barish TILC09 will have some special features TILC09 will be held in Tsukuba, Japan, from 17 to 21 April 2009: We will once again share a venue for the Global Design Effort meeting with an ILC physics and detector workshop. These joint meetings help bring us all together as […]
Involving Spain in the ILC R&D programme
Director’s Corner 12 February 2009 Barry Barish Involving Spain in the ILC R&D programme We had a nearly two-day meeting with the Spanish particle physics groups to explore collaborations for the ILC last month, immediately following the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) meeting in Madrid. During the FALC meeting, Juan A. Fuster Verdú gave […]
FALC meets in Madrid
Director’s Corner 5 February 2009 Barry Barish FALC meets in Madrid The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) held its semi-annual meeting in Madrid, Spain on 19 January. FALC is an informal group of agency and government representatives that provides oversight for the Global Design Effort on resource and project planning matters. More broadly, FALC […]
Training the next generation of accelerator scientists
Director’s Corner 22 January 2009 Barry Barish Training the next generation of accelerator scientists Linear Collider School poster The Third International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders took place from 19 to 20 October 2008 at the Oakbrook Hills Marriott Hotel near Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. and was a continuation of the previous two international LC accelerator […]