Director’s Corner 10 April 2008 Barry Barish Implementing "internal" reviews for the ILC Technical Design Phase Last week, the new Accelerator Advisory Panel (AAP) was introduced in NewsLine. This week, I follow up with a description of its role and why I believe it will improve the quality of our R&D and design efforts. As […]
The ILC in Osaka
Director’s Corner 3 April 2008 Barry Barish The ILC in Osaka Last week, the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan was held on the Kinki University campus in Osaka, where I participated in a special symposium dedicated to the International Linear Collider. This was an important opportunity to expose our motivations, plans […]
Congratulations, it’s a PAC – scientific oversight for the GDE
Director’s Corner 20 March 2008 Barry Barish Congratulations, it’s a PAC – scientific oversight for the GDE The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) of ICFA met at DESY in Hamburg on 11 February – their first meeting since October last year. The ILCSC is responsible for creating the Global Design Effort and for appointing […]
The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai
Director’s Corner 13 March 2008 Barry Barish The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai Last week the Global Design Effort held a major collaboration meeting at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan attended by more than 200 participants from both the ILC detector and accelerator efforts. The past couple of months, in reaction to the […]
Science at Sendai
Director’s Corner 6 March 2008 Barry Barish Science at Sendai The ILC community has gathered at Sendai in Japan this week for the joint Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) Physics and Detector Workshop and Global Design Effort meeting. The opening session of the meeting was highlighted by a forward-looking science talk by Hitoshi Murayama, […]
Contemplating large international collaborations
Director’s Corner 21 February 2008 Barry Barish Contemplating large international collaborations The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting took place from 14 to 18 February in Boston, US, under the theme "Science and Technology from a Global Perspective." The AAAS is the meeting ground for the broad range of sciences in […]
P5 – What goes around, comes around
Director’s Corner 14 February 2008 Barry Barish P5 – What goes around, comes around In 2001, Jon Bagger and I served as co-chairs of a long-range planning subpanel for HEPAP, the US’ High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which recommended a 1-TeV scale linear collider as the highest priority long-term goal for US high-energy physics. Another […]
US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme
Director’s Corner 7 February 2008 Barry Barish US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme President Bush released his budget request for the US fiscal year 2009 (FY09) earlier this week. The three-trillion dollar budget proposal contains increases for research in the physical science in the US. The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget is to be […]
Common fund
Director’s Corner 24 January 2008 Barry Barish Common fund Our work for the ILC is made up almost entirely of in-kind R&D efforts, coordinated and prioritised through the Global Design Effort. A small but very important element which enables the GDE to carry out its central function is the GDE common fund. It was created […]
Collective wisdom
Director’s Corner 17 January 2008 Barry Barish Collective wisdom In last week’s Corner I mentioned the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) face-to-face meeting held at DESY this past Sunday. I said that we hoped to come up with a revised plan for the next phase of our ILC R&D programme, and I report today […]