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 | 19 October 2006
The next big goal for the Global Design Effort is to produce an ILC Reference Design Report, RDR, that will include Preliminary Costing.
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ILC design, ILC schedule, Reference Design Report
Barry Barish | 12 October 2006
Last week, Sheldon Glashow of Boston University and I made a trip to Italy to receive honorary degrees in physics, Lauree ad Honorem in Fisica, from the University of Bologna.
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Bologna, Italy
Barry Barish | 5 October 2006
We have planned from the beginning to quickly create an initial baseline and as a result of technical developments, evolve it in time.
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damping ring, electron cloud, ILC design
Barry Barish | 28 September 2006
The Machine Advisory Committee reviewed the GDE for the second time last week at KEK in Japan from 20 to 22 September.
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MAC, Machine Advisory Committee, review
Barry Barish | 21 September 2006
Optimising cost to performance for the ILC design is a challenging task. Our working groups have identified a number of possible design changes, motivated by large potential cost savings.
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beam delivery system, crossing angle, ILC design
Barry Barish | 7 September 2006
Our GDE team has about a third of its membership from the Americas, a third from Asia and a third from Europe.
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cost estimate
Barry Barish | 31 August 2006
A central focus of the GDE at this time is determining the ILC cost in its present form.
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cost confidentiality, cost estimate
Barry Barish | 24 August 2006
An innocent looking little document entitled Parameters for the Linear Collider dated 30 September 2003 has to a large extent determined the present baseline design of the ILC.
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ILC parameters, ILCSC, International Linear Collider Steering Committee
Barry Barish | 17 August 2006
One year ago, most of the 49 newly appointed members of the Global Design Effort came to Snowmass, Colorado, for the International Linear Collider Workshop where they participated in our first GDE face-to-face meeting.
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GDE, milestone
Barry Barish | 10 August 2006
Last week I discussed the physics and detector part of the joint American Linear Collider Planning Group, ALCPG, and GDE workshop, VLCW06, held in Vancouver from 19-23 July. -- By Barry Barish
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ILC reference design, VLCW06
