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 | 27 April 2006
Creating a roadmap for the future of a field has become a very important planning tool in research fields that require large instruments, like astronomy and particle physics.
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EPP2010, particle physics, United States
Barry Barish | 20 April 2006
Peer review has become a cornerstone of modern science assessments, scientific journal publishing, funding decisons and academic promotions.
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MAC, MAC report, Machine Advisory Committee
Barry Barish | 13 April 2006
Every Thursday, I get up very early, in order to chair a weekly telecon of our GDE Executive Committee. At the same moment, my colleagues are joining the call in the late afternoon in Europe and near midnight in Japan.
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EC, executive committee
Barry Barish | 30 March 2006
It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor Mitsuaki Nozaki of Kobe University of Japan as the new GDE Asian Regional Director, succeeding Professor Fumihiko Takasaki.
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Asia, Asia Regional Director
Barry Barish | 23 March 2006
At the GDE meeting in Frascati last December, we approved the ILC Baseline and announced a new organizational structure for developing a Reference Design and Cost.
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integration
Barry Barish | 16 March 2006
I discussed a set of visits to government officials in India with the purpose of laying the groundwork for Indian collaboration.
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India
Barry Barish | 9 March 2006
One reason for our holding a GDE meeting in India is to provide an opportunity to explore the possibility of Indian participation in both the GDE and ILC R&D program. These discussions will hopefully be a first step toward an eventual full partnership for India on the ILC.
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Barry Barish | 2 March 2006
One year ago, during the opening session of the Linear Collider Work Shop at Stanford University, Jonathan Dorfan on behalf of ICFA read an official letter offering me the position of Director for the yet to be formed Global Design Effort.
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Bangalore, India
Barry Barish | 23 February 2006
Possible upgrade scenarios to 1 TeV were discussed at length during the Snowmass Workshop last summer, but no conclusions or consensus emerged.
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1 TeV, 500 GeV, energy, energy upgrade, ILC parameters
Barry Barish | 16 February 2006
The second meeting of the Reference Design Report group leaders was held at Fermilab this past week.
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WBS, Work Breakdown Structure
