Director’s Corner8 September 2005 Barry Barish EDMS. All of us in the ILC design community need to become familiar with this acronym. In a generic sense, EDMS stands for ‘Electronic Document Management System,’ and it is used for software systems that provide an orderly way of organizing a large number of documents over the […]
Director’s Corner 1 September 2005 Barry Barish The two-week linear collider workshop at Snowmass is now over. Both the 2nd ILC Workshop and the 2005 International Linear Collider Physics and Detector Workshops were great successes. Holding these two workshops together proved to be a very good idea because they provided many opportunities for the accelerator […]
Director’s Corner25 August 2005 Barry Barish One of the liveliest and most interesting working groups at Snowmass has been the so-called cost/engineering global group. The workshop has many working groups meeting in parallel, so participants must make choices between going to physics groups discussing subjects like the detection of extra dimensions, detector groups discussing how […]
Director’s Corner18 August 2005I have been writing the Director’s Corner weekly since 8 June 2005, and this edition represents my tenth column. It was never my intent that the Director’s Corner be a standalone communication, but rather that it be part of a weekly newsletter called ILC NewsLine. I began writing my column before ILC […]
Director’s Corner 10 August 2005Next week the Snowmass ILC Workshop will begin. More than 600 participants have already signed up! Snowmass promises to be a very exciting and productive two weeks for the ILC. The workshop will consist of both the 2005 International Linear Collider Physics and Detector Workshop and the Second ILC Accelerator Workshop. […]
Director’s Corner3 August 2005The Worldwide Study of the Physics and Detectors for Future e+e– Linear Colliders (WWS) has played a key role in organizing the global efforts on physics and detectors for the ILC. The WWS has received more than 2700 signatures in support of the linear collider as result of their "Linear Collider Report […]
Director’s Corner 27 July 2005I am often asked where the ILC will be sited The mere fact that I am asked such a question tells me that some of you think we know more than we are revealing about where the ILC will eventually be located. But I must tell you the simple truth that […]
Director’s Corner20 July 2005Almost a year ago, the International Technology Recommendation Panel (ITRP) recommended that the linear collider be based on superconducting RF technology. The panel report added some important comments regarding this technology: "The superconducting technology has features, some of which follow from the low RF frequency, that the Panel considered attractive and that […]
Director’s Corner 13 July 2005 This week, the "8th ACFA Workshop on Physics and Detectors at the Linear Collider" is being held in Daegu, Korea. ACFA stands for the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators. It was formed in 1996 as a result of an initiative by Professor Z. Zheng, Director of IHEP, and Professor H. […]
Director’s Corner 6 July 2005Early this morning, I participated in a teleconference of the FALC Resources Group. Today, I will share some information about that meeting and group, as well as my own personal thoughts on the importance of FALC. So, what is FALC? FALC stands for "Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider." It is […]