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 | 12 May 2011
The Sixth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders will take place at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, USA from 6 to 17 November 2011.
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Accelerator School for Linear Colliders, LC school, linear collider school
Barry Barish | 5 May 2011
This year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity in 1911, the central technology employed in modern particle accelerators.
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superconducting magnet, superconductivity
Barry Barish | 21 April 2011
The last of four proposed major changes to the ILC baseline is to move the positron source to the end of the linac. That proposal has been adopted after evaluating the advantages and the possible options to retain low-energy performance.
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baseline assessment workshop, ILC baseline, positron source, top level change control
Barry Barish | 14 April 2011
Establishing a new baseline for the ILC technical design requires balancing performance, cost and risk issues. A proposal to halve the number of bunches in the machine, reducing power and cost has been approved, following a one-year study of all the impacts.
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Change Evaluation Panel, cost, GDE, ILC baseline, ILC parameters, luminosity, machine parameters, particle bunches
Barry Barish | 7 April 2011
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee met in Beijing in February and carried out their review of the Global Design Effort progress. They also had lively and informative discussions regarding the future of the worldwide efforts towards the ILC and beyond 2012.
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GDE, ILCSC
Barry Barish and Maura Barone | 24 March 2011
Welcome to the new ILC Newsline! This is the first issue of a new style, with a modern look and feel, new logo, more cohesive page design and navigation, and added features and functionalities. Take a tour of the renewed ILC Newsline.
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Barry Barish | 17 March 2011
On behalf of the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider, I would like to convey our deepest care and sympathy to the citizens of Japan and to our physics colleagues and collaborators for the tragedy that your country has suffered as a result of the earthquake and tsunami last week.
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earthquake, Japan
Barry Barish | 10 March 2011
Representatives of particle physics funding agencies worldwide met at SLAC in January in an informal forum called FALC. This provided an opportunity to jointly discuss the worldwide program and plans in particle physics on the eve of the much anticipated next data run at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
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CERN, European Strategy for Particle Physics, FALC, funding, funding agencies, INFN, KEK, Super B, SuperKEKB
Barry Barish | 3 March 2011
Developing a realistic plan for cost-effective production of the large number of ILC superconducting cavities and cryomodules is perhaps our most challenging task in preparing for the Technical Design Report. A new round of visits to industry is aimed at informing that effort.
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GDE Project Managers, industrialisation, SCRF, SRF industrialisation
Barry Barish | 17 February 2011
A freshly released report from the ILC-CLIC working group on general issues summarises general issues and synergies involving a future a linear collider. It also discusses plans for the ILC and CLIC efforts to identify common issues regarding siting, technical issues and project planning.
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CLIC, conventional facilities and siting, ILC baseline, ILC-CLIC collaboration, siting
