This issue of LC NewsLine may come a bit later than usual, but it also comes full of the latest news from the US strategy process along with commentary from the American directors in the Linear Collider Collaboration, Harry Weerts and Mike Harrison, on what the P5 recommendations mean for the linear collider. Download the […]
Special LC NewsLine issue: The US strategy
Forum at the Terascale
This week, the German LC Forum took place at the University of Bonn. The LC Forum was initiated by the Helmholtz Alliance “Physics at the Terascale“ to provide a regular discussion platform for all aspects of linear colliders – accelerator, detectors, physics. The meeting was held in the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics and yielded lively discussion, also […]
Special issue: The ILC guide to Kitakami 2
How do foreigners get around in Japan and where will they settle when (if) the ILC is being built and operated? In this visit to Kitakami-part 2, you will be introduce to the coolness of the ILC Kitakami candidate site (don’t miss the videos inside!). For an introduction and a glossary, don’t miss the first […]
Ichinoseki-eki: get on board the ILC train!
If you ever come to the Kitakami region and visit the ILC candidate site in Japan, you may well stop at or change over at Ichinoseki station (Ichinoseki-eki). Since a few weeks, local people and the visitors can view an ILC booth in the station, providing information about the ILC project and candidate site. Osamu […]
Former ILCSC chair Jon Bagger to lead TRIUMF
2014 Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics
The 2014 Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics will be held in Puri, India, from 4 to 17 November 2014. The deadline for applications is 11 April 2014. AEPSHEP is held every second year, hosted in countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The first School in the series was held in Fukuoka, Japan in 2012. Applications to attend the School […]
Special issue: The ILC guide to Kitakami
How do foreigners get around in Japan? What are the problems they encounter and what are the experiences that they make? And what can be done to make lives easier for scientists from around the world who come to settle in Japan when (if) the ILC is being built and operated? The European LC communicators […]
Kitakami slideshow
Images: ILC/Barbara Warmbein, ILC/Perrine Royole-Degieux and Oshu City
We’re ending this travel diary with a few of the hundreds of pictures we took during this trip to Tohoku. Have a glance, and discover what the region looks like, as if you were there.
Support around the Kitakami site
The Kitakami region in the north of Japan in Iwate prefecture is a potential site for the ILC in Japan, as recommended by the ILC site evaluation committee of Japan on 23 August 2013. And the region is clearly proud of this recommendation. The towns that would be the neighbours of the ILC if it was […]