Live from Kitakami: the potential future host region of the ILC continues to show strong support for the project – we present two recent examples. Ichinoseki City in the Tohoku region of Japan has made a new ILC banner for its city office. This photo is of Mayor Osamu Katsube with staff from the ILC […]
Mayor and mascot support
From KEK: KEK and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a Project Arrangement concerning high energy physics.
On October 6, 2015, KEK and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a Project Arrangement concerning high energy physics. A signing ceremony was held at the American Ambassador’s Residence in the presence of H.E. Ms. Caroline Kennedy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of U.S.A and H.E. Mr. Hakubun Shimomura, then Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The history of […]
Physics and football
Working in particle physics can easily fill your day. But there’s always more to life than physics – football, for example. Three core members of the linear collider management team turn out to also be hardcore fans of Sunderland Association Football Club – so much so that one of them, John Osborne, founded the Sunderland Swiss […]
New publication: The Kitakami Times
Hot off the press: a new English-language newsletter about life in the possible future home of the ILC. Published by the Iwate Prefectural ILC Promotion Office in coorperation with Ichinoseki and Oshu, The Kitakami Times features local governments and foreign residents with articles about ILC awareness events, interviews with local officials, initiatives to “internationalise” the area, […]
Open House at KEK this weekend
Japan’s particle physics research centre KEK will have its Open House on 6 September. Two ILC test facilities, ATF and STF, will have guided tours. Check out the informative and fun exhibits at the Kenkyu-honkan building, meet the Higgs particle in person. Everybody who visited and collect stamps of two ILC related facilities and an exhibit […]
The history of a future collider
In the last issue we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the ILC-constituing meeting in Snowmass. For those who missed it, here’s the timeline of linear collider development since 2005. We’re also still collecting your personal memories of highlights from the last ten years and hopes for the next ten!
Special issue: Celebrating ten years since Snowmass (and ten years of NewsLine)
Ten years ago, scientists from all over the world gathered in the picturesque town of Snowmass in the US to constitute a new global collaboration for a future particle collider called the International Linear Collider. People who had worked on several different concepts for a linear collider reshuffled to work together on the ILC and […]
First editions
The design is clunky, but the faces look familiar: the very first issue of NewsLine was published on 18 August 2005. It had lots of live coverage from the meeting in Snowmass that more or less officially started a global R&D project for the International Linear Collider. It made scientists from different collider and R&D […]