From 19 to 22 October, the global community gathered virtually for the Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders (AWLC2020), focused on the International Linear Collider (ILC). More than 500 attendees registered for the programme of talks and discussions on the status of the project now that the International Development Team (IDT) formed by International Committee for […]
Americas Workshop on Linear Collider Planned for October
Following the International Committee for Future Accelerator’s August announcement of the new phase toward preparation for the International Linear Collider (ILC), the Americas Linear Collider Committee (ALCC chaired by Hugh Montgomery) has scheduled the next workshop on linear colliders, to be held virtually via Zoom.The Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders will be held in the week […]
CERN Council Open Symposium on the Update of European Strategy for Particle Physics
Six hundred (600) particle physicists gathered for discussions of the physics case for various options on the future of particle physics. This process to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics is mandated by the CERN Council every 6 or 7 years and this is the third time. In addition to people in Europe, there […]
LCWS2018: preparing for ILC realisation
The 2018 Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS2018) will be held on the campus of the University of Texas, Arlington on 22-26 October. This is the latest in the long series of linear collider workshops, dating back to Saariselkae, Finland, in 1991. The community has met numerous times over the past 27 years, but never with the level […]
ILC250 Higgs factory: ready for launch!
The world of particle physics changed in 2012. Following decades of experimental searches and analysis, the scalar particle thought to be responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, the Higgs boson, was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC at CERN. Now that we know of the existence and mass of the Higgs boson, […]
Congratulations, Barry!
Our colleague, Barry Barish, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for his leadership role in the direct detection of gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015. Following his leadership on LIGO from 1994 through 2005 for which the Prize was awarded, Barry led the ILC community as Director of the Global […]
Organising the post-2012 era
Last week the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced that Lyn Evans has been selected as the next Linear Collider Director to lead the new Linear Collider Organisation being created to bring the two linear collider programmes under one governance. The end of the GDE and Research Director era, with the completion of the […]
Past and future of the Worldwide Study
As we prepare for another linear collider workshop (the 13th LCWS in the 30-year series) and contemplate the ILC reorganisation and next steps following the Technical Design Report and the Detailed Baseline Design Report, I have recently found myself thinking back on the history of the Worldwide Study (WWS) and the valuable role it has […]
ILC community meets in Oregon for ALCPG11
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas.
I’ve been spending a good fraction of my time over the past weeks preparing for the next regional workshop in the Americas (ALCPG11), which will be held on my home campus, the University of Oregon, US. I’m excited that so many colleagues from all over the world will be visiting Eugene. I’m sure we will […]
SiD moving forward
Research Director’s Report 16 December 2010 Jim Brau Andy White SiD moving forwardThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau (University of Oregon) and Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington), who serve on the SiD Executive Committee and were co-organizers of the recent SiD workshop. The SiD (Silicon Detector) Collaboration met in […]