Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director.
Recently, public interest in the International Linear Collider in Japan has rocketed sky high, almost as if it keeps in step with the activity of the Global Design Effort: we are in the final stage of completing the Technical Design Report. One might have noticed that the amount of ILC-related media coverage is increasing in […]
Today's special issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director
On Thursday, 15 December, a symposium was held in Tokyo. This is only one event of a frequently held symposium series, but this time it drew much attention from Japanese media because Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, gave a speech there. This symposium was hosted by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science […]
This week, linear collider scientists converge on Granada, Spain for the second International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders. The conference is going well, with over 350 attendees discussing the future of particle physics, particularly with relation to how LHC results will guide the design of a next-generation collider. It is with this in the back […]
Director’s Corner 24 November 2010 Kaoru Yokoya The ILC-CLIC collaboration and technological challengesToday’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. In recent years, the collaboration between the ILC and CLIC communities has developed and evolved, and Barry Barish has reported on this collaboration in previous corners. Working groups […]
Director’s Corner 28 January 2010 Kaoru Yokoya S1 global started moving Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. S0, S1, and S2 — these are the "code names" for superconducting accelerating system R&D for the International Linear Collider. S0 is the programme to develop high-gradient superconducting cavities. […]
Director’s Corner 30 April 2009 Kaoru Yokoya New cavity production facility for future industrialisation Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. As most of you may know, I have just managed to complete my duty as a chairman of the TILC09 Local Organising Committee last week, and […]
Director’s Corner 28 August 2008 Kaoru Yokoya Uniting Asian collaboration Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, GDE Asian Regional Director. Since the establishment of Global Design Effort in 2005, I have been a member of Executive Committee as Accelerator Leader. In August 2008, I earned a new title, Asian Regional Director, taking […]
Director’s Corner 29 November 2007 Kaoru Yokoya New year, new office Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Accelerator Leader for the Global Design Effort. “If you talk about next year, devils will laugh at you.” This is a Japanese saying that corresponds to the English saying, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re […]
Kaoru Yokoya As Fumihiko Takasaki steps down as the Asian Regional Director of the International Linear Collider to become the director of the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies at KEK, he also steps down as the head of the Linear Collider Promotion Office, or LC Office, at KEK. His successor at the LC Office […]