Rika Takahashi | 29 November 2024KEK is developing a new cryomodule. The five-year project aims to build cryomodules identical to those designed for the ILC to demonstrate the high acceleration performance required for the project. Foreign research institutes also participate under the international framework of the ILC Technology Network.
Rika Takahashi | 8 July 2024On March 21, the Federation of Diet Members for the ILC held a meeting with 50 participants, including Diet members, government agencies, businesses, and researchers. Reports on the ILC project's progress and initiatives by relevant organizations were presented, followed by a discussion on the project's future course of action.
Rika Takahashi | 22 February 2024Four Japanese diet members went on a grand tour of KEK last November, not only visiting ILC hotspots like the Superconducting RF Test Facility and the Accelerator Test Facility, but also discussing prospects for a career in science with Japanese students. Find out what they learned out and advised.
27 November 2023The ILC Technology Network Information Meeting was held at CERN on October 16 and 17. The event was jointly hosted by KEK and the IDT, and 21 research institutes from the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Oceanian region presented their progress in ITN activities, or their areas of expertise and technical interests.
27 November 2023The American Physical Society (APS) has announced that the 2024 Robert R. Wilson Prize for achievement in the physics of Particle Accelerators will be awarded to Kaoru Yokoya, a Diamond Fellow and Professor Emeritus of KEK Accelerator Laboratory, and fomer ILC Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. He receives the prize for his outstanding contributions in the areas of the theory and control of beam polarization in electron storage rings, beam-beam interactions in linear colliders, crab-crossing and coherent beam-beam interactions in circular colliders, and bunched beam instabilities. Congratulations to Kaoru!
29 September 2023On September 8, KEK announced that Shoji Asai, Director of the International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (ICEPP) at the University of Tokyo, was selected as the candidate for the next Director General. His term starts on 1 April 2024.
29 September 2023On 7 July, KEK and CERN signed an agreement to support the development of the ILC Technology Network(ITN). This new framework of R&D will focus on ITN-specific technology developments and studies in Europe, with CERN acting as a coordinating and facilitating hub.
Rika Takahashi | 26 June 2023In a resolution handed over to Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology and its Minister of State for Science and Technology, the Federation of Diet Members for the ILC stress the importance of international cooperation for a global science endeavour ILC, a reliable budget and progress in accelerator technology.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: Federation of Diet members, Japan, KEK
Yumi Aoki | 18 May 2023Professor Emeritus of KEK and former ILC Project Manager Akira Yamamoto was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of his many years of distinguished service in particle physics. Congratulations, Akira!
Category: Around the World | Tagged: GDE, GDE Project Managers, Japan, KEK
