Brian Foster | 23 June 2011Winner of a Humboldt Professorship, Brian Foster has just taken up his work at DESY and University of Hamburg as a joint professor for experimental physics, focusing on accelerators for very high energies. He intends to spend the 5 million Euros for five years to the greatest effect, and the ILC will play a very strong part in his plans.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: DESY, FLASH, Germany, HERA, Humboldt Professorship, University of Hamburg, XFEL, ZEUS
Barry Barish | 16 June 2011We have reached the midpoint in the ILC R&D efforts towards the Technical Design Report. In recognition of that milestone, we release today a new report entitled International Linear Collider: A Technical Progress Report. This report gives a comprehensive summary of the major accomplishments to date of the ILC R&D programmes.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ICFA, ILCSC, interim report, LHC, R&D programme, TDP-1, TDR, Technical Design Phase
Barry Barish | 9 June 2011To a very large extent, science has no boundaries. The research we perform, the discoveries we make, the collaborations we forge, and even the teaching we do is universal. As a result, science and scientists offer a unique window for understanding and collaboration with each other, advancing both science and what is referred to as science diplomacy.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: APS
Barry Barish | 2 June 2011Michel Davier, an important member of the International Linear Collider community, has been awarded the prestigious André Lagarrigue Prize in France. For the International Linear Collider, he chairs the special committee that has provided advice and guidance to the Research Director regarding the enabling R&D and detector design programmes for the ILC.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: CNRS/LAL, Gargamelle, Lagarrigue Prize, tau, Virgo
Akira Yamamoto | 26 May 2011As part of Technical Design Phase 2, the Global Design Effort has been working towards more realistic and cost-effective industrialisation models for the production of superconducting radiofrequency cavities and cryomodules, as these are primary cost drivers in the ILC construction estimate. To that end, they have been organising a series of visit to cavity and material manufacturers and workshops. The next one is in July 2011 in Chicago, US.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: cavity, cryomodule, industrialisation, industry, SCRF, SRF2011
Barry Barish | 19 May 2011A major particle physics mission, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, has been successfully launched. This sophisticated cosmic ray detector will use the International Space Station as a platform to perform precision measurements of cosmic radiation emanating from space.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, AMS, antimatter, dark matter
