Director’s Corner 22 April 2010 Barry Barish ILC-CLIC general issues group At the Beijing meeting, Philippe Lebrun gave a report to the Global Design Effort Executive Committee of the initial work of the new “ILC-CLIC general issues group.” This working group consists of Philippe Lebrun (co-chair), Ken Peach and Daniel Schulte from the Compact Linear […]
Coming up – the fifth International Accelerator School on Linear Colliders
Director’s Corner 15 April 2010 Barry Barish Coming up: the fifth International Accelerator School on Linear Colliders One of the primary missions of the ILC Global Design Effort is to help in the training of the next generation of accelerator physicists. To achieve that end, we have been a sponsor and we supplied many of […]
Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC
Director’s Corner 8 April 2010 Barry Barish Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC This past week marked the beginning of a new era for particle physics with the much publicised achievement of establishing the first 7-TeV collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Both the impressive performance of the accelerator and the fact […]
Physics at the Beijing Linear Collider Workshop
Director’s Corner 1 April 2010 Barry Barish “Physics” at the Beijing Linear Collider Workshop A highlight of the opening day plenary session at the Linear Collider Workshop 2010 at Beijing from 24 to 29 March 2010 was a talk given (over video from Kashiwa, Japan) by Hitoshi Murayama simply entitled “Physics.” In actuality, Hitoshi addressed […]
Here is to Beijing – the Great Wall – and windowless seminar rooms
Director’s Corner 25 March 2010 Nick Walker Here’s to Beijing, the Great Wall, and windowless seminar rooms Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. As this copy of ILC NewsLine "hits the streets" most of us will already be in Beijing for the start of ILC2010 […]
Path forward following the AAP Review
Director’s Corner 18 March 2010 Barry Barish Path forward following the AAP ReviewI have been preaching about the importance of having in-depth critical technical reviews of our work for some time, and used those arguments to motivate the creation of a new review mechanism for the Global Design Effort R&D programme based on an “internal” […]
FALC meets in Mumbai
Director’s Corner 11 March 2010 Barry Barish FALC meets in Mumbai The most recent meeting of the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) was held at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India from 17 to 18 January. FALC reviewed the major high-energy programmes worldwide during this meeting, as well as hearing […]
Particle Physics for biologists and beyond
Director’s Corner 4 March 2010 Barry Barish Particle Physics for biologists and beyondIn last week’s guest Director’s Corner written by Mike Harrison, Americas Regional Director, he discussed his responsibilities to communicate and inform different parts of the US government on the motivation, status and plans for the ILC. Today’s column might be considered a sequel, […]
A trip to Washington
Director’s Corner 25 February 2010 Mike Harrison A trip to Washington Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mike Harrison, GDE Americas Regional Director. Pre-amble: One of the jobs of a Regional Director is to elicit support for the project beyond the traditional high-energy physics community. In this role Mike Harrison describes a recent trip […]
Change has come to linearcollider.org: take a tour of the renewed ILC website
Director’s Corner 18 February 2010 Barry Barish Change has come to linearcollider.org: take a tour of the renewed ILC website Today’s column is jointly authored by Maura Barone, manager of the project and collaborative tools for the ILC, and Barry Barish, GDE Director Welcome to the new linearcollider.org! Ever since its inception, the goals of […]