Director’s Corner 19 November 2009 Barry Barish The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge In planning for a new large initiative like the International Linear Collider, it is important to learn as much as possible from existing projects that have relevance. In that spirit, we have invited presentations from other projects at our large workshops. […]
Rethinking LHC-ILC connections
Director’s Corner 12 November 2009 Barry Barish Rethinking LHC–ILC connections The American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) workshop held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 29 September to 3 October was one of our large ILC meetings that we hold twice a year. There was much in this meeting: the results of the Letter of Intent […]
Report on the CLIC workshop
Director’s Corner 5 November 2009 Barry Barish Report on the CLIC workshop The September ALCPG and ILC meeting in Albuquerque, US, featured a plenary talk on the Compact Linear Collider Study CLIC by Jean–Pierre Delahaye, who gave a very nice description of the CLIC status and plans. His talk was well received by the ILC […]
Accelerators everywhere – the ILC in context
Director’s Corner 29 October 2009 Brian Foster Accelerators everywhere – the ILC in context Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, Global Design Effort European Regional Director. Although not an aficionado of "Twitter" or "Facebook", the answer to the question "What are you doing right now" happens for once to be interesting. In […]
ILCSC grapples with moving the Linear Collider forward
Director’s Corner 22 October 2009 Barry Barish ILCSC grapples with moving the Linear Collider forward The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), held their biannual meeting on 19 August during the Hamburg Lepton Photon Conference. ILCSC provides scientific and technical oversight for the ILC accelerator […]
CERN prepares for LHC commissioning
Director’s Corner 15 October 2009 Barry Barish CERN prepares for LHC commissioning Once again, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is moving to centre stage. The LHC is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator designed to collide protons at energies of 7 TeV per beam. Just about one year ago, as commissioning of this […]
Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 8 October 2009 Barry Barish Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee The expansion of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) is complete. Today I announce that Toshiaki Tauchi has accepted my invitation and has joined the EC. I enthusiastically welcome him! I first announced my intent to […]
FALC meets in Quebec City
Director’s Corner 1 October 2009 Barry Barish FALC meets in Quebec City The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) held its fifteenth meeting at Quebec City on 13 July 2009. FALC serves as the oversight committee for our Global Design Effort (GDE) on Resource Issues as well as meets to discuss more generally the status […]
Operating and maintaining the ILC in the year 202X
Director’s Corner 24 September 2009 Ewan Paterson Operating and maintaining the ILC in the year 202X Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner by Ewan Paterson, Member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee. Why is it that a group of us within the Global Design Effort are discussing some possible year-long operating and maintenance schedules […]
Linear Collider Accelerator School underway in China
Director’s Corner 17 September 2009 Barry Barish Linear Collider Accelerator School underway in China I write this week’s column as a lecturer at the fourth International Linear Collider accelerator science school that is underway at the Hotel Jixian in Huairou, located in a beautiful isolated park-like area about one hour from Beijing, China. This is […]