Barry Barish | 20 August 2009(...) The announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy that it will provide $52.7M of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to develop the Fermilab (SCRF) programme is a very welcome development. -- By Barry Barish, Bob Kephart
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ARRA, Recovery Act, SCRF, stimulus funds
Barry Barish | 13 August 2009Our next (...) general meeting, organised by the American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG), will be held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 29 September through 2 October 2009.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Albuquerque, ALCPG, ALCPG09
Barry Barish | 6 August 2009Last month, I had the opportunity to spend time at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan where I chaired a review of their Institute of Physics, which has an impressive high-energy physics programme.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Academia Sinica, China, Taiwan
Barry Barish | 23 July 2009... One of the most complex and difficult changes under consideration is changing from the RDR's double-tunnel to a single-tunnel configuration. A key problem to solve for a single-tunnel configuration is how to deliver the high-level radiofrequency power to the cryomodules.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: AD&I, HLRF, ILC baseline, radiofrequency power, single tunnel
Mike Harrison | 25 June 2009The ILC, when built, will represent the latest in technology innovation and will be a global effort involving world-class talent. The Accelerator Design and Integration meeting held at DESY a few weeks ago is an example of the design process in action.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: particle acceleration
Barry Barish | 18 June 2009Last week we held the first ever joint meeting of the GDE Executive Committee and the CLIC Extended Steering Committee. This meeting at CERN represented another step in bringing the CLIC and ILC efforts closer together.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: CLIC, CLIC technology, ILC-CLIC collaboration