Director’s Corner 2 July 2009 Barry Barish “A picture is worth a thousand words” – (sometimes attributed to) Napoléon Bonaparte Today, in less than 1000 words, I announce the addition of a new member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC), Jean-Pierre Delahaye of CERN. Jean-Pierre will allow us to form stronger ties with […]
The other kind of particle acceleration
Director’s Corner 25 June 2009 Mike Harrison The other kind of particle acceleration Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mike Harrison, GDE Americas Regional Director. The 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 step at a time
Director’s Corner 18 June 2009 Barry Barish A step at a time Last 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. CERN’s Director General Rolf Heuer, the CERN […]
An official change of name
Director’s Corner 11 June 2009 Barry Barish An official change of name A strategy has been emerging over the past months to define a new baseline configuration for the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR). Beginning with the well-established Reference Design Report (RDR) configuration, we are selectively proposing changes that can significantly improve the cost to […]
The value of being reviewed
Director’s Corner 4 June 2009 Barry Barish The value of being reviewed Last week, one of our ILC project managers, Nick Walker, wrote a guest Director’s Corner about what he called the “review season” that we have recently been through, and he included some remarks about the review conducted by our Accelerator Advisor Panel (AAP), […]
What’s in a word?
Director’s Corner 28 May 2009 Nick Walker What’s in a word? Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. During the day-to-day activities of Global Design Effort Project Management, I find myself using certain nouns more frequently than others. Recently, the word review has featured prominently in […]
Learning accelerator science
Director’s Corner 21 May 2009 Barry Barish Learning accelerator science Today I want to encourage young researchers interested in becoming accelerator scientists to consider applying to participate in our "Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders." It will be held from 7 to 18 September 2009 near Beijing, China, and the application deadline of 1 […]
Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process
Director’s Corner 14 May 2009 Barry Barish Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process The TILC09 workshop in Japan from17 to 21 April was particularly notable as it featured the first presentations of the ILC detector Letters of Intent (LOI). Although this process precedes the solicitation of ILC detector proposals or formation […]
Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 7 May 2009 Barry Barish Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee The organisation of the Global Design Effort – the ILC’s management team – is more than a little unconventional. As Director, my boss is actually not a person, but rather two committees. Much of the work I “direct” is actually carried out as […]
New cavity production facility for future industrialisation
Director’s Corner 30 April 2009 Kaoru Yokoya New cavity production facility for future industrialisation Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. As most of you may know, I have just managed to complete my duty as a chairman of the TILC09 Local Organising Committee last week, and […]