Director’s Corner 12 February 2009 Barry Barish Involving Spain in the ILC R&D programme We had a nearly two-day meeting with the Spanish particle physics groups to explore collaborations for the ILC last month, immediately following the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) meeting in Madrid. During the FALC meeting, Juan A. Fuster Verdú gave […]
FALC meets in Madrid
Director’s Corner 5 February 2009 Barry Barish FALC meets in Madrid The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) held its semi-annual meeting in Madrid, Spain on 19 January. FALC is an informal group of agency and government representatives that provides oversight for the Global Design Effort on resource and project planning matters. More broadly, FALC […]
ILC power
Director’s Corner 29 January 2009 Ewan Paterson ILC power Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner by Ewan Paterson, Member of the GDE Executive Committee. I have many times been in the situation where I took an interested non-expert on a tour of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and explained how it relates to a future project, […]
Training the next generation of accelerator scientists
Director’s Corner 22 January 2009 Barry Barish Training the next generation of accelerator scientists Linear Collider School poster The Third International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders took place from 19 to 20 October 2008 at the Oakbrook Hills Marriott Hotel near Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. and was a continuation of the previous two international LC accelerator […]
Plug compatibility: rationale and technical aspects addressed
Director’s Corner 15 January 2009 Barry Barish Plug compatibility: rationale and technical aspects addressed An interesting and challenging concept that has emerged in developing the ILC’s technical design is that of plug compatibility for the superconducting radio frequency (SCRF) accelerating systems. Plug compatibility is not a new term invented for ILC – a common definition […]
A New Year
Director’s Corner 8 January 2009 Barry Barish A New Year Greetings and best wishes for the New Year! We all greet each New Year with hopes, dreams and anticipation of things to come. As we all know, this was just not the case for the ILC community as we entered 2008 a year ago. In […]
A year in the life of the ILC
Director’s Corner 18 December 2008 Nick Walker A year in the life of the ILC Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. By chance I find myself with the job of writing the last Director’s Corner of 2008. The holiday season is now almost upon us […]
A low-energy gamma-gamma collider as a first step toward the ILC
Director’s Corner 11 December 2008 Barry Barish A low-energy gamma-gamma collider as a first step toward the ILC? The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) met immediately after last month’s International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA) Seminar on future prospects for particle physics. The spirit of new ideas that prevailed at the ICFA meeting continued […]
Discussing the future – SLAC ICFA Seminar
Director’s Corner 4 December 2008 Barry Barish Discussing the future — SLAC ICFA Seminar Visionary thinkers converged at SLAC for an ICFA Seminar (International Committee for Future Accelerators) on possible future projects for particle physics during the last week in October. This was the ninth such ICFA-sponsored seminar, held every three years with the expressed […]
Progress on our Technical Design Phase goals
Director’s Corner 26 November 2008 Marc Ross Progress on our Technical Design Phase goals Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. Last week several hundred scientists and engineers gathered at the new Forum Event Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago for LCWS 08 and […]