Barry Barish | 8 January 2009(...) I am happy to report that we are starting this year in a much more stable state and with a solid and realistic R&D plan that we believe we can accomplish.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: overview
Barry Barish | 11 December 2008The spirit of new ideas that prevailed at the ICFA meeting continued into the ILCSC meeting where Hirotaka Sugawara, former director general of KEK, Japan, presented a different approach towards the ILC. He suggested building a lower-energy gamma-gamma machine as a first step towards the ILC. The ILCSC is now evaluating the pros and cons of this idea.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: gamma-gamma collider
Barry Barish | 4 December 2008Visionary 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.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ICFA, SLAC
Marc Ross | 26 November 2008Last week several hundred scientists and engineers gathered at the new Forum Event Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago for LCWS 08 and ILC 08. Once per year the Global Design Effort hosts a plenary meeting to which the entire community is invited to hear progress, plans and general presentations, and for 2008 this meeting was ILC08.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: cavity gradient, ILCWS08, LCWS08, TDP, Technical Design Phase
Barry Barish | 20 November 2008Edoardo Amaldi was one of the giants who shaped our field... In fact, his impact on physics and society was far broader than his contributions to particle physics alone: they also include his scientific contributions and leadership in nuclear physics, gravitational wave research and astrophysics.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Amaldi, Italy, University of Rome
Barry Barish | 6 November 2008As we move forward in the Technical Design Phase, a new review process is being developed with two principle elements: a primarily internal review process for ongoing in-depth technical reviews and an external review process for accountability and high-level reviewing. Our external reviewers who report to the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) chaired by Jean-Eudes Augustin, held their first meeting in Paris in early October and have now released their first report.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: PAC, Project Advisory Committee
Akira Yamamoto | 30 October 2008As one of Project Managers for the ILC I was been given the current task of overseeing superconducting radiofrequency technology (SCRF) in August 2007, and it may be a good time to see how our SCRF technical area could make some progress with global cooperation.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: plug compatibility, SCRF, Superconducting RF
