Barry Barish | 3 April 2008Last week, the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan was held on the Kinki University campus in Osaka, where I participated in a special symposium dedicated to the International Linear Collider.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Japan, Osaka
Barry Barish | 20 March 2008At their most recent meeting at DESY, the ILCSC reviewed our revised plans for the Technical Design Phase, taking into account the funding reductions from the UK and US. This important meeting established the foundation for our future work in the GDE and for the experimental community as they also enter into a new phase of their activities, calling for Expressions of Interest and Letters of Intent.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: PAC, Physics Advisory Committee
Barry Barish | 6 March 2008The ILC community has gathered at Sendai in Japan this week for the joint Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) Physics and Detector Workshop and Global Design Effort meeting. The opening session of the meeting was highlighted by a forward-looking science talk by Hitoshi Murayama.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILC physics, Japan, Sendai
Barry Barish | 21 February 2008Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University, and Maria Spiropulu, CERN, organised a very provocative and interesting special session entitled, "Large-Scale International Collaborations and the Future of Physics."
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: international collaboration
