Director’s Corner 24 April 2008 Nick Walker The value of science Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. What is your science worth? A question I have recently heard raised during many over-coffee discussions. The question is of course rhetorical: none of us can really answer […]
The GDE to meet in Russia
Director’s Corner 17 April 2008 Barry Barish The GDE to meet in Russia The next general meeting for the GDE will be at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. JINR is a large international laboratory with a long history in accelerator-related science. This meeting will have a thematic nature, exploring questions […]
Implementing “internal” reviews for the ILC Technical Design Phase
Director’s Corner 10 April 2008 Barry Barish Implementing "internal" reviews for the ILC Technical Design Phase Last week, the new Accelerator Advisory Panel (AAP) was introduced in NewsLine. This week, I follow up with a description of its role and why I believe it will improve the quality of our R&D and design efforts. As […]
The ILC in Osaka
Director’s Corner 3 April 2008 Barry Barish The ILC in Osaka Last 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. This was an important opportunity to expose our motivations, plans […]
The next step towards the ILC – building a truly global team
Director’s Corner 27 March 2008 Marc Ross The next step towards the ILC — building a truly global team Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. It has been roughly a year since the completion of the Reference Design Report (RDR) and the creation of a […]
Congratulations, it’s a PAC – scientific oversight for the GDE
Director’s Corner 20 March 2008 Barry Barish Congratulations, it’s a PAC – scientific oversight for the GDE The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) of ICFA met at DESY in Hamburg on 11 February – their first meeting since October last year. The ILCSC is responsible for creating the Global Design Effort and for appointing […]
The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai
Director’s Corner 13 March 2008 Barry Barish The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai Last week the Global Design Effort held a major collaboration meeting at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan attended by more than 200 participants from both the ILC detector and accelerator efforts. The past couple of months, in reaction to the […]
Science at Sendai
Director’s Corner 6 March 2008 Barry Barish Science at Sendai The 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, […]
A plug-compatible approach toward a truly efficient international collaboration
Director’s Corner 28 February 2008 Akira Yamamoto A plug-compatible approach toward a truly efficient international collaboration Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Akira Yamamoto, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. It has been eight months since I joined the ILC team as a project manager. I have been learning a lot and am […]
Contemplating large international collaborations
Director’s Corner 21 February 2008 Barry Barish Contemplating large international collaborations The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting took place from 14 to 18 February in Boston, US, under the theme "Science and Technology from a Global Perspective." The AAAS is the meeting ground for the broad range of sciences in […]