Director’s Corner 14 February 2008 Barry Barish P5 – What goes around, comes around In 2001, Jon Bagger and I served as co-chairs of a long-range planning subpanel for HEPAP, the US’ High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which recommended a 1-TeV scale linear collider as the highest priority long-term goal for US high-energy physics. Another […]
US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme
Director’s Corner 7 February 2008 Barry Barish US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme President Bush released his budget request for the US fiscal year 2009 (FY09) earlier this week. The three-trillion dollar budget proposal contains increases for research in the physical science in the US. The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget is to be […]
Black December
Director’s Corner 31 January 2008 Brian Foster Black December Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, Global Design Effort Regional Director for Europe. It looks as if last month will be classified as "Black December" as far as the ILC is concerned. Barry has already written of the developments in the USA funding […]
Common fund
Director’s Corner 24 January 2008 Barry Barish Common fund Our work for the ILC is made up almost entirely of in-kind R&D efforts, coordinated and prioritised through the Global Design Effort. A small but very important element which enables the GDE to carry out its central function is the GDE common fund. It was created […]
Collective wisdom
Director’s Corner 17 January 2008 Barry Barish Collective wisdom In last week’s Corner I mentioned the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) face-to-face meeting held at DESY this past Sunday. I said that we hoped to come up with a revised plan for the next phase of our ILC R&D programme, and I report today […]
Happy new (Gregorian) year 2008!
Director’s Corner 10 January 2008 Ewan Paterson Happy new (Gregorian) year 2008! Today’s issue features a corner from Ewan Paterson, EDR Integration Scientist and Member of the GDE Executive Committee. As our year ends and we enter a new one, it is common practice to reflect on the past and dream of or plan the […]
Omnibus is ominous
Director’s Corner 20 December 2007 Barry Barish Omnibus is ominous Our plan this week was to make this issue of ILC NewsLine a thematic one, highlighting progress on Superconducting Radiofrequency R&D, the central technology for the International Linear Collider. It would have made a very nice final edition for this calendar year, but unfortunately new […]
A more integrated approach toward an energy frontier lepton collider
Director’s Corner 13 December 2007 Barry Barish A more integrated approach toward an energy frontier lepton collider All of particle physics is poised for the impending first explorations of the trillion-electronvolt (TeV) energy scale at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Within the next couple of years, the LHC will lead the way in opening up this […]
China prepares for a new generation of tau-charm physics
Director’s Corner 6 December 2007 Barry Barish China prepares for a new generation of tau-charm physics The BEPC accelerator and BES detector facility are the centerpieces of the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing. These ambitious state-of-the-art facilities act as the follow-on to the pioneering studies at SPEAR of tau and charm physics. During […]
New year – new office
Director’s Corner 29 November 2007 Kaoru Yokoya New year, new office Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Accelerator Leader for the Global Design Effort. “If you talk about next year, devils will laugh at you.” This is a Japanese saying that corresponds to the English saying, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re […]