Director’s Corner 21 November 2007 Barry Barish The importance of carefully planned infrastructure The elaborate infrastructure around the ATLAS detector at CERN. Last week, I gave a colloquium about the ILC at CERN. This is a very interesting time to be at CERN. There is a buzz in the air and an impressive amount of […]
Chinese participation in ILC
Director’s Corner 15 November 2007 Barry Barish Chinese participation in ILC The symbol of the ILC workshop was the new Beijing National Grand Theatre: a cultural island in the middle of a lake near Tian An Men Square and the Forbidden City (Image courtesy of CCAST). Beijing is a place to mark important ILC milestones. […]
Cosmic Dark Matter and the ILC
Director’s Corner 8 November 2007 Barry Barish Cosmic Dark Matter and the ILC A couple of weeks ago, Michael Peskin (SLAC) opened the ALCPG07 meeting at Fermilab with a visionary talk titled, “The Physics Landscape: Now and Tomorrow.” I sat in the audience and wondered what he would do with such a sweeping subject in […]
Critical decisions
Director’s Corner 1 November 2007 Barry Barish Critical decisions Last week was an eventful week. The ALCPG07 and GDE meetings at Fermilab, attended by over 300 scientists and engineers, marked the completion of the ILC Reference Design Report and the beginning of the engineering design activities. The joint plenary session on the first day of […]
Project Managers’ World Tour
Director’s Corner 25 October 2007 Nick Walker Project Managers’ World Tour Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. For my first appearance as guest author for the Director’s Corner, I find it fitting that I am writing this in an airport lounge. I am currently waiting […]
Frosting on the cake
Director’s Corner 18 October 2007 Barry Barish Frosting on the cake Today we mark the conclusion of the Reference Design Report phase of the International Linear Collider Global Design Effort with the release of our document, The International Linear Collider: Gateway to the Quantum Universe. This new document is a companion to our four-volume technical […]
Unified versus plug compatible designs
Director’s Corner 11 October 2007 Barry Barish Unified versus plug compatible designs We are now making the transition from completing the International Linear Collider reference design to beginning the engineering design phase by holding a set of kick-off meetings to cover the major areas of the machine. The ILC project managers have organised this intensive […]
New detector leadership for the ILC
Director’s Corner 4 October 2007 Barry Barish New detector leadership for the ILC We are dedicating this special issue of ILC NewsLine to the appointment of the new ILC Research Director, Sakue Yamada of KEK Laboratory and the University of Tokyo. The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) has created this important position to provide […]
ILC Americas Regional Team progress report
Director’s Corner 27 September 2007 Mike Harrison ILC Americas Regional Team progress report Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mike Harrison, GDE Americas Regional Director. The first of October marks the start of the US fiscal year. As the process of allocating resources to the various Americas region ILC activities begins, it is natural […]
Project X at Fermilab
Director’s Corner 20 September 2007 Barry Barish Project X at Fermilab “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet II, ii, 1-2) In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare dramatised the lack of significance of the actual name given to […]