Akira Yamamoto | 3 November 2016Reporting from the French city of Strasbourg, Asian Regional Director Akira Yamamoto says that he was encouraged by a dedicated forum about the ILC, the ESFRI roadmap and next steps held with political and science officials this Monday. It was part of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference that continues until Sunday 6 November.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ESFRI, EU, IEEE, instrumentation, Japan
Lyn Evans | 20 October 2016First bilateral discussions between the Japanese and US administrations have led to a new emphasis in accelerator R&D for the linear collider that is both good and bad, Lyn Evans says. More bilateral discussions between Japan and European and Asian countries will follow. In the meantime, the community will lay down plans for SCRF research for the next two to three years during a dedicated workshop-in-a-workshop in December. Evans, current Director of the Linear Collider Community, hopes for great turnout.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: accelerator R&D, ICFA, Iwate Prefecture, LCB, LCC, Morioka
Mike Harrison | 6 October 2016Future ex-Director Mike Harrison dedicates his last corner to describing the challenges that come with a change of emphasis in the R&D. The main R&D goal is optimised SCRF cost coupled with optimal design – but it's not that easy, Harrison says.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: accelerator R&D, ILC, LCC, US
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 22 September 2016There’s a fitting phrase for the funding landscape of international high-energy physics projects: “It’s complicated.” Hitoshi Yamamoto, Director for Physics and Detectors in the Linear Collider Collaboration, describes the various sources of financial support, especially for developing future detectors, and where all of them stand. His advice: use all the opportunities there are.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: AIDA-2020, detector R&D, DOE, E-JADE, funding agencies, JSPS, MEXT
Brian Foster | 8 September 2016Among the LCC collaboration changes that will be put in place as of January 2017 will be the abolition of the Regional Directors. In this week’s corner, Brian Foster, soon-to-be former-European Director, explains what he has learned in 14 years of dedication towards managing the linear collider project, and gives some advice for the future.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: cost, European XFEL, GDE, management, RDR, site decision, TDR
Philip Burrows | 7 July 2016The British voted to leave the European Union. What does that mean for science? Phil Burrows, professor at Oxford University and acting Associate Director for the Compact Linear Collider Study in the Linear Collider Collaboration discusses the likely effects the “Brexit” will have for linear collider projects.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: AIDA2020, Brexit, EJADE, ELAN, EuCARD, European Union, EUROTeV, TIARA, United Kingdom
Akira Yamamoto | 23 June 2016The Japanese ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology MEXT has been investigating the ILC project and the feasibility for it to be hosted in Japan with three working group activities on “Particle and Nuclear Physics” and “Technical Design Report validation” since JFY2014 and “Human Resource ensuring and training” since JFY2015, under the supervision of the ILC Advisory Panel coordinated by MEXT.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: governance, human resources, ILC Advisory Group, Japan, MEXT
