Director’s Corner 13 September 2007 Barry Barish Towards organising the ILC engineering design effort In order to have the strength and organisation we need to carry out an ILC engineering design over the next three years, the GDE Executive Committee has been carefully considering how to reorganise our efforts following completion of the Reference Design […]
The Reference Design Report is now official
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 […]
The ILC Engineering Design Phase
Director’s Corner 30 August 2007 Marc Ross The ILC Engineering Design Phase – Towards the production of an Engineering Design Report Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. In August 2007, the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider published a Reference Design Report that […]
Congratulations Tor
Director’s Corner 23 August 2007 Barry Barish Congratulations Tor! For more than two decades now, SLAC has been pursuing R&D toward a TeV-scale linear collider. In the GDE, SLAC accelerator scientists played leading roles in almost all aspects of the ILC’s design effort that produced our Reference Design Report,. As we move into the future, […]
Physics of the top quark
Director’s Corner 16 August 2007 Barry Barish Physics of the top quark This week I am participating in the XXIII International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energy (LP07) in Daegu, Korea from 13 to 18 August 2007. The Lepton-Photon Symposium is held every other year and is sponsored by the International Union […]
Siting the ILC: Reference design for the conventional facilities
Director’s Corner 9 August 2007 Barry Barish Siting the ILC: Reference design for the conventional facilities Where will the ILC be built? This is one of the first questions people ask me whenever I give a presentation on our ambitions to build a new accelerator for particle physics. The answer, of course, is that we […]
100th issue of ILC NewsLine
Director’s Corner 2 August 2007 Barry Barish 100th issue of ILC NewsLine The Global Design Effort was created by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) under an MoU, which was initially signed by eleven countries. This MoU created my job, established an agreement and mandate to form and oversee the GDE, and was supposed […]
FALC meeting in Rome
Director’s Corner 26 July 2007 Barry Barish FALC meeting in Rome One of our most important and challenging goals for the ILC will be to develop government agreements that will underlie a true international governance for the ILC. We are a long way from achieving that goal, and I anticipate that will be done as […]
Project Managers join the GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 19 July 2007 Barry Barish Project Managers join the GDE Executive Committee The new GDE Project Managers met face to face with the GDE Executive Committee (EC) for the first time in Rome on 9 and 10 July. As of this meeting, they are part of the EC. Made up of senior members […]
Akira Yamamoto – A man of calm and expressions
Director’s Corner 12 July 2007 Mitsuaki Nozaki Akira Yamamoto: A man of calm and expressions Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mitsuaki Nozaki, GDE Asian Regional Director. “He is an active person who enjoys mountain climbing and jogging as hobbies. Well, at least he used to in the past. Now his hobby is physics,” […]