Barry Barish | 31 May 2007During the ILC reference design phase, leading up to the Reference Design Report (RDR), the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) appointed a Machine Advisory Committee (MAC) to provide technical reviews of our work.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: MAC, Machine Advisory Committee, R&D programme, review
Barry Barish | 24 May 2007There are just too many separate tasks involved for a single manager to oversee the effort and therefore we are proposing to literally borrow the famous Russian symbolism of a "Troika," and create a Project Office consisting of three project managers: Marc Ross (Fermilab), Nick Walker (DESY) and Akira Yamamoto (KEK). This team will have both shared and separate responsibilities, and Marc Ross will serve as the initial chair of the group.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: engineering design, GDE Project Managers, project managers
Barry Barish | 17 May 2007At the annual American Physical Society meeting in Jacksonville, Florida on 14 April 2007, I participated in a special session entitled "How to make big international projects happen."
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: international projects
Gerry Dugan | 10 May 2007The second review of the US R&D programme for the International Linear Collider (ILC) by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) was held at Fermilab from 30 April to 2 May 2007. This meeting served as DOE and NSF's primary peer review of the US portion of ILC RD activities.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Americas Regional Team, ART, DOE, NSF, R&D programme, review, United States
Barry Barish | 3 May 2007It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Harrison of Brookhaven National Laboratory as the new GDE Regional Director for the Americas, succeeding Professor Gerry Dugan of Cornell University as of 1 May 2006.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Americas Regional Team, ART, Brookhaven
Barry Barish | 26 April 2007Two of our principle collaborating institutions in the ILC are KEK Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan and Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. This week the KEK Director General, Atsuto Suzuki, came to Fermilab to discuss increased collaboration.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Fermilab, Japan, KEK, United States
Barry Barish | 5 April 2007I am pleased to announce that the second accelerator school dedicated to linear colliders will be held from 1-10 October 2007 at Ettore Majorana Center, Erice (Sicily), Italy under the sponsorship of the ILC GDE, ILCSC and ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Erice, Italy, LC school, linear collider school, Sicily
