Director’s Corner 26 April 2007 Barry Barish KEK and Fermilab: Strengthening collaborations Two 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. Atsuto Suzuki is a very distinguished physicist, whom I […]
The role of industries during the ILC engineering design phase
Director’s Corner 19 April 2007 Barry Barish The role of industries during the ILC engineering design phase Ken Olsen, President of the LCFOA To strengthen our efforts for the ILC engineering design phase, we intend to increase our focus on industrialisation. We recognise that in order to make realistic funding proposals to our governments, we […]
Organising the GDE for the ILC engineering design phase
Director’s Corner 12 April 2007 Barry Barish Organising the GDE for the ILC engineering design phase The next big milestone for the GDE is to develop an engineering design and document it in an Engineering Design Report (EDR). The Reference Design we have developed over the past year is a complete description of the ILC, […]
GDE to sponsor Second International School for Linear Colliders
Director’s Corner 5 April 2007 Barry Barish GDE to sponsor Second International School for Linear Colliders I 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 Poster for the 2nd International School for Linear […]
ILC Project Tools: ILCDoc-Document Search and Store
Director’s Corner 29 March 2007 Barry Barish ILC Project Tools: ILCDoc – Document Search and Store Maura Barone,GDE Project Tools Manager We are in the process of building an integrated set of ILC project tools for communication, data archiving, engineering, costing, scheduling and project management. Already, we make extensive use of communication tools for organising […]
ILC Baseline Alternative: The Re-entrant Cavity
Director’s Corner 22 March 2007 Barry Barish ILC Baseline Alternative: The Re-entrant Cavity Hasan Padamsee, leader of the Cornell superconducting RF R&D group ILC R&D on superconducting RF technology is of special importance because it represents our central technology, and it is an area where we are forging the way for future accelerators that will […]
Salute to Jonathan
Director’s Corner 15 March 2007 Barry Barish Salute to Jonathan! Earlier this week, Jonathan Dorfan announced in SLAC Today that he is stepping down this fall as SLAC Director after eight very successful years. Jonathan has not only been serving as SLAC’s leader during this period, but he has also been a driving force in […]
Whats in a Schedule
Director’s Corner 8 March 2007 Barry Barish What’s in a Schedule? On 22 February, I reported on our Reference Design Report to HEPAP, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel in the US. The committee responded very positively to what we have achieved, and the chair, Mel Shochet, wrote to me after the meeting on behalf of […]
ILC Baseline Alternative: The Marx Modulator
Director’s Corner 1 March 2007 Barry Barish Ray Larsen ILC Baseline Alternative: The Marx Modulator Today’s issue of ILC NewsLine features a special column written jointly by GDE Director Barry Barish and Ray Larsen of SLAC. The release of the ILC Reference Design was a very important milestone. Yet, we have emphasised that it is […]
The Road to the ILC: Convincing our Colleagues
Director’s Corner 22 February 2007 Barry Barish The Road to the ILC: Convincing our Colleagues Now that we have released our draft Reference Design Report for the ILC, our short-term focus is on completing and finalising the RDR. This will involve completing some unfinished work, undergoing international reviews and then revising and finalising the reference […]