Director’s Corner 30 November 2006 Barry Barish FALC — What’s in the Name? I attended a meeting hosted by KEK Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan on 19 November of the "Funding Agencies for Large Colliders" (FALC), previously known as "Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider." The change of names for FALC has caused more than a […]
The Japanese Strategy of High-Energy Physics: Full Support for the ILC
Director’s Corner 22 November 2006 Mitsuaki Nozaki The Japanese Strategy of High-Energy Physics: Full Support for the ILC Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mitsuaki Nozaki, GDE Asian Regional Director. A community-wide consensus is inevitable to promote a big project like the International Linear Collider, otherwise the project will not be supported by other […]
The Evolving ILC Design: Lowering Detectors from the Surface
Director’s Corner 16 November 2006 Barry Barish The Evolving ILC Design: Lowering Detectors from the Surface On 2 November, right before the very successful GDE meeting that has just concluded in Valencia, Spain, we officially made another important change to the ILC baseline design. Instead of assembling the detectors in their final resting place, they […]
GDE and WWS meet at Valencia
Director’s Corner 9 November 2006 Brian Foster GDE and WWS meet at Valencia Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster from the University of Oxford. On Tuesday a momentous meeting for the future of the ILC began in Valencia. Under cloudy skies and occasional rain, the ILC family has gathered for one of […]
Worldwide Peer Reviews for ILC Detector R&D
Director’s Corner 2 November 2006 Barry Barish Worldwide Peer Reviews for ILC Detector R&D Reaching the science goals for the ILC will require that both the collider performance and the capabilities of the detectors be consistent with the parameters set out by the ILCSC parameters group. For the ILC detectors, this will require improvements in […]
ILC-Americas Regional Team Looks to the Future
Director’s Corner 26 October 2006 Gerry Dugan ILC-Americas Regional Team Looks to the Future Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Gerry Dugan, GDE Americas Regional Director. Over the past year, in addition to contributing to the ILC Reference Design Report, the ILC-Americas regional team (ART) has focused on programme planning for the next few […]
Road to the ILC Reference Design
Director’s Corner 19 October 2006 Barry Barish Road to the ILC Reference Design The next big goal for the Global Design Effort is to produce an ILC Reference Design Report (RDR) that will include Preliminary Costing. We are systematically working toward this goal, and have now progressed far enough to set a realistic schedule. In […]
Pomp and Circumstance
Director’s Corner 12 October 2006 Barry Barish Pomp and Circumstance Last week, Sheldon Glashow of Boston University and I made a trip to Italy to receive honorary degrees in physics ("Lauree ad Honorem in Fisica") from the University of Bologna. The ceremony was very impressive, not just for the elegant caps and gowns we wore, […]
The Evolving ILC Design: Eliminating One Positron Damping Ring
Director’s Corner 5 October 2006 Barry Barish The Evolving ILC Design: Eliminating One Positron Damping Ring We have planned from the beginning to quickly create an initial baseline and as a result of technical developments, evolve it in time. Our Baseline Configuration Document explicitly includes a number of alternatives that we consider to be very […]
Machine Advisory Committee Reviews the GDE
Director’s Corner 28 September 2006 Barry Barish Machine Advisory Committee Reviews the GDE The Machine Advisory Committee (MAC) reviewed the GDE for the second time last week at KEK in Japan from 20 to 22 September. The MAC, appointed by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee, is made up of an experienced international group of […]