Barry Barish | 17 August 2006One year ago, most of the 49 newly appointed members of the Global Design Effort came to Snowmass, Colorado, for the International Linear Collider Workshop where they participated in our first GDE face-to-face meeting.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: GDE, milestone
Barry Barish | 10 August 2006Last week I discussed the physics and detector part of the joint American Linear Collider Planning Group, ALCPG, and GDE workshop, VLCW06, held in Vancouver from 19-23 July. -- By Barry Barish
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILC reference design, VLCW06
Gerry Dugan | 13 July 2006The first GDE meeting in the Americas region since the Snowmass 2005 workshop will take place next week on 19-22 July, as a joint meeting with the American Linear Collider Physics Group ALCPG at the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ALCPG, Canada, LCWS, LCWS06, Vancouver
Barry Barish | 29 June 2006Not long after I became GDE Director, and even before I had recruited our initial design team, I gave a plenary talk on my ideas and plans for the ILC design effort at the Particle Accelerator Conference PAC05 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Japan, LC school, linear collider school, Sokendai
Barry Barish | 22 June 2006Magnets that steer beams around a ring-shaped accelerator, that focus particle beams and that make various optical corrections are key to building such high-energy particle accelerators.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: magnet, magnet system, main linac
