Director’s Corner 4 May 2006 Gerry Dugan Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Gerry Dugan, GDE Americas Regional Director DOE and NSF Reviewers See Progress in ILC-Americas Program; Also Recommend Areas of Improvement The first review of the US R&D program for the International Linear Collider (ILC) by the Department of Energy (DOE) and […]
Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century
Director’s Corner 27 April 2006 Barry Barish Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century Creating a roadmap for the future of a scientific field has become a very important planning tool in research areas that require large instruments, such as astronomy and particle physics. This year, two new studies will play a very important role […]
A BIG MAC Report
Director’s Corner 20 April 2006 Barry Barish A BIG MAC Report Peer review has become a cornerstone of modern science assessments, scientific journal publishing, funding decisons and academic promotions. We actually instituted peer review early in the Global Design Effort when I asked three prominent accelerator physicists from outside our organization to review the baseline […]
Lost in Translation
Director’s Corner 13 April 2006 Barry Barish Lost in Translation Every Thursday, I get up very early, in order to chair a weekly telecon of our GDE Executive Committee. At the same moment, my colleagues are joining the call in the late afternoon in Europe and near midnight in Japan. We deal with the top-level […]
The Russian Federation in Seven Days
Director’s Corner 6 April 2006 Brian Foster The Russian Federation in Seven Days Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, GDE Regional Director of Europe. It is widely known that the Russian Federation is home to a large number of prestigious accelerator laboratories and many highly regarded accelerator scientists. Somehow the 30 years […]
Thanks Fumi… Welcome, Mitsuaki
Director’s Corner 30 March 2006 Barry Barish Thanks, Fumi… Welcome, Mitsuaki It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor Mitsuaki Nozaki of Kobe University of Japan as the new GDE Asian Regional Director, succeeding Professor Fumihiko Takasaki. Professor Mitsuaki Nozaki Following my appointment as GDE director one year ago, the first key […]
Integrating the Parts
Director’s Corner 23 March 2006 Barry Barish Integrating the Parts At the GDE meeting in Frascati last December, we approved the ILC Baseline and announced a new organizational structure for developing a Reference Design and Cost. In my short talk during the closeout discussion session, I reflected on what I considered some important remaining problems […]
Developing Partnership with India on the ILC
Director’s Corner 16 March 2006 Barry Barish Developing Partnership with India on the ILC Last week, I discussed a set of visits to government officials in India with the purpose of laying the groundwork for Indian collaboration on the ILC. True collaboration is made between scientists, however, so the visits of our delegation to several […]
Meeting the President of India
Director’s Corner 9 March 2006 Barry Barish Meeting the President of India One reason for our holding a GDE meeting in India is to provide an opportunity to explore the possibility of Indian participation in both the GDE and ILC R&D program. These discussions will hopefully be a first step toward an eventual full partnership […]
Bangalore Preview
Director’s Corner 2 March 2006 Barry Barish Bangalore Preview One year ago, during the opening session of the Linear Collider Work Shop (LCWS05) at Stanford University, Jonathan Dorfan on behalf of ICFA read an official letter offering me the position of Director for the yet to be formed Global Design Effort. I accepted and proceeded […]