LCFOA President Ken Olsen

The Linear Collider Forum of America, a not-for-profit industrial forum , will hold their fall 2006 meeting on 16-17 October. The meeting will start at Argonne on the afternoon of Monday 16 October and will continue all day Tuesday 17 October at Fermilab.

Following the last LCFOA meeting at SLAC in May, this next session will focus on progress made by the ILC program over the last several months, cavity and surface polishing R&D at Argonne and an opportunity to tour the new ILC facilities being developed at Fermilab. Industry members will have the opportunity to provide feedback and recommendations on needed user facilities and such issues as manufacturing, scheduling and contracting during a panel discussion at the end of the meeting. There will also be a smaller, detailed technical workshop for companies interested in magnet manufacturing on Wednesday 18 October.

The meeting is open to all interested parties, and there will be no registration fee. To register, please send your name, affiliation, address, phone and email address to ken.olsen@lcfoa.org. The agenda, accommodation information and details about entering Argonne's site are available online.

-- Elizabeth Clements