Director’s Corner 18 March 2010 Barry Barish Path forward following the AAP ReviewI have been preaching about the importance of having in-depth critical technical reviews of our work for some time, and used those arguments to motivate the creation of a new review mechanism for the Global Design Effort R&D programme based on an “internal” […]
“Well done, now do some more”
Accelerator Advisory Panel publishes results from the first review
A few weeks after the first big Accelerator Advisory Panel (AAP) review at the TILC09 meeting in Tsukuba, Japan, the panel has published its review results (see also the two most recent Director’s Corners on this topic). After two months of preparation, an intense week of presentations and another few weeks of writing up the […]
The value of being reviewed
Director’s Corner 4 June 2009 Barry Barish The value of being reviewed Last week, one of our ILC project managers, Nick Walker, wrote a guest Director’s Corner about what he called the “review season” that we have recently been through, and he included some remarks about the review conducted by our Accelerator Advisor Panel (AAP), […]
TILC09 will have some special features
Director’s Corner 19 February 2009 Barry Barish TILC09 will have some special features TILC09 will be held in Tsukuba, Japan, from 17 to 21 April 2009: We will once again share a venue for the Global Design Effort meeting with an ILC physics and detector workshop. These joint meetings help bring us all together as […]