“I am very much honoured to be given this opportunity to work with the ILC communicators and to be involved in promoting a science project of this scale,” said Misato Hayashida. A fourth ILC communicator has joined the Global Design Effort. Misato Hayashida, based at KEK, will be sharing the Asian communication duties with Rika […]
Asian ILC researchers gathered in Korea
From 29 to 30 September, the second Asia ILC R&D Seminar was held at Kyungpook National University (KNU) in Korea with help from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Core University Program and the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation. This workshop aimed to review the progress of R&D for the ILC accelerator in […]
2nd Asia ILC R&D Seminar
Director’s Corner 23 October 2008 Barry Barish 2nd Asia ILC R&D Seminar One year ago, I participated in an ILC R&D seminar organised during the China Center for Advanced Science and Technology (CCAST) workshop in Beijing. That successful seminar provided a forum for discussing all the Asian ILC R&D technical work, as well as giving […]
Science Fiction meets Science Non-Fiction
Group picture taken at KEK. On 18 and 19 August, a total of 38 leading Japanese creators, including science-fiction and fantasy writers, animation movie directors, comic artists, illustrators, and photographers, visited J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Complex) in Tokai-village and KEK Tsukuba campus. This visit was coordinated by Junpei Fujimoto, a KEK scientist who is active […]
Uniting Asian collaboration
Director’s Corner 28 August 2008 Kaoru Yokoya Uniting Asian collaboration Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, GDE Asian Regional Director. Since the establishment of Global Design Effort in 2005, I have been a member of Executive Committee as Accelerator Leader. In August 2008, I earned a new title, Asian Regional Director, taking […]
Establishing an Asian science communication network
Director’s Corner 29 May 2008 Mitsuaki Nozaki Establishing an Asian science communication network Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mitsuaki Nozaki, GDE Asian Regional Director. If you were a university professor and wanted good graduate students in your research group, what would you do? You’d surely advertise high-energy physics in your class or conduct […]
Building Understanding
Every month, a lot of Asian researchers come to KEK to conduct their research or experiments. “We have had 45 visitors for fiscal year 2007 so far, including ten Korean researchers,” says Tomiko Shirakata, secretary at KEK’s Linear Collider Project Office. Shirkata is in charge of KEK’s visitors programme activities and provides all visitor supports […]
Akira Yamamoto – A man of calm and expressions
Director’s Corner 12 July 2007 Mitsuaki Nozaki Akira Yamamoto: A man of calm and expressions Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mitsuaki Nozaki, GDE Asian Regional Director. “He is an active person who enjoys mountain climbing and jogging as hobbies. Well, at least he used to in the past. Now his hobby is physics,” […]
Crabbing in the cavity
What do superconducting cavities and the beach have in common? KEK accelerator physicists can give you the answer: the crab. During the spring operation period of the KEKB accelerator, scientists successfully achieved effective electron-positron collisions in a new cavity. Called the crab cavity, it tilts each bunch sideways so that the bunches collide head-on at […]
Future Particle Physics in Asia
Director’s Corner 8 June 2006 Mitsuaki Nozaki, ILC Regional Director for Asia Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mitsuaki Nozaki, ILC Regional Director for Asia Future Particle Physics in Asia High energy physics is a field of international collaborative efforts, both historically and today. Many non-Asian scientists from around the world are currently participating […]