Following last week’s meeting in Frascati, the GDE members and other attendees returned this week with only a few minor bumps and bruises from an onslaught of “rotten tomatoes”. “I was afraid that each speaker would need a flak jacket to present each portion of the Baseline Configuration Document because this is the chance for […]
Frascati News
Director’s Corner 8 December 2005 Barry Barish Frascati News This week the GDE is in Frascati, Italy. We have come together for what is only our second face-to-face meeting, following our kick-off meeting as part of the Snowmass workshop just over three months ago. The main goal, finalizing the baseline configuration, represents the successful completion […]
Progress with the BCD
Director’s Corner17 November 2005 Barry Barish Progress with the BCDToday I am going to give an update on our progress towards the Baseline Configuration Document (BCD). The major goal of the GDE this calendar year is to produce a baseline configuration for the ILC and to document it by the end of 2005. This configuration […]
1 September 2005
Director’s Corner 1 September 2005 Barry Barish The two-week linear collider workshop at Snowmass is now over. Both the 2nd ILC Workshop and the 2005 International Linear Collider Physics and Detector Workshops were great successes. Holding these two workshops together proved to be a very good idea because they provided many opportunities for the accelerator […]