Director’s Corner 21 June 2007 Barry Barish Report of the International Cost Review of the ILC What could be better than Paris in springtime? Maybe having enough free time to enjoy it! Last month, many of us in the GDE went to Paris (to Orsay to be precise) for our long anticipated International Cost Review […]
Report from Beijing: The ILC Reference Design Report
Director’s Corner 8 February 2007 Barry Barish Report from Beijing: The ILC Reference Design Report The GDE’s first major goal was to define the basic parameters and layout for the ILC and document them in a Baseline Configuration Document (BCD). We achieved this at the first GDE meeting held at INFN, Frascati, Italy, in December […]
Cost Estimating the ILC Reference Design
Director’s Corner 4 January 2007 Barry Barish Cost Estimating the ILC Reference Design One of the most important goals of the ILC Reference Design is to understand enough about costs to provide a reliable indication of the project’s scale and as importantly, to provide information and tools that will help guide the engineering design phase. […]
Developing an International Cost Estimate for the ILC
Director’s Corner 7 September 2006 Barry Barish Developing an International Cost Estimate for the ILC Our GDE team has about a third of its membership from the Americas, a third from Asia and a third from Europe. This "global" team developed a baseline configuration document (BCD) that lays out the technical description of the ILC, […]
Why Cost Confidentiality
Director’s Corner 31 August 2006 Barry Barish Why Cost Confidentiality? A central focus of the GDE at this time is determining the ILC cost in its present form. Over the next few months we will be doing selected studies to optimise the cost to performance. We have identified and are studying potential design changes, which […]
25 August 2005
Director’s Corner25 August 2005 Barry Barish One of the liveliest and most interesting working groups at Snowmass has been the so-called cost/engineering global group. The workshop has many working groups meeting in parallel, so participants must make choices between going to physics groups discussing subjects like the detection of extra dimensions, detector groups discussing how […]