Around October 2012 the US high-energy physics (HEP) community and funding agencies started a strategic exercise to create a roadmap for the future of high-energy physics in the USA. The first step was the initiation of the Snowmass process to review the complete science status of the field. This culminated in the Snowmass 2013 meeting […]
US and Japan discuss cooperation in advanced science and technology
It’s suit and tie time when high-level US and Japanese science planners meet. At the US-Japan Advanced Science and Technology Symposium, held on 30 April in Washington DC, leaders from government, academia and industry met to discuss US-Japan cooperation in science and technology, using the ILC as an example. Learn more in the next issue […]
A potential US site for the ILC
One of the largest challenges in designing the ILC is maintaining the ability to site the facility in different countries with candidate sites that have very different characteristics. Our approach to taking this into account for the reference design was to develop a single baseline design having site requirements that could be satisfied by most […]
HEPAP: advising DOE on the particle physics programme
As US Regional Director, Mike Harrison usually covers US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) meetings as a way to stay abreast of developments in and the direction of the US high-energy physics programme. This time, instead of Mike, I attended the recent HEPAP meeting in Washington DC on 12 and 13 March. At this […]
GDE Executive Committee visits Washington DC
The Global Design Effort (GDE) Executive Committee met for a face-to-face meeting in the Washington DC offices of the American Physical Society from 8-9 February. At that meeting, we invited some guests to inform us about how science policy and funding work in the US government. Our mandate for the GDE is soon approaching its […]
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu speaks at Fermilab
US Department of Energy ILC R&D funding request for fiscal year 2011
Director’s Corner 11 February 2010 Barry Barish US Department of Energy ILC R&D funding request for fiscal year 2011 It is an understatement to say that the US ILC R&D funding has had its ups and downs! Two years ago in the final budget compromise for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, we effectively lost our funding […]
Science in the Obama era
Director’s Corner 19 March 2009 Barry Barish Science in the Obama era “We will restore science to its rightful place,” said President Barack Obama in his inauguration address. That statement has raised the hopes of the scientific community, and actions that have followed have further encouraged us to believe that we are entering a new […]
It is that time of the year again
Director’s Corner 25 September 2008 Mike Harrison It’s that time of the year again Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mike Harrison, GDE Americas Regional Director. It seems that my turn to produce a guest column for Director’s Corner falls each time (statistics of two) within a few weeks of the start of the […]
US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme
Director’s Corner 7 February 2008 Barry Barish US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme President Bush released his budget request for the US fiscal year 2009 (FY09) earlier this week. The three-trillion dollar budget proposal contains increases for research in the physical science in the US. The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget is to be […]