The Global Design Effort has completed its mandate to produce a technical design for the ILC. Yesterday’s official handover of the Technical Design Report to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) was the culmination of a celebratory three continent event this week. The discovery of a Higgs particle at the LHC at CERN, the […]
A second snapshot of the evolving TDR draft
The Technical Design Report (TDR) will be the culmination and final deliverable for the Global Design Effort. The technical details of the baseline that is the basis of the TDR design were established and finalised last spring. At that time, report writing began on a schedule of producing a report that is in near-final form […]
A game plan for producing the ILC Technical Design Report
The GDE Executive Committee met in a two-day face-to-face meeting in Melbourne just following ICHEP12. The main order of business was to develop a detailed “game plan” for producing the ILC Technical Design Report. The Global Design Effort (GDE) was created by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and its subcommittee, the International Linear […]
GDE Executive Committee meets face to face
The Global Design Effort (GDE) Executive Committee met face to face in Washington, DC, from 8-9 February at the offices of the American Physical Society. The GDE Executive Committee is the senior responsible body for the GDE and advises me on the broad range of science and policy issues involved in directing our efforts. Being […]
GDE Executive Committee visits Jefferson Lab
The Global Design Effort Executive Committee visited Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia, US earlier this month.
GDE Executive Committee meeting at Caltech
The GDE Executive Committee held an important face-to-face meeting at Caltech in the US from 19 – 20 July 2011. Having established the new baseline for the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) this past spring, the meeting concentrated on detailed planning for R&D, design and the actual scope and content of the report, which is […]
Thanks, Peter!
In 2005, I appointed three cost engineers, Wilhelm Bialowons (DESY), Tetsuo Shidara (KEK) and Peter Garbincius (Fermilab) to work together to develop the methodology and to perform an international VALUE costing of the reference design for the ILC. Peter and his cost engineering colleagues did an outstanding job of costing the ILC as a global […]
Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 8 October 2009 Barry Barish Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee The expansion of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) is complete. Today I announce that Toshiaki Tauchi has accepted my invitation and has joined the EC. I enthusiastically welcome him! I first announced my intent to […]
A picture is worth a thousand words
Director’s Corner 2 July 2009 Barry Barish “A picture is worth a thousand words” – (sometimes attributed to) Napoléon Bonaparte Today, in less than 1000 words, I announce the addition of a new member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC), Jean-Pierre Delahaye of CERN. Jean-Pierre will allow us to form stronger ties with […]
Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 7 May 2009 Barry Barish Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee The organisation of the Global Design Effort – the ILC’s management team – is more than a little unconventional. As Director, my boss is actually not a person, but rather two committees. Much of the work I “direct” is actually carried out as […]