Professor Emeritus Akira Yamamoto of KEK, and former Project Manager for Global Design Effort, was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Emperor of Japan, in recognition of his many years of distinguished service in particle physics during the 2023 Japanese spring conferment. This Order is awarded to […]
Tunnel vision
During the ECFA LC2013 workshop that took place a the end of May at DESY in Hamburg, the LC management, civil engineering and machine-detector interface experts visited the tunnel of the future European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser XFEL – a week before construction was officially finished. DESY and the European XFEL celebrated the completion of the […]
Super scientists stand symmetrically
The fruits of industry
The Global Design Effort collaborates with industrial companies to encourage scientific innovation for ILC technology
As a global science project, the ILC draws on the resources of laboratories in the Americas, Asia and Europe. It also calls on capabilities from industrial factories and plants around the globe. The ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) has worked to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas among these diverse collaborators and industrial […]
Preparing for SCRF industrialisation
The Global Design Effort (GDE) was created by the International Committee for Future Accelerators with the specific mandate to develop a design for the ILC based on superconducting radiofrequency acceleration. One of the earliest goals of the GDE was to pursue an aggressive R&D programme to develop high-gradient cavities. We set an ambitious goal of […]
Keeping up with ILC technical progress
Director’s Corner 3 September 2009 Barry Barish Keeping up with ILC technical progress One of my major challenges in writing this weekly column is tailoring it to an audience that ranges from scientifically interested outsiders to technical experts who are members of the Global Design Effort. From the recent ILC NewsLine survey we know that […]
Project Managers’ World Tour
Director’s Corner 25 October 2007 Nick Walker Project Managers’ World Tour Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. For my first appearance as guest author for the Director’s Corner, I find it fitting that I am writing this in an airport lounge. I am currently waiting […]
Kicking off a new phase
Since their appointment in May, the three Global Design Effort Project Managers have been busy scheduling and planning the Engineering Design Report kick-off meetings. Since mid-August they have been touring the world for these meetings. Their purpose is, of course, to kick-start the engineering design phase of the International Linear Collider. During one of these […]
Project Managers join the GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 19 July 2007 Barry Barish Project Managers join the GDE Executive Committee The new GDE Project Managers met face to face with the GDE Executive Committee (EC) for the first time in Rome on 9 and 10 July. As of this meeting, they are part of the EC. Made up of senior members […]
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,” […]