CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, Fermilab Director Pier Oddone and KEK Director General Atsuto Suzuki discuss the state of high-energy physics at the Geneva Press Club’s press conference of the International Committee on Future Accelerators. The lab directors begin directly addressing the press at 6’44.
Congratulations to Shin-ichi Kurokawa
It is with special pleasure that I pay tribute today to Professor Shin-ichi Kurokawa, who was awarded this year’s Rolf Widerøe Prize by the European Physical Society Accelerator Group. Shin-ichi was cited for his “outstanding leadership in the design, construction and operation of several high-energy accelerators, including the KEK PS, TRISTAN and the KEK B-Factory. […]
Interim report on the ILC R&D programme
Today I announce the release of a comprehensive report on the ILC R&D programme and progress. The ILC R&D programme is oriented at establishing the technical viability of the design that will be presented in our Technical Design Report (TDR). This report describes our considerable progress to date on R&D and demonstration experiments that will […]
International Linear Collider Steering Committee confronts ILC R&D support issues
Director’s Corner 20 May 2010 Barry Barish International Linear Collider Steering Committee confronts ILC R&D support issues Scientific oversight for the ILC Global Design Effort is provided by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). The most recent meeting of the ILCSC, chaired by Jon […]
Discussing the future – SLAC ICFA Seminar
Director’s Corner 4 December 2008 Barry Barish Discussing the future — SLAC ICFA Seminar Visionary thinkers converged at SLAC for an ICFA Seminar (International Committee for Future Accelerators) on possible future projects for particle physics during the last week in October. This was the ninth such ICFA-sponsored seminar, held every three years with the expressed […]
From SLAC Today: ICFA Sharpens Focus on the Energy Frontier
“Particle physics is at a crossroads,” said Chairperson Albrecht Wagner of the International Committee for Future Accelerators, in the opening moments of the ninth ICFA Seminar last Tuesday in Kavli Auditorium. “The Standard Model stands triumphant,” Wagner said, “yet incomplete.” Evidence from past and present particle accelerators supports the Standard Model of the fundamental particles […]
ICFA Statement on Funding for the Linear Collider
The ICFA chair greeted TILC08 participants via recorded video message. What do you do when you are director of a lab and chairman of a large international committee and have been invited to different events on different continents on the same day, assuming you don’t have clones? You try to attend both — at least […]
Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider
Director’s Corner10 November 2005 Barry Barish Funding Agencies for the Linear ColliderAll of us recognize that the ILC will be too expensive to be undertaken by one country or even probably, by one region. For that reason, ground-breaking steps have been taken to internationalize the effort from the very beginning. This means the parameters of […]