Under the Mediterranean sun, the old town of Valencia, Spain, became a hub of energy and ideas as more than 300 physicists, engineers, and students gathered for the 2025 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS 2025). Hosted by IFIC (CSIC/University of Valencia), the workshop brought together the global community working toward the realisation of a next-generation […]
LCWS2023: Back to the “real” meeting
“LCWS 2023 at SLAC was a very enjoyable and productive meeting with more than 200 participants from all over the world discussing future linear Higgs factories,” said Caterina Vernieri, one of the organisers of Linear Collider Workshop 2023, held at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 15 to 19 May. Attendees at the International Workshop on Future […]
Final countdown to the decision-making process
The decision-making process of hosting the International Linear Collider in Japan is now approaching a critical point. The Japanese government has decided that the ILC should be re-evaluated by the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), together with other big science projects, as part of its roadmap for the future. This evaluation, called the “Japanese Master Plan of Large […]
Linear Collider Workshop to be held in Sendai
The next annual meeting of world scientists working on the linear collider development will be held in Sendai, Japan. On 21 May, Lyn Evans, Director of Linear Collider Collaboration announced at the press conference held in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. This year, the Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS) will take place from 28 October to […]
Preparing for the update
The Linear Collider (LC) activities world-wide are entering a defining two years. The overall picture is quite clear in the short term. The European Strategy Update process has defined its organisation and timescale in more detail, expecting input documents to be submitted by the end of 2018. On the ILC side we are expecting clarifying […]
Two Linear Collider events in Whistler, Canada this autumn
As the summer conferences are kicking off, providing more and more complete 8 TeV LHC (Large Hadron Collider) results and the very first glimpses of 13 TeV data, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The highlight for the linear collider community is the yearly international Linear Collider Workshop […]
A successful Linear Collider workshop in Belgrade – and planning the main LC workshops in 2015
The yearly international Linear Collider Workshop took place from 6 to 10 October 2014 in Belgrade, organised by the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences. The workshop gathered researchers from Europe, Asia and America primarily involved in the linear collider projects ILC and CLIC. Approximately 200 participants took part from 84 institutions in 21 countries. The […]
Efforts for the ILC to be matured “from Design to Reality”
The 2014 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS’14) hosted by Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science, Serbia will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, next week from 6 to 10 October. The workshop will mark an important step for accelerator and detector design to be further optimised and prepared for the best physics case. The workshop […]
In preparation for LCWS 14
One of the challenges involved in an international project is that of maintaining good communication among the collaboration members. While the detector community has learned over the years to adapt to this situation, typically accelerator design has been centred at a host laboratory that provided the technical leadership. The ILC design team with its global […]
Challenges and goals for the LCWS14 in Belgrade 6-10 October
As the summer conferences are taking place, providing – we hope – further physics guidance for us, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The highlight for the linear collider community is the yearly international Linear Collider Workshop which in 2014 will take place from 6 to 10 October […]