Director’s Corner 2 September 2010 Barry Barish ILC R&D plan updated ILC Research and Development Plan for the Technical Design Phase – Release 5 Our R&D plan has once again been updated to reflect a number of significant developments in our present four-year GDE programme. The document is entitled "ILC Research and Development Plan for […]
ILC R&D plan updated
Director’s Corner 5 March 2009 Barry Barish ILC R&D plan updated ILC Research and Development Plan for the Technical Design Phase Release 3 We characterise the present period of the Global Design Effort activities as a four-year programme to prepare ourselves to be ready to propose a well conceived ILC construction project to collaborating governments […]
Progress and plans for ILC R&D at JLab
Director’s Corner 16 October 2008 Barry Barish Progress and plans for ILC R&D at JLab Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia, is a major DOE laboratory for Nuclear Physics. The laboratory has a pioneering 6-GeV electron accelerator that is based on superconducting radiofrequencey (RF) accelerating technology. JLab has a great deal of expertise, experience […]
Hot off the press: Technical Design Phase ILC R&D plan
Director’s Corner 19 June 2008 Barry Barish Hot off the press: Technical Design Phase ILC R&D plan “The word draft has been removed!” announced Project Manager Nick Walker during the GDE meeting at Dubna, Russia. This seemingly innocent statement represents perhaps the most important accomplishment and milestone since completing the ILC Reference Design Report (RDR) […]
TILC08 beyond the agenda
At the end of a productive working day, a long journey, a hard job or a rewarding week, Japanese people have a very useful phrase that expresses everything from gratitude and pride to exhaustion: Otsukare sama deshita, or simply otsukare. Even though not all participants of last week’s TILC08 meeting may be aware of the expression, all […]
The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai
Director’s Corner 13 March 2008 Barry Barish The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai Last week the Global Design Effort held a major collaboration meeting at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan attended by more than 200 participants from both the ILC detector and accelerator efforts. The past couple of months, in reaction to 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 […]
Collective wisdom
Director’s Corner 17 January 2008 Barry Barish Collective wisdom In last week’s Corner I mentioned the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) face-to-face meeting held at DESY this past Sunday. I said that we hoped to come up with a revised plan for the next phase of our ILC R&D programme, and I report today […]