Forum - Challenges for Realizing the ILC: Funding, Regionalism, and International Collaboration - 23 August
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A panel of nine particle physics funding and policy makers addressed a full house in yesterday’s Special Evening Forum: “Challenges for Realizing the ILC: Funding, Regionalism, and International Collaboration.” Jonathan Dorfan, International Committee for Future Accelerators Chairman and SLAC Director, opened the forum and acknowledged all of the progress that the International Linear Collider community has made over the past few years. “It has been a relatively short time, and I think that the credit is due to the ILC community,” he said. “The community really has pulled together in a remarkable way and recognized the importance of this project. We still have to pull harder, but I believe that the scientific imperatives are so strong and exciting that if we can continue to behave as responsibly as we have, we will recognize an ILC.”
A number of U.S. policy makers spoke at the forum, including Pat Looney, former Assistant Director for the Physical Sciences and Engineering in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Fred Gilman, Chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, Robin Staffin, Associate Director in the Department of Energy Office of HEP, and Michael Turner, Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Science. Everyone agreed that the ILC community must lead with the science and not the tools. “Define not by the tools but by the science,” Gilman said. “The science first strategy is working. Saying with conviction that big discoveries at the LHC is essential in order to pull the trigger and move forward with the ILC.”
Roberto Petronzio, Chair of the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider, joined the panel discussion via telephone from Italy. Despite it being the middle of the night for him, Petronzio summarized the role of FALC and emphasized the importance of establishing a common fund for the Global Design Effort. “Establishing a common fund for the functioning of the GDE is a very important political point on our agenda,” he said.
Albrecht Wagner, DESY Director and incoming ICFA chairman, and Shin-ichi Kurokawa, Asian Committee for Future Accelerators chair and incoming International Linear Collider Steering Committee chair, addressed the crowd toward the end of the evening. “I believe that the time is ripe for us to realize the truly global ILC,” Kurokawa said. “Let us collaborate by overcoming differences among us and in our regions for the realization of ILC.”
Slides:
From Jonathan Dorfan (ppt)
From Fred Gilman (ppt)
From Shin-ichi Kurokawa (ppt)
From Pat Looney (ppt)
From Robin Staffin (ppt)
From Michael Turner (ppt)
From Albrecht Wagner (ppt)