ILC Global Design Effort (GDE)
An international team headed by Barry Barish leads the Global Design Effort for the proposed International Linear Collider ILC. Planning, designing and funding the ambitious electron-positron collider project will require global participation and global organisation. The GDE team sets the strategy and priorities for the work of hundreds of scientists and engineers at universities and laboratories around the world. Their goal: produce an ILC Technical Design Report by the end of 2012 which will be used to decide the future of the project.
Mission:The mission of the GDE is to produce a design for the ILC that includes a detailed design concept, performance assessments, reliable international costing, an industrialisation plan, siting analysis and governance proposal. They work in close collaboration with the teams that develop the detector concepts and scope. The organisation coordinates worldwide R&D efforts according to well-defined priorities to demonstrate and improve the performance of the ILC components, reduce the costs and attain the required reliability.
