17 July 2008

PDFs For Printing Archive Search ILC Home Subscribe Contact 17 July 2008

Research Director's Report Feature Story Director's Corner

The first IDAG meeting in From KEK Director's Corner: A personal tribute to Yoji Totsuka Warsaw and common task groups Obituary: Yoji Totsuka, Former High-energy Director General of KEK physics lost a Yoji Totsuka, the giant in our field former director - and I lost a general of KEK very good and an personal friend - outstanding when Yoji contributor to Totsuka, the IDAG members at the last ILC-ECFA great advances in former Director Workshop in Warsaw. Photo: Perrine neutrino physics, General of KEK, Royole-Degieux died of cancer at died of cancer at Yoji Totsuka. The first meeting of the International the age of 66 on the age of 66 last Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) for Thursday, July 10. week. I would like to pay special the ILC detectors was held in Warsaw tribute to a great scientist and during the ECFA Linear Collider Totsuka was one wonderful human being. workshop on 9 and 10 June. There Atsuto Suzuki pays of the first- were both open and closed sessions. tribute to Yoji generation of Yoji Totsuka was renowned as a Totsuka in his students to study scientist for his ground-breaking work The closed meeting became a good Director's Corner. chance for the IDAG members to under Professor in neutrino physics, especially the meet with each other, the Letter-of- Koshiba, the 2002 Nobel Prize discovery of atmospheric neutrino Intent (LOI) representatives and Laureate in Physics, at the graduate oscillations with the Super- research directorate members in school of the University of Tokyo. Kamiokande detector. I was working order to share their views as to what Upon receiving his Ph.D. degree in on a related experiment at that time, their tasks are and how the validation 1972, Totsuka began his career the MACRO detector in the Grand process can be made. working on DASP, an electron- Sasso Laboratory in Italy, where we Read more... positron collider experiment in DESY, observed possible hints of Hamburg, as a research associate of atmospheric neutrino oscillations. But the University of Tokyo. Later he -- Sakue Yamada it took the definitive and beautiful joined other experiments including measurements of Yoji and his JADE. In 1981, Totsuka was called collaborators to make the discovery. back to Japan by Koshiba, to build Research Director's Report Yoji went on to become Director Kamiokande, a large water Cerenkov Archive General of KEK and won many detector. In 1988, he took over the prestigious awards for his science. role of Kamiokande spokesperson Research Director's Report This made him one of the most from Koshiba, and led the design and respected particle physicists in the construction of Super-Kamiokande, My tribute to Yoji world. which brought him and his colleagues Arriving at DESY last Thursday, I Read more... to the discovery of atmospheric heard the sad news of Yoji from neutrino oscillations in 1998. In home. This reminded me of the most October 2002, he moved to KEK and -- Barry Barish enjoyable days I had in physics with worked as the director general from him here at DESY in the Double-Arm 2003 to 2006. He was a professor Spectrometer (DASP) group lead by Director's Corner Archive emeritus of KEK and the University of Björn Wiik and Guenter Wolf. When Tokyo. Prof. Masatoshi Koshiba decided to Read more... Image of the Week join the e+e- collision experiment by participating in the DASP Remember this? collaboration, he first sent Yoji to -- Atsuto Suzuki, KEK Director General DESY just before Christmas in 1972. I joined him half a year later, after my In the News ten-month stay in Novosibirsk. Read more...

-- Sakue Yamada Yoji Totsuka, former KEK Director General, passed away last week. He Research Director's Report played a major role in fostering the Archive ILC project in Japan and in the world, and in November 2004 he brought Calendar the freshly formed ILC community together at KEK for the very first time. KEK has put together a photo Upcoming meetings, conferences, From Liverpool Daily Post album commemorating his life in workshops 15 July 2008 physics. View photo album £65m for ‘cutting edge’ research centres at Darebsury campus 34th International Conference on Two cutting-edge science centres are Announcements High Energy Physics (ICHEP'08) to be created at the Daresbury Philadelphia, USA campus after the Government ILC Note 29 July - 5 August 2008 announced a £65m investment. 2008-047 Read more... Executive Summary of the Workshop ILD meeting on Polarisation and Beam Energy Cambridge, UK From Science Measurements at the ILC 11-13 September 2008 11 July 2008 U.S. BUDGET: EUROTeV Reports 2008 Supplemental Helps Conference on the Design/ 2008-003 Fermilab By Putting Jobs Before Optimization of the Silicon Detector Research Simulation Studies on Coupler at the International Linear Collider High-energy physics gets $32 million, Wakefield and RF Kicks for the University of Colorado at Boulder, all but a few million to be spent at International Linear Collider with Colorado, USA Fermilab. Another $13.5 million goes MERLIN 17-19 September 2008 to basic energy sciences, which 2008-004 supports x-ray sources and other Simulation Study of Fast Ion Upcoming school "user facilities" for materials science, structural biology, and other fields. Instability in the ILC Damping Ring

Read more... Third International Accelerator School 2008-005 for Linear Colliders (2008 LC School) Recent Experimental Studies of Fast From Daily Herald Oak Brook, Illinois, USA Ion Instability in ATF Damping Ring 10 July 2008 19-29 October 2008 Wise move to advance research efforts If our nation is to keep pace with the rest of the world in its technological = Collaboration-wide acumen - now ever so critical with Meetings skyrocketing energy costs - it must make a heavy investment in research. Read more... GDE Meetings calendar

View complete ILC calendar From CNRS international magazine 10 July 2008 Opening up to Asia ...CNRS has now firmly set its gaze towards the East. Since 2006, three International Associated Laboratories in the field of particle physics have been created with Japan, China, and South Korea. Read more...