Welcome Address

Shin-ichi KurokawaKEK

ILCSC Chair

International Accelerator Schoolfor Linear Colliders

Hayama, Japan May 20, 2006

This School is hosted by KEK and organized jointly by:

- ILCSC - ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel - GDE

- 535 　 applicants from 44 countries- 74 students from 18 countries were selected- 20 lecturers from the world

Institutes and funding agencies from each region support students and lecturers from the region

ICFA International Committee for Future Accelerators

ICFA has been helping to guide international cooperation on and try to realize the Linear Collider more than 10 years .

2002 Nov: ICFA has established the ILC Steering Committee (ILCSC, 1st Chair Maury Tigner,

2nd Chair SK) 2003 Nov: ICFA/ILCSC set up International Technology

Recommendation Panel (ITRP, Chair BarryBarish)

2004 Aug: Decision on cold technology by ICFA endorsing ITRP recommendation

2005 Mar: Creation of Global Design Effort (GDE, Director Barry Barish) by ICFA/ILCSC

ITRP Recommendationendorsed by ICFA in August 2004

ICFA has decided on superconducting technology for the future linear collider (LC), by endorsing the resolution of the international technology recommendation panel (ITRP) created by ILCSC under ICFA. The ITRP report emphasizes the importance of world-wide unified approach as a single team to design the international linear collider (ILC).

Global project named International Linear Collider (ILC)

Global Design Effort (GDE)• ILCSC set up a committee with Paul Grannis as Chair

to select a Director for the GDE.

• February 2005, at TRIUMF, ILCSC and ICFA unanimously endorsed the Committee’s choice.

• On March 18, 2005

Barry Barish

officially accepted

the position at

the opening of

LCWS 05 meeting

at Stanford.

ILC DGEILC-MOU : Signed on May 10, 2005

I believe that time is ripe for us to realize the truly global ILC.

Let us collaborate, by overcoming

differences among us and regions, for the realization of ILC.

Young students like you are people who

will/shall realize the truly global ILC !

恰同学少年風華正茂書生意氣揮斥方遒

Young we were, schoolmates,At life’s full flowering;

Filled with students enthusiasmBoldly we cast all restraints aside

From Mao Zedong (Chansha 　長沙 )

Thank you for your attention!