[News-releases] TRIUMF Hosts Launch of New Global Team for Linear Collider (Feb 21, 2013)

[Tim Meyer]

Media Advisory | For Immediate Release | February 16, 2013, 10:00 a.m. PST

TRIUMF HOSTS LAUNCH OF NEW GLOBAL TEAM FOR LINEAR COLLIDER

(Vancouver, BC) --- Canada is famous for being a peacemaker, a negotiator,
and a broker of transition and change that creates a brighter future for
everyone.  On February 21, TRIUMF will do its part in fulfilling this role
as it plays host to a meeting of the leaders of the major high-energy
physics laboratories around the world.  The key outcome of this meeting will
be the completion of an existing global collaboration and the launch of a
new team that will coordinate and advance the global development work for
the Linear Collider, the world’s next accelerator project aimed at pulling
back the curtain on the secrets of nature’s most innermost workings. 

The new Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) will combine the two
next-generation collider projects, the International Linear Collider (ILC)
and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), under one organizational roof and
will be headed by Lyn Evans, former Project Manager of CERN's Large Hadron
Collider (LHC).  Some may recognize Lyn Evans as recent co-recipient of the
Milner Foundation’s Fundamental Physics Prize.  (Evans will give a public
science lecture on Wednesday evening at Science World.) 

The Linear Collider Board, headed by the University of Tokyo’s Sachio
Komamiya, is a new oversight committee for the LCC that will take up office
at the same time.

There will be a press conference on February 21, 2013, at 4:00 pm PST at
TRIUMF in Vancouver, BC. 

Lyn Evans (Director, LCC) and Sachio Komamiya (Chair, Linear Collider Board)
will speak at the conference, and Pier Oddone (Director, Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, U.S. and chair of the International Committee for
Future Accelerators ICFA), Jonathan Bagger (Chair, ILC Steering Committee),
Hitoshi Murayama (Vice Director, LCC), Mike Harrison (Associate Director for
ILC, LCC), Steinar Stapnes (Associate Director for CLIC, LCC), Hitoshi
Yamamoto (Associate Director for Physics and Detectors, LCC) and Barry
Barish (Director Global Design Effort, GDE) will be available for questions.

Journalists wishing to attend should contact Tim Meyer, TRIUMF’s Head of
Strategic Planning & Communications at tmeyer at triumf.ca (or +1-604-222-7674)
or the Linear Collider Communications team at
communicators at linearcollider.org. 

The press conference will be webcast. Journalists will have the opportunity
to ask questions via the online webcast using a standard internet browser.
Please visit the following URL:
http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/4927082a86c441c3bbf1ee
94611b0c131d.  

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Timothy I. Meyer, Ph.D.
Head, Strategic Planning & Communications
TRIUMF -- Accelerating Science for Canada | 
    Un accélérateur de la démarche scientifique canadienne
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Tel: 604.222.7674
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