Dear Colleagues,
Please read and follow up on the following posting from Paul.
Apologies to those of you who have already received the mail
from DPF, but it was thought important enough to bring it to
your attention directly.
Norman Graf
Colleagues:
The enclosed note was circulated by the Division of Particles and
Fields and Division of Particle Beams of the APS, asking for suggestions
for the director of the Central Team that will be established to
prepare conceptual and technical designs for the ILC.
This is to urge you to make your thoughts on this important post
to either Nan Phinney or Sally Dawson over the next several days.
thanks,
Paul Grannis
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Members of the DPB and DPF:
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) has formed a
committee to nominate a Director for the ILC Central Design Team. The Chair
of the US LC Steering Group (USLCSG), Jonathan Dorfan, has asked DPB and DPF
to solicit candidate names from the DPB and DPF communities. Suggestions are
to be reviewed by the Executive Committees who will then provide two
relatively short lists to the nominating committee. The deadline for the
lists is October 8. Given this short timescale, please send suggestions to
the DPB Chair Nan Phinney ([log in to unmask]) or the DPF Chair Sally
Dawson ([log in to unmask]) by October 1.
The requirements of the job or job description were given in an ILCSC
sub-committee report on how to proceed with the Global Design Effort (GDE)
including the formation of a central organization for the ILC. The report
description on Composition of the Teams is excerpted below.
The Central Team:
1) The Central Team should have a Team Director selected and appointed
by the ILCSC with recommendations from the Regional Steering Committees.
2) The Central Team Director will be responsible to the ILCSC for
leading the Central Team to design and carry out the supporting R&D efforts
to produce a CDR and TDR. The Central Team Directorate will comprise the
Central Team Director and the three Regional Directors, and is expected to
include a Chief Accelerator Scientist and a Chief Engineer, and its
responsibilities are to collectively:
a. Manage the execution of the design and associated R&D.
b. Establish technical and administrative controls to ensure that the
agree-upon work toward the CDR and TDR is executed within the MOU approved
cost, schedule and technical scope.
c. Maintain and control the machine parameters database and direct
overall project planning.
3) The Central Team Director must be skilled and experienced with the
management of major projects, must have an established record of working
well with a wide variety of people from diverse backgrounds, and should have
a good working knowledge of accelerator design and construction.
4) The Chief Accelerator Scientist has line responsibilities for the
accelerator physics issues that drive the design and works with the Chief
Engineer to ensure that the physics design criteria are correctly
interpreted in making the engineering designs. The Chief Engineer has line
responsibilities for the engineering decisions incorporated into the design.
He/she establishes, maintains, documents and enforces engineering standards
across the design, directs the project planning, scheduling and budgeting,
and oversees the Project Management Control System. Both of them will be
selected by the Central Team Director in consultation with the ILCSC.
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