Finally our household arrived at our new place a couple of weeks ago. My wife is putting in a lot of effort to get everything out of the boxes to build a new home for us.
When I moved from Japan to the US, I did not only take my wife and my household with me, I was fortunate enough to convince my new employer to also let me bring my research.
International collaboration is of course one of the enabling factors of the ILC, and fortunately, frameworks exist already to enable collaboration in all kinds of scientific experiments. Together with my colleagues in Japan, we put forward a small proposal under such an umbrella, the U.S.-Japan collaboration. Last week, we hosted a delegation of Japanese and U.S. scientists as well as representatives from DOE at PNNL, where the different proposals under this umbrella were reviewed. Our proposal to establish distributed computing between the two regions with the goal of accelerating the detector optimization studies and improving the distribution of collaborators from the two regions across the two detector concepts, was approved for funding.
International collaboration is of course one of the enabling factors of the ILC, and fortunately, frameworks exist already to enable collaboration in all kinds of scientific experiments. Together with my colleagues in Japan, we put forward a small proposal under such an umbrella, the U.S.-Japan collaboration. Last week, we hosted a delegation of Japanese and U.S. scientists as well as representatives from DOE at PNNL, where the different proposals under this umbrella were reviewed. Our proposal to establish distributed computing between the two regions with the goal of accelerating the detector optimization studies and improving the distribution of collaborators from the two regions across the two detector concepts, was approved for funding.
Now I'm at the ILC Tokyo symposium, where we heard from a Diet member why the Japanese population is declining, and what the government intends to do about it. The talk was very interesting and a lot more technical than I would have expected from a politician. It was humbling to see how our vain little experiments can have a much bigger impact.
The spirit of the meeting was very positive, and things seem to be moving in the right direction. I look forward to the next few months. They will be very busy, but they also hold a lot of promise.
The spirit of the meeting was very positive, and things seem to be moving in the right direction. I look forward to the next few months. They will be very busy, but they also hold a lot of promise.
