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Calorimetry for International Linear Collider School held in Beijing
The Calorimetry for International Linear Collider School was held 22 - 26 April at CCAST campus in Beijing. This school was initiated as a follow-up to last year's time projection chamber (TPC) school also held in Beijing. “The idea of calorimetry school naturally came up after the successful TPC school, to provide students with opportunities to learn the basics before attending international conferences which are often much harder to comprehend and require a deeper understanding” says Yuanning Gao of Tsinghua University in China, one of the two organisers of the school.
Total of about 40 students had attended the school, who traveled from many academic institutions across mainland China, such as Tsinghua University, Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Science (IHEP) and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), to take the opportunity to learn from the internationally recognized calorimeter experts. “It is a wonderful opportunity to come to a country which will be of great importance for particle physics and also has many well-educated and bright minds”, said Roman Poeschl, a calorimetry expert at LAL (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France) who organized school’s lecturers entirely focused on calorimetry.
Gao hopes to have next school for ILC physics, however the funding for such schools is always an issue. “I would like travel and accommodation expenses for every student to be paid by the school”, said Gao. In the interim the lecture series in China can be the foundation for a regular and a high-level school on ILC experimentation. Such a school would become a must once the ILC project starts moving towards its realisation.