ICFA

Full text: The 23rd meeting of ICFA (International Committee for Future Accelerators) was held on 13 January at the Japanese KEK Laboratory. This committee, set up in 1976, promotes international collaboration in the construction and exploitation of very high energy accelerators, and organizes topical workshops and meetings. At the KEK meeting, there was major discussion on planning for a future TeV electron-positron linear collider, envisaged as the next very large accelerator following the SSC and LHC proton collider projects. Already there rs considerable international R&D collaboration for such a machine, and ICFA is much involved in promoting this collaboration and providing forums to discuss the accelerator and physics issues which arise as the project advances. The DESY, Hamburg, Laboratory in May will host an ICFA seminar on 'Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics'. These seminars, held every three years, are among the most significant in-depth international reviews of the state of high energy physics, covering both the science itself and the essential accelerator tools. A major topic at the DESY Seminar will be TeV electron-positron linear colliders