Dear Colleagues,

Please register now for the SiD Workshop at SLAC, which will take place on August 21-23 in the KIPAC Auditorium at SLAC. See http://www-sid.slac.stanford.edu/2012workshop/Aug2012workShop.html

This workshop comes at a very propitious time. The discovery of the Higgs is upon us; the Japanese are expressing interest in hosting the ILC; work on CLIC is proceeding apace at CERN; and future plans for our field are being actively formulated in all three regions.

One main purpose of the workshop will be to review the first draft of the SiD Detailed Baseline Design, the companion to the ILC Technical Report, which is due to be completed by December 2012. These documents will constitute an effective proposal to the world community for the ILC.

The Workshop will also review the exciting physics developments from LHC, examine the case for the linear collider in light of these discoveries, and get updates on ILC and CLIC accelerator developments. In addition there will be highlights of ongoing detector R&D, reports on physics benchmark studies, discussion of future linear collider plans, and discussion of SiD's future beyond the DBD. A tentative agenda should be posted on the website in a week.

As you register, please do sign up for the Workshop dinner, which will take place the evening of August 22 at Trellis Restaurant in Menlo Park. We need to get a reliable estimate of how many people will be attending the dinner for planning purposes, so please do sign up if you can come. We'll collect cash for the dinner (~$50/head) at the Workshop. We'll ask for modest donations at the time of the meeting to cover the costs of refreshments.

Do make plans for accommodations soon. Unfortunately, rooms at the SLAC Guest House are only available for the 20th and 21st, thanks to the SLAC anniversary celebration. Roughly 20 rooms for those nights have been reserved. We have also reserved rooms for August 20-23 at the Creekside Inn in Palo Alto. More motels/hotels are given in the attached listings.

We look forward to seeing all those interested in SiD and the recent developments with linear colliders at the Workshop.

Yours for SiD,

John Jaros, Harry Weerts, and Andy White