Katepalli Sreenivasan appointed ICTP Director
Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan, a university professor of physics
and mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland,
College Park, has been appointed as the third director for the
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. He succeeds retiring director Miguel
Virasoro, who has held the post since 1993. He is the first
experimentalist to serve as the director of ICTP, and took
charge on 03 March 2003. Sreenivasan, now a citizen of the
US, received his education in India, first at the University of
Bangalore and then at the Indian Institute of Science in
Bangalore, where he earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering
in 1975. After two years of postdoctoral study in Sydney
and Newcastle, Australia, he came to the U.S. as a researcher
at Johns Hopkins University. Later he became the Harold W.
Cheel professor of mechanical engineering and professor of
physics, applied physics and mathematics at Yale University.
He moved to Maryland in January 2001, where he directs the
University's Institute for Physical Science and Technology.
With the new appointment, Sreenivasan has earned the distinction
of being involved in scientific enterprises on four
continents! He has also been adept at moving between
disciplines. He was an engineer by training, but took courses
in physics and mathematics when he was a student. His primary
fields of research are fluid dynamics and turbulence, and
he has published over 150 articles on these and other related
subjects. Sreenivasan has a broad range of research interests
and is known for his work in fluid dynamics, especially turbulence
and other nonlinear phenomena.
[Sameen Ahmed KHAN:rohelakhan@hotmail.com]
Praveen Chaudhari to Head
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Indian-American scientist Praveen Chaudhari has been
named to head the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL),
which is part of a network of national laboratories operated by
the US Department of Energy (DOE). Praveen Chaudhari has
a record of thirty-six years of distinguished service at IBM as
a scientist and senior manager of research. He has advised
two American presidents and two Indian Prime Ministers.
Chaudhari was executive secretary of President Reagan’s Advisory
Council on Superconductivity (1988). He was also a
member of the National Commission on Superconductivity
that reported its findings to President Bush (1989). He has
served on the US National Critical Technologies Panel (1992
and 1993). In 1988 he reported to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
on science and technology, and in 1993, at the request of the Indian Minister for Sciences and Technology, led an IBM group
to evaluate the Indian parallel computer activities, and in 1994
made a presentation to Prime Minister Rao on Materials and
Critical Technologies. He will begin his new duties on 01 April
2003. He replaces John Marburger III, who left in 2001 to
become President Bush’s science adviser. Chaudhari is the second
Indian to head an American institution. BNL was established
in 1947, it is a multi-program national laboratory operated
by Brookhaven Science Associates for the DOE, and deals
with some of the most advanced research in nuclear and particle
physics. Among its major facilities is the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world's newest and biggest
particle accelerator for nuclear physics, and Accelerator Test
Facility.
Chaudhari received his undergraduate degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 1961, and
earned his master’s and doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) in 1963 and 1966 respectively. During
his career, Chaudhari has led research teams in such cutting
edge areas as nanoscience and superconductivity. In 1966,
he joined IBM’s Research Division, headquartered at the
Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. Chaudhari
(now sixty-five), during his long career with IBM, he served
as Vice President of Science, Director of Physical Science,
and Research Staff Member. It was during this period that the
science programs at the IBM Research laboratories grew significantly
and also IBM scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes
for two consecutive years (1986, 1987). Chaudhari's most notable
discoveries have been: the use of low energy atomic
beams to create liquid crystal displays; the harnessing of superconductivity
and grain alignment for wire processing; and
the use of magnetism in rare-earth transition metal alloys for
information storage; development of amorphous magnetic
materials which made possible the erasable magneto-optic disk
industry.
[Sameen Ahmed KHAN:rohelakhan@hotmail.com]
King Faisal Palace to become a University
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, the Governor of Asir Province and
Director-General of the King Faisal Foundation (KFF), recently
announced the establishment of the kingdom’s first private
university, the “Dar Al-Faisal University”. It shall be located
on the 32 acre site of the Riyadh's sprawling King Faisal Palace.
The new world-class university project is in close collaboration
with the Stevens Institute of Technology, the renowned
private technological university founded in 1870 in New Jersey,
USA. The US$ 100 million university project is open to business
investors. The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing Company
is a founder member of the new university and is contributing
a corporate support of 2.5 million US$. The King
Faisal Specialists Hospital and Research Center is also proving
corporate support. The Dar Al-Faisal University is expected to open in September 2003 for graduate students and a year
later for undergraduates. It will offer undergraduate degrees
in Physical Sciences, Engineering, Sciences and Business
Technology. This shall be the ninth university in the kingdom
and the first private university.
[Sameen Ahmed Khan:rohelakhan@hotmail.com]
The Middle East Synchrotron is Launched
On 6 January 2003, King Abdullah of Jordan laid the cornerstone
for the Middle East’sfirst synchrotron known as
SESAME:Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and
Applications in the Middle East, at Allaan about thirty Km
from the capital Amman. The ceremony took place in the presence
of the UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura,
members of the Jordanian government and international dignitaries
including Werner Burkart, Deputy Director General
of IAEA. Eight Founding Members (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran,
Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine, and Turkey) have signed
the statutes of SESAME and now form theSESAME Council,
which will provide the annual operating budget. Herwig
Schopper was elected to continue as the President of the
Council. SESAME Project was born in 1997 when Germany
decided to decommission the fully functioning 800MeV
BESSY-I synchrotron worth 60 million US$ and gift it to
Middle East. The SESAME Project was put under the auspices
of UNESCO in much the same way UNESCO assisted
in the creation of CERN in the 1950’s. TheInternational Interim
Council met nine times since its formation in 1999, with
assistance form several countries asObservers. The SESAME
Council has replaced the Interim Council. Several non-Middle
Eastern countries that were observers to the Interim Council
(Armenia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia,
Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA) will continue as Observers
in the new Council. The remaining members of the Interim
Council (Greece, Morocco, Oman, and the United Arab
Emirates) too will continue to participate. Kuwait is an Observer
and Libya has requested to become one. More countries
are expected to join SESAME. Entire BESSY-I was
shipped to Jordan in June 2002, where it is being upgraded in
the range 2.0-2.5 GeV. SESAME is expected to promote science
and foster international cooperation. Planned research
programmes include, structural molecular biology, molecular
environmental science, surface and interface science, microelectromechanical
devices, X-ray imaging, archaeological
microanalysis, materials characterization, and medical
applications. Annual operating costs will be about US$3.5
million. Research programs are scheduled to start in 2007.
Japan gifted a 1.0GeV synchrotron to Thailand, making Asia-
Pacific the birthplace of the era of relocated synchrotrons.
SIAM Photon Source is Thailand's first synchrotron and is
intended to serve scientists throughout Southeast Asia. With
the launch of SESAME the SIAM has found its Siamese twin!
Armenian Synchrotron: Armenia was envying to receive
the BESSY-I from Germany, but Jordan was chosen to host
the facility with Armenia as first runner-up. Then, Armenia
switched its status from a full Member to anObserver and
launched a campaign to build its own synchrotron, the
CANDLE:Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries
using Light Emission. CANDLE aims to build a 3.2 GeV
third-generation synchrotron from scratch in the Armenian
capital Yerevan and is envisaged as an international regional
facility. Armenia is the ninth country from Asia on theworld
synchrotron map, which consists of twenty-three countries.
Americans of the Armenian decent have been very actively
campaigning for the CANDLE. Much of the credit for kindling
CANDLE belongs to Iraqi-born Armenian-American
75-year-old property magnate in New Jersey. In 2002 the US
Department of Energy awarded half a million US$ for the
preparation of a Technical Design Analysis report for the
CANDLE project. This report is under review by the National
Science Foundation in Washington. Assuming a positive
response, CANDLE may receive up to 15 million US$ as aid.
If this funding is secured the construction can begin in 2004
and some of the planned fifty beamlines are expected to be
operational by 2007. Construction of CANDLE is projected
to be 48 million US$, with annual operating costs of 4 million
US$. When constructed, CANDLE will be the only facility of
its kind within a 2000 km radius, serving numerous users from
countries of the former Soviet Union, parts of Europe, the
Middle East and Asia.
To Launch the African Synchrotron Programme: The
continent of Africa is the only region, which is yet to even
start its synchrotron programme. However, there are excellent
laser programmes along with theAfrican Laser, Atomic,
Molecular, and Optical Sciences Network (LAM) operating
under the directorship of Ahmadou Wagu e. The LAM Network
has 27Regional Coordinators across Africa andInternational
Contacts in 11 countries outside of Africa. The LAM
held sixInternational Workshop on Laser Physics and its
Applications, since May 1991. Another organization is the recently
createdAfrican Laser Center (ALC). Both the organizations
are working to promote the application of laser-based
technologies in the fields ranging from environment to health
care. The countries supporting these programmes include,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the USA. There
are active and well organized Research Groups & Networks
in a broad range of disciplines across Africa, which can benefit
immensely by employing synchrotrons. The question is
not if Africa needs synchrotron radiation sources, but rather
how to acquire these sources. It will be difficult for many of
the fifty African countries to have synchrotron radiation sources
of their own. It is essential to focus on the need to launch the African Synchrotron Radiation Programme (AfSRP), which
shall assist in coordinatingAfrican Participation in SESAME
and other synchrotron facilities all over the world. At the same clustertime
AfSRP can play a pivotal role in creating synchrotron
facilities in Africa. Given the cost and the lead-time in designing
a new facility, we need to start preparing straightaway. In
few years the AfSRP can evolve into anAfrican Synchrotron
Radiation Facility (AfSRF). This will eventually set a trend
for several other disciplines such asHigh-Energy Physics,
Space Exploration, Fusion Research, to name a few.
Further Reading:
[1] Sameen Ahmed Khan, SESAME: The First Synchrotron
Facility in the Middle East, AAPPS Bulletin,10 (2), pp.
36-39 (December 2000).
[2] Sameen Ahmed Khan, Synchrotron Radiation (in Asia),
ATIP Report No. ATIP02.034, 28 pages (21 August 2002).
(The Asian Technology Information Programme, Tokyo,
Japan, 2002).
[3] SESAME Website:http://www.sesame.org.jo/
[4] CANDLE Website: http://www.candle.am/
[5] SIAM Website:http://nsrc.sut.ac.th/
[6] Susan M. Reiss, Launching a New Laser Center in Africa,
Optics & Photonics News,13 (4), 16-17 (April 2002); LAM
Website:http://www.lamnetwork.org/
[7] African Scientific Network:http://www.physics.ncat.edu/
~michael/asn/
[Sameen Ahmed KHAN:rohelakhan@hotmail.com]
The 8th International Conference on Clustering
Aspects of Nuclear Structure and Dynamics
1. First Announcement (January 14, 2003)
We are pleased to inform you that the “8th International
Conference on Clustering Aspects of Nuclear Structure and
Dynamics” will be held in Nara, Japan, during November 24th
to 29th in 2003. It is co-hosted by the Institute of Physical and
Chemical Research (RIKEN) and the Graduate School of
Science, Kyoto University.
2. Scope and Topics
This cluster conference will be the 8th in a series which
began in Bochum (Germany) in 1969. The significance of the
idea of clustering has been increasing and is now recognized
to be indispensable in understanding the structure and reactions
of nuclei. The ideas and methods in cluster physics are
also extended to other many-body systems such as hadrons
and atomic systems.
Following previous conferences, the topics will cover broad
subjects related to the clustering phenomena in nuclear physics,
as listed below. The emphasis will be put also on the clustertime ing phenomena in unstable nuclei. The development of the RI
beams is one of the most important trends in recent nuclear
physics, and has brought extensive studies of nuclei far from
the stability line. New and rich phenomena of clustering have
been discovered including halos and molecular states.
In Japan, new facilities in nuclear physics are now under
construction such as the RI beam factory in RIKEN and the
KEK-JAERI Joint Hadron Project. We think it is quite timely
to hold the 8th cluster conference in Japan.
Conference topics includes:
A. Cluster structure in stable and unstable nuclei
B. Clustering aspects of the nuclear reactions, including reactions
of unstable nuclei and molecular resonance states
C. Clustering aspects in nuclear matter, including intermediate
and high-energy nuclear reactions, liquid-gas phase
transition, and neutron stars
D. Nuclear fission, synthesis of super-heavy nuclei, and cluster
decay
E. Cluster physics and nuclear astrophysics
F. Strangeness in nuclei and clustering phenomena;
hypernuclei, mesons and nuclei, quark cluster, etc.
G. Clustering phenomena in other subjects; hadrons, atomic
clusters, quantum dots, etc.
H. Applications of nuclear physics; medicine, nuclear waste,
etc.
3. General Information
We expect 200-250 participants. The conference will consist
of plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and poster sessions.
In addition to the invited talks, a number of contribution papers
will be selected for oral presentations.
The conference proceedings will be published.
The conference fee is 30,000 yen, and will be charged to all
the participants. It will cover admission to the sessions, social
events, and a copy of the proceedings.
All conference sessions will be held in the Nara-ken new
public hall (http://www.pref.nara.jp/koukaido-e/ ) which is
located in the center of Nara Park. Nara is a histric city located
near Kyoto and Osaka. It is the ancient capital of Japan
former to Kyoto.
4. Per-conference
Prior to this conference, the International Symposium “A
New Era of Nuclear Structure Physics” (NENS03) will be held
as a pre-symposium.
Date: Nov. 19 - 22, 2003
Place: Tainai Royal Park Hotel, Kurokawa Village, Niigata,
Japan
E-mail:nens03@nt.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp
Web:http://ntweb.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp/nens03/
5. Organization Organizing Comittee:
President K. Ikeda (RIKEN)
Co-chair H. Horiuchi (Kyoto)
Co-chair I. Tanihata (RIKEN)
Scientific Secretary A. Ozawa (RIKEN)
Scientific Secretary K. Yabana (Tsukuba)
S. Hirenzaki (Nara women’s) A. Iwamoto (JAERI)
K. Kato (Hokkaido) T. Kobayashi (Tohoku)
Y. Kondo (Kyoto women’s) T. Motobayashi (RIKEN)
S. Shimoura (CNS, Tokyo) A. Tohsaki (Shinshu)
Y. Suzuki (Niigata) H. Tamura (Tohoku)
H. Ueno (RIKEN)
International Advisory Comittee:
Y. Abe (Kyoto) Y. Akaishi (KEK)
J. Aysto (CERN) Z. Basrak (Zagreb)
D. Baye (Bruxelles) G. F. Bertsch (Washington)
R. R. Betts (Argonne) D. M. Brink (Oxford)
R. Caplar (Zagreb) M. Di Toro (Catania)
M. Fujiwara (RCNP, Osaka) Y. Fujiwara (Kyoto)
B. Fulton (Birmingham) S. Gales (Orsay)
W. Greiner (Frankfurt) F. Haas (Strasbourg)
P. G. Hansen (MSU) M. Harakeh (KVI, Groningen)
W. Henning (GSI) M. Ishihara (RIKEN)
B. Jonson (Goeteborg) T. Kajino (NAO)
M. Kamimura (Kyushu) R. G. Lovas (ATOMKI)
D. J. Millener (BNL) S. Nagamiya (KEK)
W. Nazarewicz (Oak Ridge) T. Nomura (KEK)
Yu. Ts. Oganessian (Dubna) T. Otsuka (Tokyo)
C. Rolfs (Bochum) H. Sakai (Tokyo)
K. Sato (Tokyo) W. Q. Shen (Shanghai)
A. Shotter (Edinburgh) J. Symons (LBL)
H. Toki (RCNP, Osaka) W. von Oertzen (Berlin)
Honorary Advisors:
A. Arima (The House of Councilors)
H. Kamitsubo (JASRI)
K. Kume (Nara Women's University)
M. Morita (Josai International University)
H. Sato (Konan University)
R. Tamagaki (Kyoto University)
H. Tanaka (Hokkaido University)
T. Yamazaki (RIKEN)
6. Further Information and Correspondence
Please fill in the QUESTIONNAIRE and return it to: cluster8@rarfaxp.riken.go.jp
by March 31, 2002. We plan to send the second circular in
April, 2003, to those who returned the QUESTIONNAIRE.
The second circular will include how to submit a contribution,
information on the travel including the accommodation, and a
list of invited speakers.
The information on the conference will be updated in the following web site: http://ribfwww.riken.go.jp/cluster8/
International Symposium on
Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum
Chromodynamics [Confinement 2003]
The International Symposium on “Color Confinement and
Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics” will be held at the
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) with
the host of Interactive Research Center of Science (IRCS),
Tokyo Institute of Technology, from July 21 (Mon.) to July 24
(Thu.), 2003, just after Lattice 2003 (July 12-19, Tsukuba
Univ.).
The aim of the Symposium is to discuss recent theoretical
and experimental developments in the strong interaction in
terms of nonperturbative QCD. In particular, to understand
the mechanism of color confinement is one of the most important
problems remaining in the elementary particle physics.
To this end, the mutual communication is desired among the
related several fields such as the mathematical physics, the
lattice QCD physics and the phenomenological hadron physics.
In addition, in front of the interesting experimental data at the
RHIC project in Brookhaven National Laboratory, such a
mutual understanding becomes necessary and important.
To the people who are interested in this symposium, please
fill in the registration form below and return it to “conf@th.phys.titech.ac.jp” by e-mail.
- A/Prof. Hideo Suganuma
Graduate School of Science and Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Ohokayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan
Tel. +81-3-5734-3546
Fax. +81-3-5734-2745
Web Page:http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/~suganuma/
E-mail:conf@th.phys.titech.ac.jp ,suganuma@th.phys.titech.ac.jp
1. The Aim of the Symposium
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has been established as
the fundamental theory of the strong interaction since 1974.
Nevertheless, there remain lots of interesting problems relating
to nonperturbative dynamics in the infrared region of QCD
such as color confinement, dynamical chiral-symmetry breaking
and topologies. To understand the nonperturbative physics
in QCD, effective models and mathematical approaches
have been studied. Recently, the lattice QCD Monte Carlo
simulation has been progressed as a useful method for the
analysis of nonperturbative QCD.
The purpose of the present Symposium is the mutual understanding
of the current studies of nonperturbative QCD
among the mathematical physics, the lattice QCD physics and the hadron physics, as a necessary step for the global understanding
of nonperturbative QCD.
This Symposium is the successor of the International Symposium
on “Color Confinement and Hadrons” (Confinement
ลe95) and “Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement”
(Confinement 2000) held in Osaka. (These Proceedings were
published by World Scientific Publishing Co.)
2. Basic Plan of the Symposium
Date : July 21 (Mon.) - July 24 (Thu.), 2003
Place: Ookouchi Memorial Hall (main site)
Nishina Hall (2nd site)
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research(RIKEN)
Hirosaka 2-1, Wako, Saitama, Japan (Wako is close to Tokyo.)
Expected Size: about 120 participants
There will be plenary sessions for invited speakers and parallel
sessions for the selected contributed paper.
The plenary sessions and the 1st parallel sessions will be
held at Ookouchi Memorial Hall. The 2nd parallel sessions
will be held at Nishina Hall.
During the symposium, Nishina Hall is available as the 2nd
symposium site, and the plenary talks can be seen through a
screen at Nishina Hall.
The subjects to be discussed
- Quark Confinement Mechanism
Dynamical Chiral-Symmetry Breaking
Topologies in QCD (Instantons, Monopoles and Vortices)
Confinement in SUSY QCD
Nonperturbative Analysis (1/Nc, ladder QCD, AdS/CFT)
QCD Phase Transition at finite temperature and density
Quark Gluon Plasma
3. The Organizing Committee
H. Suganuma (IRCS, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Chair)
H. Enyo (RIKEN/RIKEN-BNL Research Center)
T. Hatsuda (Univ. of Tokyo)
T. Kunihiro (YITP, Kyoto Univ.)
M. Oka (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
K. Yazaki (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ./RIKEN)
N. Ishii (RIKEN, Scientific Secretariat)
4. Speakers in the Symposium
There are about 45 talks (30 plenary talks and 15 parallel
talks) in this Symposium.
On the contributed paper, please attach the Abstract including
Title and Author(s) in the registration form, and send it to
“conf@th.phys.titech.ac.jp”. It is possible to attach the ps-file
of the one-page abstract besides the registration form.
The dead line of the contributed paper is 20 May 2003.
(Some priority would be given to earlier submitted papers.)
The list of the invited speakers is as follows.
Invited Speakers
Y. Akiba (KEK)
M. Alford (Washington U.)
K.-I. Aoki (Kanazawa U.)
T. Blum (RIKEN-BNL)
S. J. Brodsky (SLAC)
A. Di Giacomo (Pisa U.)
J. Greensite (San Francisco State U.)
R.W. Haymaker (Louisiana State U.)
J. I. Kapusta (Minnesota U.)
F. Karsch (Bielefeld U.)
K.-I. Kondo (Chiba U.)
K. Konishi (Pisa U. & INFN, Pisa)
C. Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon U.)
M. Mueller-Preussker (Humboldt U. , Berlin)
A. J. Niemi (Uppsala U.)
G. Prosperi (Milan U.)
H. Satz (Bielefeld U.)
G. Schierholz (DESY)
M. Shifman (Minnesota U.)
Y. Sumino (Tohoku U.)
E. S. Swanson (Pittsburgh U.)
E. T. Tomboulis (California-Los)
X.-N. Wang (LBL, Berkeley)
V. I. Zakharov (Munich)
5. Proceedings
Proceedings will include all invited papers and oral contributions
in the Symposium. The expected page volume of the
Proceeding is 470-500 pages. Proceedings will be published
by World Scientific Publishing Co.
6. Registration
For the registration, please fill in the registration form below
and return it to “conf@th.phys.titech.ac.jp” by e-mail.
The registration fee is 15,000 yen (about US$ 140), which
will cover participation in the symposium, a copy of the
Proceedings, and social events such as a short excursion and a
banquet. The discount fee of 10,000 yen (about US$ 90) applies
to the students and Post Doc.
For each accompanying person, the fee for the excursion
and the banquet is 10,000 yen (about US$ 90).
All the payment will be made only by cash at the registration
desk.
7. Transportation and Map of the Symposium Site
The Symposium will be held at the Institute of Physical and
Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosaka 2-1, Wako, Saitama,
Japan. Wako is close to Tokyo.
The plenary sessions and the 1st parallel sessions will be
held at Ookouchi Memorial Hall. The 2nd parallel sessionswill be held at Nishina Hall.
Access Guide to RIKEN:
http://www.riken.go.jp/engn/r-world/riken/campus/wako/access.html
Map of RIKEN:
http://www.riken.go.jp/engn/r-world/riken/campus/wako/bldg.html
8. Social Events
The participants who will attend the Short Excursion and
the Banquet should send the registration form by 30 May 2003.
If you have the accompanying person who will join in the
excursion and the banquet, the number of your accompanying
person is to be written in the registration form.
For each accompanying person, the fee for the excursion
and the banquet is 10,000 yen (about US$ 90).
Short Excursion:
A short excursion to the Hama-Rikyu garden, a Japanese
garden in the Edo period, is scheduled on July 23 (Wed.). Web
sites in Japanese:
http://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/kouen/park.cgi?id=53
http://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/kouen/park.cgi?id=53&mode=detail#osirase1
Banquet:
The banquet will be held on Japanese houseboats,
“Yakatabune”, on Tokyo Bay on July 23 (Wed.), after the short
excursion.
9. Accommodations
The price for accommodations for a single room around the
symposium site is about 7,000 - 12,000 yen (US$ 60-110)/night.
For foreign participants, we may be able to assist to seek
the hotel near RIKEN.
For Japanese participants, see the following web sites on
the Hotel Information near Asaka-dai, Asaka, Shiki, Wako stations
along Tobu-Tojo line. Since the prices listed may be
changed and several hotels are far from the station, we strongly
recommend to confirm the price and the location of the hotel,
when you make the reservation.
Hotel Information written in Japanese:
City-Inn Kita-Asaka (near Asaka-dai station)http://www.swany.ne.jp/oyachaimura/member/city_in_kitaasaka/index.html
Asaka Daiichi Hotel (near Asaka station)
Shiki Daiichi Hotel (near Shiki station)http://dai1hotel.jp/
Persimmon Hotel (near Shiki station)http://www.persimmon-hotel.com/
Asaka-dai Central Hotel (near Asaka-dai station)
Hotel Cygnus (near Asaka station)http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/gf6/hotel.html
General Hotel Guides near RIKENhttp://atlas.riken.go.jp/~iitaka/SYMPO/hotel.html(old
information)
http://www.kurashi-news.ne.jp/dennwa/dennwatyou/hotel.htm#hotelshikihttp://www.cisnet.or.jp/home/ezo/oyado/12.saitama/index.html (see Asaka, Shiki, Wako and Niiza)
10. Host Institutes and Sponsors
Main Host:
Interactive Research Center of Science (IRCS)
Graduate School of Science and Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ohokayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
Cosponsor:
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Sponsor:
Inoue Foundation for Science
11. Symposium Web Site
http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/~conf2003/
CLEO® /Pacific Rim 2003
The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
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July 22-26, 2003
Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Co-Located with Opto Taiwan
Optocom Taiwan
Display Taiwan
(Exhibits)
e-mail:cpr2003@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
Fax: +886-2-2365-2637
Tel: +886-2-2365-7624
Address: CLEO/PR 2003
Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering National Taiwan University
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Paper Submission Deadline Further Extended to
Feb. 23, 2003 (6:00pm, Taipei Time)
December 8, 2002 --- Beginning of electronic paper submission
January 1, 2003 --- Beginning of electronic registration
February 23, 2003 --- Paper submission deadline
April 20, 2003 --- Announcement of paper acceptance
June 20, 2003 --- Pre-registration deadline
June 30, 2003 --- Postdeadline paper submission deadline
July 1, 2003 --- Hotel reservation deadline
July 22, 2003 --- Short courses
July 23-26, 2003 --- Conference programs and exhibits
1. Foreword
The Fifth Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-
Optics (CLEO/PR 2003) will be held during July 22 - 26, 2003
at the Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan
in conjunction with three major industrial product exhibitions:
Opto Taiwan 2003, Optocom Taiwan 2003 and Display Taiwan
2003. The purpose of the Conference is to review the
state-of-the-art of lasers and electro-optics from basic science
and device research to engineering systems and applications.
The conference also intends to cross-fertilize with other fields
including multimedia, environmental control, and biomedical
systems. The Conference is open to relevant professionals from
academia, industry, and government.
The CLEO/PR is part of the CLEO Conference series, which
has been running annually since 1981 in North America. The
rapid expansion of these front-edge science/technology activities
to a global scale necessitated a start of the new Conference
Series in the Pacific Rim and European regions. The first,
second and fourth CLEO/PR were held in 1995, 1997 and 2001,
at Makuhari Messe, Japan, and the third CLEO/PR was held
in 1999 at Seoul, Korea, all with great success.
CLEO/PR 2003 is organized by the National Taiwan
University, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, the
Academia Sinica, the National Central University, the National
Tsing Hua University, the National Chiao Tung University,
the National Cheng Kung University, and the National Sun
Yat-Sen University. The co-sponsors of CLEO/PR 2003 include
the Optical Society of America, IEEE/Lasers and Electrooptics
Society, the Taiwan Optical Engineering Society, the
Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association,
the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
(IEICE) Electronics Society/Communication Society, Optical
Society of Korea, the Australian Optical Society, and Hong
Kong Optoelectronics Association. The Opto Taiwan 2003,
Optocom Taiwan 2003 and Display Taiwan 2003 are organized
by Photonics Industry & Technology Development
Association, Taiwan.
2. Official Language
English will be used for all printed materials, presentations,
and discussions.
3. Technical Exhibition
Opto Taiwan 2003, Optocom Taiwan 2003, and Display Taiwan
2003 exhibits will be held at the same site (The Taipei
World Trade Center) from July 23 through 26, 2003. It is organized
by Photonics Industry & Technology Development
Association. (PIDA) Participation of CLEO/PR attendants is
encouraged. Number of exhibition booths is estimated over
600. For more information for exhibiting your company’s
products, please contact PIDA (Phone: +886-2-23514026,
Fax: +886-22-23968513).
4. Conference Agenda
| 2003 |
July22
(Tuesday) |
July23
(Wednesday) |
July24
(Thursday) |
July25
(Friday) |
July26
(Saturday) |
| All Day |
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| Morning |
Short Courses |
Plenary
Sessions |
Regular Sessions
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Regular
Sessions |
Regular
Sessions |
| Afternoon |
Short Courses |
Regular
Sessions |
Regular Sessions
Industrial Forum |
Regular
Sessions |
Regular
Sessions |
| Evening |
Welcome
Reception |
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Conference
Reception |
Conference
Banquet |
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Cornell’s LEPP, CHESS Research Labs
Expected to Get $124 Million in NSF Funding
for Elementary Particle and X-ray Research
ITHACA, N. Y. ญ Cornell University will be awarded up to
$124 million over the next five years by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to support research at the Laboratory for
Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP) and the Cornell High
Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), a national user facility.
Of the award, approximately $99 million already approved
by the National Science Board, the NSF’s policy body, would
go to LEPP. Up to $25 million, recommended by NSF program
managers, would go to CHESS, with $2.44 million of
this amount funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National
Institute for General Medical Sciences. Both research
facilities share use of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring
(CESR), the university’s high-energy particle accelerator.
The expected awards indicate the NSF’s approval of a major
change in LEPP’s 23-year investigation into the interactions
of elementary particles. Physicists use the accelerator's
particle detector, called CLEO, to observe the decays of particles
containing quarks and to infer the laws governing them.
Research at CESR and CLEO has provided much of the world’s
knowledge about the nature of the weak nuclear force -- one
of the four fundamental forces in nature -- through the study
of the b-quark. As of this summer, LEPP will begin switching
its operations to lower energies to investigate the charm quark,
known as c-physics.
In the new NSF Physics Division-funded project, LEPP
physicists and their collaborators from 18 other universities
will make precision measurements of the “strong force,” which
binds the quarks in the elementary particles, protons and
neutrons. The studies will use the charm quark, which CESR
will be able to produce in abundance. “There are important
physics to be done here. There is a need for somebody in the
world to do things that have never been done before,” says
LEPP director Maury Tigner. According to the theory of the
strong force, there should exist new forms of matter, called
gluonic matter, or “glueballs,” involving the interactions of
particles called gluons. Says Tigner, “We are in a very good
position to be the first people to really nail that.”
In the past, LEPP and CHESS have shared CESR simultaneously,
with CHESS researchers using the powerful X-ray
beams generated by magnetic structures in the ring. Investigation
of charm physics requires operating CESR at low energy
and the installation of 12 superconducting magnetic devices,
called wigglers. When CESR is running at low energy it will
not be able to generate sufficient X-rays for CHESS
researchers. Thus LEPP and CHESS have decided to timeshare
the use of the accelerator, alternating periods of dedicated
low-energy running for particle physics, with dedicated
high-energy running for X-ray production.
With practice, the switching from low to high energy should
be accomplished in days, or even a single day, using complex
computer controls. Sol Gruner, director of CHESS, says the
dedicated time on the machine “means that we can improve
the quality of the X-ray beams by making them more brilliant,
stable and of longer duration between refills of the machine.
The total number of days we will be running will be roughly
comparable to the historical average, but the beams will be of
far better quality.”
CHESS hosts roughly a thousand visits a year from scientists
competing to use the intense X-ray beams generated by
CESR. Their research includes the atomic structure and properties
of electronic, structural, polymeric and biological
materials, protein and virus crystallography, environmental
science, radiography and microelemental analysis.
The LEPP program, indirectly, also will include work on
the international linear collider, a 20-mile-long electronpositron
accelerator being planned by several consortia. Cornell
has taken the lead in organizing a national consortium that
submitted a proposal to the NSF last September for about
$1 million to support research on the collider. Although the
agency has not yet approved that award, CESR’s new research
direction still will be highly relevant for the huge new collider.
“Most of the radiation given off by the beam will be attributable
to the superconducting wigglers, making this an ideal testing
ground as a particle source for the new linear collider,”
says Tigner.
LEPP and CHESS also are collaborating with the Thomas
Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jlab) in Virginia on
the development of a novel type of future X-ray source based
on superconducting accelerator technology largely developed
at Cornell and demonstrated at Jlab. Dubbed the Energy Recovery
Linac (ERL), it has the potential to produce brighterand
faster-pulse beams. A proposal for prototype ERL development has been submitted to the NSF and is awaiting a funding decision. Says Gruner, “We hope that this would lead to the development of a new X-ray source at Cornell that would be superior to any existing source.”
The web version of this release may be found at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March03/CESR.NSFaward.deb.html
[Press Release from Cornell University News Service]
Physical Cosmology
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Physical Cosmology New Results in Cosmology and the Coherence of the Standard Model
June 15-20, 2003, Chateau de Blois, Loire Valley, France
http://blois.in2p3.fr/2003/
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1. Invited Speakers Include
D. Bond (Toronto)
G. Bryan (MIT)
S. Cole (Durham)
H. Feldman (Kansas U.)
J. Frieman (Fermilab)
B. Guiderdoni (Paris)
M. Halpern (Vancouver)
G. Kauffmann (Garching)
L. Krauss (Cleveland)
O. Lahav (Cambridge)
O. Le Fevre (Marseille)
A. Linde (Stanford)
B. Nichol (Pittsburgh)
Y. Mellier (Paris)
S. Meyer (Chicago)
L. Page (Princeton)
B. Partridge (Haverford)
J. Silk (Oxford)
G. Steigman (Columbus)
M. Steinmetz (Postdam)
M. Tegmark (Philadelphia)
R. Teyssier (Saclay)
L. van Waerbecke (Paris)...
2. Program
The program will focus on the state of the Cosmological Model, in view of the most recent results from the CMB or the Surveys.
(1) The Cosmological Model
The “standard” model (observational status)
Primordial universe
CMB theory
The baryon budget
Dark energy
Large scale structure formation Dark matter (nature ...)
(2) Recent results
CMB
MAP
DASI
ARCHEOPS
Surveys
SLOAN
VIRMOS
DEEP
2DF
V-field
Weak lensing
Supernovae
(3) Coherence of the model
Numerical simulations
General overview
HDM
overview SPH
Virtual catalogues
Semi-analytical models
Lyman alpha forest
Reionization
New approaches
multi tracers
Cosmological parameters extraction
(4) Observational perspectives
CMB
Lensing
Dark energy
Galaxy formation
ESA and NASA programs
3. Parallel Sessions
One afternoon will be devoted to parallel sessions
PS1: the Cosmic Microwave Background
PS2: the Primordial Universe (including Extra Dimensions)
PS3: the Deep Universe (Large Scale Structures and Dark Matter)
PS4: the Virtual Universe
4. Secretariat
Laurence Moutie
Rencontres de Blois, BP 33
F-91192 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX , France
Phone : (33 1) 69 29 05 50
Fax : (33 1) 69 28 86 59
E-mail :Laurence.Moutie@th.u-psud.fr
The New LC Name: Global Linear Collider (GLC)
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of ALCSC and ACFA, it is my great pleasure and
honor to announce that we selected the new LC name, Global
Linear Collider (GLC).
Dr. Bhawalkar, ACFA Chairman, Prof. Komamiya, ALCSC
and ILCSC member, and myself had a meeting on April 18,
2003 in Indore, India. Reviewing all the returns from ACFA
and ALCSC members, we found that “GLC” got the most votes
for the new LC name out of 5 final candidates by the LC Promotion
Committee.
We would like to thank everybody who participated in suggestion
and votes for the new LC name. Prof. Kawabata of
KEK has the database for the suggested name of “Global Linear
Collider.” I believe that he will acknowledge individuals
for the winning name.
With this new name, we are confident that the Global Linear
Collider will be realized in the near future.
Sincerely yours,
Won Namkung
ALCSC Chair
April 27, 2003 |
