Workshop on Neutrino Oscillation in Hong
Kong
Dear Friends,
We are planning to have a workshop in the Physics
Department of the University of Hong Kong on Nov 28-29, 2003
to explore the possibility of carrying out some neutrino experiments
using the antineutrinos from the Daya Bay nuclear power plants.
This is triggered by my search for suitable sites to mount an
experiment for determining the mixing angle theta13 at Berkeley
(we are pushing such an experiment using the Diablo Canyon power
plant in California at Berkeley). After I communicated with
folks at HKU and CUHK, they also got interested. We thus decided
to have a workshop solely for Chinese physicists from China,
Taiwan, and Hong Kong to discuss if we can form a collaboration
to exploit this opportunity.
I would like to invite you to participate. We are
in the process of setting a web page for the workshop. You will
be informed when it is ready. Meanwhile, please let me know
if you plan to attend. Any suggestion for speakers or participants
are welcome.
By the way, since I have conflict of interest, I
would like to ask you not to publicize this workshop outside
the Chinese community. I hope you would understand my situation.
Best regards, Kam-Biu
6th ACFA Workshop on Physics & Detector
at Linear Collider
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Indian Linear Collider Working
Group it gives me great pleasure to announce that the “6th
ACFA Workshop on Physics and Detector at Linear Collider”
will be held at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai (Bombay), during 15-17 December 2003. This continues
as the next in a series of Workshops started in 1998 at Tsinghua
University, Beijing.
All of you are invited to attend and make a success
of this workshop. In addition to the Academic programme, which
will be announced soon, winter is the best period of the year
for visiting India and a pre- or post-Workshop tour would be
an attractive proposition.
Please visit the workshop WEB-site for further information:
http://www.tifr.res.in/~acfa6/
Best regards, Atul Gurtu (Convenor)
46th Annual DAE-Solid State Physics Symposium
December 26-30, 2003
Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
Contributions/Participations invited from Reseachers
belonging to South East Asian Countries
This is to bring to your kind attention that we
hold annually a Solid State Physics symposium (SSPS) in India,
which covers exhaustively a whole variety of topics of contemporary
relevance in condensed matter physics. The SSPS is one of the
major scientific meetings in India attended by about 500 researchers
from across the universities and national laboratories. We believe
that this symposium will also be of value to the scientists
in your region and we would like them to participate. We attach
above an announcement of the forthcoming Solid State Physics
symposium (SSPS) to be held during Dec 26-30, 2003, at Gwalior.
In India, there is a sizeable community of users
of neutron sources, accelerators and synchrotron sources. In
view of a well entrenched neutron scattering program in India
[see Neutron News 13(3) for details] this year the SSPS will
hold a separate session on the important advances in the field
of neutron scattering. It is also contemplated to hold a conference
on neutron scattering at Mumbai following SSPS.
We invite contributions to the symposium from researchers
in South-East Asia region.
R Mukhopadhyay
V. C. Rakhecha
Email: mukhop@apsara.barc.ernet.in
Conference on Neutron Scattering
January 2-4, 2004
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085
Sponsor: Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
Department of Atomic Energy
The neutron has proved to be an indispensable probe
of microscopic structure and dynamics of condensed matter. The
scientific interest spans many disciplines including physics,
chemistry, biology and industry. The neutron beam based research
at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is over 4 decades old.
Over the past decade, an increasing number of scientists from
the national institutes and universities in India have also
been carrying out collaborative neutron scattering experiments
at BARC under the aegis of Inter-University Consortium for Department
of Atomic Energy Facilities (IUC-DAEF).
The conference will focus on current developments
in India and at the advanced neutron scattering facilities elsewhere.
It will cover topics in crystallography, diffraction, magnetic
scattering, small angle scattering, quasi-elastic scattering,
inelasic scattering, reflectometry and interferometry. There
will be contributed poster sessions and invited talks by experts
from within India and abroad.
1. Conveners:
V. C. Rakhecha & R. Mukhopadhyay
Solid State Physics Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Trombay, Mumbai 400085
Email: cns04@magnum.barc.ernet.in
Website:http://www.barc.ernet.in/webpages/symposium/cns04.htm
The Conference will cover topics in basic and applied
aspects of neutron scattering. There will be contributed poster
sessions and invited talks by experts from within and outside
India. The proceedings are planned to be published in an international
journal.
2. Advisory Committee
| S. Bhattacharya |
TIFR, Mumbai |
| V. N. Bhoraskar |
IUC-DAEF, Indore |
| R. Chidambaram |
AEC, Mumbai |
| B. A. Dasannacharya |
Mumbai |
| S. Dattagupta |
SNBNCBS, Kolkata |
| R. B. Grover |
BARC, Mumbai |
| M. S. Hegde |
IISc, Bangalore |
| P. K. Iyengar |
Mumbai |
| S. N. Kaul |
HU, Hyderabad |
| S. S. Major |
IITb, Mumbai |
| L. Madhav Rao |
Mumbai |
| S. K. Malik |
TIFR, Mumbai |
| R. V. Mehta |
BU, Bhavnagar |
| D. Pandey |
BHU, Varanasi |
| K. N. Pathak |
PU, Chandigarh |
| K. R. Rao |
IAS, Bangalore |
| V. C. Sahni |
BARC, Mumbai |
| M. K. Sanyal |
SINP, Kolkata |
| A. Sequeira |
Mumbai |
| S. K. Sikka |
New Delhi |
3. Conference Organizing Committee
| M. Ramanadham (Chairman) |
BARC, Mumbai |
| V. C. Rakhecha (Convener) |
BARC, Mumbai |
| R. Mukhopadhyay (Co-Convener) |
BARC, Mumbai |
| V. K. Aswal (Scientific Secretary) |
BARC, Mumbai |
| S. Basu (Local Convener) |
BARC, Mumbai |
| S. L. Chaplot |
BARC, Mumbai |
| V. G. Gaikar |
UDCT, Mumbai |
| P. S. Goyal |
IUC, Mumbai |
| A. K. Grover |
TIFR, Mumbai |
| S. Kailas |
BARC, Mumbai |
| P. S. R. Krishna |
BARC, Mumbai |
| S. Mazumder |
BARC, Mumbai |
| G. Relhan |
BRNS, Mumbai |
| P. U. Sastry |
BARC, Mumbai |
| A. M. Shaikh |
BARC, Mumbai |
| V. Siruguri |
IUC, Mumbai |
| C. V. Tomy |
IITb, Mumbai |
| S. M. Yusuf |
BARC, Mumbai |
| A. G. Wagh |
BARC, Mumbai |
4. Registration Fee
Payable at the Conference venue
| Students |
Rs. 150 |
| Academics & Government
Organizations |
Rs. 450 |
| Public Sector Units &
Industries |
Rs. 750 |
| Foreign Delegates |
US$ 75 |
5. Deadline for Abstracts
November 14, 2003
Deadline for Manuscripts
January 2,
2004
Format
The abstract should
be prepared in MS-WORD within 170mmx220mm area of an A4 size
paper. Instructions for preparing the manuscripts will be intimated
on acceptance of the abstracts.
6. Submission and Contact
Send electronically a soft copy and mail a hard copy of each
abstract and manuscript to:
Dr V K Aswal
Scientific Secretary, CNS-2004
Solid State Physics Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai 400 085, India
Tel: +91 22 25594606
Email: cns04@magnum.barc.ernet.in
7. Accommodation & Local Arrangements
Please contact:Local Convener:
Dr SaibalBasu
Local Convener, CNS-2004
Solid State Physics Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai 400 085, India
Tel: + 91 22 25594667
Email: cns04@magnum.barc.ernet.in
CATS 2003
Conference on Advances in Theoretical Sciences 2003
(CATS2003) was held at JW Marriott Hotel, Putrajaya on May 20-21,
2003 in conjunction with the Advanced Technology Congress 2003
(ATC2003), a biannual event organized by Institute of Advanced
Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. CATS2003 with its theme
“Strengthening Theoretical Foundations for Global K-Competitiveness”
drawn in 48 local theoreticians of various disciplines including
guests from Singapore, U.K., Japan and Philippines. Invited
speakers to the conference are Prof. B. G. Englert (National
University of Singapore) speaking on “Quantum Cryptography
Through Noisy Channels,” Dr. J. Kalkkinen (Imperial College,
U.K.) on “Aspects of String Theory in Mathematics,”
and Prof. H. Sekino (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
on “A Challenge of Computational Quantum Chemistry to
Bio-Molecular Systems.”
TSL Expository Lecture Series Initiated
Theoretical Studies Laboratory, Institute of Advanced
Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia has initiated TSL Expository
Lecture Series to give exposure on frontier topics of theoretical
sciences to the local community of theoreticians and students.
So far, two of the lectures series have been conducted. The
first series was a one-day seminar on January 9, 2003 with speakers
Prof. T. Yukawa (GUAS, Japan) on “Quantum Gravity in Computer”
and Prof. Y. Tanimura (IMS, Japan) on “Path Integrals
in Chemical Physics.” The second series of the lecture
series took place after CATS2003 i.e. May 22-24, 2003 with speakers
Prof. Hideo Sekino (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
lecturing on “Theoretical & Computational Molecular Sciences,”
Dr. Kwek Leong Chuan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
on “Quantum Algorithms,” and Dr. Jussi Kalkkinen
(Imperial College, U. K.) on “String Theory.”
The Annual National Physics
The Multimedia University was invited by the Malaysian
Institute of Physics to organize the annual National Physics
Conference. The event took place in Fraser’s Hill in the
state of Pahang. Fraser’s Hill is a holiday resort which
was originally catered for the British colonial officers.
A total number of 160 participants attended the
two day conference, of which 20 came from eight overseas universities,namely,
the Laval U. of Canada, Sheffield U. and Exeter U. of UK, National
Taiwan U., Nanyang Technological U. of Singapore U., Hong Kong
Polytechnic U., Chulalongkorn U. of Thailand, and the U. Brunei
Darussalam. There were, however, only 32 female participants.
A total of 105 papers were presented either in oral
and poster sessions, 4 of which were one-hour plenary talks
given by overseas speakers from Laval U., Sheffield U., Hong
Kong Polytechnic U. and National Taiwan U. There were also halfhour
invited talks given by senior physicists from universities,
and experienced engineers from the electronic industries in
Malaysia and Singapore. The conference was well-attended and
it could be considered as one of the most successful of the
series of national physics conferences organized so far. The
conference was partially sponsored by the Malaysian Ministry
of Science, Technology and the Environment, and some local scientific
equipment companies. The proceedings of this conference will
appear as a special issue of the Malaysian Journal of Physics.
We Need You to Make Protein@cbl a Success
Dear Friends,
I am writing to ask for your help and cooperation.
Under the National Research Project on Genomic Medicine, my
lab is conducting a subproject “Simulation Studies of
Protein Folding and Function by Massively Distributed Computation.”
The concept of the project is very simple, use the
idle time of any PC that has access to the internet to help
us run Molecular Dynamics simulations of proteins. A pioneer
project using this idea is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence) - NASA, after abadoning the project for a decade,
announced it will begin funding it again on July 15. The pioneer
in applying this idea to study proteins is the Folding@Home
project directed by VJ Pande from Stanford University. This
project was launched in late 2000 and has after 2002 become
extremely successful.
Protein@CBL, the network name for our project, is
the first outside US and Europe, perhaps the third in the world
(CBL stands for Computational Biology Lab). When we start is
not important. What is important is whether we will succeed.
And to succeed we need your help. The more people/PC
participate in the project, the better the chances for success.
Protein fold by chances. If it takes a typical PC to run 10,000
days to fold a medium sized protein, then, when we let 10,000
PCs run, one of them may be lucky and have the protein folded
in one day. The reasoning behind this is exactly the same as
what has been applied to the various large detector projects
for detecting rare decay events. (And what wonderful news on
neutrinos has SNO brought us!)
Protein@CBL (PAC) was launched in the fall of 2002.
After one year of intensive learning, installation and in-lab
testing, it is now in version 0.9 and ready for a wider base
of testing.
To participate (and help us), simply go to the URL
http://protein.ncu.edu.tw
and follow instructions. The download is safe and we hope you
enjoy this excercise.
Please report to us any trouble, anomaly, inconvenience
you may encouter with PAC.
We envisage PAC to become a powerful, inexpensive
computer user-group facility that will be available to anyone
interested in Structural Biology. We welcome collaboration and
comments on any aspects of this project.
Many thanks, and see you at Protein@CBL!
Best wishes, Hoong-Chien
Cospa 2003: an Updated Scientific Program
Dear Colleagues: I am writing to update you on the information
of the International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics
(CosPA 2003), also an APCTP external activity, previously postponed
due to the SARS epidemic in part of Asia but now fixed to be
November 13 (Thursday) - November 15 (Saturday), 2003, followed
by a one-day post-conference tour. Your participation, with
possibly an oral presentation, is still highly encouraged. To
make it a high-quality conference, we have recently sent out
additional invitations with positive responses. With a couple
of final decisions/confirmations to be made, we are happy to
announce that we now expect to have an extremely exciting scientific
program as follows:
I. CMB Cosmology:
Session A:
George Smoot (Berkeley, USA)
*Bruce Winstein (on CAPMAP, Chicago,
USA)
Paul Ho (on AMiBA, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan)
Paul Richards (Berkeley, USA)
Session B:
Franscois Bouchet (on PLANCK, France)
Some One on WMAP (Princeton, USA)
Mike Hobson (on VSA, Cambridge, UK)
Shaul Hanany (on MAXIPOL, Minnesota,
USA)
Ettore Carretti (on BaR-SPOrt, Italy)
C.-L. Kuo (Caltech, USA)
Session C:
Tzihong Chiueh (NTU, Taiwan)
Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
J.-H. Proty Wu (NTU, Taiwan)
Mikkel B. Johnson (Los Alamos, USA)
L. S. Kisslinger (Carnegie-Mellon, USA)
II. Dark Energy and Dark Matter:
Paul Steinhardt (Princeton, USA)
A. Zee (ITP/UCSB, USA)
Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth, USA)
Shamit Kachru (Stanford, USA)
Varun Sahni (IUCCA, India)
Gary Shiu (Wisconsin, USA)
Pisin Chen (SLAC, USA)
W-Y. P. Hwang (NTU, Taiwan)
III. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays:
Pierre Sokolsky (on HiRes, Utah, USA)
Shigeru Yoshida (on AGASA, Chiba, Japan)
Makoto Sasaki (on ASHRA, Tokyo, Japan)
Wei-Shu Hou (on NuTel, NTU, Taiwan)
Venya Berezinsky (INFN, Italy)
IV. Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology:
E. M. Henley (U. Washington, USA)
B. H. J. McKellar (Melbourne, Australia)
Sandip Pakvasa (Hawaii, USA)
Stefano Cecchini (INFN, Italy)
Xiao-Gang He (NTU, Taiwan)
V. New Physics:
John D. Barrow (Cambridge, UK)
Jihn E. Kim (Seoul, Korea)
Bob Yee Hsiung (on KTeV, NTU, Taiwan)
Paoti Chang (on KEK/Belle, NTU, Taiwan)
Masayuki Koga (Tohoku, Japan)
Chen-Yu Liu (Los Alamos, USA)
Henry T.-K. Wong (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Many more oral presentations are yet to be added to the above
list—the information shall be updated from time to time
and will be posted on the conference website http://www.cospa.ntu.edu.tw.
On-line registration on the website, or writing to the secretary
wcchen@phys.ntu.edu.tw, should be possible.
In passing, I would like to mention that all the
local expenses, including the hotel accommodation, local transportations
(such as airport pick-up, post-conference tour, and those during
the meeting), meals, and coffee breaks, shall be taken care
of by the conference organizers.
Each speaker has been requested to provide us the
title and detailed abstract of the talk as soon as possible—to
be immediately put up on the conference website for other speakers
and potential participants to visit. During the meeting, the
speaker will be asked to leave a copy of the power point file,
or the transparencies, of the talk—again for the website
dissemination or the xerox-copy distributions. The conference
proceedings will be published as a special volume of Modern
Physics Letter A—the choice of the journal is yet to be
finalized.
W-Y. Pauchy Hwang
P. I., Taiwan CosPA Project
Bangkok Workshop on String Theory
18-20 January, 2004
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
1. International Organizers
Anne Taormina (U. of Durham, UK)
Laurent Houart (U. of Brussels, Belgium)
2. Local Organizers
Ahpisit Ungkitchanukit (Chulalongkorn U., Thailand)
Rujikorn Dhanawittayapol (Chulalongkorn U., Thailand)
Auttakit Chattaraputi (Chulalongkorn U., Thailand)
3. Invited Speakers Include
Chong-sun Chu
(U. of Durham, UK / National Tsing-Hua U., Taiwan)
Francois Englert
(U. of Brussels, Belgium)
Jnanadeva Maharana
(Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India)
Soo-Jong Rey
(Seoul National University, Korea)
Ashoke Sen*
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India)
Peter West *
(King’s College London, UK)
(*To be confirmed )
4. Bangkok School
The Bangkok School on String Theory, to be held
at Chulalongkorn University, 12-16 January 2004, is open to
graduate students.
Lecturers and Topics:
—Anne Taormina , University of Durham, UK
(Conformal field theory)
—Soo-Jong Rey, Seoul National University, Korea
(SUSY and String/D-branes)
—Chong-sun Chu, University of Durham, UK / National
Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
(Noncommutative field theory)
—Tohru Eguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
(Dynamics of N=2 and N=1 SUSY gauge theory and
CY compactification of Type II string)
The School will be informal and aimed at graduate
students, the level will be introductory. The School will consist
of lectures and tutorial classes. The number of participants
of the school is limited to 25.
The registration fee for the school is US$ 150.
This fee will include registration fee for the Workshop (18-20
Jan. 2003). There is the possibility of limited support to cover
partially the local expenses.
Applicants are requested to send their CV and also
a letter of recommendation via Email to : auttakit@sc.chula.ac.th.
On-line application Form: http://www.phys.sc.chula.ac.th/~auttakit/school.html
5. Registration
Registration Deadline : October 30,
2003.
The registration fee is US$ 120. This fee will cover
1. Tour and excursion (include lunch) on Sunday
18 January,
2. Conference dinner on Sunday night,
3. Lunches duing the workshop on Monday 19 and Tuesday
20,
4. Refreshments for the 4 coffee breaks.
The cost of accommodation is not included. However we can provide
on campus accommodation from US$15/person/night (no breakfast).
The rooms are air-conditioned with shower and refrigerator.
For those wishing to stay in hotel, we can book nearby hotel
(with discount) from around US$60/night inclusive of American
breakfast (usually buffet).
Registration Form: http://www.phys.sc.chula.ac.th/~auttakit/register.html
6. University Accommodations
we can provide on campus accommodation from US$15/
person/night.
Witthayaniwet Residence Hall
We recommend participants to stay at Witthayaniwet.
This residence hall has 63 air-conditioned furnished rooms reserved
for outside guests participating in academic cooperation with
Chulalongkorn University. The cost of accommodation is from
US$15/person/night (no breakfast).
Hotels near Chulalongkorn University
For those wishing to stay in hotel, we can book
nearby hotel (with discount) from around US$60/night inclusive
of American breakfast (usually buffet).
7. Programmes
Saturday 17 January 2004
Check in at the accommodation
Sunday 18 January 2004
10:00 - 12:00 Tour
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 16:00 Tour
16:00 - 18:00 Free time
18:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner
Monday 19 January 2004
09:00 - 12:30 Scientific programmes
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Scientific programmes
Tuesday 20January 2004
09:00 - 12:30 Scientific programmes
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 Scientific programmes
8. Travel Information
Getting there
Thailand is an easy country to travel in. All flights
from oversea land at Bangkok’s Don Muang international
airport which is about 25km north of central Bangkok.
Travelling from the airport to Chulalongkorn University,
which is located in the city’s centre, is very simple.
One can take a taxi from the airport which cost about 200 Baht
(around US$ 5). Note that the passenger also has to pay a 50
Baht airport surcharge on top of the metered fee. The journey
to the university will take from between 40 minutes to 1 hour
45 minutes depending on the traffic.
VISA information
Passport holders from 39 countries do not require
a visa when entering Thailand for tourism purposes if their
stay in the Kingdom does not exceed 30 days.
Passport holders of other countries are requested
to apply tourist visa at the Thai Embassy/Consulate-General
where they have their permanent residence.
For more information: auttakit@sc.chula.ac.th
Online information
Tourism Authority of Thailand: http://www.tourismthailand.org/
Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/thailand/
Into-Asia.com: http://www.into-asia.com/bangkok/introduction/
Announcement of the New Date for 9APPC
Dear AAPPS Council members,
It is to inform that the AAPPS Council passed, with
a majority vote, the resolution on the new dates for the 9APPC
as follows.
Venue: Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
Dates: October 25-30, 2004
Oct. 25 (Mon): Registration
Oct. 26 (Tue) - 29 (Fri): Conference Sessions
Oct. 30 (Sat) - 31 (Sun): Conference tours including
facility visits
I would like to thank everyone who took part in
the vote.
On the other hand, I will come back to you for the
schedules on the Council and OGM meetings.
Won Namkung, AAPPS President
[Referring to Special Announcement, pp. 32-33, AAPPS Bulletin
Vol. 13 No. 2]
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