6th International Conference on Hyperons,
Charm and Beauty Hadrons
(BEACH2004)
June 28 – July 3, 2004 — Illinois
Institute of Technology
Chicago, USA
BULLETIN
1
– November 2003
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Sixth International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty
Hadrons will be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA
from June 28 – July 3, 2004. This is the sixth in a
series of Particle Physics meetings that started in 1995 in Strasbourg, France.
With the great interest in heavy flavor physics and hyperons, it was desirable
to organize a bi-annual meeting at which the community of High Energy
Physicists, both experimentalists and theorists, could get together, interact,
and discuss topical issues. This conference is now an
established meeting, with only plenary sessions, held every 2 years. The past 3
meetings have each attracted between 120 and 150 participants and were
universally acknowledged by the participants to have been a great success.
This year's conference will take place on the modernistic,
architecturally significant campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in
downtown Chicago, contemporaneous with a spectacular music festival in the
heart of the thriving 3rd largest city in the United States. The
conference format will be 5 days of plenary talks with approximately 70 talks.
There will be a half-day off midweek, with an optional organized boat excursion
on Lake Michigan. Or participants may choose to take the half-day to visit some
of Chicago's many sights and sounds or its restaurants, or to have physics
discussions with colleagues. The
conference concludes early Saturday afternoon with the Summary Talk.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The Conference brings together theorists and
experimentalists to present and discuss their latest results and to prepare
strategies for future experiments to be conducted at forthcoming accelerators
and experimental facilities. A balance between theoretical and experimental
talks is being pursued. Our scientific policy aims to cover a broad range of
physics topics and we encourage all members of the high-energy community, from
graduate students to senior researchers, to participate in the Conference by
making a presentation, attending the sessions, and exchanging ideas with colleagues.
A
non-exhaustive list of topics follows:
- CP
violation in K and B decays,
- Heavy quark physics at hadron
colliders,
- Heavy quarkonium production and
decay,
- Heavy Quark Effective Theory,
- Lattice QCD and non-relativistic QCD,
- Precise electroweak measurements
(tests of the Standard Model and beyond),
- Heavy quark spectroscopy,
- Hyperon Physics,
- Hadronic-Neutrino Physics
- New experimental facilities and
projects.
Talks will typically be classified as review talks (20 –
30 minutes) or short contributions (10 – 20 minutes). We have aimed to create an
informal atmosphere among participants, with plenty of opportunity for
discussions and developing contacts. Talks from major experimental groups in
the fields of heavy quark and hyperon physics have been arranged.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
All conference materials, including registration,
accommodation reservation, abstract submission, and conference program, as well
as links to weather, logistics, tourism, dining, and transportation are
available on the conference website: http://capp.iit.edu/beach04
REGISTRATION
Conference registration is available online via the
conference website. Early
registration (by May 15, 2004) is $325
while registration after May 15 will be $390.
Proceedings, sessions, coffee breaks and refreshments, reception, and
banquet are all included in the registration fee. The registration check-in desk will open Sunday evening June 27
at the IIT McCormick Tribune Conference Center and will continue during the
morning sessions at the conference auditorium for the first 3 days of the
conference.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts will be accepted online via the conference
website. The deadline for abstract submission is May 15, 2004.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Rooms at the downtown-Chicago Essex Inn and on-campus
accommodations have been reserved, with single rooms, studio suites, or multi-bedroom
suites available. Accommodation will be released on May 20, so booking
accommodation by this date is strongly advised, as summer accommodations are
difficult to find at the last moment. Full details on accommodations and
reservations are on the conference website.
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of this conference will be published in
Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements) and will be peer-reviewed.
Traditionally, publication of the proceedings has been rapid and the publisher
is guaranteeing publication by April 1, 2005. A volume of the proceedings will
be provided to every participant, with the cost included in the registration
fee.
CONFERENCE BANQUET
The conference banquet will be held in the scenic dining
room of the John Hancock Center, with spectacular views of the city and
lakefront. It will be a Chicago-style butchery, but with options available for
the vegetarian.
COMPUTER FACILITIES
Computer terminals will be available at the Conference
Center during daytime and in the Physics building during early evening hours.
DEVELOPING NATIONS DELEGATES
This conference series has traditionally
covered local expenses for a limited number of delegates from developing nations,
and up to four will be considered for this conference. Applications for coverage
of local expenses must include a cover letter, an abstract, and a
letter from the Head or Director of the applicant's institute specifying that
all transportation to and from Chicago will be covered by the home institute.
Priority will be given to candidates who will be attending the conference for
the first time. Applications should be sent to BEACH2004 c/o Nickolas Solomey,
Physics Division, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3101 S. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, IL 60616, USA. The application deadline is 29 February 2004.
CONFERENCE HISTORY
1995
Strasbourg, France
1996 Montreal,
Canada
1998 Genoa,
Italy
2000 Valencia,
Spain
2002 Vancouver,
Canada
2004 Chicago,
USA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Nickolas
Solomey, Illinois Institute of Technology (Chair)
Marco Bozzo,
University of Genoa & INFN Genoa
Jonathan
Rosner, University of Chicago
Howard Rubin,
Illinois Institute of Technology
Calvin Kalman,
Concordia University
Janis McKenna,
University of British Columbia
Ilya
Narodetskii, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Paul Singer,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Calvin Kalman,
Concordia University, Montreal (Chair)
Guido
Altarelli, CERN, Rome
Karl Berkelman,
Cornell, Ithaca
Stan Brodsky,
SLAC, Stanford University, Palo Alto
Joel Butler,
Fermilab, Chicago
Carlo Caso,
University of Genoa & INFN Genoa
Rosanna Cester,
University of Torino, INFN Torino
Antonio Ferrer,
IFIC, Valencia
David Hitlin,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Laurence
Littenberg, BNL, New York
Chris Quigg,
Fermilab, Chicago
Gigi Rolandi,
CERN, Geneva
Patrick
Roudeau, Paris-Sud, Orsay
Marjorie
Shapiro, UC Berkeley, LBNL, Berkeley
Teodor
Siemiarczuk, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Warsaw
Pekka Sinervo,
University of Toronto
Hirotaka
Sugawara, KEK, Japan
Albrecht
Wagner, DESY, Hamburg
David Websdale,
Imperial College, London