6^th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons

(BEACH2004)

June 28 – July 3, 2004 — Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, USA

BULLETIN 2  – March 2004

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Sixth International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons will be held at the new McCormick Tribune Conference Center on the campus of 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 begun 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. The conference format will be 5½ days of plenary talks with a total of approximately 70 to 80 talks. There will be a half-day off Wednesday afternoon. The conference concludes early Saturday afternoon with the Summary talk by Dr. Joel Butler of Fermlab. Monday evening there will be a reception with Jazz music to welcome you to Chicago and the IIT campus.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The Conference brings together theorists and experimentalists to present and discuss their latest results and to prepare strategies for experiments to be conducted at future accelerators and experimental facilities. A balance between theoretical and experimental talks is being pursued. The introductory talk by Prof. Nicola Cabibbo, Univ. of Rome III, will start at 9:30 am on Monday morning. The summary speaker, Dr. Joel Butler of Fermilab, will conclude the conference on Saturday at noon. Each session will begin with an invited speaker to help introduce the topic and shape the future direction of questions to be addressed when considering future experimental analyses or theoretical investigations.

A non-exhaustive list of topics follows:

       - CP violation in 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,

       - New experimental facilities and projects.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

All conference materials, including registration, accommodation reservations, abstract submission, and the 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, the Reception, and the Banquet are all included in the registration fee. On-site registration will be available at the IIT McCormick Tribune Conference Center auditorium during the morning sessions for the first 3 days of the conference.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts are being accepted online via the conference website. The deadline for abstract submission is May 15, 2004.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Rooms at the Essex Inn in downtown Chicago as well as limited on-campus accommodations for students have been reserved. Accommodations will be released on May 20, so booking by this date is strongly advised. Summer accommodations are difficult to find (and very expensive!) at the last moment. Full details on accommodations and online reservations at the Essex Inn 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 on Thursday evening will be at the scenic dining room of the U.S. Cellular Field (Comiskey Park) overlooking the IIT campus and downtown Chicago. It will be a Chicago-style butchery, but with options available for the vegetarian. The after-dinner speaker will be Professor Donna Robertson, the dean of IIT’s School of Architecture, who will speak on Chicago’s distinctive role in modern architecture from Mies van der Rohe to the soaring skyscrapers of today.

COMPUTER FACILITIES

Computer terminals will be available at the Conference Center during daytime and in the Physics building during early evening hours.

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