6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons

(BEACH2004)

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

Chicago, USA

BULLETIN 3  – June 2004

WELCOME

The Sixth International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons is being held at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in just two weeks, from June 28 to July 3, 2004. We look forward to welcoming you to the conference, the campus of IIT, and Chicago. The conference format will be 5½ days of plenary talks with a total of about 86 talks.

 

The conference begins at 9:30 am on Monday with the registration desk opening at 8:30 am. There will be a half-day off Wednesday afternoon. The conference concludes early Saturday afternoon with the Summary talk. We hope you have an enjoyable as well as profitable time at the sessions as well as at the planned social events.

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The schedule of talks with links to the speakers’ abstracts can be found on our web site. A few days before the conference starts we will be printing a booklet with the final schedule, events, and a one-page abstract for each talk. Please check that your final abstract is in place and is the actual version you wish printed. The deadline for inclusion in the booklet is June 18.

 

The conference will have an overhead projector for transparencies and an LCD projector for presentations.  To make it easy and quick to go from one talk to the next without the need to switch laptops, we strongly encourage you to submit your talk to us in advance for projection and archiving on our computers.  Please send your talk as an e-mail attachment in PowerPoint, pdf, or postscript format to beach04talks@capp.iit.edu. These talks will not be accessible to the public before they are delivered.  We thank you in advance.

 

CONFERENCE LOCATION

The conference is being held in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center main auditorium on State Street from 32nd to 33rd Streets.  Maps and detailed directions are available. The MTCC is most easily reached from your hotel by taking either the green or red lines of the Chicago rapid-transit system detraining at the exits at 35th Street.  When you exit the train, go north off the platform (the direction from which you came) toward the city skyscrapers of Chicago and follow the signs that will be posted. It is a short 2-block walk. Parking is available in our student or guest lots adjacent to the building and parking stickers can be purchased at the reception desk.

 

ACCOMMODATIONS

Downtown Chicago guests at the Essex Inn should check in with the Essex Inn hotel desk, phone +1 312 939‑2800. The block of rooms held for the conference at the Essex Inn has been released. However the special conference rate may be available to any conference participants who manage to book a room. Please note that the hotel is just about fully booked.

 

Students staying on campus should check in at the student housing desk at 3303 S State Street, phone +1 312 808‑7485 (or 7486 or 7487) – on-campus dial 8‑7485.

 

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements) and will be peer-reviewed. Your submission if you are presenting a paper is due by August 15, 2004. 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 RECEPTION

A conference welcome reception will be held Monday night after the last session of the day in the ballroom next to the conference auditorium. It will include hors d’oeuvres, soft drinks, wine, and beer. A live Jazz Band will play from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

 

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. Our after-dinner speaker, Prof. Donna Robertson, Dean of IIT’s School of Architecture, will talk on modern architectural styles from early-Miesian to the soaring skyscraper technologies, and Chicago’s distinctive role in this development.

 

COMPUTER FACILITIES

Computer terminals will be available at the Conference Center during daytime and in the Life Sciences Building during daytime and early evening hours. A wireless system will permit you to work from anywhere in either building. Passwords and laptop registrations will be provided with your welcome package.  Printing facilities will be available in the Life Sciences building. Cat 5 wired connections will be available from some locations, but you must supply your own cable.

 

We thank you for your interest in the conference and wish you both a productive and pleasant stay.

 

Nickolas Solomey

Chairman of the Organizing Committee