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<span class="">Dear Colleagues,<br class="">
<br class="">
this is the first circular of the<br class="">
7th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic
Physics (GHP2017) </span>
<div class=""><span class="">which will be held 1-3 February 2017 in
Washington, DC.<br class="">
<br class="">
The GHP workshop provides a great opportunity for nuclear and
particle physicists<br class="">
to meet and discuss their common interests in hadronic
interactions. The<br class="">
topics of the workshop include:</span>
<div class=""><span class=""><br class="">
</span>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding:
0px;" class=""><span class="">Light- and heavy-quark mesons
& baryons<br>
Exotic hadrons<br>
Hadron tomography and hadronization<br>
QCD effects in nuclei<br>
EFT approaches in hadron physics<br>
Lattice QCD and other non-perturbative approaches<br>
Physics of the quark-gluon plasma<br>
Physics of gluon saturation<br>
Future facilities</span><span class=""></span></blockquote>
<span class=""><br class="">
The scientific program will consist of invited talks,<br
class="">
contributed talks and posters and is organized by<br class="">
the program committee:<br class="">
<br class="">
</span><span class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ian
Cloet (Argonne National Lab)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sean
Fleming (University of Arizona)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Leonard
Gamberg (Penn State U)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tanja
Horn (Catholic Univ of America) (chair)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Huey-Wen
Lin (Michigan State University)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peter
Petreczky (Brookhaven National Lab)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Paul
E Reimer (Argonne National Lab) (chair)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Susan
Schadmand (Forschungszentrum Juelich)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Raju
Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Lab)<br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ramona
Vogt (Lawrence Livermore National Lab and UC Davis)<br
class="">
</div>
</span><span class="">
<div class=""><span class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
Venue, accommodation and travel information:<br class="">
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class="">
The workshop will take place at the </span><span class="">Marriott
Wardman Park hotel</span><span class="">.<br class="">
A block of rooms has been reserved for workshop participants.</span>
<div class="">See <a
href="https://www.aps.org/meetings/april/housing/index.cfm"
class="">https://www.aps.org/meetings/april/housing/index.cfm</a> for
booking rooms.<span class=""><br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
Important deadlines:<br class="">
---------------------------<br class="">
<b class=""><font class="" color="#ff2600">16 December 2016,
deadline for abstract submission (talk or poster)</font></b><br
class="">
6 January 2017, deadline for registration<br class="">
<br class="">
Registration:<br class="">
----------------<br class="">
Online registration will open soon.<br class="">
<br class="">
</span><span class="">GHP2017 is a separate meeting from the
APS Spring meeting 2017, and has a separate registration
fee. T</span><span class="">here are discounts<br class="">
for GHP members:<br class="">
Regular: $100 ($120 for non-members)<br class="">
Students: $20 ($40 for non-members)<br class="">
<br class="">
Social Dinner:<br class="">
------------------<br class="">
There will be a social dinner at </span>restaurant Lillies,
2915 Connecticut Ave Nw, <b class="">Washington</b>, <b
class="">DC </b>20008, within walking distance of the
venue. </div>
<div class=""><span class="">The cost of the dinner is
$50/person. Payments must be made during registration.<br
class="">
<br class="">
For more information visit<br class="">
</span><a href="https://www.jlab.org/indico/event/160/"
class="">https://www.jlab.org/indico/event/160/</a><span
class=""><br class="">
or contact us by e-mail:<br class="">
<a href="mailto:ghpworkshops@gmail.com" class="">ghpworkshops@gmail.com</a><br
class="">
<br class="">
More information will follow soon,<br class="">
The organisers.</span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><br class="">
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