[Cuga] 1st circular for NSTAR2011---a message from Mark Jones

[Rachel Harris]

The 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons
NSTAR2011
May 17-20, 2011
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, Virginia USA

The 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons 
NSTAR2011 will take place at Jefferson Laboratory from
May 17th to 20th, 2011.

The excitation spectrum of the nucleon provides a powerful theatre in
which to hone our understanding of QCD in the strong-coupling regime.
Thus there are major experimental, theoretical and computational
efforts that aim to explore both the spectrum and the structure
of excited nucleons.   Dedicated experimental programs exist to
perform accurate measurements of meson photo- and electro-production
off the nucleon in order to discover its excitations, and determine
its internal structure.  QCD-inspired models and Schwinger-Dyson
solutions of QCD aim to identify the key degrees of freedom
describing the nucleon, while lattice QCD strives to provide
first principles calculations of a precision that can confront
experiment.  The purpose of this workshop is to present the
latest results in each of these areas, and explore how together
they can build a picture of nucleon excitations and the nature
of stong interactions in the confinement regime.

  The program will comprise a series of invited plenary
talks, together with contributed parallel sessions and
a poster session.  The topics will include:

    * New results on pseudoscalar and vector meson production
    * "Complete" experimental determinations of
      meson-production amplitudes
    * Reaction models, PWA and resonance parameters
    * Baryon resonance structure and quark models
    * Baryon structure at short and long distances
    * Dynamical models and coupled channel analysis
    * Dyson-Schwinger approaches to baryon resonances
    * Baryon resonances in lattice QCD
    * Baryon resonances in holographic QCD
    * Chiral symmetry and baryon resonances
    * Laboratory reports and future projects


Website: http://conferences.jlab.org/nstar2011/index.html
The website is ready for abstract submission.
For general inquiries: nstar2011_loc at jlab.org

Local Organizing Committee:
V. Burkert (Chair)
J.-P Chen
L. Elouadrhiri
M. Jones
T.-S. H. Lee
V. Mokeev
M. Pennington
D. Richards
A. Sandorfi