[Cuga] First Announcement of the International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics ( SNP School 2013)- A message from Satoshi Nakamura

[Lorelei Chopard]

****************** First Announcement ************************
International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics
( SNP School 2013 ）
February 14th, Thursday to 20th, Wednesday, 2013
J-PARC, Tokai and Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN
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We are pleased to announce that the SNP School 2013 will take place at
J-PARC site of Tokai and on the campus of Tohoku University, Sendai
from February 14th to 20th , 2013. This school is a continuation of
the first SNP school 2012 which was successfully held in February
2012. We host the SNP School every year in Japan in close cooperation
among Nuclear Physics Group of Tohoku Univ., Advanced Science Research
Center (ASRC) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), J-PARC center of
JAEA/KEK, ELPH of Tohoku Univ., RCNP of Osaka Univ., Nishina Center of
RIKEN, and other institutes. This time, the school is primarily
supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
“Core-to-core program”.

The school will have a series of lectures and topical talks on the
strangeness nuclear physics as well as the hadron physics in general
which should play central roles in the 21st century nuclear physics
research at accelerator facilities including hadron machines such as
J-PARC (Japan), FAIR project at GSI (Germany), electron machines as
CEBAF at Jefferson Lab (USA), MAMI-C at Mainz Univ. (Germany) and ELPH
at Tohoku Univ. (Japan) etc. in the world. Lectures by leading
physicists will overview the related subjects both from experiment and
from theory. Topical talks on recent progress and future prospects of
the fields, and presentations by the participants will be also
arranged. One can see the program and other information of the first
SNP School 2012 at the following URL:
http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2012/index2.html.

It is our intention to establish a new tradition of the school and
develop it as an opportunity to foster active young physicists in wide
fields of nuclear and related physics to be pursued around J-PARC in
the future. Therefore the participants of the school are assumed to be
graduate students and young scientists who have strong motivation to
carry out the future nuclear physics research. Together with lecturers
who are leaders in these fields, senior participants are also welcome
to vitalize the school.

The schedule of the school consists of two parts. The first half
(14-16 February) will be held at the Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research
Center (IQBRC) near JAEA Tokai campus (Tokai, Ibaraki pref.) which is
located at 100km northeast of Tokyo and 70km north of the Tokyo-Narita
airport. The latter half (17-20 February) will be held on the Kawauchi
campus of Tohoku University (Sendai, Miyagi pref.). The city of Sendai
with a population of one million is the center of the northern part of
Japan, “Tohoku District”. It is located about 350 km north of Tokyo
and can be accessed in 1 hour and 45 minutes by the super-express
train (Tohoku Shinkansen). We will arrange a bus transportation from
Tokai to Sendai on the 17th for the school participants.

The school will welcome a maximum of approximately 50 graduate
students and young scientists from all over the world both in
experiments and in theory. Students have a chance to have financial
support for their travel and local expenses. Deadline of application
is the end of October, 2012. In addition, the organizers strongly
advise the persons who need a visa to enter Japan, to contact the
organizer as soon as possible, since the issuance of a visa may take a
long time.

Detailed information is given and will be updated at the following URL:
http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2013/

Important dates:
         1st announcement                 July, 2012
         2nd announcement                September, 2012
         Application deadline               October 31, 2012
         Final announcement               January 15, 2013
         SNP School 2013                  February 14 - 20, 2013

Contact:
Prof. Satoshi N Nakamura
Dept. of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University,
Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, JAPAN
Phone: +81-22-795-6453
Fax: +81-22-795-6455
E-mail:snpsc13 at lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp

Please forward this first announcement to students and colleagues who
may be interested.

Best regards,

Prof. Hirokazu Tamura, Chair of the SNP School 2013
Department of Physics, School of Science, Tohoku University

Prof. Kenichi Imai, Co-chair of the SNP School 2013
Advance Science Research Center, JAEA