[Cuga] First Circular of the FF2019 Workshop at Duke University- a message from Anselm Vossen

[Lorelei Carlson]

Dear Colleagues,

This is the first circular of the "Workshop on Novel Probes of the 
Nucleon Structure in SIDIS, e+e- and pp (FF2019)".
The workshop will take place at Duke University in Durham, NC from March 
14-16, 2019. This meeting will continue a series of workshops held 
previously at RIKEN (Japan) in 2012, at Indiana University (USA) in 2013 
and in Stresa (Italy) in 2018. It receives financial support from Duke 
University, JLab and the University of Connecticut.

The scientific program of the workshop intends to cover the progress in 
the knowledge of unpolarized as well as polarized fragmentation 
functions (FFs) and its role in extracting precise information about the 
structure of the nucleon. In addition, with new experimental programs 
started at Jefferson Laboratory and KEK, upgrades planned at RHIC, and 
the the growing understanding of soft-scale QCD effects in the 
theoretical community, we hope to contribute to the identification of 
key measurements and calculations necessary to advance this growing field.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for theorists and experimentalists 
to discuss the new results with the goal to improve our understanding of 
the fragmentation process and the QCD effects governing it, as well as 
to evaluate the impact the improved knowledge on FFs will have on 
probing nucleon structure in semi inclusive processes.
The topics to be addressed at this workshop will include
-Experimental programs sensitive to FFs in e+e-, SIDIS and pp at current 
and future facilities
-Extraction of FFs at leading and sub-leading twist from experimental 
data including transverse momentum dependence
-Hadron in jet observables sensitive to FFs
-Monte-Carlo models of unpolarized and polarized FFs
-In-medium fragmentation, target fragmentation and fracture functions


We hope to encourage in particular young scientists to attend for which 
limited travel support is available. Please feel free to forward this 
announcement to your collaborators and other interested colleagues. 
Further information about the workshop will be available in a future 
communication after the creation of a website.
We look forward to seeing you at FF2019 at Duke next spring!

Sincerely,

The FF2019 Organizing Committee: Harut Avakian (JLab, co-chair), Keith 
Griffioen (William & Mary), Kyungseon Joo (UConn), Marco Radici (INFN), 
Ralf Seidl (RIKEN), Anselm Vossen (Duke/JLab, chair), Jixie Zhang (UVA)