Dear Colleague, 

This is the second circular on the workshop entitled  Partons in Nucleons and Nuclei:
 
PINAN11
 
to be held in
 
Marrakech Morocco, September 26-30, 2011
 
You will find in this circular important details about the registration to this workshop, the lodging accommodations and transportation from airport to the hotel site and back.
PINAN11 is the second workshop following the first one held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2010 entitled  “Transverse Partonic Structure of Nucleons”. This new meeting expands on the previous one as it focuses on the experimental program planned for Jefferson Lab 12 GeV Upgrade, outlining the necessary experimental, theoretical as well as computational support to enhance our understanding of transverse momentum, spin and spatial structure of hadrons and nuclei in terms of their basic constituents namely quarks and gluons.
 
The goal of this meeting is to review the present experimental results from worldwide laboratories active in the field of QCD through hadronic and nuclear physics studies and to promote extensive discussions on how best to pursue these studies in the future.  Discussion of  theoretical guidance and challenges in this endeavor will be explored widely to offer a clear path for relevant and novel studies in the JLab 12 GeV era and beyond with a possible Electron-Ion Collider.

This meeting to be held in Morocco is organized by Argonne National Lab and sponsored by Argonne National Lab, Duke University, Jefferson Lab, Jefferson Science Associates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mississippi State University, Rutgers University, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile) and Temple University. 
 
Format:

The format of this week-long meeting is similar to that of a workshop with only plenary sessions.  If you are interested in participating to the workshop please submit an abstract in the workshop website (http://quarks.temple.edu/~partons).  With a view towards the future activities in this field, Principal Investigators are strongly encouraged to consider supporting their students’ participation.

Conference fee:

An early bird conference fee of $450 for each participant and $400 for each student will have to be paid at the registration time using a credit card only. After August 15, 2011 the conference fee will increase to $500 for each participant and $450 for each student. Please be aware that the conference fee payment will not be possible at the conference site.

Lodging, Transportation and Registration information:
The workshop will be held at the Albatros garden hotel in Marrackech. The registration is open through the workshop website, http://quarks.temple.edu/~partons ,  and will remain open until September 5th, 2011. During your registration, you will be asked to give information on your needs for lodging, transportation and additional social activities. A touristic agency negotiated excellent prices for the hotel with options including meals and they are blocking a number of rooms in the conference hotel.  Please do not book your hotel room directly with the hotel since it will be several times more expensive than what we offer. However, we do  request you cooperation in registering early to have an accurate account of participants and to secure these prices.
Please make sure to fill out your needs while registering to benefit from all special promotions. Once we have your information we will communicate it to the touristic agency and will send you later the confirmation. You will pay the lodging and other expenses directly to the agency once in Morocco. 
Abstract Submission of Invited and Contributed Papers:
We strongly recommend the submission of an abstract while registering. A booklet of including all abstracts will be available at the start of the conference.
Physics Topics: 
·         Nucleon electromagnetic structure
·         Parton distributions in nucleons and nuclei
·         Tomography of nucleons and nuclei
·         Nucleon spin and quarks angular momentum
·         Quark-quark and quark-gluon correlations in nucleons and nuclei
·         Hadronization, color transparency and short range correlations

Program Agenda:
Preliminary agenda will be posted in the website in a few weeks time.

International Advisory Committee:
 
·         M. Anselmino (Torino University &INFN, Italy)
·         S. Brodsky (SLAC, USA)
·         L. Cardman (JLab, USA)
·         H. Gao (Duke University, USA)
·         M. Garçon (Saclay, France)
·         D. Geesaman (ANL, USA)
·         N. Makins (University of Illinois, USA)
·         Z. Meziani (Temple University, USA)
·         G. Miller (University of Washington, USA)
·         P. Mulders (VU University, Amsterdam, Netherland)
·         A. Thomas (University of Adelaide, Australia)
·         M. Vanderhaeghen (University of Mainz)

 Local Organizing Committee:
 
·         R. Cherkaoui-Moursli (Mohammed V University, Morocco)
·         O. El Kettani (Mohammed V University, Morocco)
·         N. El Khayati (Mohammed V University, Morocco)
·         R. Gilman (Rutgers University, USA)
·         D. Goujdami (Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco)
·         K. Hafidi (Argonne National Lab, USA)