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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">SECOND
ANNOUNCEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">Sixth International
Conference on <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">Quarks and Nuclear
Physics <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";">(QNP2012)<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";">April
16-20, 2012<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif"; color: black;">Ecole
Polytechnique</span></b><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";">Palaiseau,
France <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">This
conference will continue the series of QNP meetings previously held in
Adelaïde, Jülich, Bloomington, Madrid and Beijing. It will take place
at Ecole
Polytechnique, close to Paris and with convenient public transportation
to its
center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">The
conference will highlight 40 years of development in QCD through the
following
themes: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="">A-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Quark
and gluon content of nucleons and
nuclei (parton distribution functions, generalized parton
distributions,
transverse momentum distributions,…),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="">B-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Hadron
spectroscopy (structure,
production and decay, light and heavy quarks, hybrids, glueballs,
molecular
states, multi-hadron systems,…),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="">C-<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Non-perturbative
methods of QCD,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="">D-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Effective
field theories (chiral
perturbation theory, soft collinear effective theories,
non-relativistic
effective field theories, heavy baryon perturbation theories, effective
field
theories at finite temperature,…),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="">E-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Nuclear
matter under extreme conditions
and nuclear medium (quark-gluon plasma, color glass condensate, dense
stars,
jet formation, hard QCD probes, hadronization, quark propagation,
nuclear
medium effects,…).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">The
conference will emphasize recent theoretical progress in the field, as
well as
experimental advances. It will foster exchanges between theory,
phenomenology and
experiment. In addition to the plenary sessions, parallel sessions will
be
organized following the above mentioned themes, as well as a poster
session. For
each parallel session, two convenors will select abstracts and organize
the
corresponding program of presentations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">At
this time, we would like to invite
you to submit an abstract for presentation and to register. Please note
the
important deadlines:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">End
of abstract submission: January 13,
2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">End
of early registration: March 1<sup>st</sup>,
2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">End
of late registration: April 2<sup>nd</sup>,
2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Young
physicists, post-docs and students, are especially encouraged to
attend. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB">Further
information and updates are or will be posted on the QNP2012 web site <a
href="http://qnp2012.sciencesconf.org/"><span style="">http://qnp2012.sciencesconf.org</span></a>
Contact: </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"><a
href="mailto:qnp2012@sciencesconf.org"><span style="">qnp2012@sciencesconf.org</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><br>
We are looking
forward to seeing you in Palaiseau!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>On
behalf of the
Local Organizing Committee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="FR">Michel
Garçon and Bernard Pire.<span style="">
</span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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