SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Sixth International Conference on 
Quarks and Nuclear Physics 
(QNP2012)

April 16-20, 2012

Ecole Polytechnique
Palaiseau, France 

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.

The conference will highlight 40 years of development in QCD through the following themes: 

A-	Quark and gluon content of nucleons and nuclei (parton distribution functions, generalized parton distributions, transverse momentum distributions,…),
B-	Hadron spectroscopy (structure, production and decay, light and heavy quarks, hybrids, glueballs, molecular states, multi-hadron systems,…),
C-	Non-perturbative methods of QCD,
D-	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,…),
E-	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,…).

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. 

At this time, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for presentation and to register. Please note the important deadlines:

End of abstract submission: January 13, 2012
End of early registration: March 1st, 2012
End of late registration: April 2nd, 2012

Young physicists, post-docs and students, are especially encouraged to attend. 

Further information and updates are or will be posted on the QNP2012 web site http://qnp2012.sciencesconf.org . Contact: qnp2012@sciencesconf.org

We are looking forward to seeing you in Palaiseau!

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee,
Michel Garçon and Bernard Pire.                                  Nov. 23, 2011