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<span style="background: var(--white);">Dear Colleagues,</span><br>
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<div class="">We are delighted to announce the 28th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (<b class="">DIS2021</b>). It will be hosted by Stony Brook University & the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (CFNS) with support
from NIKHEF, and held on <b class="">April 12-16, 2021</b>. Anticipating travel and gathering restrictions due to COVID-19 to continue, we plan to have it
<b class="">virtually using ZOOM </b>and other such communication tools.</div>
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The scientific program of the conference will include six working groups (WGs):<span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></div>
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Structure functions and Parton Distributions<span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-stretch:normal">
Small-x, diffraction, and vector meson production<span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-stretch:normal">
Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model <span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-stretch:normal">
QCD with heavy quarks and hadronic final states<span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-stretch:normal">
Spin physics<span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-stretch:normal">
Future facilities and experiment</li></ol>
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<div class="">The official Web Page of the meeting is: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.stonybrook.edu_cfns_dis2021_&d=DwMFaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=TI1-uR1CNrL-lIqQDSyKdw&m=HeQWdyEG3ie_Rd-wdmtlO50arlyAyYuJNqYI4D71weQ&s=bOGYLHD0mGFXlbsEB6JJ4NazzNZrcfcuNYS_UsWJ5iA&e=" class="">https://www.stonybrook.edu/cfns/dis2021/</a></div>
<div class="">The registration and parallel sessions abstract submission are now open. The website will be updated with more details as we move closer to the date of the meeting.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Important Dates:</b></div>
<div class="">1st Announcement December 2, 2020</div>
<div class="">2nd Announcement December 15, 2020</div>
<div class="">3rd Announcement January 15, 2021</div>
<div class="">Additional announcements as needed.</div>
<div class="">Registration December 1, 2020 -March 31, 2021 (Open now)</div>
<div class="">Abstract Submission December 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021 (open now)</div>
<div class="">First announcement of accepted parallel session talks March 1, 2021</div>
<div class=""><b class="">Conference Dates April 12-16, 2021</b></div>
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<div class="">We are working towards an exciting program including new results & excitement from experiments and theory in plenary and parallel sessions, a special session on the future of QCD and the annual Altarelli Prize. We will have a slightly different
daily schedule of talks compared to the past DIS meeting to accommodate various time zones. Unfortunately, one can never capture all time zones, so all talks will be recorded and will be available daily, to be viewed by those of you in far away time zones.
Discussions sessions at more friendly/convenient times to those time zones are being considered. </div>
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<div class="">There is no registration fee for DIS2021, but registration is required to attend the meeting and to submit abstracts so that optimal ZOOM arrangements can be made and appropriately distributed.</div>
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<div class="">We look forward to seeing you virtually in DIS2021 and to your participation in various discussions. </div>
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<div class="">Sincerely, </div>
<div class="">Abhay Deshpande</div>
<div class="">For DIS2021 Local Organizing Committee & The International Advisory Committee </div>
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