May 2012 - INFN - Padova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

FIRST CIRCULAR
We are pleased to announce that the 25th International Nuclear Physics Conference
(INPC 2013) will take place in Firenze (Italy) on 2-7 June 2013. The 24th INPC
2010 was held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010.
The Conference is organized by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and
several Italian Universities, and it is sponsored by the International Union of Pure and
Applied Physics (IUPAP).
INPC 2013 will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in downtown Firenze. It will
consist of 5 days of conference presentations, with plenary sessions in the mornings,
parallel sessions in the afternoons, and one poster session.
The Conference will officially start in the evening of Sunday, 2 June, and will end in
the early afternoon of Friday, 7 June.
We look forward to welcoming you in Firenze in 2013!
On behalf of INPC2013 organizers,
C. Signorini, Chairman
P.A. Mandò, Co-chairman
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
COMMITTEES
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Cosimo Signorini, Chair, Padova
Pier Andrea Mandò, Co-chair, Firenze
Carlo Bucci, LNGS
Massimo Chiari, Firenze
Gianluca Colò, Milano
Andrea Dainese, Padova
Giacomo de Angelis, LNL
Pasquale Di Nezza, LNF
Silvia Leoni, Milano
Santo Lunardi, Padova
Roberto Menegazzo, Padova
Adriana Nannini, Firenze
Silvia Piantelli, Firenze
Domenico Santonocito, LNS
Josè Javier Valiente Dobon, LNL
Anna D’Este, Secretariat, LNL
Elisabetta Greco, Secretariat, Firenze
Cristina Miletti, Secretariat, Padova
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Angela Bracco, Chair, Milano
Alessandro Olmi, Secretary, Firenze
Francesco Becattini, Firenze
Carla Cattadori, LNGS
Maria Colonna, LNS
Nicola Colonna, Bari
Oliviero Cremonesi, Milano Bicocca
Giacomo Cuttone, LNS
Fabiana Gramegna, LNL
Giovanni La Rana, Napoli
Franco Lucarelli, Firenze
Rosario Nania, Bologna
Eugenio Nappi, Bari
Giuseppina Orlandini, Trento
Sara Pirrone, Catania
Marco Radici, Pavia
Patrizia Rossi, LNF
Claudio Spitaleri, Catania
Mauro Taiuti, Genova
Ermanno Vercellin, Torino
Andrea Vitturi, Padova
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Nicolas Alamanos, France
Faical Azaiez, France
Thomas Aumann, Germany
Yorick Blumenfeld, Switzerland
Maria Borge, Spain
Stanley J. Brodsky, USA
Mark Chadwick, USA
Philippe Chomaz, France
Luisa Cifarelli, Italy
Francis A. Cucinotta, USA
Jens Dilling, Canada
Marco Durante, Germany
Anatoly V. Efremov, Russia
Rolf Ent, USA
Martin Freer, United Kingdom
Zsolt Fulop, Hungary
Avraham Gal, Israel
Sidney Gales, France
Michel Garcon, France
Donald F. Geesman, USA
C. Konrad Gelbke, USA
Muhsin Harakeh, The Netherlands
Sotirios Harissopulos, Greece
Wick Haxton, USA
Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Norway
Francesco Iachello, USA
Barbara Jacak, USA
Robert Janssens, USA
Rauno Julin, Finland
Ralf Kaiser, Austria
Taka Kajino, Japan
Reiner Krucken, Canada
Karlheinz Langanke, Germany
Alinka Lepine-Szily, Brasil
Sylvie Leray, France
Bao-An Li, USA
Adam Maj, Poland
Jie Meng, China
Dong-Pil Min, Korea
Hugh E. Montgomery, USA
Shoji Nagamiya, Japan
Witold Nazarewicz, USA
Thomas Nilsson, Sweden
Yuri Oganesyan, Russia
Takaharu Otsuka, Japan
Alfredo Poves, Spain
Achim Richter, Germany
Karsten Riisager, Denmark
Marie-France Rivet, France
Guenther Rosner, Germany
Hideyuki Sakai, Japan
Hiroyoshi Sakurai, Japan
Helmut Satz, Germany
Reinhard W. Schulte, USA
Yves Schutz, France
Jurgen Schukraft, Switzerland
John Simpson, United Kingdom
Bikash Sinha, India
Johanna Stachel, Germany
Horst Stoecker, Germany
Hans Stroeher, Germany
Anthony W. Thomas, Australia
Michael Thoennessen, USA
Werner Tornow, USA
Vladimir Tretyak, Ukraine
Robert Tribble, USA
Piet Van Duppen, Belgium
Dario Vretenar, Croatia
Thomas Walcher, Germany
Xin-Nian Wang, USA
Eberhard Widmann, Austria
Michael Wiescher, USA
Bolek Wyslouch, USA
Nicolae-Victor Zamfir, Romania
Wenlong Zhan, China
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The scientific program of the Conference will cover the following topics:
Nuclear structure
Nuclear reactions
Hot and dense nuclear matter
Fundamental symmetries and interactions in nuclei
Hadron structure
Nuclear astrophysics
Neutrinos and nuclei
Hadrons in nuclei
Nuclear physics based applications
New facilities and instrumentation
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
We encourage the submission of oral and poster contributions in the indicated
scientific areas. The Program Committee, in consultation with the International
Advisory Board, will invite plenary talks and select contributions for the parallel and
poster sessions.
The abstract submission will be open through the Conference website
from 15 October 2012 through 15 January 2013.
The oral and a few selected poster contributions will be published in the Conference
Proceedings, which will be issued in electronic format.
GENERAL INFORMATION
To secure IUPAP sponsorship, the organisers have provided assurance that INPC2013
will be conducted in accordance with IUPAP principles as stated in the IUPAP
resolution passed by the General Assembly in 2008. In particular, no bona fide
scientist will be excluded from participation on the grounds of national origin,
nationality, or political considerations unrelated to science.
BADGE
Each participant will receive a name badge upon check-in at the registration desk. The
badge will be the official Conference pass and should be worn at all time in order to
gain entry into the meeting rooms.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
Regularly registered participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION
A space, adjacent to the lecture and poster rooms, will be available for the exhibition
of leaflets, books and equipments, for information please contact the Organizing
Secretariat OIC.
INSURANCE
The Conference Organizers do not assume any liability for personal injuries sustained
or loss of, or damage to, property belonging to Conference participants (or their
accompanying persons), either during or as result of the Conference. Participants are
requested to make their own arrangements with respect to health and travel
insurance.
LETTERS OF INVITATION AND VISA REQUIREMENTS
Participants are invited to check with their local travel agency regarding any visa
requirements to enter Italy. Application for letters of invitation will be accepted by the
Organizing Secretariat OIC before 15 February 2013. These documents cannot grant
any financial support by the organizers.
CONFERENCE VENUE
CITY OF FLORENCE
Florence is one of the most beloved cities in the world, an open sky museum famous
worldwide. In the fifteenth-century Florence, a self-governed, independent city-state
with a population of 60.000, became with its writers, painters, architects, and
philosophers the cradle of Renaissance culture; Renaissance shifted mankind into the
centre of the known cosmos and man became its measure.
CONFERENCE VENUE
Palazzo dei Congressi
Piazza Adua, 1
50123 Florence, Italy
www.firenzefiera.it
The conference will take place at the Palazzo dei Congressi
(conference center) of Florence, hosted in the Villa Vittoria, a
jewel of the 19th century architecture surrounded by a park.
Palazzo dei Congressi is in downtown Florence, at 5 minute
walking distance from the main railway station in a central area
crowded with restaurants and commercial activities.
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
CATERING FACILITIES
Coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. A welcome reception and a poster
reception will also be offered. Bars serving coffees and snacks at individual payment
are also available in the Conference area. The Conference venue is located in a very
central area with plenty of restaurants and snack bars.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
FLORENCE MAP
TRAVEL ADVICE
•
By air
There are frequent direct flights to all the most important European cities as well as
convenient intercontinental connections.
Florence Airport "Amerigo Vespucci" is only 5 km from the city centre. Bus and taxi
transportation is available between the airport and city centre.
The Pisa Airport "Galileo Galilei" (80 km far from city centre) is served by several
international airlines and is connected to Florence by a shuttle train operating every
hour. The trip takes approximately 1 hour.
•
By train
The new high speed trains conveniently and comfortably connect the central station
"Santa Maria Novella" to Paris, Munich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Vienna, Barcelona,
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
Zurich, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, etc. Eurostar trains connect Florence with Milan
(2 hrs approximately) and Rome (1 hr and 30 min approximately). The main railway
station in Florence is "Santa Maria Novella" which is very near to the Conference
venue.
•
By car
Florence is centrally situated along the major north-south motorway.
A1 Motorway Autostrada del Sole - exits:
Firenze Nord for participants coming from Bologna, Milan
Firenze Sud for participants coming from Rome, Naples
A11 Motorway Autostrada del Mare
from Pisa/Livorno and Genoa/Turin
TRANSPORTATION TO THE CONGRESS CENTRE
• From the airport
A bus connection (Volainbus) is operating from the airport to the city centre (main
station) every 20-25 minutes.
• From the main train station
From the main train station you can reach the Conference venue in 5 minutes walking.
• Taxis
Taxis in Florence can be ordered by telephone (055 4242 or 055 4390) or found at the
official taxi stands. You cannot stop a taxi on the road.
• Bus
Florence has a comprehensive network of local bus routes. Most of them stop at the
main railway station and therefore near to the convention venue. Bus tickets can be
purchased at most coffee bars and kiosks. Fare is € 1,20 (March 2012) multiple trips,
valid up to 90 minutes.
Tickets valid for 3 or 7 days are also available, at the fare of € 12,00 and € 18,00
respectively.
• Car parking
There are several paying parking areas around the Conference Centre.
WEATHER
The weather in Florence in June is usually warm and pleasant even if occasional
showers can occur. The average temperature is 23°-28 °C.
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION
The full registration fee amounts to 400 Euros, which will be increased to 450 Euros
after 31 March 2013. All students are eligible for a reduced registration fee of 240
Euros, which will be increased to 280 Euros after 31 March 2013.
Fees including taxes
when applicable
Until 31 March 2013
After 31 March 2013
Full registration
Eur 400,00
Eur 450,00
Student*
Eur 240,00
Eur 280,00
Eur 50,00
Eur 50,00
Accompanying persons
* a proof of status is mandatory
Full registration and student fees include:
Attendance to all Conference sessions
Conference bag
Conference program
Welcome reception
Poster session refreshment
Coffee breaks from Monday, 3 June to Friday, 7 June
Visit to “Galleria degli Uffizi” or “Galleria Palatina”
Accompanying person fee includes:
Welcome reception
Poster session refreshment
Visit to the world famous painting Galeries “Galleria degli Uffizi” or “Galleria
Palatina”
Accompanying persons fees do not give access to scientific sessions
A wide range of hotel categories have been booked for the INPC 2013 Conference by
the official agency OIC Way srl. Full details will be available in fall 2012.
The on-line registration and hotel accommodation will open in October 2012.
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
STUDENTS SUPPORT
The Conference Organizers encourage the participation of young scientists working on
the topics covered by INPC 2013. A limited number of students will be granted a
waiving of the registration fee and will be supported for accommodation expenses.
Applications for student support should be submitted as part of the INPC 2013 website
registration and will be accepted until 31 March 2013.
A number of low-rate, double-occupancy rooms for young participants will be available
as well.
SOCIAL EVENTS
The following events are planned:
Welcome reception in the evening of Sunday, 2 June
Poster session refreshment in the afternoon of Monday, 3 June
Visit to the world famous painting Galeries “Galleria degli Uffizi” or “Galleria
Palatina”in the afternoon of Wednesday, 5 June
Social Dinner at “Palazzo Pitti” on Thursday, 6 June (not included in the fee).
Optional tours to Siena, Pisa or a Tuscany winery will be organized through the official
travel agency OIC Way srl.
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference registration opening
15 October 2012
Abstract submission opening
15 October 2012
Abstract submission deadline
15 January 2013
Abstract notification
15 March 2013
Students support deadline
31 March 2013
Deadline for early registration
31 March 2013
CONTACTS
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Cristina Miletti
Via Marzolo, 8
35131 Padua, Italy
Tel. +39 049 9677080
Fax +39 049 8756233
[email protected]
Elisabetta Greco
Via G. Sansone, 1
50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Tel. +39 055 4572076
Fax +39 055 4572128
[email protected]
OFFICIAL PROFESSIONAL CONGRESS ORGANIZER
OIC srl
Viale G. Matteotti, 7
50121 Florence, Italy
Tel. +39 055 50351
Fax +39 055 5001912
[email protected]
Conference website: www.inpc2013.it