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abstract: The Mexican School of Particles and Fields is a biennial conference organized by the Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society designed to gather specialists in different areas of high energy physics to discuss the latest developments in the field.

abstract: The workshop will take a place at Nordita (Stockholm) from the 20th of October till the 24th of October. The workshop is the part of the program "Geometrical Aspects of String Theory" which runs October 15 - December 15 2008 at Nordita.

abstract: Understanding the meson spectrum in the light and heavy quark sectors of QCD remains one of the fundamental objectives of strong interaction physics. Experiments planned at exisiting and future facilities will soon provide extensive data on meson production with protons and mesonic (CERN COMPASS), polarized photon (Jefferson Lab GlueX) and antiproton beams (GSI FAIR PANDA). New analysis methods are presently being developed in order to make optimal use of these high-statistics data sets and improve the reliability of traditional partial wave analysis. Motivated by the beginning of COMPASS and BESIII data taking, this workshop will summarize recent progress in understanding the physics issues, analysis methods, and instrumentation in meson spectroscopy. Topics include the relation of the meson spectrum to QCD (lattice and non-lattice), new developments in partial wave analysis and related methods, and the advantages of different probes in identifying and studying possible new objects. Particular emphasis will be placed on introducing the analysis methods developed for the different experimental approaches to researchers working in other fields and to develop common strategies.

abstract: Brookhaven Forum 2008 (BF2008) will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton NY, USA, November 6-8, 2008. The theme of BF2008 is "Terra Incognita: from LHC to Cosmology." As 2008 witnesses the dawn of the LHC era, the emphasis of this year's agenda will be LHC physics. However, part of the BF2008 program will be devoted to related cosmological and astrophysical questions, both in theory and experiment.

abstract: The workshop's main goal is to survey important recent developments concerning 2d sigma models along with some of their most important applications. We hope that the workshop can stimulate further interactions between branches of theoretical physics that share a common interest, but which are not united in one community.

abstract: This School is organized by PASC and is intended to provide an introduction to Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Therefore, the main courses of the School are at the basic level, aimed at students of the 3rd Bologna cycle and Post-docs. We also encourage students of the 2nd Bologna cycle, who have already attended introductory courses in these fields, to come to the school.

abstract: We are pleased to annouce an international workshop on frontier problems in strong interaction physics. The workshop is being jointly organized by the Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research (PPISR), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. The objective of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in some areas of strong interaction physics.

abstract: This Summer School on "Nuclei and Nucleonic Systems Exotic nuclei, halos, nuclear synthesis and more" will be held at the National Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 19 to 28 January 2009. Complete information is available on the website of the Summer School.

abstract: The 45th Karpacz Winter School in Theoretical Physics is concentrated on the neutrino interactions. Lecture topics include:

-basic information about the theoretical models and approximations adopted in MC generators and about the construction of the generators as well

-current experimental activity in neutrino physics

-theoretical models and developments which could improve the performance of the existing codes.

The lectures will be held by invited internationally recognized scientists and complemented by practical exercises. The exercises will allow the participants to learn basic functionalities of the generators.

abstract: The XII Workshop on Nuclear Physics (WONP-2005) offers an outstanding opportunity for the world scientific community to meet in Havana to discuss current trends and tasks in several areas of applied and theoretical nuclear physics.

abstract: In the last years the AdS/CFT correspondence has opened a whole new avenue for the study of phenomena and systems that were not accessible to an analytic treatment, due to its non-perturbative, strongly coupled behaviour. The correspondence emerges as a new tool to understand analytically the dynamics of gauge field theories thanks to its weak/strong duality nature.

Of special interest is the case of QCD and its cousins, and concretely the quark-gluon plasma, where the correspondence has shed new light on the understanding of the experimental results obtained at RHIC. Recently, the application of holographic techniques to condensed matter systems has also been considered.

The workshop will address applications of AdS/CFT to collective phenomena arising in these contexts.

abstract: This is the twenty-third of Workshops in Particle Physics being held yearly at the Planibel Hotel of La Thuile, Aosta Valley. La Thuile is a beautiful mountain village located 1450 m a.sl., about 40 km north of the city of Aosta, on the road to the Mont Blanc. The hotel is at the bottom of a vast skiing area connected with the French ski resort La Rosiere and it is an outstanding complex for winter sports and congresses. The Rencontres will bring together about 120 active experimentalists and theorists to review the status and the future prospects in elementary particle physics. A special session will be devoted to the impact of Science on Society.

abstract: Hadronization and the thermal properties of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) remain challenges to our undestanding of QCD. There have been recent advances in the theoretical understanding of strongly coupled gauge theories using string theory techniques. In addition experimental progress has come from RHIC, and the LHC programme promises much to come. The workshop aims to bring together these diverse communities and seek deeper understanding of the non-perturbative QCD physics of jets and the Quark-Gluon Plasma.

Talks will centre on current models of hadronization and their confrontation with experiment, our present understanding of the QGP and AdS/QCD methods for these processes.

abstract: The Conference will be a continuation of the series of Sakharov International Conferences held in 1991, 1996, 2002 as well as the Fradkin Memorial Conference held in 2000 and the 2005 Conference dedicated to the 70-year aniversary of the Tamm Theory Department.

abstract: The traditional purpose of the Conference is to highlight the present status and prospects of searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model in non-accelerator experiments. Complementarity of accelerator and non-accelerator searches is a traditional leit-motif of the NANP conference. Various extensions of the Standard Model including ideas of supersymmetry, grand unification, extra dimensions etc. are supposed to attract both theoretical and experimental talks and discussions.