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Since then, impressive new results in the calculation of quantum scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity have been obtained thanks to new twistor-string inspired methods. This progress has also been made possible because of the fruitful exchange of ideas between three previously disconnected communities of researchers: string theorists, phenomenologists and mathematicians with interests in Penrose's twistor theory. The subject continues to expand rapidly, with new approaches and connections appearing at a dramatic pace including holography, Wilson loops, integrability, Grassmannians and momentum twistors.

The purpose of the mini-workshop will be to provide the opportunity for researchers working in this wide-ranging and rapidly evolving area to meet. The scientific goals of the workshop will be to review recent progress, stimulate interaction and collaboration among participants, and inspire further outstanding developments in the field.

The series Hadron Physics, in activity since 1988, has the format of an advanced school and has the objective to introduce, in a series of pedagogical lectures, new lines of research in Strong Interaction Physics, mainly concerned with QCD. It envisages also to estimulate collaborations in international level.

Our COST Action Black Holes in a Violent Universe has the main goal to further the understanding of the general phenomenon of Black Holes by bringing together scientists from all Black Hole mass-ranges and all over Europe.

Every Black Hole scientist is welcome (all Black Hole masses, theory or observation, early Universe or neighbourhood, astronomy or fundamental physics) !

One session will be devoted to Quantumgravity and will be jointly organized by the COST Actions MP1006 (Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics) and our Action MP0905 bringing the small scales, and the large Black Hole masses together!

The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited in depth oral presentations (review talks and talks on specific specialised topics), and contributed papers, in the form of relatively short oral papers. We will aim to achieve a balance between review talks and shorter contributions, special emphasis being placed on active participation by younger researchers and post-docs. Parallel sessions are foreseen, and are being organised as the need arises.

GSI, the German research center for heavy-ion physics, is one of the world's leading accelerator laboratories for basic research with accelerated ions. In cooperation with an international research community the existing accelerator complex will be significantly extended by a new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). The center provides unique research opportunities for investigations in the fields of hadronic and nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, atomic, laser, and plasma physics, materials science, and biophysics with applications to cancer therapy, new accelerator developments and radiation safety.