The 14th Nordic Meeting on Intermediate and High Energy Nuclear Physics Graftavallen, Oviken, Sweden, January 5-10, 2002 http://www.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/graftavallen SECOND CIRCULAR The organizing committee takes pleasure in inviting you to register for the The 14th Nordic Meeting on Intermediate and High Energy Nuclear Physics at Gräftåvallen, Oviken, Sweden, January 5-10, 2002, traveling days are Saturday 5th and Thursday 10th. We want to announce that this meeting is sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Committee for Physics, by the Swedish Research Council and by the Wenner-Gren foundations. The form of the meeting will follow the tradition from prevoius meetings with review talks by invited speakers and shorter contributions from participants presenting new results. Students are especially encouraged to contribute. We also plan "tutorial sessions" for smaller groups of students together with the invited speakers. The number of participants is restricted to about 65 so please register early. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Invited speakers with preliminary titles of their talks. Hadron Physics: M. Birse, Manchester: M. Polyakov, Bochum: Results from instantons and chiral solitons J. Ng, TRIUMF: eta decays C. Wilkin, London: U. Wiedner Uppsala: Glueballs and other QCD exotics Heavy Ion Physics: L. McLerran, BNL: What have we learned from RHIC? B. Petersson, Bielefeld: Lattice results and Heavy Ion collisions speakers from the major experiments Bo Jakobsson, Lund Roman Lietava, Bratislava: NA57 and strangeness production at SPS. Fouad Rami, Strasbourg: Results from the BRAHMS Experiment at RHIC Physics of exotic Nuclei: K. Riisager, Aarhus P. Dendooven, KVI DEADLINES Registration November 30th One-page Abstract November 30th Payment December 10th SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS A number of short contributions will be selected by the organising committee and accomodated in the programme. If you would like to give a contributed talk (20-30 min), please write the title and the suggested duration of your talk in the enclosed registration form. Please also submit a one-page abstract as a Latex or word file on email to Inger Ericson not later than November 30th, 2001 and preferably by email as well to bijnens@thep.lu.se. FUNDING for students Regrettably our largest former sponsor NorFa no longer supports this kind of activity. The financial situation is not final yet, but as it looks now we will be able to offer students will only get a small reduction (500SEK) on the price. If the situation should change money will be refunded. GENERAL INFORMATON The lectures will be arranged in morning and late afternoon sessions, giving the participants chance to exploit the excellent opportunities for all kinds of winter activities. Daily transports will be arranged to Bydalen skiing facilities. Skiing equipment can be rented at Gräftåvallen. Participants are asked to ascertain that they have insurance covering winter sports, the organisers will take no responsibility in case of accidents. The weather in Gräftåvallen in January can be cold. The outdoor temperature usually lies between 0 and -20 degrees centigrade and there is usually a fair amount of snow. TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS Participants are asked to arrange their own tranport to Östersund. Bus transportations will be arranged from the airport and railway station to Gräftåvallen on the 5th of January. The bus times will be arranged according to the travel schedules of the particpants. We expect one bus around lunch time and one after the last flight arriving at 19.20 in Ostersund. Suitable connections are the flights from Stockholm Arlanda SK072 dep Arlanda 09.15 Arr. Östersund 10.20 and SK068 dep. 15.00 arr 1605, as well SK070 dep. 18.15 arr 19.20 as the trains from Stockholm arrriving in Ostersund before 19.40. The departure will be on January 10th in the morning with bus connections to the flights SK073 dep. 09.45, arr. 10.45 and SK2067 dep. 13.40, arr 14.40. There are several more suitable flights as well but use only the ones leaving Ostersund 09.45 or later. Railway times can be found via http://www.sj.se. Apex tickets can be used. Transportations between Graftavallen and Östersund at other times can be arranged but will have to be paid by the participant (a taxi is about 1000 SEK). PAYMENT AND ACCOMODATION The accomodation is organized as full pension in cabins during the conference period with the following prices (including transportations and conference dinner). Full pension for participants (inluding conference fee and VAT) 6250 SEK Graduate Students 5700 SEK (including VAT) Accompanying non-participating adults 3000 SEK Accompanying childern 8 years and older 1250 SEK Children younger than 8 years no charge Information for Swedish State University employees: VAT included is 1000~SEK for participants, 900~SEK for graduate students. Note that payment for accompanying adults and children is made at Gräftåvallen directly to the hotel. Major credit cards are accepted. Payment for accomodation for participants and conference fee should be sent to Lund University. Please be sure to mention the department code, the name of the participant and Graftavallen. Payment: from ABROAD (outside Sweden) to: Lund University SWIFT Code: ESSE SESM Account Nr.: 5439-10 311 16 Address: Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (S-E Banken) S 205 20 Malmo Sweden and the following MUST be mentioned: 156171, name of participant, Graftavallen from inside Sweden it can also be done to Lunds Universitet Postgirokonto: 156 50-5 Postgirot Bank S 105 06 Stockholm Sweden and the following MUST be mentioned : 156171, name of participant, Graftavallen DEADLINE is December 10. FINAL REMARKS We plan to send the final programme to the participants by e-mail round December 15th. Further information can be obtained from Inger Ericson, Department of Radiation Sciences, Box 535, S-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden or on our webpage. DEADLINES Registration November 30th One-page Abstract November 30th Payment December 10th ORGANISING COMMITTEE Johan Bijnens, Lund, chair, bijnens@thep.lu.se Jakob Bondorf, NBI, Copenhagen bondorf@nbi.dk Ari Jokinen, Jyväskylä, ari.s.jokinen@phys.jyu.fi Trine Tveter, Oslo, Trine.Tveter@fys.uio.no -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- REGISTRATION FORM 14th Nordic Meeting on Intermediate and High-Energy Nuclear Physics Graftavallen, Oviken, January 5-10, 2002 To be returned before November 30th to Inger Ericson Department of Radiation Sciences Box 535 S-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden I will attend the meeting Name (capital letters) ________________________________________________ Institute address ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Phone number/Fax number ________________________________________________ E-mail address ________________________________________________ I am a Nordic graduate student ___ I would like to give a contributed talk ___ Suggested duration of talk: ___ minutes Title of my contribution __________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ (If you have sent us a preliminary title earlier, please confirm it now) Abstract of talk: Enclosed ____ Sent under separate cover (deadline November 30th), 2001) ___ Date: ................ Signature: ........................ Accomodation: Participant ______________ Number of accompanying adults ______________ Number and age of accompanying children ______/_______ Smoking ____ No smoking _____ Arrival in Ostersund date _______________ time_____________ airport ____________ railway _________ Departure from Ostersund date _______________ time ___________ airport ____________ railway ________ Reminder for the payment: from outside Sweden to: Lund University SWIFT Code: ESSE SESM Account Nr.: 5439-10 311 16 Address: Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken S 205 20 Malmo Sweden and the following MUST be mentioned: Dep. Cod. 156171-JB, name of participant, Graftavallen from inside Sweden it can also be done to Lunds Universitet Postgirokonto: 156 50-5 Postgirot Bank S 105 06 Sweden and mention : Dep. Cod. 156171-JB, name of participant, Graftavallen please pay as soon as possible and definitely before December 10.