The 6th KEK Topical Conference - Frontiers in Particle Physics and Cosmology - is held at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, February 06-08, 2007. The KEK Topical Conference is a series of conferences held at KEK every few years.
Since the last Topical Conference on Frontiers in Flavor Physics was held in 2001, KEK has taken significant roles, through in particular the achievements in the Belle and K2K experiments, in understanding the flavor structure of the standard model. KEK is currently constructing the new neutrino and kaon facility, named J-PARC, in the Tokai area of Japan. KEKB has accumulated a record high luminosity and further upgrades, called SuperKEKB, is being discussed. KEK also takes important roles in LHC and in the development of International Linear collider.
In this conference, we cover wide aspects of particle physics including flavor physics, high energy frontier and new developments in cosmology. All of the topics are discussed in this conference by distinguished experimentalists and theorists invited from around the world.
We hope that the conference will further stimulate worldwide activities in particle physics and cosmology and develop new frontiers in these fields.
The conference covers the following topics.
The conference comprises invited talks in the three-day plenary session and contributed papers, which are presented in a poster session.
Invited review speakers include:
| S. Asai | (ICEPP, Tokyo) | G. Isidori | (INFN-Frascati) | |
| H. Murayama | (UC Berkeley) | M. Neubert | (Cornell & Mainz) | |
| B. Sadoulet | (UC Berkeley) | Q. Shafi | (Bartol) | |
| L. Silvestrini | (INFN-Roma) | A. Soni | (BNL) | |
| P. Ullio | (SISSA-Trieste) | |||
| ... | to be announced. |
Recent results and prospects are presented from the following collaborations/experiments.
Those who wish to contribute a paper to the poster session should submit the title and the abstract of their poster to the Local Organizing Committee, through the Abstract Submission form in our Web page http://kektc6.kek.jp/ , by January 15, 2007.
Please fill out the Registration form in our Web page http://kektc6.kek.jp/ by January 15, 2007. Accommodation (hotel reservation) is also available from the Web page. The number of the participants in the conference is limited to be around 150.
The registration fee for a participant in the conference is 12,000 yen. This fee should be paid, in Japanese Yen, at the registration desk upon your arrival. Please note that credit cards, traveler's cheques and so on cannot be accepted. The fee includes a banquet ticket; an additional ticket for an accompanying person is available upon request for 6,000 yen. For students, the registration fee is discounted to 8,000 yen with a banquet ticket or 2,000 yen without it.
For the participants in the conference, we are going to arrange a half-day bus tour to the J-PARC site in the morning on February 09 (Fri). The tour is free of charge; the bus will return to Tsukuba in the early afternoon. If you would like to join the tour, please apply for it in the Registration form by December 28, 2006. The number of the attendees at the tour is limited to be around 40.
Those participants from countries requiring a visa should apply to the Japanese consulate in advance of your departure. If you need any official letters or other help to obtain a visa, please let us know as soon as possible.
All correspondence concerning the conference should be addressed to the conference secretariat through E-mail.
Dr. Nobuhiko KATAYAMA
The 6th KEK Topical Conference
Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS)
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
E-mail address: kektc6
kek.jp
Postal mail address: Oho 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan.
Further Information and the updates are obtained from our Web page http://kektc6.kek.jp/