Les Arcs, Savoie, France
March 9-16, 2002
The XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond session
devoted to ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS AND
UNIFIED THEORIES will be held in Les Arcs 1800 from Saturday March 9th to
Saturday March 16th 2002. Les Arcs 1800 is a pleasant winter sport resort
located in the French Alpes, at 1800 m alt., about 120 km from Geneva and 12 km
from Bourg-Saint-Maurice. The nearest railway station is Bourg-Saint-Maurice:
TGV trains from Paris to Bourg-Saint-Maurice are quite convenient. The nearest
international airports are Geneva (Switzerland) and Lyon-Saint Exupéry
(France). If you arrive in Geneva International Airport, do not forget that you
(especially citizens from Russia) may need a transit visa, coming through
Switzerland to France .
Postal address of the meeting :
Rencontres de Moriond
Hotel
Latitudes - Les Arcs 1800
Village
de Charmettoger Phone number
: 33 - (0)4 79 07 49 79
73700
- Bourg-Saint-Maurice - France Fax number
: 33 - (0)4 79 07 49 87
Please begin your fax with :
Attention to Rencontres de Moriond.
The purpose
of the Rencontres de Moriond is to discuss recent findings and new ideas in
elementary particle physics in a pleasant, relaxed and intimate atmosphere. The
meeting is intended to promote fruitful collaboration between experimentalists
and theorists and between various institutions, by bringing together a limited
number of particle physicists in beautiful and inspiring surroundings.
1. Program
The topics
which will be discussed include:
. CP Violation in
K and B Systems.
. Heavy Flavour
Physics.
. Neutrino
Physics and Neutrino Oscillations.
. Precision Tests
of the Standard Model.
. Searches for
New Particles.
. Theories beyond
the Standard Model.
2. Program
Committee
A. Abada (LPT, Orsay), J. Bagger (John Hopkins
Univ. Baltimore), A. Blondel (LPNHE Palaiseau), P. Fayet (ENS Paris), J.-M.
Frère (ULB, Brussels), H. Frisch (Chicago), L. Krauss (Yale), J.P. Lees
(LAPP, Annecy), S. Loucatos (DAPNIA Saclay), F. Montanet (CPPM,
Marseille), L. Okun (ITEP Moscow), L. Randall (MIT),
J. Trân Thanh Vân (LPT Orsay), G. Unal (LAL Orsay), D. Wood
(Northeastern Univ. Boston)
and F.Zwirner (University
of Rome “La Sapienza”)
3.
Contributions
The detailed
program of the meeting will be established according to the latest experimental
and theoretical results at the time of the meeting. Participants
who wish to present new results are requested to send an abstract of their
proposed presentation to one of the members of the program committee as soon as
possible (by January 15 2002, at the latest). An email copy of this request should also be sent to
the appropriate address below (th. or exp.), where the information is
centralized. Due to the limited time available, only a restricted number of
talks can be accepted.
According to
the tradition of the Rencontres de Moriond, a large amount of time will be
reserved for both organized and spontaneous discussions. Hence all participants
are expected to play an active role during the entire meeting. Please remember
that we make a special effort to bring together theorists and experimenters : theoretical talks should be prepared with experimenters in
the audience in mind, and experimental talks should likewise be aimed at
theorists.
Speakers are kindly requested to write their transparencies in BIG letters and preferably only on the upper 2/3 of the sheet.
Further
information can be obtained :
For
experimental aspects :
G. Unal: LAL, Université Paris-Sud, Bât. 200, 91405 Orsay
cedex, France.
Phone: 33-(0)1 64 46 84 42 - Fax : 33-(0)1 69 07 15 26.
E-mail : unal@in2p3.fr
For
theoretical aspects :
J.-M. Frère : Theoretical Physics, ULB, CP 225, Bd du
Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Phone : 32-2 650 55 71 -
Fax : 32-2 650 51 13 - E-mail : frere@ulb.ac.be
Proceedings
of the conference will be published. Instructions will be given during the
Rencontres. Deadline for the contributions will be May 15th 2002.
1.
Conference Dates
The meeting
will begin on Saturday March 9th 2002 at 18 h 00 and will end on Saturday March
16th, at 9 h 30.
2.
Conference facilities :
The
following equipment will be available : a slide projector for 5cm x 5cm slides
,an overhead projector for transparencies
and a projector for computer
presentations. Speakers can bring their presentations on their laptops
(while
the compatibility of such devices has improved recently, we still encourage you
to bring a back up copy for overhead projector).
3.
Transparencies
Speakers are
requested to bring a good photocopy of their talks. This copy will be left for
display. In order to make these
transparencies available on the web, speakers who have their talks in computer
file format (Postscript, PDF, Powerpoint, Word…) are invited to send an email
with their file as an attachement or with the address to an ftp or www server
where the file can be fetched. The email address for this purpose is :
moriond@cppm.in2p3.fr
4. Conference
Fee
The conference fee for participants will
be 300 Euros. It will cover the cost of the copy of the proceedings and the
cost of all social events.
Payment can be made:
- before the conference by bank transfer
(add 22 Euros for bank fees) to Moriond bank account: Banque de Savoie, Place
de l'Hotel de Ville, 73700 Bourg St Maurice, France.
ADREMOR - Bank Code 10 548, Branch 00013,
Account 00047 135 153, key 67. Swift code : BSAVFR2C
In this case, the transfer should clearly
indicate your name to identify the payment. The corresponding voucher should
imperatively be handed at the conference site.
- on the conference site by traveller's
checks or personnal checks in Euros or US dollars to the order of
"Rencontres de Moriond", handed to the secretariat upon your arrival
or within the first 2 days of the workshop.
Please avoid cash payment if possible.
If you have to change money, note that the
exchange rate in Les Arcs is less advantageous than in cities like Paris or
Geneva.
Credit cards are not accepted.
5. Accommodation
Housing will be in Hotel Latitudes
Charmettoger. Meals will be served in this hotel for all participants.
The hotel bill shall be paid directly to
the hotel. Credit card payment (for the hotel accommodations only) can be
accepted.
The cost (full board) will amount to 595
Euros (double occupancy).
It will be difficult to obtain single
rooms. Only a few will be available at
an additional cost of 161 Euros.
Single rooms should be reserved before
December 15, 2001.
For accompanying members, the costs are as
follows :
- 595 Euros per adult
- 210 Euros per child (6-13 years)
It will not be possible to find
accommodation for your family if you have not requested it by
December 30th, 2001.
Important Notice:
Hotel reservations are made for the whole
session: i.e. from the evening of Saturday, March 9th to the morning of
Saturday, March 16th (including lunch before departure of the conference bus to
Geneva).
Please note that the total cost of the
meeting will not be reduced even in case of partial attendance.
Cancellation of hotel reservations should
be made before February 15th 2002.
After this date, the hotel will charge us for the entire cost and we will have
to ask the participants, who cancel their attendance later, to pay for the
total accommodation cost as listed above.
5.
Accommodation Grants
Partial
support may be available for a limited number of young scientists (up to 35 years)
who are nationals of a European Union Member* State or an Associated State and
active inside a Member State or an Associated* State at the time of the event.
Please send your application form enclosed - before December 30th 2001.
*
On 28/09/01, Member States are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, United Kingdom, and Associated States are: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel.
1.
From Paris to Bourg-Saint-Maurice by train
Please
note that reservations are compulsory for TGV trains. Be especially careful not
to reserve too late: TGV trains to Bourg-Saint-Maurice are often full at this
time of the year, and particularly on Saturdays.
Train
schedule are still preliminary
SATURDAY,
MARCH 9, 2002
Departure
from Arrival in
Paris Gare de Lyon Bourg St Maurice
09
h 18 14 h 48
11
h 09 16 h 24
13
h 54 19 h 10
SATURDAY,
MARCH 16, 2002
Retrun
from Arrival
in Paris
Bourg St Maurice Gare de Lyon
13
h 23 18 h 33
14
h 29 19 h 45
16
h 42 22 h 10
* Please
note that rooms will not be available before 18 h 00 on Saturday, March, 9th
2.
From Bourg Saint-Maurice to Les Arcs 1800
Regular
buses are available from Bourg-Saint-Maurice train station to Les Arcs 1800 (45
mn drive) at most train arrivals from Paris. Please ask for a ticket "Les
Arcs-Villard".
Taxis
: approximate cost : 40/45 Euros, depending on the number of persons/luggage.
3.
From Geneva Airport to Les Arcs 1800
It
is recommended, as much as possible, to take the first conference bus, or if
you go by car, to leave Geneva before 12 h 00 on Saturday. Experience has shown
that traffic jams can be "terrible" if one leaves Geneva after 14 h.
With
the Conference buses : departure from Geneva International Airport. At
the arrival level, ground floor, take the exit (gate n°3) just in front of the
customs, cross a car-park and you will be just in front of the bus. It will be
waiting in the bus park, with RENCONTRES DE MORIOND posters on the windows.
* On Saturday, March 9th: the first bus leaves
at 12 h 30, the second bus leaves at 13 h 30 sharp.
If
you miss the conference bus, please note that there are also regular buses
to Les Arcs 1800. Change in Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Duration : about 3 hours.
Price: 60 Euros one way. You can find the timetable on www.gva.ch/en
or by email to acc-france@wanadoo.fr.
Return
Conference buses are
scheduled to leave Les Arcs 1800 on Saturday, March 16th at 12 h 00 sharp
(after lunch) and will reach Geneva airport and then CERN (if requested) around
16 h 00, depending on the traffic.
4.
From Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport to Bourg Saint Maurice
.
With regular buses: information and timetable on www.satobus-alps.com
.
By train: information and timetable on www.voyages-sncf.com
5. By car
Les Arcs
1800 can be easily reached by car, by the A43 highway to Albertville, then by
the N90 to Bourg-St-Maurice (via Moûtiers), and then direction to Les Arcs 1800
(16 km). Be careful, there are two "Hotel Latitudes" in Les Arcs
1800; ours is "Latitudes Charmettoger", at the end of the resort
"Village de Charmettoger"! If chains are necessary, the sooner you
put them on, the better (in Bourg-St-Maurice). In Les Arcs, the temperature can
easily go down to - 20° C: make sure you have sufficient antifreeze.
1.
The temperature in Les Arcs varies between - 20° and 5° C. The ground is often
icy and it is important to bring appropriate walking shoes and warm clothes.
2.
Ski and boot rental is available at the Hotel (special discount for Moriond
participants).
3.
If you fly to Geneva airport and your luggage is missing on your arrival, when making your claim, ask for your luggage
to be forwarded to you to Hotel Latitudes-Charmettoger in Les Arcs 1800 by
taxi, for a few Moriond participants have had their suitcases "stuck"
in Bourg-St-Maurice by bus companies.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE
Please note
that your reply to the program committee member who sent you the invitation is
not considered as a registration. Registration for your attendance to the
workshop and hotel reservation will only be made on receipt of the registration form.
Please return your registration form as soon as possible!
If it is not received by December 30, 2001,
we may not be able to get hotel reservations for you.