The XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond session devoted to QCD AND HIGH ENERGY HADRONIC INTERACTIONS will be held in La Thuile from Saturday, March 12th to Saturday, March 19th 2005. La Thuile is a pleasant winter sport resort located in the Italian Alps, at 1450 m alt., about 120 km from Geneva . The nearest international airport are Geneva (Switzerland)and Milano (Italy). 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 Italy.
Postal address of the meeting :
Rencontres de Moriond
Planibel Hotel - La Thuile
Aosta valley
11016 La Thuile (Aosta) - Italy
Phone number : 39 - (0)1 65 88 45 41
Fax number : 39 - (0)1 65 88 45 35
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.
The topics which will be discussed include :
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 (see
form)to one member of the
program committee with a copy to
Etienne Augé as soon as
possible (before January 15th 2005 at the latest).
Due to limitation of time, 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 LIKELY BE AIMED AT
THEORISTS .
Speakers are kindly asked to write their transparencies in
BIG letters and preferably only on the upper 2/3 of the
sheet.
Further information can be obtained from the
program committee
Proceedings of the conference will be put on the web and published. Instructions will be distributed during the Rencontres. Deadline for contribution will be May 15th 2005.
The meeting will begin on Saturday, March 12th, 2005 at 18 h 00 and will end on Saturday, March 19th, at 12 h 30.
The following equipment will be available : a slide projector for
5cm x 5cm slides, an overhead projector for transparencies, a laptop computer and a projector for computer
presentations. Speakers can bring their presentation on their laptop or on an USB key.
Limited internet connections will be available from the hotel. In particular, a wireless hub
will be installed.
Speakers are requested to bring a good photocopy of their talk. This copy
will be kept for display.
In order to make these transparencies available on the web, speakers who have
their talk in file format (PDF, Postscript, HTML,...) are invited
to send them to E. Augé (auge@lal.in2p3.fr).
The conference fee for participants is 330 Euros. It will cover the cost of the copy of the proceedings and the cost of all social events.
Payments can be made :
Housing will be in Hotel Planibel, La Thuile. 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 accommodation only, can be accepted.
The cost (full board) will amount to 546 Euros (double occupancy).
It will be difficult to obtain single rooms. Only a few will be available at an
additional cost of 140 Euros.
Single rooms should be reserved before December 15, 2004.
For accompanying members, the costs are as follows :
- 546 Euros per adult
- 406 Euros per child (6-10 years old)
- 273 Euros per child (4-6 years old)
It will not be possible to find
accommodation for your family if you have not requested it by
December 30th, 2004.
Important notice:
Hotel reservations are made for the whole session : i.e. from the
evening of Saturday, March 12th to the morning of Saturday, March
19th (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 the case of partial attendance.
Cancellation of hotel reservations should be made before February
15th, 2005. 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.
Partial support from the European Union "Marie Curie" Programme is available for a limited of scientists :
Please send your application to the secretariat before January 31st 2005.
Information below is not yet definitive and will be updated in november
Please note that reservations are compulsory for TGV trains.
Then take the train to Geneva - Cointrin airport,
then the conference bus (see below).
a) Conference buses :
departure from Geneva International airport on Saturday March 12th.
The bus will leave at 13h30.
Return Conference buses are scheduled to leave La Thuile on Saturday, March 19th at 12 h 30 sharp (after lunch) and will reach Geneva airport and then CERN (if requested) around 17 h 00, depending on the traffic.
La Thuile can be reached by car, by the A40 highway to St Gervais, then
by E25 to Chamonix, Courmayeur and Pré Saint Didier and then turn
to the right in the direction of La Thuile via Strata Stratale Valle d'Aosta
(10 km).
If chains are necessary,
the sooner you put them on, the better.
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 it as soon as possible! If it is not received by January 31, 2005, we may not be able to get hotel reservations for you.