********************กใ 1st bulletin for NOON2003 กไ******************** Enclosed please find the announcement of the "International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and their Origin", which will be held at Ishikawa Kousei-Nenkin Kaikan, Kanazawa, Japan, on 10th through 14th February, 2003. Please see the following message. The workshop website will be ready on 22nd of November at http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/noon2003 Best Regards, Yoichiro Suzuki Chairman of NOON2003 Kamioka observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ================================================================== || The 4th Workshop on "Neutrino Oscillations and their Origin" || || ---- NOON2003 ---- || ================================================================== The 4th International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and their Origin (NOON2003) will be held at Ishikawa Kousei-Nenkin Kaikan, Kanazawa, Japan, from February 10th to February 14th of 2003. Kanazawa is called as a small Kyoto which is located about 50km from Kamioka. This is the fourth workshop of this series. The first one of this series was held at Fuji-Yoshida in March, 2000, as a local workshop, following the discovery of neutrino oscillations in atmospheric neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande. In 2001, the solar neutrino oscillation has been established by the results from SK together with SNO charged current measurement. And the neutral current measurement by SNO in the following year has further confirmed the fact. The KamLAND experiment, which is sensitive to the oscillation parameter region that the solar neutrino global analyses have obtained, would present their first result soon. Therefore the first phase of the oscillation studies would have been completed. This workshop is therefore a good opportunity to make a global summary of our current knowledge on the neutrino oscillations and to convey a significant discussion on the future direction of neutrino oscillation studies and related subjects for both theoretical and experimental works. Continuation of the study on the neutrino oscillations by accelerator based experiments may discover the yet-undiscovered oscillation nu_mu <-> nu_e through theta13 and this research direction may lead to the future study on CP violation in lepton sector. Another important direction is to search for the Majorana mass of neutrinos which will provide qualitatively different information than the oscillation phenomena. It is a matter of course that the continuation study on atmospheric and solar neutrinos is important. As a 4th workshop, we have a stress on the following subjects: 1) Overview of the current status neutrino oscillation experiments 2) Overview of status of the theoretical study of neutrino mixing and mass 3) Future prospects of neutrino oscillations study 4) Study on double beta decay We further include those subjects: 5) Constraints on the sterile neutrinos from the experimental data 6) mu->e-gamma and lepton flavor violation 7) Proton decays, GUT, leptogenesis 9) Astrophysical neutrinos, neutrinos from supernovae and other related subjects. In this workshop, we bring experimentalists and theorists together and discuss about those subjects. Date of the workshop ==================== February 10th(Mon.) to 14th(Fri.), 2003 Workshop Site ============= Workshop site is at the Ishikawa Kousei-Nenkin Kaikan in Kanazawa city, Japan. The site is near Kenroku-en park, about 15 minutes ride from Kanazawa station. The nearest airport is Komatsu airport from which you can reach to the Kanzawa station by one hour ride by bus. More details about the map or the transportation will be found in the following Web site and in the next bulletin. http://www.kjp.or.jp/hp_22 ( Japanese contents only ) Registration/Accommodation =========================== Registration for the workshop should be done via the workshop home page: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/noon2003 The home page will be on at 22nd of November. The registration fee, which will be used for refreshments, workshop dinner, proceedings and so on is 20,000 Japanese yen. Please pay registration fee at the workshop site. We only accept Japanese yen in cash. A block of rooms have been reserved at some hotels in Kanazawa for foreign participants. Accommodation for the foreign participants can be done by the workshop home page. For domestic participants, please arrange your hotel by yourself. VISA ==== A valid passport is required for entry into Japan. Participants from some countries will also need a visa. For the participants who need VISA, please contact us as soon as possible. Contributed Papers =================== If you are going to submit a contribution paper, an abstract must be submitted by Dec. 31, 2002. You can submit your abstract via home page after 22nd of November. Local Organizing Committee ========================== Y. Itow (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo) S. Obayashi (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo) M. Nakahata (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)(scientific secretary) M. Shiozawa (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo) Y. Suzuki (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)(chairman) Scientific Program Comittee =========================== M. Bando (Aichi) T. Kajino (NAO) T. Kajita (ICRR, Tokyo) H. Minakata (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) T. Mori (ICEPP, Tokyo) M. Nakahata (ICRR, Tokyo) M. Sakuda (KEK) H. Shibahashi (Tokyo) Y. Suzuki (ICRR, Tokyo) M. Tanimoto (Niigata) T. Yoshida (KEK) International Adovisory Comittee =========================== J.N. Bahcall (Princeton) A. Bettini (GranSasso) H. Ejiri (Osaka) E. Fiorini (Milano) W. Haxton (Washington) P. Lipari (Roma) A. McDonald (Queens) G. Raffelt (Max Plank Munich) S. Schoenert (Max Plank Heidelberg) A.Y. Smirnov (Trieste) P. Vogel (Caltech) S. Wojicki (Stanford) T.Yanagida* (Tokyo/CERN) M. Yoshimura (ICRR, Tokyo) *: to be confirmed Contact ======= If you have any questions or comments, please send e-mail to the following address. E-mail: noon2003 [at] suketto.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp The Workshop on "Neutrino Oscillations and their Origin" Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo Higashi-mozumi, Kamioka-cho, Yoshiki-gun, Gifu, Japan, 506-1205 Fax: +81-578-5-2121 E-mail: noon2003 [at] suketto.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp homepage: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/noon2003 (After 22nd of November)