Announcement and Call for Papers: COSPAR Session on "Particle Astrophysics"

Main Scientific Organizer-- Roberto Battiston, Dipartimento di Fisica and
Sezione INFN of Perugia (I)
Deputy Scientific Organizer-- Vernon Jones wvjones [at] hq.nasa.gov
Riccardo Barbieri barbieri [at] sns.it
Behcet Alpat behcet.alpat [at] pg.infn.it
Angela Olinto olinto [at] oddjob.uchicago.edu
Boris Khrenov khrenov [at] eas.npi.msu.ru
Akira Yamamoto Akira.yamamoto [at] kek.jp
Arkady M. Galper galper [at] incos.mephi.ru


COSPAR event HO.2
Abstract Deadline: Feb. 15, 2004

I would like to call your attention to the COSPAR sessions titled
"HO.2 Particle Astrophysics".

Particle Astrophysics is an area of fundamental physics where the properties
of matter and fields are studied using signals coming from the depths or our
universe. In this conference event we will explore the status and
perspective of this area of research, from the theoretical as well from the
experimental point view, with attention to the potential of present and
future experiments in space. The programme will include invited talks on
recent Particle Astrophysics results and current/foreseen space program
developments.
Contributed oral and poster papers are solicited in the various areas of
Particle Astrophyics from space:
1- Indirect Dark Matter searches
2- Dark Energy
2- Direct Antimatter searches
3- EECR and neutrino astrophysics
4- Search for strangelets
5- Fundamental physics from CMB
6- CR composition and spectra

We would like to encourage you to submit contributed oral and poster papers
for this conference. Important deadlines are:

Deadline for receipt of COSPAR abstracts: 15 February, 2004
Deadline for Financial Support Application: 15 February, 2004.
Early Deadline for Pre-Registration: 15 May, 2004
Late Deadline for Pre-conference Registration: 16 May-10 July, 2004
Deadline for Hotel Registration: 1 July 2004

For additional information, go to the COSPAR website at
http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html

Solicited papers  (tentative) for the HO.2 sessions:

J. Ellis (CH) John.Ellis [at] cern.ch   Review talk on Particles Astrophyics
M. Vietri (I) vietri [at] sns.it        EECR and Particle Astrophysics
E. Bloom (US) elliott [at] slac.stanford.edu
                               Indirect Dark Matter Searches with HE Gamma rays
B. Bertucci (I) bertucci [at] pg.infn.it 
       Particle Astrophysics with the Anti Matter Spectrometer (AMS) on the ISS
R. Sparvoli (I) roberta.sparvoli [at] roma2.infn.it 
                               Particle Astrophysics with the Pamela experiment
T. Weiler (US)  tom.weiler [at] vanderbilt.edu       Neutrino Physics from Space
T. Geisser (US) gaisser [at] bripv6.bartol.udel.edu
                                            Review on High Energy Cosmic Rays
J. Feng (US)   jlf [at] uci.edu     Dark Matter detection in  space