Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to the Workshop DIFFRACTION 2006: International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, which will take place in Milos island, Greece, September 5 - 10, 2006. This Workshop is the fourth of the series "Diffraction", after Cetraro (Italy, 2000), Alushta (Ukraine, 2002) and Cala Gonone (Italy, 2004). The aim of this Workshop is to favour fruitful discussions between experimentalists and theorists on topics concerning Diffraction in particle physics. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, The Organizing Committee ################################################################# DIFFRACTION 2006 International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics ----------------------------------------------------------------- MILOS CONFERENCE CENTER (Milos island, Greece) September 5 - 10, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by Athens University, Greece DESY - Hamburg, Germany Universita` della Calabria, Italy Universita` di Torino, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------- International Advisory Committee M. Arneodo Novara P.V. Landshoff Cambridge J. Bartels Hamburg E. Levin Tel Aviv S. Brodsky SLAC A. Levy Tel Aviv M. Ciafaloni Firenze L.N. Lipatov St. Petersburg J. Dainton Liverpool B. Loehr DESY V.S. Fadin Novosibirsk G. Marchesini Milano R. Fiore Cosenza L. McLerran New York K. Goulianos New York N.N. Nikolaev Juelich W. Guryn New York E. Predazzi Torino L.L. Jenkovszky Kiev C. Royon Saclay A.B. Kaidalov Moscow A. Santoro Rio de Janeiro B. Kopeliovich Valparaiso ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee C. Ktorides Athens (chairman) N. Giokaris Athens I. Ivanov Cosenza A. Papa Cosenza ################################################################# SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM The Workshop will cover the following topics: 1. Experimental results and prospects +) Inclusive DIS: total cross sections, structure functions, heavy flavor contributions. +) Diffractive DIS: diffractive structure functions. +) Exclusive final states in diffractive DIS (vector mesons, DVCS, etc.). +) Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions: total, elastic and diffractive cross sections. +) Diffraction at intermediate energies. +) The search for the Odderon. 2. Phenomenological approaches to diffraction +) Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions: .) single and double diffraction, .) central production in double Pomeron exchange. +) Phenomenology of diffractive DIS: .) vector meson production, .) generalized parton distributions, .) DVCS, .) heavy quarks. +) Saturation of partonic densities. +) Interplay between soft and hard physics in diffraction. +) Analyticity/unitarity/duality models of inclusive/diffractive reactions; Pomeron trajectory. +) Phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei. +) Phenomenology of gamma-gamma collisions. +) Spin asymmetries and diffraction. 3. Progress in theoretical description of diffraction +) Perturbative QCD at high energies: .) the QCD origins of diffraction, .) DGLAP vs. BFKL vs. non-linear evolution equations, .) factorization properties of diffractive DIS, .) new results in the collinear factorization approach. +) New results in the BFKL physics. +) New results in Color Glass Condensate model. +) New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach. +) Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD ################################################################# WORKSHOP WEB SITE http://www.cs.infn.it/diff2006 ################################################################# GENERAL INFORMATION The Heliotopos Conferences Agency (www.heliotopos.net) will take care of the organization of the event. The fee for participants to the workshop is fixed at - 400 Euro until August 7th, 2006, - 450 Euro after August 7th, 2006 or on site. The fee includes - Workshop material, - welcome reception, - coffee breaks, - light lunches, - social dinner, - bus transportation to/from the conference center, - certificate of attendance - Workshop Proceedings. The accompanying persons are not charged with any fee. If they wish to participate to the welcome reception and/or to the social dinner, they should pay respectively 20 Euro and 28 Euro, not later than 10 days before the beginning of the Workshop. Lunches are in charge of them. Payments should be made in advance of the Workshop by bank transfer or credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express), according to the instructions on the registration page at the Web site. On site registrations will be paid in cash or by credit card. In the case of cancellation refund will be made of the registration fee and of the possible payments for companions, excluding an administration charge of 50 Euro, provided that advanced written notification is submitted 10 days prior to the Workshop. Partial financial support will be available for a limited number of participants. Applicants should send their request by e-mail to cktorid@cc.uoa.gr. The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published few months after the Workshop and a copy of them will be sent to each participant. ################################################################# REGISTRATION The registration must be done by filling out the registration form on the Web site. The deadline for the early registration fee is August 7th, 2006. Confirmation of the registration will be notified by e-mail by the Workshop Secretariat. ################################################################# CERTIFICATE A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for each participant. ################################################################# LETTER OF INVITATION Participants requiring a letter of invitation in order to attend the Workshop may write to the Workshop Secretariat specifying the necessary details. Please note this procedure aims to assist participants who need to obtain a visa or permission to attend the Workshop. It is not an official invitation covering fees and other expenses and does not imply any financial support from the Workshop. ################################################################# ACCOMMODATION The site of the Workshop will be the Milos Conference Center in the Milos island, situated in the Cycladic archipelago (Greece). Heliotopos Conferences Agency will take care to accommodate the participants in hotels at the nearby town of Adamantas (port town of the island). The hotel reservation can be done electronically through the Web site of the Workshop. The approximate prices are 50-90 Euro for a single room and 70-100 Euro for a double room. For more details see the Web site. The deadline for reservations is August 7th, 2006. Later reservations will be on request and will be accepted only in case of room availability. Please notice that Heliotopos Agency can only confirm any hotel booking once full payment has been received. A notification of the confirmation will be sent to the participants. In the case of cancellation, refund of the hotel reservation will be made, provided that advanced written notification is submitted. An administration charge of 15% will be applied if the notification is sent after August 16th, 2006. ############################################################### HOW TO REACH THE MILOS ISLAND The Milos island can be reached from Athens by ship or by plane (Olympic Airways only). Notice that the number of aircrafts and flights between Athens and Milos is limited. Therefore, we recommend to book flights with large advance with respect to the beginning of the Workshop. ############################################################### ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE TO LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Diffraction 2006 Physics Department Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia 15701 - ATHENS, Greece Phone: ++30-210-727-6940 Fax : ++30-210-727-6987 E-mail:cktorid@cc.uoa.gr or Phone: ++39-0984-496015 Fax : ++39-0984-494401 E-mail: diff2006@cs.infn.it ############################################################### WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT Ms. Nektaria Rapti Heliotopos Conferences Tel: +30 2109730697 Fax: +30 2109767208 E-mail: diffraction2006@heliotopos.net Address: Ypsilantou 28, GR-172 36 Dafni, Athens ###############################################################