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
- Diffraction at intermediate energies
- The search for the Odderon
2. Phenomenological approaches to diffraction
- Diffraction in hadron-hadron colllisions
- 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 the 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 within the Color Glass Condensate model
- New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach
- Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD