Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to the Workshop DIFFRACTION 2008 International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, which will take place in La Londe-les-Maures, France, in the period September 9 - 14, 2008. This Workshop is the fifth of the series "Diffraction", after Cetraro (Italy, 2000), Alushta (Ukraine, 2002), Cala Gonone (Italy, 2004) and Milos (Greece, 2006). This year the Workshop is expected to cover a broader spectrum of topics, shifting from diffraction itself towards strong interactions in general and to related topics. The aim of this Workshop is to favour fruitful discussions between experimentalists and theorists. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, The Organizing Committee ################################################################# DIFFRACTION 2008 International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics ----------------------------------------------------------------- AGELONDE CONGRESS CENTER LA LONDE-LES-MAURES (France) September 9 - 14, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by Universite' de la Mediterrane'e - Marseille, France DESY - Hamburg, Germany Universita` della Calabria - Cosenza, Italy Temple University - Philadelphia, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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) A. de Roeck (CERN) B. Loehr (DESY) V.S. Fadin (Novosibirsk) G. Marchesini (Milano) R. Fiore (Cosenza) L. McLerran (New York) K. Goulianos (New York) P. Newman (Birmingham) W. Guryn (New York) N.N. Nikolaev (Juelich) M. Haguenauer (Paris) R. Orava (Helsinki) L.L. Jenkovszky (Kiev) E. Predazzi (Torino) A.B. Kaidalov (Moscow) C. Royon (Saclay) B. Kopeliovich (Valparaiso) A. Santoro (Rio de Janeiro) C. Ktorides (Athens) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee J. Soffer (Chair) Philadelphia K. Borras DESY C. Bourrely Marseille S. Bravar Geneva I. Ivanov Liege A. Papa Cosenza E. Sauvan CPPM, Marseille C. Valle'e CPPM, Marseille ################################################################# SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM The Workshop will cover the following topics: 1. Experimental results and prospects +) Diffraction in ep collisions .) inclusive DIS: total cross sections, structure functions, heavy flavors .) inclusive diffraction and dijets in DIS .) exclusive final states in diffractive DIS (vector mesons, DVCS, etc.) +) Forward physics in hadron-hadron collisions .) diffraction at hadron colliders .) results on central exclusive production at Tevatron .) central exclusive production and forward physics projects at the LHC .) gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadronic colliders +) Low-x Physics at LHC +) Heavy ion collisions at RHIC +) New results on spin physics +) Prospects for QCD studies in the post-LHC era +) High-energy QCD and astrophysics +) Special topic: First expected results from LHC 2. Phenomenological approaches +) Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions .) single and double diffraction .) central production in double Pomeron exchange .) diffractive Higgs production at Tevatron and LHC .) phenomenology of rescattering corrections and gap survival probability +) Diffraction in DIS .) inclusive DIS, structure functions and partonic densities .) inclusive diffractive DIS .) vector meson production .) generalized parton distributions .) DVCS +) Saturation and evolution +) Analyticity/duality models of inclusive/diffractive reactions; Pomeron trajectory +) QCD studies of nuclear collisions +) Spin and polarization physics +) New physics via QCD processes at LHC 3. Progress in the theory +) Perturbative QCD and factorization issues +) Progress in AdS/QCD and related topics +) New results in the BFKL physics +) New results within the Color Glass Condensate approach +) New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach +) Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD +) Prospects in spin physics ################################################################# WORKSHOP WEB SITE http://www.cs.infn.it/diff2008 ################################################################# GENERAL INFORMATION The fee for participants to the workshop is fixed at - 250 Euro until August 15th, 2008, - 300 Euro after August 15th, 2008. The fee includes - Workshop material - Welcome drink - Social dinner - Excursion - Bus transportation - Workshop Proceedings Accompanying persons are not charged with any fee. Their participation to the excursion is to be charged separately. Payments before the arrival should be made by bank transfer or by sending a check. On site registrations can be paid only in cash. The bank where transfers should be made is the Cre'dit Lyonnais, LCL Marseille Cabot. The relevant data for the bank transfer are the following: Jacques SOFFER DIFFRACTION 2008 Le Zenon (A) Ave Campagne Berger F 13009 Marseille, France Code Banque 30002, Code Guichet 02925, Compte No. 0000000530Q, Cle' RiB 88 IBAN code: FR32 3000 2029 2500 0000 0530 Q88 BIC code: CRLYFRPP In the case of cancellation refund will be made of the registration fee, excluding an administration charge of 50 Euro, provided that advanced written notification is submitted. Partial financial support will be available for a limited number of participants. Applicants should send their request by e-mail to diff2008@cs.infn.it. The proceedings of the Workshop will be published few months after the Workshop and a copy of them will be sent to all the participants. ################################################################# PRE-REGISTRATION We ask those of you who are interested in participating at the Workshop, to fill in the pre-registration form available on the Web site of the Workshop. Confirmation of the pre-registration will be notified by e-mail. ################################################################# CERTIFICATE A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for each participant on request. ################################################################# 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 venue of the Workshop will be the Agelonde Congress Center in La Londe-les Maures (France), on the coast between Marseille and Nice. The hotel reservation can be done electronically through the Web site of the Workshop. The approximate prices are 90 Euros for a single room and 135 Euro for a double room (two persons). It includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. For more details see the Web site. The deadline for reservations is August 15th, 2008. Later reservations will be on request and will be accepted only in case of room availability. A notification of the confirmation will be sent to the participants. ############################################################### HOW TO REACH THE LA LONDE-LES-MAURES The closest airport to La Londe-les-Maures is Hyeres (or Toulon). Other nearby airports are Nice and Marseille. A shuttle bus service will be organized from the railway stations of Toulon and Hyeres on the arrival (September 9) and departure (September 14) days. The detailed schedule will be defined in due time. ############################################################### ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE TO LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Diffraction 2008 c/o prof. R. Fiore Dipartimento di Fisica Universita` della Calabria Ponte Bucci, cubo 31 C 87036 RENDE (Cosenza), Italia Phone: +39-0984-496018 (or 496015) Fax : +39-0984-494401 E-mail: diff2008@cs.infn.it or jsoffer@temple.edu ############################################################### FOR URGENT COMMUNCATIONS AFTER AUGUST 15, 2008 DIFFRACTION 2008 c/o E. Sauvan Phone: +33 491 82 72 57 Fax: +33 491 82 72 99 ###############################################################