Dear Colleague, this is the second circular of the Workshop DIFFRACTION 2008: International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, to be held in La Londe-les-Maures, France, September 9-14, 2008, web site http://www.cs.infn.it/diff2008. We are pleased to inform you that registration is open. It can be done by filling in the form available at the web site. ------------------------------------------------ FEE FOR PARTICIPATION TO THE WORKSHOP ------------------------------------------------ We strongly recommend to pay in advance the fee, through bank transfer to the Credit 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 We remind you that 1) the fee is fixed at 250 Euro until August 15, 2008, 300 Euro after August 15, 2008 or on site (by cash), 2) in the case of cancellation refund will be made of the registation fee, excluding an administration charge of 50 Euro, provided that advanced written notification is submitted. ------------------------------------------------- ACCOMODATION ------------------------------------------------- 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 prices are 90 Euros for a single room and 135 Euro for a double room (two persons). Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included. For more details see the Web site. The deadline for reservations is July 31st, 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. ------------------------------------------------- TOPICS AND CONVENERS ------------------------------------------------- The topics of the Workshop have been organized in several groups and, for each group, one or two conveners have kindly accepted to coordinate the collection of talks. Here is the list of topics and of the related conveners: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Marta Ruspa - ZEUS Collab. - ruspa@mail.desy.de) 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.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Alessandro Bravar - Univ. of Geneva - Alessandro.Bravar@physics.unige.ch) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Risto Orava - Univ. of Helsinki - risto.orava@helsinki.fi) Prospects for QCD studies in the post-LHC era High-energy QCD and astrophysics Special topic: First results from LHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conveners: (Zein-Eddine Meziani - Univ. of Temple - meziani@temple.edu) (Alexei Prokudin - INFN Torino - prokudin@to.infn.it) New results on spin physics (experiment) Spin and polarization physics (phenomenology) Prospects in spin physics (theory) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Boris Kopeliovich - Univ. of Valparaiso - boris.kopeliovich@usm.cl) Diffraction in hadron-hadron colllisions - 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Wlodek Guryn - BNL - guryn@bnl.gov) Heavy ion collisions at RHIC Phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei QCD studies of nuclear collisions New physics via QCD processes at LHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Igor Ivanov - Univ. of Liegi - Igor.Ivanov@ulg.ac.be) Diffraction in DIS - inclusive DIS, structure functions and partonic densities - inclusive diffractive DIS - vector meson production - generalized parton distributions - DVCS - Analyticity/duality models of inclusive/diffractive reactions; Pomeron trajectory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Convener: (Agustin Sabio Vera - CERN - sabio@mail.desy.de) Perturbative QCD and factorization issues Progress in AdS/QCD and related topics New results in the BFKL physics New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Larry McLerran - BNL - mclerran@quark.phy.bnl.gov) New results within the Color Glass Condensate approach Saturation and evolution Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to give a talk at the Workshop, please contact the appropriate convener. We remind you that, in any case, you have also to indicate title and abstract of your talk in the registration form. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, The Organizing Committee ############################################################### ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE TO LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE DIFFRACTION 2008 c/o Alessandro Papa Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita` della Calabria Ponte Bucci, cubo 31C I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza) Italy Phone: +39 0984 496015 (or 496018) Fax: +39 0984 494401 E-mail: diff2008@cs.infn.it or jsoffer@temple.edu For urgent communications after August 15, 2008 DIFFRACTION 2008 c/o E. Sauvan Phone: +33 491 82 72 57 Fax: +33 491 82 72 99