Dear Colleague, this is the second circular of the Workshop DIFFRACTION 2010: International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, to be held in Otranto (Lecce, Italy), September 10-15, 2010, web site http://www.cs.infn.it/diff2010. We are pleased to inform you that registration and abstract submission are open. They can be done through the Indico system, at the links given in the Workshop web site. The deadline for registration is August 15, 2010, while that for abstract submission is July 31, 2010. ------------------------------------------------ FEE FOR PARTICIPATION TO THE WORKSHOP ------------------------------------------------ The fee is fixed at 200 Euro and is to be paid - before August 31st, by bank transfer to the following account Conto BancoPosta Holders: Fiore Roberto and Pecora Gaspare Via P. Bucci, 31C - c/o Dip. di Fisica 87036 Rende (Cosenza), Italia IBAN: IT 95 L076 0116 2000 0006 9974 996 BIC/SWIFT: BPPIITRRXXX - cash, on site at the registration desk In case of payment by bank transfer and later cancellation, refund will be made of the registration fee, excluding an administration charge of 50 Euro, provided that advanced written notification is submitted. ------------------------------------------------- ACCOMMODATION ------------------------------------------------- The venue of the Workshop is the Hotel Baia dei Turchi (Otranto), located 3 km north to the town of Otranto (Lecce), on the Adriatic sea. The full board hotel rates are the following: - 140 Euro for a single use of a double room - 100 Euro per person for a double room The above prices include the free use of all hotel facilities (wireless internet, swimming pool, fitness center, mini-football field, tennis court). Moreover, a sun umbrella and two beds are reserved per each room on the private beach, 1.5 km away from the hotel. The beach is reachable by the hotel shuttle bus, operating full-time, or individually with the bike of the resort (25 bikes available). Reservations must be done contacting directly the hotel at the e-mail info@baiadeiturchi.it and giving as reference "Diffraction 2010". To confirm the reservation a 30% down-payment will be required by the hotel, to be made preferably by credit card before August 15, 2010. Later reservations will be accepted only in case of room availability. ------------------------------------------------- TOPICS AND CONVENERS ------------------------------------------------- The topics of the Workshop have been organized in several groups and, for each group, one or more conveners have kindly accepted to coordinate the collection of talks. Here is the list of topics and of the related conveners: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Marta Ruspa - Univ. Piemonte Orientale & INFN - ruspa@mail.desy.de) Diffraction in ep collisions (experimental) - inclusive DIS: total cross sections, structure functions, heavy flavors - inclusive diffraction and dijets in DIS - hard diffractive photoproduction - exclusive final states in diffractive DIS (vector mesons, DVCS, etc.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Igor Ivanov - Univ. of Liege - Igor.Ivanov@ulg.ac.be) Diffraction in DIS (phenomenology/theory) - 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: (Christina Mesropian - Rockefeller Univ. New York - mesropc@mail.rockefeller.edu) Forward physics in hadron-hadron collisions (experimental) - diffraction at hadron colliders (RHIC, Tevatron, LHC) - central exclusive production at Tevatron and at the LHC - forward physics at the LHC - soft diffraction at the LHC - gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadronic colliders Low-x Physics at LHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Boris Kopeliovich - Univ. of Valparaiso - boris.kopeliovich@usm.cl) Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions (phenomenology) - single and double diffraction - multi-gap diffraction - diffractive Higgs production at Tevatron and LHC - diffractive Higgs production at large Feynman x - phenomenology of gap survival probability ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Risto Orava - Univ. of Helsinki - risto.orava@helsinki.fi) Prospects for QCD studies in the post-LHC era High-energy QCD and astrophysics First results from LHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conveners: (Zein-Eddine Meziani - Univ. of Temple - meziani@temple.edu) (Jacques Soffer - Univ. of Temple - jacques.soffer@gmail.com) (Alexei Prokudin - JLAB - prokudin@jlab.org) New results on spin physics (experiment) Spin and polarization physics (phenomenology) Prospects in spin physics (theory) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: (Larry McLerran - BNL - mclerran@quark.phy.bnl.gov) New results within the Color Glass Condensate approach Saturation and evolution Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener: (Dmitry Ivanov - Sobolev Inst. Math. Novosibirsk - d-ivanov@math.nsc.ru) Perturbative QCD and factorization issues Leading twist diffraction and the breakdown of PQCD factorization theorems Leading-twist diffractive DIS and nuclear shadowing Non-universal antishadowing Progress in AdS/QCD and related topics Diffractive dijet, hadrons light-front wavefunction from AdS/QCD, and color transparency New results in the BFKL physics New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, abstract and session of your talk in the abstract submission form. We look forward to your participation. Best regards, The Organizing Committee ############################################################### ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE TO LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE DIFFRACTION 2010 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: diff2010@cs.infn.it For urgent communications after August 15, 2010 DIFFRACTION 2010 Alessandro Papa, phone: +39 320 8681201 Roberto Fiore, phone: +39 349 3230756