Dear Colleague, this is the second circular of the Workshop "Diffraction 2012: International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, to be held in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote (Canary Island, Spain), September 10 - 15, 2012, web site http://www.cs.infn.it/diff2012 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 31, 2012, while abstract should be submitted before August 15, 2012. ------------------------------------------------ FEE FOR PARTICIPATION TO THE WORKSHOP ------------------------------------------------ The fee is fixed at 250 Euro before July 31 and at 300 Euro after July 31. It covers Workshop material, social dinner, excursion, transfers on September 10 and 15, Workshop proceedings. It can be paid - 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. Pay attention that the fee cannot be paid by credit card on site. 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 VIK Hotel San Antonio, located on the seafront at the Playa de los Pocillos, about 6 km away from the airport of Lanzarote. The full board hotel rates are the following: - 81,40 Euro/day for a single use of a double room, - 56,40 Euro/day per person for a double room. Reservations must be done filling the form available at the Workshop Web site (in the section "Accommodation") and sending it to the hotel via fax or e-mail. ------------------------------------------------- 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, ruspa -at- mail.desy.de] Diffraction in e-p collisions (experiment) - 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: Douglas Ross, dar -at- phys.soton.ac.uk] 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, christina.mesropian -at- rockefeller.edu] Forward physics in hadron-hadron collisions - soft and hard diffraction at the hadron colliders (RHIC,Tevatron, LHC) - total and inelastic cross section measurements - central exclusive production (RHIC, Tevatron, LHC) - forward physics at the LHC - gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadron colliders Low-x physics at LHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Convener: Boris Kopeliovich, boris.kopeliovich -at- usm.cl] Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions - 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 Monte Carlo for soft processes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Convener: Risto Orava, risto.orava -at- helsinki.fi] LHC and post-LHC - results from LHC - prospects for QCD studies in the post-LHC era - high-energy QCD and astrophysics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Conveners: Zein-Eddine Meziani, meziani -at- temple.edu; Jacques Soffer, jacques.soffer -at- gmail.com] Spin physics - new results on spin physics - spin and polarization physics - prospects in spin physics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Convener: Wlodek Guryn, guryn -at- bnl.gov] Diffraction in nuclear physics - 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, mclerran -at- quark.phy.bnl.gov] Saturation - new results within the Color Glass Condensate model - saturation and evolution - diffraction from non-perturbative QCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Convener: Dmitry Ivanov, d-ivanov -at- math.nsc.ru] Progress in QCD - 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 2012 c/o Agustin Sabio Vera Instituto de Fisica Teorica C/ Nicolas Cabrera 13-15 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid Spain Phone: +34 91 299 9842 E-mail: diff2012 --at-- cs.infn.it or DIFFRACTION 2012 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: diff2012 --at-- cs.infn.it