DIFFRACTION 2012
International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics




Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote
Canary Islands (Spain)

VIK Hotel San Antonio
September 10 - 15, 2012


organized and sponsored by

LHCPhenonet
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC (SPAIN)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (SPAIN)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (ITALY)
Università della Calabria (ITALY)
DESY, Hamburg (GERMANY)
CERN, Geneva

also sponsored by



Diffraction 2012 is the seventh biennial Workshop dedicated to theoretical and experimental progress in diffractive hadronic collisions at high energies. The previous events took place at Cetraro (2000), Alushta (2002), Cala Gonone (2004), Milos (2006), La Londe-les-Maures (2008), Otranto (2010).

Workshop poster (pdf, 438 kb)

First circular (March 26, 2012)  //  Second circular (March 31, 2012)  //  Third circular (June 14, 2012)  // 
Fourth circular (July 20, 2012)  //  Fifth circular (August 6, 2012)  //  Sixth circular (September 1, 2012)  // 
Seventh circular (September 6, 2012)

Important dates

July 31, 2012: deadline for abstract submission and reduced-fee payment

August 15, 2012: deadline for registration

August 31, 2012: deadline for the communication of arrival time/no. flight

General Information

Scientific Information

Post factum

Group photo (jpeg, 6.1 Mb)

Topics will include

  • Experimental results and prospects
  • Phenomenological approaches
  • Progress in the theory

International Advisory Committee

M. AlbrowFermilab
M. AnselminoTorino
M. ArneodoNovara
J. BartelsHamburg
K. BorrasDESY
S. BrodskySLAC
M. CiafaloniFirenze
A. de RoeckCERN
V.S. FadinNovosibirsk
R. FioreCosenza
M.B. Gay DucatiPorto Alegre
K. GoulianosNew York
W. GurynBNL
L.L. JenkovszkyKiev
V. KhozeDurham
B. KopeliovichValparaiso
C. KtoridesAthens
P.V. LandshoffCambridge
E. LevinTel Aviv
A. LevyTel Aviv
L.N. LipatovSt. Petersburg
B. LöhrDESY
L. McLerranBNL
A. MartinDurham
Z.-E. MezianiPhiladelphia
P. NewmanBirmingham
N.N. NikolaevJülich
R. OravaHelsinki
E. PredazziTorino
C. RoyonSaclay
A. SantoroRio de Janeiro
R. SchickerHeidelberg
J. SofferPhiladelphia

Organizing Committee

M. CapuaCosenza
V. Del DucaINFN, Frascati (co-chair)
A. PapaCosenza
A. Sabio VeraMadrid (co-chair)
E. TassiCosenza
G.P. VaccaBologna



Conference Secretary

R. BertelliINFN, Frascati
R. Rodriguez BergesIFT UAM/CSIC, Madrid

Address for correspondence to the organizing committee

DIFFRACTION 2012

c/o Agustin Sabio Vera
Instituto de Física Teórica
C/ Nicolás Cabrera 13-15
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34 91 299 9842
E-mail: diff2012 --at-- cs.infn.it