Thank you for your participation to the SNP school 2012. The school finished quite successfully.
Snap shots taken by the organizers are here.
School Photo at IQBRC 2012/2/14
Full size pictures can be found at the directory of the lecture notes.
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12 - 18 February 2012 at J-PARC (Tokai) and Tohoku Univ. (Sendai), JAPAN
*************** Final Announcement ***************
International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics
( SNP School 2012 ）
February 12th, Sunday to 18th, Saturday, 2012
J-PARC, Tokai and Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN
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What's new :
20120208 Information about lecture note is added.
20120211 Lecture program was updated.
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The SNP School 2012 will be held at J-PARC site of Tokai and on the campus of Tohoku University, Sendai from February 12th to 18th , 2012 hosted by JSPS core-to-core program (Nuclear physics group of Graduate School of Science, Tohoku Univ.), co-hosted by Advanced Science Research Center JAEA, supported by KEK, J-PARC center, RIKEN Nishina center, RCNP and ELPH.
The participants of the school are assumed to be graduate students and young researchers at the postdoc level who have a strong motivation to carry the future nuclear physics research. We also welcome senior scientists.
URL:http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2012/
Please check the above web page occasionally to have latest information.
A series of lectures and topical talks will be given by distinguished physicists from around the world. Those already scheduled for talks are provided below.
Lecture notes are given here. Organizer will not prepare copies of them for participants. Please download them and make a copy for you or bring them with your laptop PC.
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W.Weise |
TU Munich |
Theoretical introduction of hadron physics |
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R.Schumacher |
Carnegie Mellon Univ. |
Hadron and strangeness nuclear physics with electron beams |
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A. Gal |
Hebrew Univ. |
Topics in Strangeness Nuclear Physics & Hypernuclear Spectroscopy |
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H.Lenske |
Giessen Univ. |
Strangeness in nuclear matter & Production of Hypernuclei |
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A. Parreno |
Univ. Barcelona |
Lattice QCD |
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R.S.Hayano |
Univ. Tokyo |
Kaonic atoms ~In memory of Professor Osamu Hashimoto ~ |
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J. Pochodzalla |
Mainz Univ. |
MAMI-C and PANDA for hadron and strangeness nuclear physics |
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T. Nagae |
Kyoto Univ. |
Progress and prospect of experimental strangeness nuclear physics |
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K.H.Tanaka |
J-PARC, KEK |
Status of J-PARC facility |
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E.Hiyama |
RIKEN |
Cluster structure of light hypernuclei |
PDF version of the program is here.
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The first half of the school (February 12-15) will be held at the IBARAKI Quantum Beam Research Center (IQBRC) near the J-PARC Tokai campus (Tokai, JAPAN). The latter half (February 15-18) of the school will be held on the Kawauchi campus, Tohoku University (Sendai, JAPAN). The organizers will arrange bus transportation from Tokai to Sendai on the 15th for the school participants.
Important dates:
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Registration Desk Open |
13:30, February 12 at IQBRC |
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Welcome Reception |
18:00, February 12 at IQBRC |
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SNP School 2012 at J-PARC, Tokai (IQBRC) |
February 12 – 14 |
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SNP School 2012 at Tohoku U., Sendai (Hagi Hall) |
February 15-17 |
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SNP School 2012 at Sakunami, Sendai (Ichinobo) |
February 17 |
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Excursion to Hiraizumi (World Heritage) optional |
February 18 |
Here is your survival guide. It includes a mobile phone number of the organizer and Japanese sentences in case of need.
J-PARC site tour
Afternoon of 13th Feb., all participants are expected to join the J-PARC site tour. Material Life science Facility (MLF), Central Control Room (CCR) , neutrino facility and
the Hadron Hall will be toured. All foreign passport holders should fill the Visit Proposal and send it to the organizer before the tour.
Registration Fee & Accommodation Payment
Registration desk will open from 13:30 on 12th February at IQBRC. Please prepare 15,000 Yen (Cash only).
Please pay for Ichinobo (hotel at Sakunami) at the registration desk at the same time, 10,000 Yen (Cash only).
Other hotels at Katsuta and Sendai are booked by the organizers, but you should adjust balance by yourself at the hotel.
The hotels will accept major credit cards.
Those who have support will be reimbursed later.
Young Researchers' Presentation and Report
Here is the program of the young researchers' presentations.
Please carefully check your name, institute and title of presentation.
Those information will be printed on the school completion certificate to be awarded at the summary and closing session.
All young researchers are requested to submit 1-page report of your impression on the SNP school 2012 before the summary and closing session.
Selected students will present the report in the summary and closing session at Sakunami.
If your talk is assigned as a oral presentation, please prepare your talk for 12min + 3min (Q&A).
There is no time to swap your laptops during the young researcher's session. Only organizer's laptop will be used for the presentation.
Please give the ppt or pdf file to the organizer before noon of 14th Feb.
If your presentation is assigned as a poster presentation, maximum size of the poster is A0 (841mm x 1189mm).
Please bring the printed poster to the school. The organizer cannot print your poster at the school site.
Information on Accommodations:
Your hotel assignment is here. Please check it carefully. if anything is wrong, please contact to the organizer.
The hotel rooms will be released after the circulation of this final announcement. The hotel reservation cannot be changed after 27th January.
Tokai
The organizers pre-booked 60 rooms at the Hotel Crystal Palace (marked as "C" on the hotel assignment page) located 2 km from JR-Katsuta station. Room price including breakfast is 6,000-8,000 yen per person per night. Major credit cards will be accepted.
Around J-PARC and IQBRC, a few restaurants are available and the organizers will prepare the lunch (included in the registration fee) on the 13th and the 14th.
Around the hotel or Katsuta station, you can easily find a restaurant for dinner with this restaurant map.
Sendai
At Sendai, rooms are booked at Ark-Hotel (marked as "A" on the hotel assignment page) and Pearl-City hotel (marked as "P" on the hotel assignment page) which are within walking distance from the Kawauchi campus, Tohoku Univ. (Public bus is also available).
Some of your hotel is assigned at Tokyu Inn Nishi-guchi, Hirose-douri (marked as "T" on the hotel assignment page) which locates 8 min. walk distance from the Sendai station. From Sendai station to the conference site (Hagi hall, Kawauchi campus, Tohoku Univ.), it will take 15 min by a bus or 10 min by a taxi (or 40min walk).
Room price including breakfast is 7,000-7,500 yen per person per night. Major credit cards will be accepted.
In Sendai, there are many hotels and restaurants and the organizer will not arrange lunch. The organizers will provide information of surrounding restaurants located in the vicinity of the school site. Campus cafeteria serves food with a reasonable price.
Sakunami hot-spring
In the evening of the 17th, we will have a summary and closing session at a Japanese traditional hotel (“Ryokan Ichinobo”) in the Sakunami hot spring area which is located about 20km west of Sendai urban district. We are planning to award school completion certificate to students there. After the summary and closing session, we will have school dinner there. We will enjoy discussion at the hot spring and shared Tatami rooms. Room charge (not included in the registration fee) will be collected at the registration desk (10,000 yen per person, only by cash ).
On the 18th, we offer an option of an excursion to the World Heritage, Hiraizumi. Bus will leave for Hiraizumi from the Ichinobo and go back to Sendai in the evening of 18th.
Information on Transportation:
Narita Airport to Tokai and local transport at Tokai:
Most foreign participants will land at and depart from the Narita (New-Tokyo) International Airport. A bus service (Rose Liner, by Ibaraki Kotsu Co.) from Narita Airport bound for Hitachi station makes stops at Katsuta station (nearest station to the hotel) and Tokai station (nearest station to the school site). The one-way fare is 3,000 yen and it takes 100 - 140 minutes. You can find detailed information on the bus at:
http://www.ibako.co.jp/airport/narita/from_narita_airport.html. (URL was changed.)
The organizer booked 60 rooms at the Hotel Crystal Palace located 2 km from the JR-Katsuta station (30min walk or 7 min by taxi).
Here is a detailed instruction how you can reach to the hotel after arrival at Katsuta station by the Rose Liner.
It takes 15 minutes between Katsuta station and Tokai station by the JR-Joban-line. Another 15 minutes taxi trip will bring you from the Tokai station (west exit) to the school site, IQBRC.
The organizers will arrange a direct bus from the hotel to the school site in the morning (13:00 on 12th, 8:20 on 13th and 14th) and a return bus from the school to the hotel after the session in the evening. Bus schedule is also shown on the lecture program.
Tokai to Sendai, Sendai to Sakunami hot spring:
On the 15th, bus transportation from Tokai to Sendai with a lunch will be arranged by the organizers.
In Sendai, 40 rooms are booked at the Ark hotel and Pearl-City hotel which are walking distance from the Kawauchi campus, Tohoku Univ. (Public bus is also available). Hotels and Kawauchi campus are located in the central Sendai area and public transportation is well organized.
In the evening of the 17th, participants will move from the school site to Sakunami hot-spring by a bus arranged by the organizers. We will have a summary talk and a school dinner there and enjoy discussion at the hot spring.
On the 18th, the participants will have two possibilities, one leaving for home on their own and the other joining the excursion in the Tohoku area that the organizers are preparing. Those who join the excursion will be dropped at the JR Sendai station in the evening.
It will take 40 minutes from Sakunami to the JR Sendai station by JR-Senzan-line. From the Sendai station to the Narita International Airport, it is a two hours trip by Shinkansen (super-express) and one hour by train (Keisei or JR) to the Narita airport station.
For those who take a flight to the Narita airport from Sendai, the Sendai International airport can be reached in 30 minutes from the JR Sendai station by the Sendai-Access-Line. If you take an early flight in the morning usually around 8 a.m. to Narita ), please ask for assistance in advance.
Information about the School Sites:
Tokai
The Tokai village, in which J-PARC has been constructed (at the Tokai site of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, JAEA), is located at 100km northeast of Tokyo and 70km north of the Tokyo-Narita International Airport. The village faces the pacific ocean. Tokai is adjacent to Mito City (local government office exists), which is the largest city in Ibaraki Prefecture and has many historic spots. Both Tokai, Mito and Tsukuba (where KEK exists) belong to Ibaraki Prefecture; Tokyo-Narita International Airport belongs to Chiba Prefecture located the south of Ibaraki.
The average temperature in February is about 3 degrees C, and daily minimum/maximum temperatures are about -5 to 10 degrees C with occasional snowfall.
Sendai
The city of Sendai with a population of one million is the center of the northern part of Japan, Tohoku District. It is located about 350 km north of Tokyo and can be reached in 2 hours with a super-express train (Tohoku Shinkansen). The city features an abundance of natural beauty that changes with the seasons. Sendai is nicknamed "Mori no miyako" (literally city of green), which illustrates this perfectly. The city has a rich cultural heritage stretching back 400 years to its founding by feudal lord Date Masamune. The city is surrounded by mountains and Pacific ocean, making its weather reasonably mild.
Average temperature at Sendai in February is 4 degrees C (39F), daily minimum/maximum temperatures are -2 /6 degrees C. Though heavy snow fall is rare in Sendai, it is necessary to be prepared for snow in February. We recommend you to bring warm clothing with coat.
Further information on the city is found in the following WEB pages.
http://www.city.sendai.jp/kikaku/kokusai/english/index.html
Tohoku University adopts total campus wide bans on smoking. If you want to smoke during the school, you need bring your potable ashtray and go out of the campus during the breaks.
Contact:
Prof. Satoshi N Nakamura
Dept. of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University,
Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, JAPAN
Phone: +81-22-795-6453
Fax: +81-22-795-6455
E-mail: snpsc2012@lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp
Best regards,
Osamu Hashimoto, Chair of the SNP School 2012
Department of Physics, School of Science, Tohoku University
Kenichi Imai, Co-chair of the SNP School 2012
Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA
International Advisory Committee
P. Bydzovsky (NPI-Prague),
H. En'yo (RIKEN),
A. Gal (Hebrew),
F. Garibaldi (INFN-Rome),
T. Hatsuda (Tokyo/RIKEN),
R.S. Hayano (Tokyo),
T. Kishimoto (RCNP),
T. Motoba (OsakaEC)
T. Nagae (Kyoto),
S. Nagamiya (J-PARC),
K. Nishikawa (KEK),
M. Oka (TITech),
J. Pochodzalla (Mainz),
L. Tang (Hampton/JLab)
Organizing Committee
O. Hashimoto (Tohoku, Chair),
K. Imai (JAEA, Co-chair),
E. Hiyama (RIKEN),
K. Maeda (Tohoku),
S.N. Nakamura (Tohoku),
H. Noumi (Osaka),
H. Shimizu (ELPH-Tohoku),
T. Suda (ELPH-Tohoku),
T. Takahashi (KEK),
H. Tamura (Tohoku),
K.H. Tanaka (KEK)
Local Organizing Committee
S.N. Nakamura (Tohoku, Scientific Secretary, snpsc12@lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp),
Y. Fujii (Tohoku),
M. Ieiri (KEK),
T. Ishikawa (ELPH-Tohoku),
H. Kanda (Tohoku),
M. Kaneta (Tohoku),
K. Miwa (Tohoku),
T. Maruyama (JAEA),
H. Sako (JAEA),
S. Sato (JAEA),
S. Sawada (KEK)
T. Takahashi (KEK),
H. Yamazaki (ELPH-Tohoku),
Contact about the school : S.N. Nakamura, Tohoku University, snpsc12@lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp, 2012/01/23