Events

April 3
To support visitors better, Users Office started on April 3. Four office members have been handling reservation and payment for dormitory, user registration etc., processing around 200 requests per day. You can reach the office at : phone +81-298-6135, 6136, fax +81-298-64-6137, e-mail users.office@post.kek.jp.

May 16-20
Asian Meeting on Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) was held in KEK with 49 participants among which 18 were from abroad.

June 7
New building (Building #4) was completed and opening ceremony was held on June 7. Most people from Tanashi Branch have moved to Tsukuba.

July 27-August 2
The 30th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2000) was held in Osaka with over 1000 participants. Major topics were the violation on charge and parity symmetry in B meson system, neutrino mass measurement and the evidence of tau neutrino existence. Over 300 papers were presented and 28 plenary talks were given in the conference.

For more detail, see http://ichep2000.hep.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Video pictures of each presentation were provided for non-participants within a few hours after each talk. A public lecture, "Are we really made of quarks?", presented by J.I. Friedman on the 30th was attended by over 500 enthusiastic audiences.

August 8-12
Second International Workshop on EGS (Electron Gamma Shower) was held in KEK with over 100 participants. (13 from abroad)