KEK News Vol.1 No.2()

ANNOUNCEMENT

First Asian Particle Accelerator Conference in March 1998

The first Asian Particle Accelerator Conference (APAC98) will be held at KEK from March 23 - 27, 1998, under the auspices of the Asian Committee for Future Accelerator (ACFA). Accelerator-based science in Asia has made a remarkable progress in the last two decades and the trend will certainly continue into the next century. ACFA was established in 1996 to promote accelerator-based science together in the Asian region. APAC conference will be held biennially and the APAC98 is the first one. About 300 scientists will be participating from Asian countries as well as from other countries of the world.

International Workshop on JHF Science (JHF98)

The International Workshop on JHF Science (JHF98) will be held on March 4-7, 1998 at KEK. The planning of Japan Hadron Facility (JHF) is actively in progress. The JHF is a high-intensity accelerator complex with a 50-GeV proton synchrotron, a 3-GeV booster synchrotron and an injector linac. With these accelerators, a wide variety of new science programs ranging from nuclear/particle physics to material/life sciences will be conducted. Main goals of the workshop are to sharpen the scientific focus on individual scientific program at the JHF and to design realistic experimental projects at the JHF. The workshop will have plenary sessions by distinguished key-note speakers and parallel sessions for individual research subject. The organizing committee welcomes participation of any individuals who are interested in the science at JHF. Information can be obtained at the Web site of
"http://www-jhf.kek.jp/JHF_ WWW/JHF98.html".
The e-mail address of the workshop secretariat is "jhf98@jhfpc1.kek.jp".

ICHEP2000 in Osaka

ICHEP2000, the 30th International Conference on High Energy Physics in the year 2000, will be held in Osaka, Japan.?It was decided at the meeting of IUPAP-Commission C11 on the Particles and Fields held on July 30th in Hamburg during LEP '97, and subsequently endorsed by the board of trustees of IUPAP. The host institute is Osaka University. The conference will be sponsored by JPS (The Physical Society of Japan) and KEK. Sponsorship of JSC (Science Council of Japan) is also requested. Date is tentatively fixed as from July 27th to August 2nd, 2000.
For inquiries, contact Yori NAGASHIMA of Osaka University (naga@hep.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp).