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The Tenth International Symposium on Meson-Nucleon
Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU2004) will
be organized by the
Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, China, around August
29-Sept 4 2004. It is in a series held previously
in Karlsruhe (1983), Los Alamos (1987), Gatchina/Leningrad (1989), Bad
Honnef (1991),
Boulder (1993),
Blaubeuren (1995), Vancouver (1997), Zuoz (1999), and Washington DC
(2001).
Scientific topics will
cover experimental and theoretical developments in meson-nucleon
physics, baryon spectroscopy,
photo- and electro-production of mesons, dibaryons,
structure of the nucleon, chiral symmetry-based effective field
theories, and QCD-inspired quark models of hadrons, etc.
The
symposium will be held at the campus of Institute of High Energy
Physics, Yuquan Road, located near scenic Yuquan
Sculpture Park, about 150 meters North of the Yu-quan-lu subway station.
It is about 30
minutes to the Tian-An-Men Square at east by
subway.
Beijing has a long history. Some 690000 years ago, Peking Man lived at
Zhoukodian, 48 kilometers southwest of Beijing.A
small town appeared on the present site of southwestern Beijing in 1045
B.C. In the Liao Dynasty, it became the second capital.
From then on, the city had been the capital of the Jin, Yuan, Ming and
Qing dynasties until 1911. The People's Republic
of China was founded with Beijing as its capital in 1949. There are many
spectacular historic and scenic spots to
see, e.g., the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Temple of
Heaven, etc.
In late August the
weather in Beijing can usually be counted on to be sunny and pleasant,
with temperatures typically
in the mid- to upper twenties (Celsius).
A web site has been set
up for the conference and will be regularly updated with detailed
information as it becomes available. The URL is
http://www.ihep.ac.cn/menu04/index.html
Any suggestions and inquiries about the conference can be sent to
Bing-song Zou or
Huan-ching Chiang / Professors of
Physics
P.O.Box 918(4)
Beijing 100039, China
Phone: +86-10-88236162
FAX: +86-10-88233085
E-mail: zoubs@mail.ihep.ac.cn
or chiang@mail.ihep.ac.cn
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