Second Circular

Dear Colleagues,

This is the second circular of a long-term workshop,

Hadrons and Hadron Interactions in QCD 
-- Effective theories and Lattice -- (HHIQCD2015)
February 15 (Sun) to March 21(Sat), 2015
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan.
http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hhiqcd.ws/index.html

This is a "stay-and-discuss" style workshop in a relaxed atmosphere, 
where each participant is encouraged to stay long and is assigned 
to a desk in an office at YITP. In each day, we will arrange one or two 
seminar sessions, where participants will present their research activities 
including pre-published results. For remaining times other than these sessions, 
participants are free to work on their own researches, to discuss some problems 
with other participants, and even to start new collaborations during the workshop.

In this workshop, researchers in both lattice QCD and various effective field theories 
come together and make extensive discussions on pros and cons of each method 
for hadron physics, in view of recent progress in both fields. We hope that this 
workshop will bring a new direction of researches, which complementarily employs 
both methods to investigate various properties of hadrons.
This workshop is held under Yukawa International Program for Quark-hadron Sciences. 
The workshop is also held as the Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial International Workshop.

Please find below the information on the registration, abstract submission,
accommodation arrangement, and invited speakers.

* Subjects to be covered

(1) Hadron structure
- Ground state properties (spectroscopy, masses, form factors, various flavors)
- Exotic structure (heavy quark physics, molecule/multiquark, diquarks)
- Structure functions (PDF, GPD, fragmentations, transition amplitudes)
(2) Hadron interactions
- Meson-baryon/baryon-baryon interactions (ChPT, HQET, lattice)
- Resonances (approach from lattice, Finite volume, Coupling to continuum)
- Scattering and experiments (Extraction resonance/physical parameters, comparison with data)
(3) Many-body systems and matter under extreme conditions
- Nuclear equation of state
- Hadrons in nuclei (Ch-symmetry restoration, U_A(1))
- Hadronic matter and QCD under extreme conditions (density/temperature, strong EM field)
- Constraints from astrophysics
(4) New approaches 
- Precision methods (Isospin breaking, EM effects, Delta I=1/2 rule, BSM)
- Large N QCD, Holographic methods
- Yang-Mills gradient flow (energy-momentum tensor, etc.)
- Lefschetz thimble, complex Langevin 
- Numerical stochastic perturbation theory
For details, please go to the webpage.

* Schedule

1st week & 2nd week (Feb. 16-20, Feb. 23-27): Workshop and one-day mini-symposium on (1) and (2)
3rd week (Mar. 2-6): symposium on all subjects (1)-(4)
4th and 5th week (Mar. 9-13, Mar. 16-20): Workshop and one-day mini-symposium on (3) and (4)

* Important dates and deadlines

Registration with local support request: November 30, 2014
Abstract submission: November 30, 2014
Registration without support: December 31, 2014
Hotel reservation: 10 days prior to the first night of the stay

* Contributed talks

We collect contributed talks in the symposium and workshop weeks.
Presentation may be assigned in the poster session.
Please submit the abstract through the registration page.

* Registration / abstract submission

Please follow the instruction in this page.
Request for the local support can be made here.
http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hhiqcd.ws/registration.html

* Accommodation

Please follow the instruction in this page.
http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hhiqcd.ws/accommodation.html

* Tentative list of invited speakers

Gert Aarts (Swansea University)
Constantia Alexandrou (University of Cyprus)
Steven D. Bass (Stefan Meyer Institute)
Silas R. Beane (University of Washington)
Nora Brambilla (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
Jiunn-Wei Chen (NTU)
Ian Cloet (Argonne National Laboratory)
Thomas D. Cohen (University of Maryland)
Gilberto Colangelo (University of Bern)
Marco Cristoforetti (ECT*)
Philippe de Forcrand (ETH)
Shinji Ejiri (Niigata University)
Michael G. Endres (MIT)
Evgeny Epelbaum (University of Bochum)
Kenji Fukushima (University of Tokyo)
Masayasu Harada (Nagoya University)
Shoji Hashimoto (KEK)
Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN)
Yoichi Ikeda (RIKEN)
Kenta Itahashi (RIKEN)
Etsuko Itou (KEK)
Hyun-Chul Kim (Inha University)
David Kaplan (University of Washington)
James Lattimer (Stony Brook University)
Su Houng Lee (Yonsei University)
Marco Maggiora (INFN Torino)
Ulf Meissner (University of Bonn)
Volker Metag (Giessen University)
Kenkichi Miyabayashi (Nara Women's University)
Colin Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
Keitaro Nagata (KEK)
Takashi Nakano (Osaka University)
Juan Nieves (University of Valencia)
Hiroyuki Noumi (Osaka University)
Tetsuya Onogi (Osaka University)
Eulogio Oset (University of Valencia)
David Richards (Jefferson Lab)
Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira (University of Bonn)
Chris T. Sachrajda (University of Southampton)
Shoichi Sasaki (Tohoku University)
Stephen Sharpe (University of Washington)
Stefan Sint (Trinity College)
Hiroshi Suzuki (Kyushu University)
Anthony W. Thomas (University of Adelaide)
Antonio Vairo (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
Ubirajara van Kolck (IPN, Orsay)
Wolfram Weise (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
Hartmut Wittig (University of Mainz)
Valentine I. Zakharov (ITEP, Moscow)

* Contact

If you have any question, please contact us at
hhiqcd[at]yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp

* Organizers

Sinya Aoki (Kyoto University, co-chair)
Hiroyuki Fujioka (Kyoto University)
Hidenori Fukaya (Osaka University, scientific secretariat)
Takumi Doi (RIKEN)
Satoru Hirenzaki (Nara Women's University)
Atsushi Hosaka (Osaka University, co-chair)
Tetsuo Hyodo (Kyoto University, scientific secretariat)
Noriyoshi Ishii (Osaka University)
Naruhito Ishizuka (University of Tsukuba)
Hiroyuki Kamano (Osaka University)
Takeshi Yamazaki (University of Tsukuba)
Shigehiro Yasui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

* International Advisory Committee Members

Thomas D. Cohen (University of Maryland)
Gilberto Colangelo (University of Bern)
Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN)
David B. Kaplan (University of Washington)
Martin Luescher (CERN)
Volker Metag (University of Giessen)
Takashi Nakano (Osaka University)
Juan M. Nieves (University of Valencia)
Makoto Oka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tetsuya Onogi (Osaka University)
Chris T. Sachrajda (University of Southampton)
Stephen Sharpe (University of Washington)
Anthony W. Thomas (University of Adelaide)
Andre Walker-Loud (College of William and Mary)
Wolfram Weise (Technische Universitaet München)