The second announcement of the third workshop organized by Norma
Mankoč Borštnik, Colin Froggatt and Holger Bech Nielsen
Dear colleague,
This letter is the second announcement of the third workshop entitled
"What Comes Beyond the Standard Model?"
which will take place at Bled from 17 th of July to 27 th of July 2000.
The electroweak Standard model leaves many questions unanswered:
Why are left handed fermions doublets with respect to the weak
charge while right handed fermions are singlets?
Are spins and charges unified? Why is parity not broken in strong
and electromagnetic interactions?
Why are quarks and leptons arranged in families? How can families
be predicted? Where do the Yukawa couplings come from?
Where do the coupling constants come from?
What are Higgs? Why have no light scalar fields yet been observed?
Where does the electroweak scale come from? Can we exclude the
existence of constituents of quarks and leptons?
Why is the ordinary space-time four dimensional? Why does flat
space-time have the Minkowski metric? Do gravity and gauge fields unify?
The aim of the workshop is to bring together physicists, who are trying to find the answers to some of these questions and who would enjoy to actively discuss the above questions in a small group.
In the last two years we organized the first and the second workshops
entitled ``What Comes Beyond the Standard Model?" They took place in
June-July 1998 and July 1999. Each year we spent ten days,
trying to answer these questions in a very pleasant and relaxing
atmosphere. The first proceedings is published, the second one is
in preparation.
The Physical Society together with Mathematical Society owns a house (an access map is available here), whose owner was the well known mathematician Josip Plemelj. This house can accept 16 people in 8 rooms. It also has a lecture room for around 20 people. Bled is a nice town by the lake of the same name, surrounded
by mountains, with many comfortable hotels.
The workshop is organized by the Jožef Stefan Institute. We have asked
the
European Physical Society and the Slovenian Ministry of Science to
sponsor
this workshop. The workshop is sponsored by the Slovenian National
Committee for Physics, DMFA, Department of Physics, FMP, University of
Ljubljana and Primorska Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology.
ONE PAGE CONTRIBUTION
We kindly ask you to send a one page contribution to the workshop until
the end of May 2000.
SUGGESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS
We also ask you to write in a few sentences the suggestions for the open
problems, which
you are prepared to lead the discussions for, or you suggest the
discussions about.
TIMETABLES
Whether you intend to come to Slovenia by train or by plane, here are the timetables for you.
PRESENTATIONS
It is planned that in the first two or three days everybody will present
her or his work in a one hour talk. In the rest of the workshop we
shall discuss the open problems.
If you have not sent us the application form yet, please do it
immediately.
SURNAME........................................
FIRST NAME.....................................
TITLE (Mr., Mrs., Dr., Prof.)......................
MAILING ADDRESS................................
................................................
................................................
PHONE..........................................
FAX............................................
e-mail.........................................
CITIZENSHIP....................................
PASSPORT NUMBER AND DATE OF EXPIRY.............
DAY, MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH...................
ARRIVAL (day, hour; plane, train, car).........
Would you like to stay in the Plemelj's house, sharing the room with a
colleague? YES........(please suggest the name)
Would you prefer to stay in a hotel?(single room costs approximately DEM
120 per night) YES......
TITLE OF TALK..................................
In order for the workshop to start on Monday afternoon, 17 July 2000,
you are kindly asked to arrive on Monday morning.
We shall have a welcome party on Monday at 4 p.m.
The registration fee, which will include all the expenses, if living in
the Plemelj's house, will not exceed 700 DM. We shall be able to pay
travel and living expenses to a few participants from the Eastern
countries, who are not able to come otherwise.
Please let us know, if you need a letter of invitation from the
organizing committee either for your institute/university or for a
visa application.
We shall send to all the participants a map of Bled (you will find the
map also here ). We recommend
that you bring appropriate shoes for trekking and mountaineering .
We are looking forward to meeting you at Bled.
Norma Mankoc Borstnik, Holger Bech Nielsen,
Colin Froggatt
P.S. Please, do not forget to send the one page contribution and to
suggest open questions for discussions!
The list of suggested participants:
1. R. Ablamowitz (rablamowicz@tntech.edu)
2. D. Ahluwalia (vahluwa@cantera.reduaz.mx)
3. Borut Bajc (Borut.Bajc@ictp.trieste.it)
4. Lars Bergstrom (lbe@physto.se)
5. Don Bennett (bennett@nbivms.nbi.dk)
6. Milutin Blagojević (mb@phy.bg.ac.yu)
7. Wilfried Buchmuller (buchmuwi@desyvax.desy.de)
8. Roberto Casalbuoni (casalbuoni@fi.infn.it)
9. Marcus Cohen (marcus@nmsu.edu)
10. Savas Dimopoulos (savas@squirrel.stanford.edu)
(Savas.Dimopoulos@cern.ch)(savas@leland.stanford.edu)
11. Valeri Dvoeglazov (valeri@cantera.reduaz.mx)
12. Recai Erdem (erdem@likya.iyte.edu.tr)
13. Bojan Gornik (bojan.gornik@fiz.uni-lj.si)
14. David Gross (gross@itp.ucsb.edu)
15. Guang-jiong Ni (gjni@fudan.ac.ch)
16. L. Hannibal (hannibal@uni-oldenburg.de)
17. Gerard 't Hooft (g.thooft@fys.ruu.nl)
18. Jaime Keller (keller@servidor.unam.mx)
19. Astri Kleppe (astri@vana.physto.se)
20. Larisa Laperashvili (larisa@vitep5.itep.ru)
21. Karen Ter Martirosyan (termarti@vitep5.itep.ru)
22. Rabindra Mohapatra (RMohapatra@umdhep.umd.edu)
23. Zbigniew Oziewicz (oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx)
24. Silvio Pallua (pallua@phy.hr)
25. Matej Pavsic (matej.pavsic@ijs.si)
26. Ivica Picek (picek@phy.hr)
27. Matjaz Poljšak (matpoljsak@ijs.si)
28. T. Pradhan (pradhan@beta.iopb.stpbh.soft.net)
29. Marcos Rosenbaum Pitluck (mrosen@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx)
30. Leszek Roszkowski (l.roszkowski@lancaster.ac.uk)
31. Mitja Rosina (mitja.rosina@ijs.si)
32. Svend E. Rugh (rugh@nbi.dk)
33. Norberto Salinas (norberto@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu)
34. Hergen Scheck (hergen.scheck@desy.de)
35. Ivan Shushpanov (shushpan@heron.itep.ru)
36. D. Singleton (das3y@maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu)
37. Glenn Starkman (gds6@po.cwru.edu)
38. Berthold Stech (b.stech@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
39. Hanns Stremnitzer (STREM@Pap.UniVie.AC.AT)
40. Yasutaka Takanishi(yasutaka@alf.nbi.dk)
41. Steven Weinberg (weinberg@physics.utexas.edu)
42. Julius Wess (Julius.Wess@physik.uni-muenchen.de)
43. Richard Woodard (Richard.Woodard@cern.ch)
44. Colin Froggatt (c.froggatt@physics.gla.ac.uk)
45. Holger Bech Nielsen (hbech@nbivms.nbi.dk)
46. Norma Mankoc Borštnik (norma.s.mankoc@ijs.si)
