The first announcement of the fifth workshop organized by Norma
Mankoč
Borštnik, Colin Froggatt and Holger Bech Nielsen
"What Comes Beyond the
Standard Model?"
Dear Colleague,
This letter is the first announcement of the fifth workshop entitled
»What
Comes Beyond the Standard Model?«
which will take place at Bled from 14 th of July to 23 th of July 2002. It is organized for the purpose of answering some of the open questions in the electroweak Standard Model like:
- 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 four years we organized four workshops entitled ``What Comes Beyond
the Standard Model?" They took place in June-July 1998 and July 1999,
2000, 2001. Each year we spent ten days, trying to answer these questions in a
very pleasant and relaxing atmosphere. One proceedings is published, the Volume
I of the second is published, the Volume II is in preparation.
The Physical Society together with the 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 Primorska Institute of Natural Sciences and
Technology. We have asked the European
Physical Society and the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport to
sponsor this workshop. The workshop is sponsored by the Slovenian National Committee
for Physics, DMFA, Department of Physics, FMP, University of Ljubljana.
ONE PAGE CONTRIBUTION
We kindly ask you to send a one page contribution to the workshop until the end of May 2002.
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.
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.
APPLICATION FORM
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 Tuesday afternoon, 17 July 2001, you are
kindly asked to arrive on Tuesday morning. We shall have a welcome party on
Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Villa Plemelj telephone number:
+386 4 5743 093 (or 5743 023).
The registration fee, which will
include all the expenses, if living in the Plemelj's house, will not exceed 450
EUR. 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 us the application form.
The list of suggested participants:
1.R. Ablamowitz (rablamowicz@tntech.edu)
2.D.
Ahluwalia (ahluwalia@heritage.reduaz.mx)
3.Borut
Bajc (Borut.Bajc@ijs.si)
4.Lars
Bergstrom (lbe@physto.se)
5.Don
Bennett (bennett@nbivms.nbi.dk)
6.Milutin
Blagojevic (mb@phy.bg.ac.yu)
7.Wilfried
Buchmuller (wilfried.buchmueller@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@akobon.reduaz.mx)
12.Recai
Erdem (erdem@likya.iyte.edu.tr)
13.Paul
H. Frampton (frampton@physics.unc.edu)
14.Bojan
Gornik (bojan.gornik@fiz.uni-lj.si)
15.David
Gross (gross@itp.ucsb.edu)
16.Guang-jiong
Ni (gjni@fudan.ac.cn)
17.Ludger
Hannibal (ludger.hannibal@uni-oldenburg.de)
18.Gerard
't Hooft (g.thooft@fys.ruu.nl)
19.Jaime
Keller (keller@servidor.unam.mx)
20.Astri
Kleppe (KLEPPE@nbivms.nbi.dk)
21.Larisa
Laperashvili (larisa@vitep5.itep.ru)
22.Karen
Ter Martirosyan (termarti@vitep5.itep.ru)
23.Rabindra
Mohapatra (RMohapatra@umdhep.umd.edu)
24.Roman
Nevzorov (nevzorov@heron.itep.ru)
25.Zbigniew
Oziewicz (oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx)
26.Silvio
Pallua (pallua@phy.hr)
27.Matej
Pavsic (matej.pavsic@ijs.si)
28.Ivica
Picek (picek@phy.hr)
29.Matjaz
Poljsak (Mat.Poljsak@ijs.si)
30.T.
Pradhan (pradhan@beta.iopb.stpbh.soft.net)
31.Marcos
Rosenbaum Pitluck (mrosen@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx)
32.Leszek
Roszkowski (l.roszkowski@lancaster.ac.uk)
33.Mitja
Rosina (mitja.rosina@ijs.si)
34.Svend
E. Rugh (rugh@nbi.dk)
35.Norberto
Salinas (norberto@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu)
36.Hergen
Scheck (hergen.scheck@desy.de)
37.Ivan
Shushpanov (shushpan@heron.itep.ru)
38.Douglas
Singleton (dougs@csufresno.edu)
39.Glenn
Starkman (gds6@po.cwru.edu)
40.Berthold
Stech (b.stech@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
41.Hanns
Stremnitzer (STREM@Pap.UniVie.AC.AT)
42.Yasutaka
Takanishi(yasutaka@alf.nbi.dk)
43.Steven
Weinberg (weinberg@physics.utexas.edu)
44.Julius
Wess (Julius.Wess@physik.uni-muenchen.de)
45.Richard
Woodard (Richard.Woodard@cern.ch)
46.Marek
Zralek (zralek@us.edu.pl)
47.Colin
Froggatt (c.froggatt@physics.gla.ac.uk)
48.Holger
Bech Nielsen (hbech@nbivms.nbi.dk)
49.Norma
Mankoc Borstnik (norma.s.mankoc@ijs.si)