THE ENRICO FERMI YEAR

A TRIBUTE TO THE "ITALIAN NAVIGATOR" FATHER OF THE WEAK FORCES

GALILEO GALILEI FOUNDATION
WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS
ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE

GALILEO GALILEI CELEBRATIONS
Four Centuries Since the Birth of Modern Science

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

39th Course: NEW FIELDS AND STRINGS IN SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

ERICE-SICILY: 29 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER 2001

Sponsored by the:

• Academies of Sciences of Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Commission of the European Communities
• European Physical Society
• Italian Ministry of University Scientific Research and Technology
• Sicilian Regional Government
• Weizmann Institute of Science
• World Laboratory

PROGRAMME AND LECTURERS

MINI-COURSES ON BASICS

Lattice QCD Results and Prospects

• R.D. KENWAY, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Non-Perturbative Aspects of Gauge Theories

• M.A. SHIFMAN, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Non-Perturbative String Theory

• R.H. DIJKGRAAF, Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL

Strings, Branes and New World Scenarios

• C. BACHAS, L.P.T.E.N.S., Paris, F

Neutrinos

• B. GAVELA LEGAZPI, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E

TOPICAL SEMINAR

The Structure of the Universe and its Scaling Properties

• L. PIETRONERO, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, I

FUTURE

The ELN Project

• A. ZICHICHI, INFN & University, Bologna, I, and CERN, Geneva, CH

SPECIAL SESSIONS FOR NEW TALENTS

EXPERIMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM

BNL-RICH

• T.D. LEE, Columbia University, New York, USA

CERN

• R.J. CASHMORE, CERN, Geneva, CH

DESY-HERA

• G. WOLF, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

FERMILAB

• J. PEOPLES, FNAL, Batavia, IL, USA

GRAN SASSO

• A. BETTINI, LNGS, Assergi, I

SUPERKAMIOKANDE

• Y. TOTSUKA, Kamioka Observatory, Gifu Ken, Japan

SLAC

• J.I. FRIEDMAN, MIT, Cambridge, USA

THE BNL MUON g-2 EXPERIMENT

• V.W. HUGHES, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

   

Sessions for New Talents: One of the aims of the School is to encourage and promote young physicists to achieve recognition at an international level. There will be poster sessions whereby each student has the privilege of presenting the results of current studies and interacting with other participants to their mutual benefit.

Each student may also propose a contribution for open presentation. The Board of Lecturers and Invited Scientists will select the best proposals. Priority will be given to new material of either an experimental or theoretical nature, especially if the candidate has made an important contribution to the results to be presented. A review paper has lower priority and, as before, will only be selected if the candidate can point out some new features in the field reviewed. Due to the large number of students and the limited time available, it is obvious that only selected "New Talents" can be given the possibility of making themselves known. The selection will be based solely on "scientific excellence", without favour to geographical distribution, the laboratory or the university of origin. These Special Sessions will be chaired by Gerardus 't Hooft.

Invited Scientists: A group of distinguished physicists has been invited to contribute to the lively intellectual atmosphere of the School by participating in the discussions following the Lectures. Moreover they will take part in the selection of the "New Talents", in the choice of the Best Student and in the award of the various scholarships open for competition.

The theoretical and phenomenological developments in String Theory as well as in all the other sectors of Subnuclear Physics will be the centre of this year's Course where the experimental highlights from the most relevant sources of new data will be presented and discussed. An original feature of the school is the Special Sessions for New Talents, a selected number of whose contributions will be published in the proceedings. As it is in the tradition of this School &emdash; the first and the oldest Subnuclear one in the world &emdash; the Discussion Sessions represent the unique occasion for young talents to show their ability in contributing to the development of our understanding of the frontier problems in Subnuclear Physics.

SCHOLARSHIPS

The following scholarships have been established in honour of, and named after, the late physicists:

JOHN S. BELL	ROBERT HOFSTADTER	BRUNO ROSSI
PATRICK M.S. BLACKETT	GUNNAR KÄLLEN	ANDREIJ D. SAKHAROV
JAMES CHADWICK	GIUSEPPE P.S. OCCHIALINI	JUN J. SAKURAI
AMOS DE-SHALIT	BRUNO PONTECORVO	EUGENE P. WIGNER
PAUL A.M. DIRAC	ISIDOR I. RABI	BJORN H. WIIK
VLADIMIR N. GRIBOV	GIULIO RACAH	CHIEN SHIUNG WU

In order to allow a more direct judgement of all applicants these scholarships will be awarded at the end of the Course by a Committee composed of the Lecturers and the Invited Scientists.

APPLICATIONS

Interested candidates should send a letter to the Director of the School:

• Professor Antonino ZICHICHI
  CERN
  CH-1211 GENEVA 23, Switzerland

specifying:

i) date of birth and present activity;
ii) nationality.

Please enclose a letter of recommendation from the group leader or the Director of the Institute or from a senior physicist.

• PLEASE NOTE
  Participants must arrive in Erice on August 29, not later than 5 p.m.