THE ENRICO FERMI YEAR

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

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

GALILEO GALILEI CELEBRATIONS
Four Hundred Years Since the Birth of MODERN SCIENCE

WORKSHOP ON:

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBES OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

ERICE-SICILY: 16 - 21 OCTOBER 2001

Sponsored by the:

• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Italian Ministry of University Scientific Research and Technology
• National Science Foundation
• Sicilian Regional Government
• Weizmann Institute of Science
• World Laboratory

PROGRAMME AND LECTURERS

PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• J.D. BJORKEN, SLAC, Stanford, CA, USA
• T.D. LEE, Columbia University of New York, NY, USA
• A. MELISSINOS, University of Rochester, NY, USA
• L. MAIANI, CERN, Geneva, CH

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES

The Ten Challenges of Subnuclear Physics

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

44 Years of g-2

• F. FARLEY, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Overview

• G. 't HOOFT, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

What We Learned from LEP

• L. ROLANDI, CERN, Geneva, CH

g- 2

New muon g-2 Measurement

• D.W. HERTZOG, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

Implications of muon g-2 Result

• W. MARCIANO, BNL, Upton, NY, USA

High Precision Studies of Low Energy e+e- Annihilation into Hadrons

• S. EIDELMAN, Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, RU

Hadronic Vacuum Polarization and g-2

• A. HOECKER, LAL, Orsay, F

STRONG FIELDS

Spontaneous Breakdown of the Vacuum by Intense Lasers

• A. MELISSINOS, University of Rochester, NY, USA

Gamma-Gamma Collisions

• S. BRODSKY, Stanford University, CA, USA

Two Photon Colliders

• V. SERBO, Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, RU

Coherent X-rays from FEL

• A. RINGWALD, DESY, Hamburg, D

Parametric Gravity Wave Detector

• G. GEMME, INFN, Genoa, I

Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos

• A. KUSENKO, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

CPT / Lorentz Violation

• R.T. BLUHM, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA

QED at the Highest Energies

• S. KLEIN, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA

HEAVY ION

One and Two Photon Physics with Heavy Ion Colliders

• C.A. BERTULANI, Rio de Janeiro University, and BNL, Upton, NY, USA

Coherent EM Processes in Peripheral Collisions

• K. HENCKEN, University of Basel, CH

Results from RHIC on Peripheral Collisions

• A. DENISOV, IHEP, Protvino, Moscow, RU

Experimental Highlights from RHIC

• J. THOMAS, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA

Atomic P Violation at Heavy Ion Colliders

• M. ZOLOTOREV, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA

Heavy Ions and Interpretation of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

• S. REUCROFT, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

CMS Studies of 2-gamma Measurements

• K. PIOTRZKOWSKI,Université Catholique de Louvain, B

PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP

This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Enrico Fermi's birth. In a rarely cited article, written when he was 23, Fermi developed the method of "equivalent quanta" to calculate the interactions of charged particles with matter. This is widely used today and goes by the name of the "Weizsacker-Williams Method". This idea has been applied to QCD (DGLAP equation) and appears to have been a favorite of his in later life.

Also, in this past year several new laboratories for the study of QED and strong interactions have started to produce results. This conference will explore the opportunities for study of QED under conditions of very strong fields made possible by the Heavy Ion Colliders, RHIC and the LHC. We will also focus on two related themes: The physics of the muon g-2 experiment and other areas of investigation in physics of strong fields. The workshop is targeted at young physicists interested in exploring new areas of research at LHC.

APPLICATIONS

Interested candidates should send a letter to:

• Sebastian WHITE
  Physics Department
  Brookhaven National Laboratory
  Building 510 - UPTON, NY 11973-5000, USA
  Tel 001.631.3445488 - Fax 3443253

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 16 October, not later than 5 p.m.

W. MARCIANO - S. WHITE DIRECTORS OF THE WORKSHOP

A. ZICHICHI DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE