Second Circular
Second Circular of the International
Workshop on Nuclear and Particle
Physics at 50-GeV PS
Date: Dec. 10 - 12, 2001
Place: Seminar Hall in "san-gou-kan (Building No.3), KEK,
Tsukuba, Japan
Home Page: http://www-jhf.kek.jp/NP01/
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This is the second circular of the International Workshop on Nuclear and Particle
Physics at 50-GeV PS. Some important information of the Workshop is included.
Those who are going to attend the Workshop should send the Registration Form
attached to the circular by November 20,
2001. (People who have already sent a pre-registration form are also requested
to send it.)
After this circular, latest information will be distributed through e-mail and/or
be available from our Web page, http://www-jhf.kek.jp/NP01/ .
*Accommodation
All the participants should make the reservation by themselves through the form
available from our Web page, http://www-jhf.kek.jp/NP01/ . Rooms are reserved
at Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba or at Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba Epochal upon
your reservation at a special discount rate for the workshop, for which you
should note "KEKNP01" in the comment
area of the reservation form.
Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba (former "Tsukuba Dai-ichi Hotel") is
adjacent to the "Tsukuba Center" bus terminal, where buses from the
Narita Airport and from the JR Tokyo Station arrive. Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba
Epochal is about 800 meters south of the bus terminal and is connected by a
pedestrian pathway. The access information to the hotels is available from the
Web page, http://www.okura-tsukuba.co.jp/english/access.html . It will cost
about 660 yen to take a taxi from the bus terminal to Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba
Epochal.
*Transportation from the Narita Airport
to Tsukuba
Tsukuba (or "Tsukuba Science City") is located about 60 km north of
Tokyo and about 40 km northwest of the Narita International Airport. The Tsukuba
Center bus terminal, Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba and Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba
Epochal are all in the central area of Tsukuba, and are about 10 km south of
KEK.
How to reach Tsukuba is explained in the Web page, http://ccwww.kek.jp/info/userguide/reachkek.html
. The easiest way is to take a direct bus service, called the Airport Liner
"NATT'S", from the Narita Airport through the Tsukuba Center
to the JR Tsuchiura Station. Tickets are available at the "Airport Limousine
Keisei" counter on the 1st floor in the arrival lobby. (Remind that the
"Airport Limousine Bus" counter on the same floor, by another company,
does not take care of the NATT'S bus service.) The fare is 2,540 yen per person.
The bus leaves the Airport every ~90 minutes (see the time schedule in the Web
page), and it takes about one hour and 40 minutes to the Tsukuba Center. (Since
the bus does not go through Japanese Expressways and is hardly caught in a traffic
jam, the schedule would be reliable.) The last bus leaves the Airport at 20:00.
There are four bus stops: "Shin-Tone-Machi" (which is skipped occasionally),
"Hitachino-Ushiku Station", "Tsukuba Center", and "Tsuchiura
Station"; you should ride off the bus at the Tsukuba Center (not Tsuchiura
Station).
The easiest way to move to the Narita Airport from Tsukuba is again to take
the direct bus service. The ticket going to the airport, however, needed to
be reserved and purchased at least one day in advance.
*Currency Exchange
We recommend exchanging your money into Japanese Yens at a Currency Exchange
counter at the Narita Airport, on the 1st floor in the arrival lobby. The information
is available from the Web page, http://www.narita-airport.or.jp/airport_e/guide/service/index_bank.html
.
The exchange rate might not be better in the hotels/banks in Tsukuba. Please
note that foreign currencies cannot be exchanged in the KEK site.
*Bus Service between the hotels and KEK
We are going to arrange a daily shuttle service between the hotels (Okura Frontier
Hotel Tsukuba and Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba Epochal) and KEK, once every
morning and once every evening, during the workshop (Dec.10-12).
A public bus service, though it is not very frequent (every one hour or two)
and costs 430 yen per ride, is also available between the Tsukuba Center bus
terminal and KEK. The time table of the public bus service is available from
the Web page: http://ccwww.kek.jp/info/userguide/reachkek.html . Taking a taxi
from the hotels to KEK will cost about 3,000 yen.
*Scientific Program
The workshop comprises invited talks in the plenary sessions and contributed
papers in a parallel working session. On the last day of the workshop (Dec.12),
we will have several reports from the working groups and have a special session
for discussions. The most update program will be posted in our Web page. The
plenary sessions are held at the Seminar Hall on the 1st floor of KEK "san-gou-kan
(Buiding No.3)". A site map of KEK is available from the Web page, http://ccwww.kek.jp/main2000/userguide/sitemapkek-e.html
. It is three minutes' walk from the Main Gate (#1) to the Building No.3 (#11).
In the parallel working session on Dec. 11, we will have five, tentatively,
working groups:
1) Strangeness Nuclear Physics experiments,
2) Nuclear/Hadron Physics experiments with primary beams,
3) Kaon/Muon Decay experiments,
4) Neutrino experiments,
5) Physics with anti-proton and other beams
(including Hadron Spectroscopy).
In each working group, there would be two coordinators (one Japanese and one
from abroad), which will be announced later in our Web page. The oral presentations
in the working session will be picked up by the coordinators among the contributed
papers for each working group.
*Registration
A registration desk will open in front of the Seminar Hall during the period
of the workshop at 8:30 AM. The registration fee for a participant to the workshop
is 5,000 yen (2,000 yen for students) The fee includes a reception party
and refreshments during the workshop. This fee should be paid, in Japanese Yen
by cash, at the registration desk. Please note that credit cards, traveler's
cheques, and so on, cannot be accepted.
*Reception Party
There will be a reception party on the first evening of the workshop (Dec.10).
You could get the detailed information in our Web page later, or it will be
announced at the workshop.
*Climate
The climate in Tsukuba in December is a little cold, though we never expect
a snowfall in this season. The temperature is high around 12 degrees Celsius
and low around 0 degrees. Please do not forget to bring a warm jacket/ coat
with you. The weather information of Tsuchiura, the town next to Tsukuba, is
available from the Web page, http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Tsuchiura_JP_f.html
.
*Correspondence
All the correspondence concerning the workshop should be addressed to the workshop
secretariat, Dr. Tomofumi Nagae, through e-mail at nagae@post.kek.jp .
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Registration Form of the International Workshop on
Nuclear and Particle Physics at 50-GeV PS
- Family name:
- First name:
- Middle name:
- Title: (Prof./ Dr./ Mr./ Ms.)
- Affiliation:
- Mailing Address:
- E-mail Address:
- Fax:
- I will attend the workshop: (Yes/ No)
Arrival Date: , Departure Date:
- Need support for local expenses ?: (Yes/ No)
- I want to give a talk: (Yes/ No)
Title:
Working Group #:
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Please Return Before November 20, 2001
to
Dr. T. Nagae
E-mail: nagae@post.kek.jp, Fax:+81-298-64-5258