23rd International Workshop on

WEAK INTERACTIONS AND NEUTRINOS

Cape Town, South Africa
31 January - 5 February 2011

Conference Photo for WIN 11 at the UCT Breakwater Campus.

Front row: Jose Alonso, Max Richter, Harald Fritzsch, Raoul Viollier, Herbert Pietschmann, Kai Zuber, Manfred Lindner, Raymond Bunker.
Second row: Mark Dalton, Eli Rosenberg, Daniel Ashery, Boris Kayser, Monica Pepe, Giuseppina Anzivino, Cristina Biino, Mu-Chun Chen.
Third row: Isumi Ogawa, Georgia Karagiorgi, Maddalena Antonello, Harry Lam, Yifang Wang, Renata Zukanovich-Funchal, Patrizia Cenci, Vittorio Palladino.
Fourth row: Hiroshi Nunokawa, Martin Holthausen, Gregory Pawloski, Jason Koskinen, Christian Buck, Walter Winter, Oscar Eboli, Lu-Xin Liu, Warren Carlson.
Fifth row: Jean-Sebastien Graulich, Roxanne Guenette, Anselmo Cervera Villanueva, Francesco Fucito, Giampaolo Mannocchi, Antonio Ereditato, Ezio Previtali.

Lion's Head emerging in the mist and the Twelve Apostles in the background

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

The International Workshop on WEAK INTERACTIONS AND NEUTRINOS (“WIN”) is a biennial workshop, which usually takes place in the odd years, alternating with the biennial International Conference on NEUTRino PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS (“NEUTRINO”) that takes place in the even years. WIN’11 promises to be particularly exciting, as the LHC data from CERN will be discussed and interpreted for the first time at a WIN workshop. 

In the past 12 years, six WIN workshops have taken place in 5 different continents: in Cape Town (South Africa, 1999), Christchurch (New Zealand, 2002), Lake Geneva (Wisconsin USA, 2003), Delphi (Greece, 2005), Kolkata (India, 2007), and Perugia (Italy, 2009).  It is, therefore, not surprising that the next cycle of WIN workshops starts again with WIN’11 in Africa, from 31 January to 5 February 2011, at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) of the University of Cape Town. The GSB is located next to the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town (www.waterfront.co.za), which is a prime South African tourist attraction, visited by over 20 million people every year.

The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Table Mountain and its Table Cloth

The accommodation, that we recommend for your stay during WIN’11,  is the Breakwater Lodge which is operated by PROTEA HOTEL on the campus of the GSB (www.proteahotels.com/breakwaterlodge).  A number of rooms have been reserved, at a special rate for WIN’11 until 30 September 2010.  You are requested to make your own bookings referring to WIN'11 ahead of this deadline. 

Cape Town is, during the summer months from December until March, a prime tourist destination.  Therefore, we recommend that the WIN’11 participants book their overseas flights five months in advance.  In February, the temperatures are between 25 and 35 centigrade and there is virtually no rain.  As the time is the same as in Europe, the participants from Europe will not suffer from jet lag.

CONFERENCE FORMAT

The topics of the discussion groups at the WIN'11 workshop will be similar to those of WIN'09 in Perugia:

DG =  Discussion Group

DG 1: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

DG 2: Weak Decays, CP-violation, and CKM Mixing Matrix

DG 3: Neutrino Physics and PMNS Mixing Matrix

DG 4: Astroparticle Physics.

The timetable of the WIN'11 workshop is as follows:

Arrival time:       Sunday, 30 January 2011, ideally at noon

Departure time: Saturday, 5 February 2011, ideally in the late afternoon

Monday, 31 January 2011:

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome of the participants

08:45 - 09:30 Theoretical lecture (DG 1)

09:30 - 10:15 Experimental lecture (DG 1)

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:30 Theoretical lecture (DG 2)

11:30 - 12:15 Experimental lecture (DG 2)

12:15 - 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 - 14:00 Coffee break

The costs of the lunches, without drinks, at the restaurant of the GSB are included in the conference fees, in order to facilitate informal contacts between the participants.

14:00 - 14:45 Theoretical lecture (DG 3)

14:45 - 15:30 Experimental lecture (DG 3)     

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 Theoretical lecture (DG 4)

16:45 - 17:30 Experimental lecture (DG 4)

18:00 - 20:00 Welcome cocktail (with partners)

Tuesday, 1 February 2011:

08:30 - 10:00 Four parallel discussion sessions  (DG 1*, DG 2, DG 3, DG 4)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 Four parallel discussion sessions  (DG 1, DG 2*, DG 3, DG 4)

12:00 - 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 - 14:00 Coffee break

14:00 - 15:30 Four parallel discussion sessions  (DG 1, DG 2, DG 3*, DG 4)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Four parallel discussion sessions  (DG 1, DG 2, DG 3, DG 4*)

* Each of the four discussion sessions, marked with an asterisk, is reserved for two educational lectures of 45 minutes each, given by distinguished teachers, a theorist and an experimentalist, in order to attract young graduate students to this particular research field. These lectures are arranged in such a way  that they do not overlap in time, thus enabling the student participants to attend all of them. The remaining 12 discussion sessions without an asterisk should ideally consist of a total of 27 research lectures and nine discussion periods of 30 minutes each.

Wednesday, 2 February 2011:

08:00 - 18:30

Conference tour (with partners) around the Cape Peninsula, culminating in a visit of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. We will have lunch at the Two Oceans Restaurant.  The costs of the conference tour, i.e. for busses, toll roads, tour guides, lunch, drinks and entrance fees to the National Parks, are included in the conference fees, in order to facilitate informal contacts between the WIN'11 participants.

Thursday, 3 February 2011:

Same as Tuesday, but without asterisks. Thus there will be a total of 16 discussion sessions without an asterisk. These should ideally consist of a total of 36 research lectures and 12 discussion periods of 30 minutes each.

Friday, 4 February 2011:

Same as Thursday. Moreover in the evening:

18:15 Departure by coach from the Breakwater Lodge to the conference banquet venue

19:00 Aperitif

20:00 Banquet dinner

23:00 Return by coach to the Breakwater Lodge

The cost of the conference banquet is also included in the conference fees, again to increase the time of informal contacts between the participants.

Saturday, 5 February 2011:

08:30 - 09:15 Summary and outlook lectures, given by the discussion leaders of DG 1

09:15 - 10:00 Same for DG 2 

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:15 Same for DG 3

11:15 - 12:00 Same for DG 4

12:00 - 12:15 Concluding remarks

12:15 - 14:00 Goodbye lunch

In summary, the total number of lectures and discussion periods at WIN'11 will be:

12 x 45 min   plenary lectures, 99 x 30 min research lectures, 33 x 30 min   discussion periods and  8 x 45 min   educational lectures for young graduate students, taking place on Tuesday, and arranged in such a way that the student participants may attend all of  these. This range of activities should be adequate for an expected attendance of between 100 and 150 participants.

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

University of Cape Town in front of Devil's Peak

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public university, located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT, founded in 1829 as the South African College, is the oldest university in South Africa. It is currently the highest-ranking African University in both the THES-QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UCT is the only African university to make it into the top 200 of the THES-QS ranking.

Two MSc graduates and former lecturers of the Physics Department at UCT were honoured with the Nobel Prize. Sir Aaron Klug (who later was elected president of the Royal Society of London) earned the1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystallographic electron microscopy applied to biologically important nucleic acid protein complexes.

Aaron Klug                                                                      Allan Cormack

Allan McLeod Cormack was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the development and testing of an algorithm that led to the development of Computer Assisted Tomography (CAT-scan). Cormack wrote his Nobel prize-winning paper as a lecturer of the University of Cape Town at the age of 39.

"UCT is ranked top university in Africa"

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES IN CAPE TOWN

WIN’99

 17^th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN’99), Cape Town, 24 – 30 January 1999.  115 participants (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008, ISBN 981-02-4082-1).

http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/beyond2010/conf-in-capetown.html  

Chairmen:  C.A. Dominguez and R.D. Viollier.

DARK 2002

4^th International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro-and Particle Physics, Cape Town, 4 – 9 February 2002, 80 participants, (Springer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-540-4425-7-X).

http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/beyond2010/conf-in-capetown.html

Chairmen: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R.D. Viollier.

BEYOND 2010

 5^th International Conference on Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics, Cape Town 1 - 6 February 2010, 76 participants. (World Scientific to be published). 

http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/beyond2010/ Chairmen: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R.D. Viollier.

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

• US $ 595 until 30 September 2010
• US $ 655 from 1 October until 30 October 2010.

• a full-day conference excursion (with lunch and drinks) costing US $ 80 = 63.11 Euros (as at 20/8/10).
• five lunch meals at 5x R140 = R 700 = US $ 95.50 = 75.32 Euros (as at 20/8/10).

ACCOMMODATION

The Breakwater Lodge belongs to the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town. It is run as a commercial venture providing accommodation and conference facilities. Rooms at the Lodge have already been block-booked, and the participants are expected to contact the Lodge directly to confirm their bookings on or before the deadline of 30 September 2010. After this date, the block booking will no longer be available, and booking requests will depend on availability. Participants must provide the Lodge with a credit card number, expiration date, the last three digits on the signature panel at the back of the card, quoting 'WIN'11' when booking.

Reservations: Ms Michelle Amon
Reservation fax number: +27 21 406 1305
Telephone number: +27 21 406 1070
Email: events@bwl.co.za
Website: http://www.proteahotels.com/breakwaterlodge

The exchange rate of today can be found here.

The following rooms have been block-booked from 31 January until 5 February 2011

	THE BREAKWATER LODGE	PER ROOM PER NIGHT
NUMBER		SINGLE OCCUPANCY	DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
38	Standard Double En-suite rooms (one double bed and bath with overhead shower)	R860	R1135
2	Standard Twin En-suite Rooms (two single beds and bath with overhead shower)	R860	R1135
8	Deluxe Rooms (king-sized bed and bath with overhead shower)	R1130	R1405
16	Double Business Suites (one double bed and a shower only)	R1075	R1350
6	Studios (single bed and a bath with overhead shower)	R765

• Note: Rates, charged per room and night, include breakfast and VAT. 

• Dinner is an optional extra. 

• Overnight parking is available and is charged per vehicle per night

Kindly contact the venue directly. *Prices per night are:

MEALS

In order to facilitate informal discussions, the participants are expected to have lunch together at the conference site. The costs of lunches for participants at the conference site are therefore included in the conference fees. Participants may make dinner bookings for themselves and accompanying persons from the Breakwater Lodge Hotel Reception at R140 per person, 24 hours in advance.

Participants will be free in the evenings to visit e.g. one of the many restaurants at the Waterfront. The cost of an evening meal per person can range from R70 for fast-food/pizza, to R200 for a top 3-course dinner at a restaurant. Many restaurants allow patrons to bring their own wine which can be purchased at the Waterfront. Some restaurants may charge a corkage fee of R25 to R45.

CAR RENTAL

BUDGET CAR HIRE advises prospective clients to book on line. Prices start at approximately R250 per day (including insurance and 200 km free per day) for the smallest car, picked up at the Cape Town Airport and returned to the same depot or another one of your choice upon departure. Make a reservation online: http://www.budget.co.za or reservations@budget.co.za or telephone +27 11 398 0123. You may also look at http://allenscarhire.co.za Please note that in South Africa you have to drive on the left side of the road.

Breakwater Lodge parking costs are R30 per night per vehicle. Enquire at the Hotel Reception.

TRANSPORT ON ARRIVAL

Participants and accompanying persons, who will arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, located some twenty minutes (or 25 km) from the Breakwater Lodge, may select:

Way 2 Go Shuttle Services and Tours: Phone + 27 86 192 9246, After Hours: + 27 72 330 0022 info@way2gotransfers.co.za  www.way2gotours.co.za

Excite Taxis (please book on line with flight details), or private taxis displaying the TAXI logo on the roof of the car. Current prices from the airport to the Waterfront will also apply when returning to the Cape Town International Airport as follows: http://www.excitetaxis.co.za

COMPUTER AND INTERNET FACILITIES

The Breakwater Lodge Hotel has a transit lounge that is set up with 4 PC's. Wireless connectivity is available in the bedrooms and in all the conference rooms at R60 per hour. Full details are available at the Hotel Reception. 

22nd Chris Engelbrecht Summer School 2011

THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE PHYSICS AND BEYOND

Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa

Sponsored by the National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NITheP), South Africa,

and to be held at the Stellenbosch Hotel
       

19 - 29 January 2011

Typical examples of Cape Dutch architecture of the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries in Stellenbosch.

Lecture Programme of the School

We have been able to attract an international team of world-renowned physicists to lecture at this summer school:

Preliminary Lecture and Exam Timetable of the School

A school of Jackass Penguins at Boulders Beach

The lecturers have been asked to contact each other as early as possible, in order to fine-tune and “orthogonalise” the content of their lectures.  The 8 tutorials, lasting about two hours each, will be given by local postdoctoral fellows and senior graduate students.  There will be also a class test and a final exam of two hours each, marked by postdoctoral fellows under the supervision of local academic staff.

For those who have never heard about field theory and the standard model, it is suggested that they arrive at Stellenbosch one day earlier, so that they can attend the one-day preparatory course, consisting of 5 lectures and a two-hour tutorial, based on the lecture notes “From simple field theories to the standard model” by Richard C. Slansky (Los Alamos, 1984).  This preparatory course will be taught by local academic staff and postdoctoral fellows on Wednesday, 19 January 2011.

Cape Sugarbird feeding nectar from a Protea

What makes this 23^rd Chris Engelbrecht Summer School particularly attractive and unique, is that it will be an ideal preparation of the graduate students for an active participation at the 23^rd International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN’11), taking place from 31 January to 5 February 2011 at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town.

PRE AND POST CONFERENCE HOLIDAYS

If you want to spend some time on pre-or post-conference holidays in South Africa, we suggest that you contact

Rainbow Tours: Phone +27 21 551 5465   http://www.caperainbow.com

Kingdom Tours & Transfers:  Phone +27 21 705 6177, Mobile +27 83 306 0550, Fax +27 86 665 2177    info@kingdomtt.co.za    www.kingdomtt.co.za

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