Bologna2000_1
Dear Colleague,

enclosed please find the first announcement of the International
Nuclear Physics Conference:

	"Bologna 2000 - Structure of the Nucleus 
	      at the Dawn of the Century"

organized by the Physics Department of the University of Bologna
and the Bologna Section of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear 
Physics.

Since our initial mailing list is certainly incomplete, we would 
appreciate it very much, if you could forward the announcement to
anyone who may be interested. 

Those wishing to attend or receive the second announcement are
requested to complete the questionnaire at our web site:

	http://nucth2000.bo.infn.it

or fill out the pre-registration form below and e-mail to:

	nucth2000@bo.infn.it


		for the Organizing Committee,

				Prof. Giovanni C. Bonsignori

				Physics Department
				University of Bologna
				Via Irnerio 46
				40126 Bologna, ITALIA

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            BOLOGNA  -  CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE IN 2000


The Physics Department of the University of Bologna  and the Bologna Section
of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) will organize an 
International Nuclear Physics Conference:
 
 
               "Bologna 2000 - Structure of the Nucleus 
                     at the Dawn of the Century"


			May 29 - June 3, 2000.

		           Bologna, ITALIA


The idea of the Conference emerges from a desire to discuss perspectives
in fundamental Nuclear Physics. Some of the most important European 
research facilities are located in Italy, a country with a long and rich
tradition in this field. The initiative is rendered timely by the fact that
in the year 2000 Bologna will be cultural Capital of Europe. In 1997, when
Thessaloniki was the cultural Capital, the Aristotle University organized
a very successful conference: "Advances in Nuclear Physics and Related
Areas". It is hoped that the proposed event would establish a tradition
of Nuclear Physics meetings.

The Conference is organized by the Physics Department of the University of 
Bologna and INFN Bologna Section. It is sponsored, among others, by the 
Italian Physical Society, the INFN National Laboratory in Legnaro (LNL),
the INFN National Laboratory in Catania (LNS), the European Centre for
Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas in Trento.
 
The scope of the Conference is to present a review of recent advances
in the field of Nuclear Physics, and to provide a forum for the discussion of
current and future research projects. The program of the Conference includes
the main activities and trends in selected topics of Nuclear Structure,
Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Hadron Dynamics and Nuclear Astrophysics.
The Conference will discuss advances and perspectives in basic research,
and it is expected to attract the interest of the most active researchers
all over the world. Additional topics related to trans-disciplinary use
and peaceful applications of nuclear science have been included in the program.

The proposed event is an international Conference devoted to a discipline
which has seen a strong revival of research activities in the last decade.
New experimental results and theoretical developments in the field
of Nuclear Physics will certainly produce important contributions to
our knowledge and understanding of Nature's fundamental building blocks.
It is the aim of the Conference to promote the exchange of ideas and
future collaboration among nuclear scientists in Europe, their 
colleagues in the more developed countries in America and Asia, and
scientists from developing regions. The goal of the Conference is
also to provide critical guidelines for our studies of atomic nuclei,
their constituents, synthesis, structure and reactions, in the next
century.


	ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

	Giancarlo Bonsignori	Paolo Finocchiaro	Angelo Pagano
	Mauro Bruno		Renzo Leonardi		Mirko Savoia
	Aldo Covello		Giovanni Lo Bianco	Alberto Ventura
	Francesco Cannata	Santo Lunardi		Andrea Vitturi
	Giacomo de Angelis	Alberto Mengoni		Dario Vretenar	



	INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE


	Marcel Arnould  (Bruxelles)
	Juha Aysto  (Jyvaskyla)
	Cyrus Baktash  (Oak Ridge)
	Dino Bazzacco  (Padova)
	Jean-Francois Berger  (CEA/Bruyeres-le-Chatel)
	Jean-Paul Blaizot  (CEA/Saclay)
	Sigfrido Boffi  (Pavia)   	
	Jakob Bondorf  (Copenhagen)
	Remi Bougault  (Caen)
	Tullio Bressani  (Torino)
	Ricardo Broglia  (Milano)
	Philippe Chomaz  (Caen)
	Claudio Ciofi degli Atti  (Perugia)
	Massimo Di Toro  (Catania)
	Claes Fahlander  (Lund)
	Giovanni Fiorentini (Ferrara)
	Bernard Frois  (CEN Saclay)
	Konrad Gelbke  (NSCL/East Lansing)
	William Gelletly  (Surrey)
	Giuseppe Gherardi (ENEA/Bologna)
	Dieter H. E. Gross (Berlin)
	Michael Grypeos (Thessaloniki)
	Wick Haxton  (Seattle)
	Francesco Iachello (New Haven)
	Anatoly V. Ignatyuk (Obninsk)
	Masayasu Ishihara  (Tokyo)
	Franz Kaeppeler (Karlsruhe)
	Paul Kienle  (Munchen)
	Rudi Malfliet  (Trento)
	Volker Metag  (Giessen)
	Emilio Migneco  (Catania)
	Witold Nazarewicz  (Knoxville)
	Yuri Ts. Oganessian  (Dubna)
	Takaharu Otsuka  (Tokyo)
	Renato Angelo Ricci (Padova)
	Peter Ring  (Munchen)
	Friedrich-Karl Thielemann  (Basel)
	Anthony W. Thomas  (Adelaide)	


PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE:

A     Nuclear Structure at the Extremes of Excitation Energy, Angular Momentum,
      Isospin and Mass

(i)   Nuclear structure far from the valley of beta stability
(ii)  The nuclear response to temperature and angular momentum
(iii) Regular vs chaotic motion in correlated quantum systems

B     Nucleus - Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter

(i)   Reaction mechanisms: from nucleons to nucleon gas
(ii)  Thermal features of multifragmentation
(iii) Isospin effects in nucleus-nucleus collisions

C     Hadron Dynamics

(i)   Hadrons in the nuclear medium
(ii)  Chiral dynamics
(iii) Hypernuclei

D     Nuclear Astrophysics

(i)   Big Bang nucleosynthesis
(ii)  Burning phases of stellar evolution
(iii) Dynamics of supernovae
(iv)  Neutron stars

E     Applications of Nuclear Physics

(i)   Nuclear transmutation and accelerator driven systems
(ii)  Cancer therapy with proton and light ion beams

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION about the program of the Conference, registration
deadlines, hotel accomodations, the conference site, travel connections,
the University and the city of Bologna, will be found at our web site:

	
		http://nucth2000.bo.infn.it

All relevant information will be listed here and updated regularly.

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Questionnaire:

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