Dear Colleagues,
The Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia and University of Erlangen in 
Germany are organizing the Advanced Spin Physics Workshop from August 29 
till September 02, 2006 sponsored by NATO. The Workshop will take place at 
Nor Hamberd Conference Center of YerPhI located at 35 km from Yerevan, the 
capital of Armenia, on a picturesque slope of Mt. Aragats, 2000 m high above sea 
level. 

Scientific Motivation
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading experimentalists 
and theorists to discuss the first data, which are presently becoming 
available in large high energy physics laboratories and comfort this data 
with theoretical ideas. The workshop will focus on the partonic description of hard 
processes, the role of quark orbital angular momentum, parton distribution and 
fragmentation functions.

Scientific Program
The program will cover topics in
1) Flavor decomposition and transversity distribution.
2) Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions (Sivers 
effect).
3) Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in hard exclusive processes.
4) Complementarities between partonic descriptions of hard processes in 
terms of GPDs and TMDs.
5) Spin physics beyond the standard model.
6) DVCS and exclusive reactions.
7) Acceleration and storage of polarized beams.
8) Polarized solid and gas targets.
9) Polarimeters for high energy polarized beams.
10) New facilities.

Presentations
Time allotted for an invited talk should not exceed 40 minutes, and that
for an original reports - 20 minutes. The contributions presented will be
published soon after the Workshop and will be sent out to all registered 
persons. The participants are asked to submit to the Organizing Committee 
original reports (together with electronic Word version of each), 
including tables, figures, and references. The format of submitted papers 
should be within 10 pages for invited talks and 4 pages for all other presentations.
		
Proceedings and Instruction for Authors
The Workshop Proceedings will be published in the NATO Science Series II -
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Transportation and Accommodation
Transportation from/to the Yerevan Airport Zvartnots will be provided the
organizers. Information on the arrival date, time and flight number should
be sending to the Workshop Organizing Committee. During the Workshop the 
participants will be accommodated in the local Nor Hamberd Hotel. The 
Workshop will be held in the same Hotel.
	
Registration and Visas
The Conference fee will be 375 $ for participants and 180 $ for 
accompanying person. The registration fee includes: car transportation 
from Yerevan airport to Nor Hamberd and back, hotel accommodation, meal (3 
times per day), coffee breaks, welcome party, conference dinner, social 
events. The fee will be collected in Nor Hamberd, during the registration 
of the participants. If NATO will approve our proposal the Organizing 
Committee will be able to cover all or some part of key speakers expenses.

For FSU participants the visa is not need. The participants from USA and
Europe the Armenian entry visa can be directly received at the Yerevan 
airport upon arrival.

To complete the proposal we need tentative list of participants and
preliminary version of their talk. We would like to submit the proposal at 
the end of May. Please, let us know as soon as possible, if you would like 
to participate in this Workshop and very preliminary title of your talk.

Organizing Committee

R. Avakian - Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia (Co-Chair)
E. Steffens - Univ. of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (Co-Chair)
A. Afanasev - JLAB, USA  
N. Akopov - Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia
N. Bianchi - INFN Frascati, Italy
P. Bosted - JLAB, USA
P. F. Dalpiaz - INFN Ferrara, Italy
F. Rathmann - Juelich, Germany
A. Avetisyan - Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia
I. Keropyan -  Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia
L. Baghdasaryan -  Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia

Advisory International Committee for Spin Physics Workshop:

V.Burket - JLAB, USA
S.Brodsky - SLAC, USA
H.Jackson - Argonne, USA
A.Miller - TRIUMF, Canada
W.-D. Nowak - DESY-Zeuthen
J.C. Collins - Pennsylvania State University, USA

Co-Director from NATO country
                      Prof. Erhard Steffens

 Co-Director from Partner country
                 Academician Robert Avakian

		
		Prof.Robert Avagyan,
                    Akademician of NAS RA
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