Lattice '99 - First Announcement

Lattice '99, the XVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, will take place in Pisa at the Palazzo dei Congressi, from June 29th to July 3rd, 1999.

Registration will begin at midday on Monday, June 28. The program will begin on Tuesday morning, June 29, and will conclude on Saturday July 3.

Topics will include:

QCD Spectrum
Hadronic Weak Interactions
Heavy Quark Physics
QCD at Finite Temperature and Density
Chiral Gauge Theories
Topology and Confinement
Electroweak Phase Transition
Random Surfaces and Quantum Gravity
Theoretical Developments
Gauge, Higgs, and Yukawa Models
Improved Actions
Spin Models
Algorithms
Machines

Organizing Institutions

Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica;
INFN, Sezione di Pisa.

Industrial Sponsors

Quadrics Supercomputer World
(plus others to be confirmed).

International Advisory Committee

T. De Grand	Boulder
R. Gavai	Mumbai
R. Gupta	Los Alamos
F. Karsch	Bielefeld
R. Kenway	Edinburgh
P. Lepage	Cornell
M. Lüscher	DESY
M. Okawa	Tsukuba
G. Parisi	Rome
A. Patel	Bangalore
M. Polikarpov	I.T.E.P.
C. Sachrajda	Southampton
J. Smit	Amsterdam
A. Ukawa	Tsukuba

Local Organizing Committee

S. Caracciolo	Pisa
L. Cosmai	Bari
A. Di Giacomo	Pisa (chairman)
F. Gliozzi	Torino
E. Marinari	Cagliari
E. Onofri	Parma
F. Rapuano	Rome
G. C. Rossi	Rome
P. Rossi	Pisa
R. Tripiccione	Pisa

There will be plenary talks, parallel talks, and a poster session. Equipment for video demonstrations will be available. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30, 1999.

Participants are expected to obtain their own funding. Very limited support may be available for participants from developing countries and for students and beginning postdocs who are unable to obtain sufficient support elsewhere. More information will follow in the first and second announcements.

The conference sessions will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi, a conference center of the University of Pisa, within walking distance from the center of Pisa. Accommodation will be provided in local hotels, where blocks of rooms have been reserved at various price ranges. Detailed housing information will be provided in the next announcement.

Those who wish to obtain the second conference announcement should fill out the Notification of Interest Form by January 10. Those without web access may send the required information by e-mail to lat99@mailbox.difi.unipi.it or return a hardcopy of the form to the address below.

Contact information

LATTICE '99
Dipartimento di Fisica
Università di Pisa
Via Buonarroti, 2
Pisa, I-56127
Italy

Fax:     +39-050844306
E-mail:  lat99@mailbox.difi.unipi.it

Website: http://lat99.df.unipi.it/

The next lattice conference will take place at the Centre for Theoretical Studies of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

The permanent address of this page is http://lat99.df.unipi.it/first.html

Massimo Campostrini, campo@mailbox.difi.unipi.it