Xth International School "PARTICLES and COSMOLOGY"

Mount Elbrus - 5642m - the highest summit in Europe and Russia: apart from its beauties, it is a wonderful ski sloping area. Elbrus lies at the upper Baksan Valley, just north of the main Caucasus Chain - a range almost 1600km long with a heavily glaciated central section containing several summits rising well above 5000m. The snow in the Caucasus is virtually guaranteed, there is good powder to be found late into the season, and the season is long. Pine forests, alpine meadows, mineral springs, glacial rivers and periods of settled weather complete the picture of the School's site.

               Elbrus from Cheget

Topics included:

• Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology
• Neutrino Masses and Oscillations
• Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Solar Neutrinos - Theory and Experiment
• Dark Matter
• Gamma and Neutrino Astronomy / Astrophysics
• Double Beta Decay
• Gravitational Wave Detection
• New Methods and Projects in Underground / Underwater / Under-Ice Physics
• Selected Results from Accelerators and Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology

Advisory Committee:

• J. Arafune (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
• J. Bahcall (IAS, Princeton)
• M. Baldo-Ceolin (INFN, Padova U.)
• E. Bellotti (INFN, Gran-Sasso)
• T. Bowles (Los Alamos)
• A. E. Chudakov (INR, Moscow)
• A. Dar (Technion)
• R. Davis, Jr. (Philadelphia U.)
• F. Dydak (CERN)
• J. Ellis (CERN)
• E. Kolb (Fermilab)
• V. A. Kuzmin (INR, Moscow)
• J. Learned (Hawaii U.)
• A. Linde (Stanford U.)
• B. Sadoulet (UC, Berkeley)
• A. A. Starobinsky (Landau Inst., Moscow)
• A. N. Tavkhelidze (Georgian Academy of Sciences and INR, Moscow)
• Y. Totsuka (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
• M. Turner (Chicago U.)
• K. Winter (CERN)
• Ts. D. Vylov (JINR, Dubna)
• G. T. Zatsepin (INR, Moscow)

Organizing Committee:

• V. A. Matveev - Chairman
• V. A. Rubakov - Vice-Chairman
• E. N. Alexeev - Vice-Chairman
• L. B. Bezrukov
• V. B. Brudanin
• V. N. Gavrin
• B. S. Karamurzov
• Kh. B. Khokonov
• S. P. Mikheev
• A. V. Voevodsky
• Z. V. Bezbokova
• N. F. Klimenko
• Kh. S. Nirov
• G. B. Pivovarov
• D. V. Semikoz
• A. A. Smolnikov
• I. I. Tkachev

Organizing Institutions:

• Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
• Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nalchik, Russia

Acknowledgements:

Photographs Courtesy of EWP (Thanks to Andrew Wielochowski).

Applications to be sent to:

Baksan School - 1999, 
Institute for Nuclear Research of
the Russian Academy of Sciences,
60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a,
117312 Moscow, Russian Federation


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      Fax: 7-(095)-135-22-68
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