Xth International School "PARTICLES and COSMOLOGY"

April 19 - 25, 1999

Baksan Valley, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia

The INR Baksan Neutrino Observatory situated in Prielbrusie (the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, North Caucasus, Russian Federation) is a complex of unique scientific facilities which make possible direct studies of the internal structure and evolution of the Sun, stars, Galaxy nucleus and other objects in the Universe by detection of their neutrino radiation, searches for a neutrino burst at the gravitational collapse of stars and for new particles and super-rare processes at a sensitivity level inaccessible to other methods, investigations of neutrino and muon interactions with matter in the region of high and super-high energies.

     Panorama of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

BULLETIN # 1

The International Baksan Schools ``Particles and Cosmology'' are held traditionally since 1981 by the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR) at Baksan Valley, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Federation. The next one, the Xth Baksan School, is organized by INR in cooperation with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, and Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nalchik, Russia.

Baksan Valley in Caucasus Mountains is a home of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of INR with its underground installations including Gallium - Germanium Neutrino Telescope (SAGE experiment), Underground Scintillation Telescope, and low background facilities, as well as surface EAS arrays ``Carpet'' and ``Andyrchi''. The area, near Mount Elbrus, is known for its beauty, and also as downhill skiing resort.

The Baksan Schools gather active physicists with emphasis on experimentalists working in non-accelerator particle physics and particle astrophysics. Lectures include general reviews on recent developments in particle physics and cosmology and talks on more specific theoretical and experimental ideas and results.

You can also get some idea of the scope of the School from Proceedings of the previous meetings of this series (1991, 1993, 1995) published by the World Scientific, Singapore.

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

Telephone: 7-(095)-135-20-51
      Fax: 7-(095)-135-22-68
   E-Mail: school@ms2.inr.ac.ru