20th International Symposium
on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
(ISVHECRI 2018)
Monday 21st – Friday 25th, May, 2018
Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2nd Bulletin April 15th 2017
Dear possible participants,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our pleasure to announce that the 20th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic-Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2018) will be held at Nagoya, Japan, May 21 - 25, 2018. We would like to invite you to attend the symposium and to contribute to the program. ISVHECRI is a biennial international conference series launched in 1980 at Nakhodka (Russia). The scientific aspect of the series is to focus on the high energy hadronic interaction of cosmic-ray particles and related topics including any high energy cosmic-ray research. The Symposium will highlight the understanding of hadronic interactions from cosmic-ray data as well as the studies of hadronic interactions at colliders and beam facilities, in particular at the LHC and RHIC. This symposium series serves to strengthen the interaction between accelerator-based and cosmic-ray communities especially with regard to very high-energy phenomena.
Date: Monday May 21 – Friday 25, 2018
Place: Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Web site https://indico.cern.ch/e/isvhecri2018
Topics covered in this symposium include:
- EAS results relevant to Particle Physics
- Accelerator results relevant to Cosmic Ray Physics
- Emulsion chamber & Hybrid experiment results
- LHC pp and Heavy Ion Physics
- Exotic phenomena, manifestation of “New Physics” beyond the Standard Model
- Hadronic cross sections, multiparticle production & hadronic interaction models
- Space experiment data related to high energy interactions
- Matter-Antimatter asymmetry
- New EAS experimental installations
- High energy neutrino and muon fluxes
- High and super high energy cosmic rays, origin & observation
Scientific program and presentation:
All presentations is organized in plenary sessions as invited talks as well as some contributed talks and poster presentation. Submission of contribution was already closed at 28th February. Now final program is available in the symposium web page.
Lengths of the talks are 35 min, 30 min. and 25 min. each including 5 min. for discussion, or 20 min. including 3 min for discussion. All the speakers is kindly asked to upload presentation in advance to symposium indico page with CERN indico account. LOC will help to upload your file in case of problem to upload.
Poster Session:
Poster session is scheduled in 18:20-19:40 on Tuesday 22nd May evening at the 1st floor of Noyori Conference hall. The poster boards will be available from noon on Monday till noon on Friday. Please refer ID numbers in the poser presentation table to find location of the board.
Important dates:
Registration and abstract submission will be opened via the symposium web page shown above.
10 January 2018 --- Registration open
28 February 2018 --- Deadline of abstract submission
--- Deadline of financial support
31 March 2018 --- Deadline of early registration
7 May 2018 --- Deadline of online registration
21-23 May 2018 --- Onsite registration open
21-25 May 2018 --- Symposium date
Registration:
Online registration and payment are available from the following links until 7th May:
Registration web page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/639198/registrations/
Payment web page: https://web-register.jp/ISVHECRI2018/en/
Registration fee: 40,000 JPY (45,000 JPY for on-site payment by cash )
Student discount 25,000 JPY
(Banquet fee, 8,000 JPY, is included in above registration fee.)
All participants are kindly asked to pay by on-line with a credit card in advance from the dedicated payment web page. Online-payment will be available until May 7th. Registration fee will increase to 45,000 JPY for onsite payment at arrival. It will be accepted only by JPY cash at the registration desk on 21st and 22nd May. Registration desk will open from 8:30 on 21st – 23rd May at the 1st floor of Noyori Conference hall.
Cancellation policy:
50% of registration will be charged as the cancellation fee after March 31st
100% of registration will be charged as the cancellation fee after May 7th
Access and accommodation:
Nagoya locates at the center of Japan, and is very convenient access from elsewhere in Japan by public transportation such as the Shinkansen bullet train. It takes about 30 min. from the nearest airport, Central Japan International Airport, to downtown Nagoya by Meitetsu-line. Nagoya University locates at the east area of Nagoya city area. One can easily access the main Higashiyama campus via subway Meijo-line (Purple-line). There locates Nagoya-Daigaku (Nagoya University) station inside the campus. Noyori Conference hall is about 5 min. walk from the station. Though there are no near-by hotels in walking distance, there are many hotels of various classes around subway stations in the downtown Nagoya, such as Imaike, Chikusa, Sakae, Fushimi, Nagoya , or Kanayama stations, which are 15-20 min. via subway from the campus. An example of hotels can be found in the symposium web page.
Social Events:
- 21 May 2018 18:30- --- Reception
- Reception will be held in the 1st floor of Noyori Conference hall on Monday evening. Light meal and drink will be served. Reception fee is included.
- 23 May 2018 16:30 -18:30 --- Public Lecture by Prof. Takaaki Kajita (in Japanese)
- The lecture titled with “Explore the invisible universe” will be for general Japanese audience in the Sakata-Hirata hall near by Noyori Confernce hall in the campus. The lecture will be in Japanese only. All the symposium participants are invited.
- 23 May 2018 16:30 – 18:30 --- Tour for the emulsion facility in F-lab.
- In parallel to the lecture, participants are offered to a short tour for the emulsion facility in F-lab of Nagoya University. Those who like to join the tour kindly asked to sign up in advance via indico registration page.
- 23 May 2018 19:00-21:00 --- Banquet
- Banquet will be held at Hotel Miel Parque Nagoya (https://www.mielparque.jp/nagoya/en/).
The venue is “Zuiun(West)” at the 2nd floor. The hotel is just close at the subway station “Chikusa” of the Higashiyama-line (Yellow Line). It takes about 15 min. from the station “Nagoya university” by subway. Please be informed there will be no transportation service from the university to the hotel arranged by LOC.
- Banquet will be held at Hotel Miel Parque Nagoya (https://www.mielparque.jp/nagoya/en/).
There is no official excursion is scheduled. Tour guidance desk will be open for 11:30-15:00 21st – 22nd May at the registration desk for consultation of your private trip.
Financial support:
Request for financial support and dormitory reservation is already closed. For further information, please contact LOC isvhecri2018@isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp .
Proceedings:
The Proceedings of the Symposium will be published in The European Physical Journal (EPJ) Web of Conferences. Limit for page length depends on length of talk, max. 8 pages for 30-35 min. talk, max. 6 pages for 25 min. talk and max. 4 pages for 20 min. talks and for poster presentation. Detail will be announced later.
Committees:
International Advisory Committee
Alexander Borisov (LPI, Chair)
Albert De Roeck (CERN)
Ralph Engel (KIT)
Tom Gaisser (Univ. of Delaware)
Sunil Gupta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Andreas Haungs (KIT)
Jing Huang (IHEP)
Aya Ishihara (Chiba Univ.)
Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya Univ.)
Katsuaki Kasahara (Waseda Univ.、Co-chair)
Johannes Knapp (DESY)
Paolo Lipari (INFN)
Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
Yasushi Muraki (Nagoya Univ.)
Il Park (Sung Kyun Kwan Univ.)
Bryan Pattison (CERN)
James Pinfold (Univ. of Alberta)
Olga Ryazhskaya (RAS)
Masanobu Tamada (Kinki. Univ.)
Maria Victoria Fonseca (Universidad Complutense)
Scientific Program Committee
David Berge (DESY)
Lorenzo Cazon (LIP)
Yoshinari Hayato (ICRR)
Junji Hisano (Nagoya Univ.)
Naoya Inoue (Saitama Univ.)
Kazunori Itakura (KEK)
Yusaku Katayose (Yokohama National Univ.)
Kumiko Kotera (IAP)
Hiroaki Menjo (Nagoya Univ.)
Kohta Murase (Penn State Univ.)
Chiho Nonaka (Nagoya Univ.)
Tanguy Pierog (KIT)
Hiroyuki Sagawa (ICRR)
Takashi Sako (ICRR)
Seon-Hee Seo (Seol National Univ.)
Local Organizing Committee
Junji Hisano (Nagoya Univ.)
Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya Univ., Chair)
Aya Ishihara (Chiba Univ.)
Yusaku Katayose (Yokohama National Univ.)
Yutaka Matsubara (Nagoya Univ.)
Hiroaki Menjo (Nagoya Univ., Secretary)
Fusa Miyake (Nagoya Univ.)
Kunihiro Morishima (Nagoya Univ.)
Shoichi Ogio (Osaka City Univ.)
Akitoshi Oshima (Chubu Univ.)
Chiho Nonaka (Nagoya Univ.)
Hiroki Rokujo (Nagoya Univ.)
Hiroyuki Sagawa (ICRR)
Takashi Sako (ICRR)
Shoichi Shibata (Chubu Univ.)
Masato Takita (ICRR)
Shoji Torii (Waseda Univ.)
We are looking forward to seeing you in Nagoya.
Sincerely yours,
Yoshitaka Itow
on behalf of the ISVHECRI 2018 Organizing Committee.
