Transcript Report to C-II Committee on the
Report to C-II Committee on
32 nd International Conference on High Energy Physics
HeSheng Chen
Inst. of High Energy Physics, Beijing
Attendance
Registered
There are about 870 people who registered for the conference.
Actual attendance
Up to Tuesday, about 726 people actually showed up. We had about 660 overseas registrations, but only 510 showed up by yesterday. We expect some people will arrive by 20 Aug..
Formation of the Registered Participants in the Continents Africa (0.1%) 246 3 1 166 America (23%) Asia (42.2%) 1 304 Australia (0.1%) Europe (34.1%) Latin America (0.4%)
Scientific Program
As usual, the conference arranged in six working days with one day for rest. The dates of the conference is a bit later than usual, to avoid the summer heat and collision with other large international conferences held in this Center.
As to the scientific program, topics for plenary sessions have been selected on the basis of the most recent developments in the fields with some considerations given to regional balance.
The responsibilities for selecting topics for parallel sessions have been largely given to the session conveners who have full authority in organizing topics in his/her session.
During the selection process, we have solicited opinions from members of the Scientific Program Committee regarding many issues such as the selection of parallel session conveners, plenary session talks, and time allocation to the sessions and talks. In general, there have been some very good input, but in many cases replies came too slow.
13 Parallel Sessions, >300 talks
Neutrino Masses & mixings Quark matter & heavy ion collisions Particle astrophysics & cosmology Electroweak Physics QCD hard interactions QCD soft interactions Computational quantum field theory CP Violation ,Rare Kaon Decay & CKM R&D for future accelerator & detector Hadron spectroscopy & exotics Heavy quark mesons & baryons Beyond the standard model String theory
27 Plenary Talks
Recent results of CP violation in B decays Recent results of B decays Rare K decays and CP,CPT violation CKM and CP violation Charm physics Electroweak physics New results for top and Higgs (Tevatron) New results for heavy flavor and QCD tests (Tevatron) Searching for new physics (theory) Searching for new phenomena (exp.) Physics at Linear colliders Quark matter at high density/temp.
Hadron Spectroscopy (theory) New results on hadron spectroscopy (experiment)
Review of heavy quark physics Neutrino physics (accelerator based exp.) Neutrino physics (non accelerator based experiments) Neutrino physics (theory) QCD at high energy at HERA QCD review (theory) Recent results on lattice calculations Particle astrophysics & cosmology Strings, branes and extra dimensions Future accelerators Future detectors Reports by various committees Conference Summary
Posters
The following 19 labs joined the lab poster session:
IHEP ANL BNL CCLRC DAPNIA CERN DESY FNAL KEK KLOE LAL LBNL LEPP LNGS NOVERSBIRSK PLS SLAC KAMIOKANDE TRIUMF 6 Parallel sessions joined poster session.
Social Activities
This time we have about 180 participants who have brought families with them. Considering the fact of so many families, we have organized rich tour activities each day and entertainment programs in evening.
Budget Estimation
Total Income: 300,000$
The registration fee is about 240K US$ 380/400$ delegate 80$/family member The financial support from various agencies is about: 60K US$
Outlay
The total estimated outlay is about: 297 KUS$
Breakdown of the outlay
Conference rooms 6,500 $/day x 6 = 39 K$ Proceedings 38$ x 1,000 copies = 38 K$ Reception 30$ x 1,000 persons = 30 K$ Banquet 50 x 1,000 persons = 50 K$ Tea break 2.5$ x 1,000 x 12 = 30 K$ Conference bag 10$ x 1000 = 10 K$ Transportation 15 K$ Office Equipments 25 K$ Manpower costs 15 K$ Support to delegates 35 K$ Miscellaneous 10 K$
Support
We promised to provide a local support of 3,000Yuan (370$) (room + meals) each to ~ 80 persons from Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. But some of them did not show up mainly because of lack of travel expenses which we can not support. We got 4500USD from IUPAP to support travel expenses, even so some failed to come simply because 500USD each is not enough, e.g. Brazilians. We provided large amount of support to the local students and participants from relatively poor institutions, for each Chinese we directly or indirectly supported about 150USD.
The Meetings
IHEP helped organize and provided full support to the following meetings: Two C-11 meetings (two half days) ICFA (half day) ILCSC (one full day) Interactions Collaboration (two full days) Neutrino Collaboration (half day) Press conference for LC
For the above meetings, the total support is about 6,000 $.