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FPCP Daegu, Korea You are invited to… …Europe… …and to Slovenia between sea… •2 million inhabitants only 100 km apart •size half of Switzerland •capital Ljubljana …and mountains University of Ljubljana established 1919 Three universities: University of Ljubljana University of Maribor University of Primorska Several high school institutions Slovenian high energy physics IJS Ljubljana University of Ljubljana Nova Gorica Polytechnic •56,000 students •22 faculties •3 academies of art •1 university college University of Maribor High energy physics in Slovenia: ~30 experimentalists, ~10 theoreticians some past activities: Argus detector 1970’s: Omicron exp. @ CERN p production in NN collisions 1980’s: Argus exp. @ DESY B physics (B0B0 mixing),gg,… 1990’s: DELPHI exp. @ CERN B physics, W± physics, Higgs search,… Also CPLEAR @ CERN HERA-B @ DESY DELPHI end cap … DELPHI Vertex detector Major current activities: •BELLE experiment @ KEK •ATLAS experiment @ CERN •Pierre Auger observatory •Detector development in home laboratories h r Bled: tourist and conference resort Lake Castle Island and conference facilities Bled↔Ljubljana 50 km Ljubljana daily connected to all major European airports Some previously organized events: LEAP’94 Biennial Conf. on Low Energy Antiproton Physics BEAUTY’99 Int. Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines ICFA’95 school HERA-B’03 coll. meeting You are invited to Slovenia… …for science and pleasure