3rd circular
8th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics
November 13 – 17, 2018, Tsukuba, Japan
http://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/index.html
Email: qnp2018(AT)ml.post.kek.jp
October 12th, 2018
This is the 3rd circular of the 8th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear
Physics, to be held at Tsukuba, Japan, from Tuesday, November 13th through 17th, 2018.
Please read this document carefully because useful information for the participants isincluded and we need your responses for the excursion options.
1. Venue and access
The conference will be held at the Tsukuba International Congress Center(EPOCHAL TSUKUBA, http://www.epochal.or.jp/eng/), which is within about 10
minute walk from the Tsukuba Station / Tsukuba Center. The access information
can be found at http://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/access.html .
2. Program
Nov. 12

Nov. 13

Nov. 14

Nov. 15

Nov. 16

Nov. 179:00-12:00

Plenary

Plenary

Plenary

Plenary

Plenary

12:00-13:30

Lunch

Lunch

Excursion

Lunch

Adjourn

13:30-18:00

Parallel/

Parallel

Parallel

PosterReception

Conference
DinnerTheprogramoftheplenary

sessionsishttp://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/program.html .

postedonourwebsiteatThe program of the parallelsessions will be posted at the same web site. The poster session will be held at theRoom 406 from 4ｓpm of November 13th. The presenters of each poster should beready to present their posters at the room from 4 pm through 6 pm, while theposters will be posted until the morning of November 15th.

3. Reception and registration
A reception will be held at the restaurant “Espoir” on the 1st floor of EPOCHALTSUKUBA, from 6 pm to 8 pm, Monday, November 12th, 2018. Light meals anddrinks will be served. The registration desk will be open at the reception. Theregistration desk will be also open at EPOCHAL TSUKUBA, from 8 am of Tuesday,
November 13th, 2018 until 10:45 am. Please come to the conference secretary officeat Room 401 of EPOCHAL TSUKUBA, if you arrive when the registration desk isnot open.
4. Lunch
Lunches are not served except for the participants to the excursion on Thursday,
November 15th. There are restaurants and cafes near the conference venue where
you can have a lunch.
5. Excursion
We plan to have an excursion in the afternoon of Thursday, November 15th. We
have 4 different courses. We ask you to choose your favorite course from the website athttps://goo.gl/forms/ntfbsDAE9fN902963
by the end of October.

The courses areA) Tsukuba Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
and Belle-II, KEK
We visit the exhibition of the Tsukuba Space Center of the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and then the Belle-II experiment at
the Tsukuba Campus of KEK.
B) Local Sake Brewery and Mt. Tsukuba
We visit a sake brewery (Inaba Sake Brewery) located at the foot of Mt.
Tsukuba where we can test wonderful Japanese sake. Then we go to Mt.
Tsukuba (wiki page), where we can go up to the top by a cable car if theweather allows.
C) Soba noodle cooking
We try to make soba noodles from buckwheat flour under advice by local
people at the village of “Ono no Komachi”, a famous beautiful woman in
the 9th century.

After cooking, we can enjoy short walking with theenvironment of a typical Japanese country side [see pictures of village ofOno no Komachi (in Japanese)].
D) Kashima-Jingu Shrine and Historical Edo-taste Downtown of Sawara
Kashima-Jingu Shrine is a historical place which is thought to have had
an important role when Japan was united in ancient times about 1500years ago. After visiting the shrine, we go to the downtown of Sawara,
where we can enjoy atmosphere of the Edo era.
The courses A, B, and C have the maximum number of the participants. They areon the first-come first-served basis. Your earlier response is requested. Lunchboxes will be served to the participants of the excursion.
6. Conference DinnerAll the participants are invited to the conference dinner to be held at the HotelGrand Shinonome (https://www.hg-shinonome.co.jp/english/access.html) from 7 pmof Friday, November 16. The Hotel Grand Shinonome is about 10 minute walkfrom the conference venue.
7. Proceedings
The peer-reviewed proceedings will be published. All the presenters are requested
to submit a manuscript. Details will be announced later.
8. Satellite workshops
There are two satellite workshops. Please email to the contact persons below if you
have questions on these satellite workshops.
l"Hadron structure functions in 2018”
KEK Tsukuba Campus, Nov. 18th-19th, 2018
Inquiry: Shunzo Kumano (KEK, shunzo.kumano(AT)kek.jp)
http://j-parc-th.kek.jp/workshops/2018/11-18/- Nucleon structure, Hadron tomography, Color entanglement- Related experimental projects(J-PARC, KEKB, RHIC, FNAL, JLab, COMPASS, EIC, Fixed target LHC, etc)
Note: KEK is about 10 km from the QNP2018 conference site. There are bus
communications between KEK and Tsukuba center, so you could stay at hotels inthe Tsukuba center area if you wish. Alternatively, you could move to the KEK
dormitory after the QNP2018 conference. If you would like to stay at the KEK

dormitory, please inform Shunzo Kumano by email.
l"Hadron structure and interaction in dense matter"
KEK Tokai Campus, Nov. 11th - 12th, 2018
Hosted by KEK and JAEA
http://j-parc-th.kek.jp/workshops/2018/11-11/
Inquiry: Akinobu Dote (KEK, dote(AT)post.kek.jp),
Philipp Gubler (JAEA, pgubler(AT)riken.jp)- Hadrons and resonances in nuclei/matter- Strangeness and charm in nuclei/matter- Cold and dense matter equation of stateNote: This satellite workshop is held at Tokai, which is quite far from Tsukuba(about 70 km). So, people who want to attend the workshop need to book a room ofhotel near Tokai or of the Tokai dormitory. If you want to stay at the Tokai
dormitory, please inform Akinobu Dote by email immediately.

9. Contact
Please email to qnp2018(AT)ml.post.kek.jp if you have any problem/question.
Local Organizers* Co-chair
Akinobu Dote (KEK), Yuji Goto (RIKEN), Masayasu Harada (Nagoya Univ), Atsushi
Hosaka (Osaka Univ), Kazunori Itakura (KEK), Hiroyuki Kamano (Osaka Univ),Shunzo Kumano (KEK,*), Akihiko Monnai (KEK), Osamu Morimatsu (KEK), Satoshi N.
Nakamura (Tohoku Univ), Megumi Naruki (Kyoto Univ), Hiroyuki Noumi (OsakaUniv/KEK), Hiroaki Ohnishi (Tohoku Univ), Kyoichiro Ozawa (KEK), Hiroyuki Sako(JAEA), Fuminori Sakuma (RIKEN), Shinya Sawada (KEK,*), Hitoshi Takahashi(KEK), Toshiyuki Takahashi (KEK), Kazuhiro Tanaka (KEK), Kiyoshi Tanida (JAEA)