Second circular

8th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics
November 13-17, 2018, Tsukuba, Japan
http://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/
Email: qnp2018(AT)ml.post.kek.jp
We would like to invite you to participate in the 8th International Conference on Quarks
and Nuclear Physics. It will be held in Tsukuba, Japan on November 13-17, 2018. Thisconference follows the series of meetings previously held in Adelaide, Jülich,Bloomington, Madrid, Beijing, Palaiseau, and Valparaiso. Experimentalists andtheorists will discuss recent developments in the field of hadron and nuclear physics,
and the following topics will be covered.
* Quark and gluon structure of hadrons:* Hadron spectroscopy:* Hadron interactions and nuclear structure:* Hot and cold dense matter:
In addition to plenary sessions, parallel sessions will be organized in the above topics. Aposter session will be also arranged. Young postdocs and students are especially welcome.
Updated information will be announced on the conference web.
In this second circular, we provide information on(1) submission of your abstract to the parallel session and poster session,(2) registration,(3) hotels in the Tsukuba city.
Please send your abstract by June 30, 2018, and the deadline for the early registrationis on August 17, 2018. We recommend you to make the hotel reservation in advancebecause November is a travel season in Japan. If you have a question, please do nothesitate to ask us. We are looking forward to seeing you in Tsukuba in 2018.
Shunzo Kumano and Shinya Sawada (KEK/J-PARC)
on behalf of the local organizers

Plenary Speakers
Note: Talk titles are tentative.
Gordon Baym (Univ. Illinois)

Neutron star physics

Fabienne Kunne (Saclay)Nucleon-structure physics by lepton deep
inelastic scattering

Su Houng Lee (Yonsei Univ.)

Theory on hadrons in nuclear medium

Ming Liu (Los Alamos)

Nucleon-structure physics by proton-proton
collisions

Kyungseon Joo (Univ. Connecticut)

N* physics

Larry McLerran (Univ. Washington)

Theory on high-energy heavy-ion physics

Kenkichi Miyabayashi (Nara Women's Univ.)
Barbara Pasquini (Univ. Pavia)

Belle-II project

Hadron tomography by three-dimensional
structure functions

Eliezer Piasetzky (Tel Aviv Univ.)

Short-range correlations in nuclei

Sasa Prelovsek (Univ. Ljubljana)

Hadron spectroscopy from lattice QCD

Jianwei Qiu (JLab)

Nucleon structure from lattice QCD

Hirokazu Tamura (Tohoku Univ.)

Strangeness nuclear physics

Wolfram Weise (TU München)

Perspectives of hadron and nuclear physics

Plenary speakers on the following topics will be announced later.
* Exotic hadrons* Experiments on heavy-quark hadrons* Baryon interactions from lattice QCD* Experiments on high-energy heavy-ion physics* Experiments on hadrons in nuclear medium* EIC project* J-PARC hadron-hall extension* GSI-FAIR project

Conference site and visitor information
The conference will be held in theTsukuba International Congress Center (EPOCHAL TSUKUBA),

2-20-3, Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0032, Japan
http://www.epochal.or.jp/eng/in the center of the Tsukuba city.
For access information to the congress center and for tourist informationon the Tsukuba city, please look at
http://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/access.html.

Conference scheduleØ November 13 (Tue):

8:00 Registration, 9:00 Conference begins.
Morning (plenary), Afternoon (parallel, poster)

Ø November 14 (Wed):

Morning (plenary), Afternoon (parallel)Ø November 15 (Thu):

Morning (plenary), Afternoon (excursion)

Ø November 16 (Fri):

Morning (plenary), Afternoon (parallel), night (dinner)

Ø November 17 (Sat):

Morning and Afternoon (plenary),
Conference ends in early afternoon.

Important datesüApplication to talk/poster presentation:

June 30, 2018ü

Early registration:

August 17, 2018

üRegular registration:

September 14, 2018

Registration fee
Ø Registration fee for general participants:
45,000 yen for early registration
55,000 yen for regular registration
Ø Registration fee for students:
20,000 yen for early registration
30,000 yen for regular registration
Ø Accompanying person, Banquet fee: 10,000 yenRegistration
Please register from the Kinki-Nippon-tourist web page:https://gtc2.knt.co.jp/kntfront/convention/CON10010.xhtml?t=T2000107815.

Hotel information
The hotel information and location map are available at
http://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/lodging.html.
We recommend you to make your own hotel reservation in advance because November
is a travel season in Japan.
For participants (mainly graduate students and postdocs) who do not have enough fundto stay at a hotel, we may assign KEK dormitory rooms. Please send an email request tothe organizers, qnp2018(AT)ml.post.kek.jp by September 14, 2018.

We have a limited number of rooms. It is first come and first served.

Contributed talks and posters
We take contributions to the talks in the parallel sessions and posters.
There are four parallel sessions.
A) Quark and gluon structure of hadrons:- parton distribution functions, generalized parton distributions,- transverse momentum distributions, high-energy hadron reactions, ...
B) Hadron spectroscopy:- heavy quark physics, exotics, N*, ...
C) Hadron interactions and nuclear structure:- hypernuclear physics, kaonic nuclei, baryon interactions, ...
D) Hot and cold dense matter:- quark-gluon plasma, color glass condensate, dense stars,- strong magnetic field, mesons in nuclear medium, hadronization, ...
Please submit your abstract from the KEK indico
https://conference-indico.kek.jp/indico/event/33/registration/register#/register(please enter "Registration form" in this page) by the deadline June 30, 2018.
Note: The "registration form" page of this indico is intended for the submission of yourabstract. The conference registration should be done from Kinki-Nippon-tourist webpage.

SupportWe have a limited financial support of local expenses for young scientists.
Please send an email to qnp2018(AT)ml.post.kek.jp by the deadline June 30, 2018.

Proceedings
We will publish proceedings of the workshop. The details will be announced later.

Inquiry
An email inquiry should be sent to qnp2018(AT)ml.post.kek.jp.
It is distributed to Shunzo Kumano and Shinya Sawada.
Conference secretaries will be added to this distribution list.

Satellite workshops
We are planning satellite workshops. We will announce them on the QNP2018 conference
web page when they are decided.

1.

“Hadron structure functions”
Nov.18, 2018, KEK Tsukuba Campus
Inquiry: Shunzo Kumano (KEK, shunzo.kumano(AT)kek.jp)

2.

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Nucleon structure, Hadron tomography-

High-energy hadron reactions“Hadron structure and interaction in dense matter”
Nov.11-12, 2018, KEK Tokai Campus, hosted by KEK and JAEA,
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 state

International Advisory Committee
Stanley Brodsky (SLAC), William Brooks (USM), Volker Burkert (JLab), Wen-ChenChang (Academia Sinica), Hideto En'yo (RIKEN), Avraham Gal (Hebrew Univ.), HaiyanGao (Duke Univ.), Michel Garcon (CEA-Saclay), Paolo Giubellino (GSI), Tetsuo Hatsuda(RIKEN), Boris Kopeliovich (USM), T.-S. Harry Lee (ANL), Su Houng Lee (Yonsei Univ.),
Matthias Lutz (GSI/TU-Darmstadt), Yu-Gang Ma (SINAP), Gines Martinez (SubatechNantes), Robert McKeown (JLab), Larry McLerran (Univ. Washington), Curtis Meyer(CMU-Pittsburg), Ajit Kumar Mohanty (Saha Institute), Tomofumi Nagae (Kyoto Univ.),Shoji Nagamiya (RIKEN), Takashi Nakano (Osaka Univ.), Makoto Oka (JAEA), Eulogio
Oset (Valencia), Barbara Pasquini (Pavia), Jen-Chieh Peng (Univ. Illinois), Bernard Pire(CPhT-Polytechnique), Jianwei Qiu (JLab), Boris Sharkov (GSI), Igor Strakovsky (GWU),Mark Strikman (PSU), Hirokazu Tamura (Tohoku Univ.), Ulrike Thoma (Univ. Bonn),Anthony Thomas (Univ. Adelaide), Raju Venugopalan (BNL), Wolfram Weise (TUMünchen), Ulrich Wiedner (Univ. Bochum), Nu Xu (CCNU/LBL), Bingsong Zou(ITP/CAS-Beijing)

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)