7KHWK,QWHUQDWLRQDO&RQIHUHQFHRQ+\SHUQXFOHDUDQG6WUDQJH3DUWLFOH3K\VLFVThe Second Announcement of the HYP2015 Conference
The 12th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics(HYP2015) will take place at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, from September 7th (Mon) through 12th (Sat), 2015.
HYP2015 will be the twelfth one in the series of HYP conferences initiated in 1982 inHeidelberg and held periodically every three years, following the successful 11th HYP
conference in Barcelona in 2012. The HYP conference brings together theoreticiansand experimentalists working on hadron and nuclear physics with strangeness. The
topics of the HYP conference have been extended to related fields such as low-energy
aspects of QCD, dense and cold matter, as well as hadronic and nuclear systems withheavier flavors.
The main part of the HYP2015 conference will be held from Monday morning
to Friday around noon at the Tohoku University Centennial Hall (Kawauchi HagiHall) located in the city of Sendai, where plenary and contributed talks as well as
poster sessions will take place. Then it will be followed by “discussion session” ata hot spring hotel in Sakunami near Sendai from the late afternoon on Friday until
Saturday morning with a limited number of (about 100) participants.

*Conference Website
http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/hyp2015/*Scientific Program
The scientific program will be organized under the following topics:
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Production, structure and decay of hypernuclei
Multistrange systems
Production of strangenessInteractions of mesons and baryons with strangeness
Strangeness in hadron structure
Strange mesons in nuclei
Strangeness in astrophysics and in extreme forms of matterHeavy flavor systems
Hypernuclei in heavy ion collisions
Future experiments and facilities

The conference (Mon-Fri) comprises invited talks in the plenary and parallel ses-sions, and contributed papers in the parallel and poster sessions. In addition, three
topical sessions will be held on hot topics selected by IAC and OC.
As a pre-conference event, the International School for the Strangeness Nuclear
Physics (SNP School 2015) will be held just before HYP2015 at the School of Science,
Tohoku University. We encourage young scientists to participate in SNP School aswell as in HYP2015. A young researchers’ session will be organized in the SNP
School and there are chances for young researchers to give oral presentations. Anotherworkshop, Meson Production and Meson-Baryon Interaction (MPMBI2015) will beorganized as a post-conference event. More information will be given later in thisannouncement.

*Invited Speakers (tentative)
P. Achenbach, C. Curceanu, L. Fabbietti, A. Feliciello, A. Gal, S. Gandolfi,
J. Haidenbauer, F. Hauenstein, E. Hiyama, A. Hosaka, M. Isaka, N. Ishii, D. Jido,
H. Lenske, X. Liu, D.J. Millener, J. Mares, K. Moriya, T. Motoba, T. Nagae,
S.N. Nakamura, T. Nakano, K. Nakazawa, H. Noumi, A. Ohnishi, S.L. Olsen,
J. Pochodzalla, A. Ramos, T.A. Rijken, L. Roca, N. Saito, T.R. Saito, A. Sakaguchi,
N. Shah, H. Tamura, L. Tang, J. Zmeskal
In order to discuss hot topics intensively, three “topical sessions” will be held as apart of parallel sessions:-“Hypertriton lifetime” organized by T. Bressani-“YN scattering” organized by K. Imai-“Hyperon puzzle in neutron stars” organized by I. Bombaci.
Several speakers are invited by these topical session organizers in addition.

*VenueThe venue is the Tohoku University Centennial Hall (Kawauchi Hagi Hall) in theKawauchi Campus, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. It is close to the downtown
of Sendai and 2.5 km from the Sendai station. The plenary session will take placeat the main auditorium, and the parallel sessions and the poster session at the othermeeting rooms and the entrance room.
Address: 40 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, JapanSendai
The Sendai city has a population of one million and is the center of the Tohoku
District, the northern part of Japan. It is located about 350 km north of Tokyo andcan be reached in 1.5—2 hours with a super-express train (Tohoku Shinkansen). Thecity features an abundance of natural beauty that changes with the seasons. Sendai

is called ”Mori no miyako” (the city of green), which illustrates this perfectly. Thecity has a rich cultural heritage stretching back 400 years to its founding by feudal
lord Date Masamune. The city is surrounded by mountains and the Pacific ocean,making its weather reasonably mild.
Average temperature at Sendai in September is 21 degrees C (70F), daily minimum/maximum temperatures are 17/24 degrees C. Autumn in Sendai is mild inprinciple but you had better prepare clothes for chilly weather and a typhoon (heavyrain and wind). Further information on the city is found in the following WEB page:
http://www.city.sendai.jp/kikaku/kokusai/english/index.html*Discussion Session at Sakunami
In order to deepen scientific discussions among HYP2015 participants, we recommend you, particularly those from abroad, to also attend the discussion session atSakunami. The participants in the discussion session will move by bus to the hotspring hotel, Ichinobo at Sakunami, located in the suburb of Sendai, and stay there
for one night together (we will arrange shared rooms in Futon style for participants.
For special room arrangements, please contact to the organizers). The participants
will enjoy hot spring bath and a special dinner in Japanese style. We will have plentyof time for discussions in relaxed atmosphere. The participants will go back to Sendai
city by train after breakfast on Saturday. (Please note that it is impossible to takea flight from Narita departing before noon, or take a morning flight from Sendai toNarita, on Saturday, if you stay at Sakunami.)*Submission of Contribution Abstracts
We are calling for abstracts of your contribution. Those who wish to give presentations in HYP2015 are requested to submit an abstract by May 15th following theinstruction in the HYP2015 web page. All the abstracts need to be submitted throughthe web system. The oral presentations in the parallel sessions will be selected fromthe contributed abstracts.

*Registration
On-line registration started on April 1st, 2015.
The early registration fee is 40,000 yen, which covers the reception, the excursion,
the banquet and the proceedings. A reduced registration fee of 30,000 yen is offeredfor students. The early registration ends on July 7th, 2015. The registration fee
after July 8th is 50,000 yen for regular participants and 40,000 yen for students.
Payment should be done in yen via major credit cards through the web page when

you make a registration. For those who have not made a registration but want toparticipate in the conference, we also accept cash in yen at the registration desk uponarrival.
In addition, participants in the discussion session at Sakunami need to pay 15,000
yen per person for one-night lodging at the hot-spring hotel including Japanese-styledinner and breakfast.
The registration fee for accompanying persons is 10,000 yen per person. It covers
the reception, the excursion, and the banquet.

*Accommodation
After April 1st, participants can reserve a hotel room as well as make a registration
through the JTB web site which is linked from the HYP2015 web site.
A sufficient number of rooms are blocked at Arc Hotel Sendai, which locatesin the downtown Sendai and is one of the closest hotels (10 minutes walk) to theconference venue. Room assignment will be made on a first-come, first-served basis.
Many other hotels are available in the downtown and near the Sendai station. (Otherhotels can be also booked from the JTB web site : Westin Hotel Sendai, Hotel
Metropolitan Sendai, Washington Hotel, Pearl City Hotel, etc.). Foreign
participants are recommended to book a room in those hotels through the JTB website after April 1st.
The participants in the Sakunami discussion session must stay at the Ichinobo
hotel at night on Friday. The room reservation and payment for Sakunami can bemade only through the HYP2015 registration page.

*Visa
Those who need a visa to enter Japan need to contact the organizer as soon as
possible, since the issuance of a visa may take a long time. Please check the following
URL to see whether you need VISA to enter Japan:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/*Transportation
Concerning the transportation, detailed instruction with pictures will be given on
the HYP2015 web page.
Tokyo (Narita or Haneda Airport) to Sendai
Most foreign participants will land at and depart from the Narita (New-Tokyo)
International Airport. The most convenient way to Sendai is to use Narita Express(JR line) from Narita airport to Tokyo station (about 1 hour) and take Shinkansen(super-express) to Sendai station (1.5 to 2 hours, depending on choice of the train).
Those who land at the Haneda (Tokyo) International airport can reach Tokyo station
by about 30 minutes ride on the Tokyo monorail and the JR-commuter trains.
From Narita airport to Sendai airport, there are domestic flights operated by ANA(one flight in the morning and another in the afternoon, with a flight time of 1hour). Those who purchased air tickets from a Star Alliance member might combinea Narita-Sendai flight with a small additional charge.

*Social Events
The reception will be held at the conference venue (Tohoku University CentennialHall) in the evening on Monday. All the participants and their accompanying persons
are welcome.
The excursion to Matsushima is planned in the afternoon on Wednesday. We willtake a boat trip around the Matsushima islands, visit historical temples, and go out tothe sea-coast areas to see how they are being recovered from the disaster by tsunami
four years ago.
All the participants and their accompanying persons are invited to the banquet
scheduled in the evening of Wedenday at a Japanese restaurant in Sendai, aftercoming back from the excursion.
In addition, the accompanying persons program will be arranged by the organizers.
Details will be announced later in the web page.

*Proceedings
The conference proceedings including peer-reviewed oral and poster presentations
will be published.

*Pre-Conference Event (SNP School 2015)
As a pre-conference event, we are also planning to organize ”International School
for Strangeness Nuclear Physics: SNP School 2015” at Tohoku University in thepreceding week (September 3-5) of the HYP2015 conference. Please see the 1stannouncement of SNP School 2015 at the following web page:
http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2015/

*Post-Conference Event (MPMBI2015)
Another international workshop, ”Meson Production and Meson-Baryon Interaction” (MPMBI2015), will be held after the HYP2015 conference at the ResearchCenter for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University, from 12th (Sat)through 14th (Mon), September. Details can be found at the following URL:
http://www.lns.tohoku.ac.jp/workshop/c013/*Important Dates- Second announcement, call for abstract:- Early registration starts:- Deadline for abstract submission:- Early registration ends :- Final announcement:- SNP School 2015:- HYP2015 Conference:- MPMBI 2015:

April 1st, 2015
April 1st, 2015
May 15th, 2015
July 7th, 2015
Middle of August, 2015
September 3-5, 2015
September 7-12, 2015
September 12 - 14, 2015

*Host and Sponsors
The conference is hosted by the Organizing Committee of HYP2015 Conference
co-hosted by-Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University,-Grant-in-Aid for Innovative Areas on ”Nuclear matter in neutron stars”,
MEXT, Japan, and-High Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI), Strategic Field Program 5,”The origin of matter and the universe”,
and supported by-Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University,-Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University,-Sendai Tourism, Convention and International Association, and-Intelligent Cosmos Scientific Foundation.

*Organizing Committee
A. Dote (KEK), T. Harada (Osaka E.C.), E. Hiyama (RIKEN),
A. Hosaka (RCNP), K. Imai (JAEA), M. Iwasaki (RIKEN),
T. Nagae (Kyoto), S.N. Nakamura (Tohoku, Secretary), A. Ohnishi (Yukawa Inst.),H. Shimizu (ELPH), T. Takahashi (KEK), H. Tamura (Tohoku, Chairperson)

*International Advisory Committee
H.C. Bhang (Seoul), T. Bressani (Torino), C. Curceanu (Frascati),
D.H. Davis (London), A. Feliciello (Torino), V.N. Fetisov (Moscow),
T. Fukuda (Osaka E.C.), A. Gal (Jerusalem), B.F. Gibson (Los Alamos),J. Haidenbauer (Jülich), K. Imai (JAEA), T. Kishimoto (Osaka),
H. Lenske (Giessen), Yu-Gang Ma (Shanghai), J. Mares (Rez),
D.J. Millener (BNL), T. Motoba (Osaka E.C.), T. Nagae (Kyoto),
M. Oka (Tokyo I.T.), E. Oset (Valencia), J. Pochodzalla (Mainz),
A. Ramos (Barcelona), R. Schumacher (CMU), H. Tamura (Tohoku),
L. Tang (Hampton), R.G.E. Timmermans (Groningen), T. Yamazaki (Tokyo),
Shi-Lin Zhu (Peking)*Contact
If you have questions or messages concerning the conference, please send emails tothe conference secretariat:
hyp2015secretary@lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp