The chiral symmetry present in the QCD Lagrangian along with Goldstone's theorem makes is possible to obtain an approximate QCD solution at low energies using an effective field theory known as chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) or Chiral Dynamics. Topics which will be discussed at this workshop are : Goldstone Boson Dynamics, Hadron Structure and Meson-Baryon Interactions, Few-Body Physics, and Lattice QCD and Chiral Perturbation Theory. In addition to the plenary talks, these topics will be the focus of three different working groups:

Working Group	Leaders
Goldstone Boson Dynamics	Gilberto Colangelo, and Simona Giovannella
Hadron Structure & Boson-Nucleon Interactions	Thomas Hemmert, and Alan Nathan
Few-Body Physics	Hans-Werner Hammer, Daniel Phillips, and Nasser Kalantar

 

Plenary Program

Following is a list of confirmed plenary speakers and the title of their talks.

Plenary Speaker	Title
Aron Bernstein	Opening remarks & experimental tests of chiral symmetry breaking
Jian-ping Chen	GDH sum rule results from JLab
Vincenzo Cirigliano	Status of the Cabibbo angle
Christoph Hanhart	pi-NN system
Heiri Leutwyler	Pion-pion scattering
Judith McGovern	Compton scattering and nucleon polarizabilities
Ulf-G. Meissner	Recent progress in ChPT & chiral extrapolation
Robert Michaels	New results from HAPPEx
Rory Miskimen	Virtual Compton scattering
Matthew Moulson	Kaon decays: Recent experimental results
Michael Ramsey-Musolf	Low-energy tests of standard model
Yasuki Nagai	New results on few-body experiments at low energy
John Negele	Lattice QCD and nucleon spin structure
Andreas Nogga	Application of chiral nuclear forces to light nuclear systems
Vladimir Pascalutsa	Chiral EFT in the delta-resonance region
Tony Pich	Present status of semileptonic form factors and quark masses
Robert Redwine	Physics results from the BLAST detector at the Bates accelerator
Martin Savage	Few-body lattice calculations
Tony Thomas	Chiral extrapolation and nucleon structure from the lattice
Thomas Walcher	Experiments at the Mainz Microtorn MAMI confront chiral perturbation theory
Henry Weller	The HIGS physics program

 

Contrbuted Talks

A limited number of contributed talks will be selected for presentation in the working groups. The talks are intended to be 12 min. (10+2) in length and in-line with one of the topics in the three working groups. Please contact the leaders of the appropriate working group if you wish to submit a contributed paper:

Working Group	Leaders
Goldstone Boson Dynamics	Gilberto Colangelo	gilberto@itp.unibe.ch
Goldstone Boson Dynamics	Simona Giovannella	Simona.Giovannella@lnf.infn.it
Hadron Structure & Boson-Nucleon Interactions	Thomas Hemmert	themmert@physik.tu-muenchen.de
Hadron Structure & Boson-Nucleon Interactions	Alan Nathan	a-nathan@uiuc.edu
Few-Body Physics	Hans-Werner Hammer	hammer@phys.washington.edu
Few-Body Physics	Daniel Phillips	phillips@phy.ohiou.edu
Few-Body Physics	Nasser Kalantar	nasser@KVI.nl

 

Early Registration Deadline : May 31, 2006 !

More information about the workshop, registration, site, and accomodationscan be found on the web at : http://www.tunl.duke.edu/events/cd2006/