SEESAW25

International Conference on the
Seesaw Mechanism and the Neutrino Mass
10-11 June 2004
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

First Bulletin (October 2003)
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1. General information

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the seesaw mechanism, we are organizing an international conference on the Seesaw Mechanism and the Neutrino Mass at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, on 10 and 11 June 2004. The conference will take place a few days before the XXIst International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2004), to be held at the Collège de France, Paris, on 14-19 June 2004.

The aim is to assess the progress made since the invention of the seesaw mechanism in 1979 by M. Gell-Mann, P. Ramond, R. Slansky and T. Yanagida, and to review the recent theoretical developments in the understanding of the observed pattern in neutrino masses and mixings. Observable implications of the seesaw mechanism such as leptogenesis or lepton flavour violation in supersymmetric theories will also be addressed, and the key aspects of the vast experimental programme aiming at determining the neutrino parameters and properties will be reviewed.

Information about the conference is available on the conference website

2. Scientific programme

The programme will consist of invited plenary talks only. The following subjects will be covered:

Finally, a round-table discussion will try to answer the following question: "How to probe the origin of neutrino masses?".

3. Transparencies and Proceedings

Copies of the transparencies will be available on the conference website.

Proceedings of the conference, including reprints of the original articles on the seesaw mechanism, will be published. The speakers will be asked to make a pedagogical effort so that these proceedings may be useful for students or physicists willing to enter the subject. A copy of the proceedings is included in the conference fee.

4. Registration

Owing to the limited size of the Hermite amphitheater where the conference will take place, the number of participants is limited to 100.

Registration will be opened in December 2003 on the conference website.

Registration fee:

It will not be possible to register after 25 May 2004. The fee covers the conference registration, a copy of the proceedings, banquet and coffee breaks.

5. Committees

International Advisory Committee:

J.N. Bahcall (Princeton)
R. Barbieri (Pisa)
P. Binétruy (Paris)
A. Blondel (Geneva)
R. Davis Jr. (Long Island)
M. Gell-Mann (Santa Fe)
B. Kayser (Fermilab)
A.B. MacDonald (Kingston) 		K. Nishikawa (Kyoto)
P. Ramond (Gainesville)
G.G. Ross (Oxford)
A.Yu. Smirnov (Trieste)
Y. Totsuka (Tokyo)
S.G. Wojcicki (Stanford)
L. Wolfenstein (Pittsburgh)
T. Yanagida (Tokyo)

Local Organizing Committee:

P. Binétruy (APC, Paris VII)
J.-E. Campagne (LAL, Orsay)
I. Cossin (LPNHE, Paris VI & VII)
M. Cribier (DAPNIA Saclay & APC) 		J. Dumarchez (LPNHE, Paris VI & VII)
S. Lavignac (SPhT Saclay)
J. Orloff (LPC Clermont-Ferrand)
D. Vignaud (PCC Collège de France & APC)

6. Preliminary List of Conference Sponsors:

7. Further Information

The conference website will be updated as information becomes available. Further questions and special requests can be addressed to the conference secretariat:
Isabelle Cossin - SEESAW 25
LPNHE, T33 - 4 place Jussieu
75252 Paris Cedex 05 - FRANCE

Phone: +33 (0)1 44 27 68 95
Fax: +33 (0)1 44 27 46 38
Email: seesaw25@in2p3.fr