DIS2006 XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering Welcome to Tsukuba, Japan Katsuo Tokushuku (KEK) 20/April/ /April/2006

DIS2006 Local Organizing Committee & Sponsors Local Organizing Committee Ryosuke Hamatsu, TMU Kaoru Hagiwara,KEK Jiro Kodaira, KEK Shunzo Kumano,KEK Masahiro Kuze, Tokyo tech Kunihiro Nagano, KEK Naruhito Saito, Kyoto Toshi-aki Shibata Tokyo tech Katsuo Tokushuku, KEK, Chair Sakue Yamada, KEK Yuji Yamazaki, KEK Kazuko Toyomura, Secretary ＋ Many DIS2006 assistants who wear pink name tags. Sponsors: KEK DESY Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) Inoue Foundation for Science Tsukuba Convention Bureau

DIS2006 Working Group Organizers Hadronic Final States: Zoltan Nagy (Zurich) Thomas Kluge (DESY) Juan Terron (Madrid) Heavy Flavors: Uri Karshon (Weizmann) Ingo Schienbein (SMU) Paul Thompson (Birmingham) Spin Physics: Stefano Forte (Milan) Yuji Goto (RIKEN) Dirk Ryckbosch (Gent) Structure Functions and Low-x: Vladimir Chekelian (MPI Munich) Claire Gwenlan (Oxford) Robert Thorne (UCL) Diffraction and Vector Mesons: Heuijin Lim (ANL) Laurent Schoeffel (Saclay) Mark Strikman (PSU) Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model: Lorenzo Bellagamba (Bologna) Emmanuel Sauvan (Marseille) Hubert Spiesberger (Mainz) 6 Working groups ~240 participants

DIS2006 Workshop Schedule  After opening plenary, Parallel Sessions will start from the late afternoon session.  6 WG Sessions in 5 meeting rooms.  Joint meetings  HFS-WG has 2 parallel sessions on Sat.  Plenary Sessions from Saturday afternoon. Future-of-DIS Sessions WG summary Sessions Concluding

1st floor=ground fl. 2nd floor 3rd floor 4th floor 302: DIS2006 office 303: Parallel sessions 401 : Parallel sessions (on 22/Apr) The Computer room is open during 16:00-18:30 (Wed), 8:30-18:30 (Thu-Sat), 8:30-19:30 (Sun) and 8:30-14:30 (Mon). Wireless LAN is available in the conference room (SSID: dis2006) and in the open space (SSID:tsukuba). Plenary sessions Coffee Main Entrance Lunch 201ab, 202ab : Parallel sessions 304:Computer room DIS2006 Workshop Epochal Floor Plan Welcome reception registration registration+travel desk 21.April ~

Half-day Excursion 23/April (sun) Course A: Ushiku (Daibutsu, winery) Course B: Kasama (Shrine, Pottery museum) Course C: Mt Tsukuba Please choose your excursion at Travel desk (next to registration desk) by 22/April, if you did not at online registration. Buses will leave at 8:30 at the entrance and come back around 13:00. Weather forecast says Sunday will be cloudy : raining probability 50%... Weather forecast says Sunday will be cloudy with shower : raining probability 60%...

Workshop Dinner 23/April (sun) 20:00- Subaru (the Preiades) room in Okura Frontier Hotel (Annex building) DIS minute walk from the conference site. Buses at 19:15 and 19:45 (max 40 persons for each) Group photo: in the afternoon coffee break on Sunday 23/April. (16:15~) at the staircase to the Main hall.

Travel Desk (next to the registration desk) The desk is open 20-24/April. on the ground floor today in front of room 302, for 21-24/April. Please visit for your excursion registration (if you have not done) reservation of a bus ticket to Narita. (If you book, you will get a seat.) tours after the workshop. (Note that the Japanese holiday week (“golden week”) is 28/April-7/May. It is rather difficult to book a travel in this period.)

DIS2006 XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering Thank you very much to come to DIS2006. This is the very important period for DIS physics. Many New Results from HERAII, Tevatron RunII, Spin Experiments and from many other exp’s. More precise data: Close contact between theory and experimental groups is essential HERA will run until summer LHC will start in Several Future facilities are planned. We wish to have lively discussions in DIS2006 and enjoy your stay in Japan.