FPCP Daegu, Korea You are invited to… …Europe… …and to Slovenia

between sea… …and mountains 2 million inhabitants size half of Switzerland capital Ljubljana only 100 km apart

Three universities: University of Ljubljana University of Maribor University of Primorska Several high school institutions 56,000 students 22 faculties 3 academies of art 1 university college University of Ljubljana established 1919 Nova Gorica Polytechnic IJS Ljubljana University of Ljubljana University of Maribor Slovenian high energy physics

High energy physics in Slovenia: ~30 experimentalists, ~10 theoreticians 1970’s: Omicron CERN  production in NN collisions some past activities: 1980’s: Argus DESY B physics (B 0 B 0 mixing), ,… 1990’s: DELPHI CERN B physics, W ± physics, Higgs search,… DELPHI end cap DELPHI Vertex detector Argus detector Also CERN DESY …

  Major current activities: BELLE KEK ATLAS CERN Pierre Auger observatory Detector development in home laboratories

Bled: tourist and conference resort Lake Island Castle and conference facilities

Bled↔Ljubljana 50 km Ljubljana daily connected to all major European airports

Some previously organized events: LEAP’94 Biennial Conf. on Low Energy Antiproton Physics ICFA’95 school BEAUTY’99 Int. Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines HERA-B’03 coll. meeting

You are invited to Slovenia… …for science and pleasure