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

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

3. 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

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

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

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

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

8. 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

9. You are invited to Slovenia… …for science and pleasure