Few-Body 17 (FB17), the Seventeenth International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, was held at Duke University and the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) in Durham, North Carolina, USA, from June 5 to 10, 2003.
The first conference of this series took place in London in 1959 and subsequent meetings were held in Brela (1967), Birmingham (1969), Los Angeles (1972), Laval (1974), Delhi (1976), Graz (1978), Eugene (1980), Karlsruhe (1983), Sendai (1986), Vancouver (1989), Adelaide (1992), Williamsburg (1994), Groningen (1997), and Taipei (2000).
The purpose of this series is to bring together scientists who are interested in results and methods pertaining to few-body systems in particle, nuclear, atomic, and molecular physics.
More than 235 scientists from 33 countries around the world attended the Duke/TUNL conference. FB17 featured 22 invited plenary talks, one invited evening lecture, 28 invited lead parallel session talks, 20 invited facility update talks, and 109 contributed talks, resulting in a total of 180 oral presentations. In addition, there were more than 50 poster presentations.
Very unfortunately, there were quite a number of scientists who had planned to participate in FB17 but did not receive their US Visa in time or in a few cases their visa requests for entering the United States were denied.
FB17 was sponsored by Duke University, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, George Washington University, Jefferson Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Bates, and the Unversity of North Carolina.