SPIN2006

 

The 17th International Spin Physics Symposium was held at Kyoto University Japan from 2 to 7 October 2006 . This symposium was officially supported by IUPAP.

This is the 4th Symposium which covers both nuclear and high energy spin physics. The first of this series was held in Osaka Japan in 2000 and it was followed to SPIN02 at Brookhaven and SPIN04 at Trieste . The program of this symposium covers almost all area of spin physics, certainly both nuclear and high energy physics and also theoretical works and instrumentation and technology works related to spin. The following topics were discussed;

  1. Fundamental Symmetries and Spin
  2. Spin Structure of Nucleons
  3. Spin Beyond the Standard Model
  4. Spin in Hadronic Reactions
  5. Spin Physics with Photons and Leptons
  6. Spin Physics in Nuclei
  7. Spin Physics with RI Beams
  8. Acceleration, Storage, and Polarimetry of Polarized Beams
  9. Polarized Ion and Electron Sources and Targets
  10. Future Facilities and Experiments

The symposium had 308 participants from 26 countries all over the world. The scientific program consisted of 32 talks in the plenary session, 190 talks in the 9 parallel sessions and 23 presentations at the poster session. Many new exciting results and ideas were presented in this symposium which will become a key for the further progress of nuclear and particle physics. This symposium provided a good opportunity to exchange ideas and collaborations among physicists of various fields and contributed to further progress of spin physics. The proceedings of this symposium was published by AIP as “Proceedings of the 17th Interanational Spin Physics Symposium, edited by K.Imai, T.Murakami, N.Saito and K.Tanida AIP 915 (2007)”.

In this symposium, the workshop on polarized electron sources, which was traditionally held separately before, was held as one of the parallel sessions of this symposium. One plenary session was dedicated to Owen Chamberlain who passed away this past year. Professor Chamberlain was a pioneer in the field of spin physics. Another short session was dedicated to our colleague Jiro Kodaira who suddenly passed away just a few weeks before the symposium. He was a member of the local organizing committee.

The year of 2006 was the centennial of the birth of Hideki Yukawa and Shin-itiro Tomonaga who won the first and second Nobel Prize in Japan and both of them are the alumni of Kyoto University . It was nice to have this symposium in this special year for Kyoto University .