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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 LjubljanaUniversity of MariborUniversity of PrimorskaSeveral high school institutions

•56,000 students•22 faculties•3 academies of art•1 university college

University of Ljubljanaestablished 1919

Nova Gorica Polytechnic

IJS LjubljanaUniversity of Ljubljana

University of Maribor

Slovenian high energy physics

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 (B0B0 mixing),,…

1990’s: DELPHI exp. @ CERN B physics, W± physics, Higgs search,…

DELPHI end cap

DELPHI Vertex detector

Argus detector

AlsoCPLEAR @ CERNHERA-B @ DESY…

Major current activities: •BELLE experiment @ KEK

•ATLAS experiment @ 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 dailyconnected to allmajor Europeanairports

Some previously organized events:

LEAP’94Biennial Conf. on Low Energy Antiproton Physics

ICFA’95 schoolBEAUTY’99Int. Conferenceon B-Physics atHadron Machines

HERA-B’03 coll. meeting

You are invited to Slovenia……for science and pleasure