• International Advisory Committee: Jean-Jacques Aubert (Paris), Mario Calvetti (Firenze), Chen He Sheng (Beijing), James Cronin (Chicago), Michael Danilov (Moscow), Jonathan Dorfan (Stanford), Joel Feltesse (Saclay), Juliet Lee-Franzini (Frascati), Enzo Iarocci (Roma), Cecilia Jarlskog (Lund), Edward Kolb (Chicago), Andrei Linde (Stanford), Lev Okun (Moscow), Piergiorgio Picozza (Roma), Helen Quinn (Stanford), Norman Ramsey (Cambridge), Valery Rubakov (Moscow), Bernard Sadoulet (Berkeley), Alexander Skrinsky (Novosibirsk), Jack Steinberger (Geneva), Hirotaka Sugawara (Tsukuba), Samuel Ting (Cambridge), René Turlay (Saclay), Albrecht Wagner (Hamburg), Heinrich Wahl (Geneva), Bruce Winstein (Chicago), Lincoln Wolfenstein (Pittsburgh).

• Scientific program:

• Antimatter in the Universe: astronomical and astrophysical constraints, space-based searches, primordial vs, recent antimatter.

• CP violation in particle physics: direct CP violation and rare decays in the K system and critical tests of CP violation in B physics.

• Cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry: present status of cosmological models, sources of baryon/lepton number violation, non equilibrium situations.

• Antimatter experiments and tests of CPT.

• Experimental and observational prospects: up-coming B physics experiments, dipole moment experiments.

• CP violation in neutrino physics, up-coming measurements of cosmological parameters and of extraterrestrial antimatter abundance.

• CP, T and CPT violation

• CP violation in B mesons

• Cosmology, baryogenesis and extraterrestrial antimatter

• Extended models (Supersymmetry, Higgs, Extra Dimensions).

Details of the scientific program will be made available on the conference web pages as they become available.

Participants wishing to present their work orally in a parallel session should refer to the conference web site, where they will find an electronic abstract submission form. Please use this form so that we can program the parallel sessions efficiently, since the time available for parallel sessions is very limited; you should indicate the expected duration (maximum : 15 min plus 5 min discussion) of your contribution, but please be aware that you may be required to shorten it.

Participants wishing to make a poster contribution should also fill in the electronic abstract submission form.

1. Welcome and Registration

   Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday afternoon, June 16th. Registration at the conference office in the Château de Blois will start at 15:00 on Sunday, June 16th. A welcome cocktail will be offered to the participants and their families at 19:00. It will be followed by a dinner.

2. Conference schedule

   The conference will start on Monday June 17th at 9:00 and will end on Saturday June 22nd at 11:00. The conference room will be located at the Château Royal de Blois.

3. Conference facilities

   The following equipment will be available: a slide projector for 5 cm x 5 cm slides, an overhead-projector for transparencies and a beamer for video-presentations (but participants are expected to use their own laptops).

4. Transparencies

   In order to make transparencies of the conference available on the web, speakers who have their talks in file format (Powerpoint, PDF, Postscript, HTML…) are invited to send them by email to

   Renaud Le Gac : legac@in2p3.fr

5. Proceedings

   The proceedings will be edited and published. Participants will receive a copy of the proceedings at no extra charge.
   Instructions for the manuscripts will be distributed at the conference and will be also available in the WEB page from June 2002 on.
   Deadline for submitting the manuscript: October 1st, 2002.

6. Registration fee

   The registration fee will amount to 300 Euros.

   Payment of the registration fee can be made:

7. by personal check in euros to the order of Rencontres de Blois, sent to the conference secretariat or on arrival at the conference.

   • by traveller's checks in euros or US dollars on arrival at the conference.

   • by prepayment by bank transfer (remember to add 25 Euros or 25 $ for bank fees) to the following account:

   RENCONTRES DE BLOIS - Banque Regionale de l'Ouest - Blois, France

   Bank Code 10528 Branch n° 00001 Account n° 01 002 57834G Key 38

   Swift code : CMCI FR 22

   It will take one month for our account to be credited, so please have the bank transfer made before May 20. In any case, bring proof of the transfer and give it to the conference secretariat during registration in Blois.

   Please note that we are unable to accept credit card for registration payment.

    

8. Accommodation

   Hotel accommodation will be available in 3 categories:

   one star (*), two stars (**) and three stars (***), all rooms having either a shower or a bath.

   Please fill in the registration form (see the conference web site) and send it either online or by email to

   chrisnl@lal.in2p3.fr or fax it to: 33 (0)1 69 28 86 59

   Room reservations can only be guaranteed if your registration form has reached the Conference secretariat by April 30, 2002. We apologize in advance if it is not possible to reserve the hotel category corresponding to your request. We will acknowledge receipt of your reservation and the hotel category obtained for you.

   In order to simplify matters and to save you the bother of sending the 100 Euros deposit normally required to guarantee hotel reservation, the conference will do this for you. However, in exchange, we ask you to agree to reimburse the conference for the deposit we will have paid, should you cancel your reservation after May 15, since after this date the hotel will keep the deposit.

   Cancellations of hotel reservations can be made freely only up to May 15, 2002.

9. Meals

   In order to enhance the interactions and exchanges between participants, all participants are requested to have lunch and dinner together. The conference has asked a caterer to serve lunch and dinner in the Château Royal de Blois.

   The package cost for 6 days is 240 Euros and will be paid to the caterer on the conference site by cash or check to the order of "Traiteur Guillon" ; it cannot be reduced for partial attendance.

   The conference banquet will take place on Thursday, June 20.

10. Social program

    Several social activities are planned during the conference for participants, their families and guests:

11. Visits of the Châteaux of Blois and Chenonceau and the "Clos Lucé" museum;

12. "Son et Lumière" show at the Château de Blois;

13. An additional program for the accompanying persons (cost not included) will be organized in collaboration with the tourist office of Blois.

14. Travel

    The most convenient way to reach Blois is to arrive in Paris and take a train (SNCF) from Austerlitz railway station to Blois. The following train schedule is still preliminary. Please check with your travel agency or by consulting www.voyages-sncf.com.

If you are unable to access or use our web based forms please inform the conference secretary by email at chrisnl@lal.in2p3.fr and the forms will be sent to you.