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Conference Schedule:

Registration will start on Thursday, December 15th in the afternoon. The opening session is scheduled to take place on Friday, December 16th at 8:30 and the conference will end on Tuesday, December 20th at 16:00.

Session hours are 8:30 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 17:00

All sessions of the conference will be held at the four star Hotel Seagull Qui Nhon.

Schedule attached (we will attach the schedule)

Those wishing to present a talk can contact one of the convenors listed below. Please copy your e-meil communcation to the lead convenor for the session involved and also to Mary Ann Rotondo

Frontiers of QCD: from Puzzles to Discoveries

• Diffraction and Elastic Scattering: [Convenors: Christina Mesropian*, Cyrille Marquet, Alessandro Papa, Christophe Royon, Rainer Schicker, Marek Tasevsky]
Elastic and diffractive scattering, Single- and Double-Diffraction, Central exclusive production, Diffractive Higgs production, Exclusive diffractive production in DIS, etc.

• Soft QCD, Total Cross-Section, Particle Production: [Convenors: Mario Deile*, Albert de Roeck, Eugene M. Levin, Alan Martin]
Total cross sections, Minimum-bias, Rapidity and multiplicity, Inclusive distribution, High multiplicity events, DIS, Diffraction in DIS, Small-x physics, etc.

• Heavy Ions, Saturation: [Convenors: Francois Arleo*, David d’Enterria]
Soft and hard probes of Quark, Parton saturation and evolution at small-x, Heavy-ions and AdS/CFT, etc.

• Cosmic Rays: [Convenors: Tanguy Pierog*, Takashi Sako]
Cosmic rays below and above the ankle, Cross section from air showers, Dedicated accelerator experiments, Hadronic models, Propagation, etc.

• Perturbative QCD, high pT jets: [Convenors: Meenakshi Narain*, Kazunori Itakura, Boaz Klima]
Hard diffraction, Jets, heavy flavors, determination of alpha_s, structure functions and pdfs, multiparton interactions (MPI),
multi jet production

• Spin Physics: [Convenors: Bernd Surrow*, Alexei Prokudin]
New results in spin physics, spin and polarization, longitudinal and transverse spin structure, GPDs and spin sum rule, prospects in spin physics

• Recent Theoretical Development in QCD: [Convenors: Chung-I Tan*, Sumit Das, Vitorio Del Duca]
Progress in perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, Amplitude calculations in YM theories, AdS/CFT for YM and QCD, etc.