The International Seminar "Quarks-2012" is organized by the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences on June 4-10, 2012. "Quarks-2012" is the seventeenth in the series of seminars taking place biennially since 1980 in the Soviet Union and since 1992 in various historical and cultural places of Russia; the previous seminar, "Quarks-2010", was held in Kolomna about 100km southeast of Moscow.
The coming Seminar will take place near Yaroslavl,about 240km northeast of Moscow. Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Region, Russia. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site,is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl rivers. Yaroslavl is one of the oldest Russian cities, in the year 2010 it celebrated its millennium. Yaroslavl has rich history and is full of cultural attractions.
We plan to reserve time to visit the city with a guided tour of its historic monuments.We are sure you will appreciate one of the most beautiful places in Russia.
Despite of the Seminar's traditional name, the program of "Quarks-2012" is fairly broad and includes plenary sessions, meetings at sections and informal discussions on various problems of quantum field theory and particle physics, including:
We expect that about 150 physicists will participate in the Seminar.
Further information is available via e-mail,
quarks@ms2.inr.ac.ru